Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-02-16
THE UTAH BUDGET

Utah's national guard will be main
tanned at its full efficiency and every
effort will be made to recruit the
guard to 1900 strong. as provided In
the federal bill.
Val Elliott, % years Of age, fell OF
a boxcar on the Eureka Hill railroad
at Eureka. He suffered a broken leg,
dislocated collarbone and was severe.
ly bruised otherwise.
The chief plan of the Salt Lake city
commission for gaining revenue I'd
meet the loss which will obtain frcly
lack Of liquor license fees Is to bond
the city for public improvements.
That Utah Is heartily cooperating in
the national movement to make school
houses community centers is the state
ment Of DR.. e. @. Gowans, state su-
perintendent Of public instruction
Harry Wood, accused Of having TAX
en- part in an attempted street car
holdup at Ogden October 80. 1915, was
found guilty by Jury on a charge
OF assault with intent to commit MUIR
der.
II the Socialists Of Salt Lake have
their way the United States will not
go to war with Germany or any other
nation until the question has been SUBJ
mitted to.a vote Of the people OF the
country.
Robert Hardness. horse polo enthu-
siast, has presented the first squadron
of Utah cavalry a polo outfit and vol
unteered to train members OF the two
troops Of cavalry in Salt Lake In the
nne points OF the game.
As she was waiting to view the re.
mains Of her husband, who had been
killed by train, Mrs. Uno auckland.
aged 20. attempted suicide In a Salt
Lake undertaking establishment.
shooting herself In the abdomen. Her
condition is critical.
One to twenty years at hard labor
In the state penitentiary was the sen.
tence given Ray Hall and Edward Lee
derman. both Of Salt Lake, when they
pleaded guilty to burglarizing the Og-
gen High school recently and robbing
the safe Of 32sf.?O.
Frederick Erickson, "a years of age.
miner Of Eureka, drilled into q
missed hole. In the explosion that fol-
lowed Erickson's right leg and right
arm were shattered and his eyes were
so severely injured that 1t Is feared
he will lose his sight.
The mayor Of Salt Lake declares
that Prohibition will not mean cutting
down the Salt Lake police force. II
anything. despite feared reduction
Of revenues In the criminal division
Of the city court, we may have to en-
large the police force"
Lieut.. William c. Stark. former Sec
rotary OF the Salt Lake Commercial
club. who responded to the call to the
Mexican border with Utah troops as
a subaltern, is being complimented for
his action In battle with Mexican
cattle rustlers west OF Arivaca, Ariz.
Excess in moisture and. deficiency
In temperature were the prevailing
features of weather conditions in Salt
Lake and Utah during 1915. according
to summary which has been complet-
ed by A. II. Thiessen, section direc-
tor OF the United States weather bu-
reau.
Within twenty-four hours from the
time that the first spurious coin was
passed the police of Ogden had taken
into custody three members Of a gang
OF alleged counterfeiters and confis-
Gated complete outfit for turning out
bogus IS and $40 gold pieces and sill
yer dollars.
Earl Lewis, aged Is, high school
boy of Eureka, was mixing chemicals
in the laboratory OF the higi school
when the chemicals exploded and he
suffered severe burns. He was partly
blinded and 1t Is feared that the in
jury may prove permanent to one or
both OF his eyes.
Mayors, city councilmen and men,
bers Of the Utah County Highway as
ISOLATION met with the county commits
sioners at Provo last week to petition
that body to call an election to bond
Utah county for approximately $780,
600 to build a permanent concrete
highway sixty-three miles long.
w. o. Greer, vice-president OF the
Wasatch Grading company of Provo,
deposited $4,000 with Heber C. Jex,
receiver of the United States land Of
fee last week In consideration or 100
acres OF what is considered some of
the best coal land In the state, situat-
ed at the head OF Salina canyon.
The county auditors, in session at
Salt Lake City, passed resolutions
urging that the state legislature should
not pass any taxation laws which
would end assessing property at its
full cash value. and urging that an In
come tax law, such as the one draft.
ed by Page OF Salt Lake, be passed
during the present session.
Methods employed by suspected con-
spirators to obtain vast tracts of
range in Utah by taking advantage of
the Ferris 640-acre homestead law
will form the first leg Of the investi-
cation which has been ordered into
applications for more than 100000
acres OF the public domain in a sing<k
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