Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-04-16
utah state NEWS.

Progressive citizens OF Salina have
recognized the commercial club.
Annetta Martin. convicted at Ogden
of having passed worthless check,
was sentenced to sixty days in jail.
More than SO per cent of the teach.
ers of the Ogden schools have signed
their contracts ut an advanced salary.
Charles q Carter, aged "a, con-
tractor, was killed at Salt Lake, when
his auto was struck by train AT a
crossing.
Prizes for the best antifly posters
will be offered to school children by
the women's department of the Weber
county farm bureau.
With capital of $2,Oo0,0OO the
Plute Reservoir & Irrigation company
has filed it's articles of incorporation
with the secretary of state.
1t Is expected that at least 1000 Wis.,
itors will be entertained by the city
of Price on May g. the date Of the
Republican state convention.
Immediate steps will be taken to
arrange for the fifth annual inter
mountain stock show, to be held ut
Salt Lake in the spring of 1921.
The strike of electrical workers of
Salt Lake has been settled. The men
are to receive So day for the present
with u raise to 50 day on all new
work.
There were only twenty-nine gray
wolves on which bodnty was collected
in Utah in the year just ended, as
compared with fifty-seven the year
before.
The governor has appointed L. w.
Shurtliff of Ogden as member of the
state commission to prepare plans In
commemoration of the first irrigation
system in Utah.
The four condensed milk factories
located in Cache valley manufactured
during the past year more than &C.,
900 cases Of condensed milk, valued at
approximately $4,000,000.
Before definite action is taken by
the merchants Of Ogden upon the
weekly halfholiday plan. a general
survey of the conditions will be made
by special committee.
Soldier Summit is growing very fast
as division terminal of the Denver
Hand Rio Grande. In the way of new
improvements two hundred more cot
tages are reported needed for rental.
The state of Utah, In the twelve
month period ended March 20, paid
bounty on 1850 predatory. animals
killed, the bounties alone furnishing
the hunters gross receipts of $780,.
914.SO.
Using some gasoline with which-sto
light the kitchen fire, Reed, the eight
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ammon
futile of Spanish Fork, was choked
To death from the fumes following an
explosion.
Large numbers of stock have died
In southern Utah because Of the short
age of hay, and at least 20 per cent
of the stock are at present m poor
condition, according to information re-
ceived last week.
Mrs. G.. Il. Mlllerspaugh, wife OF II
Los Angeles merchant, fell from n
rapidly moving train between Oasis
and Delta, rolled down twenty-five
foot embankment and suffered only
from cuts and bruises.
The largest and most completely
equipped still ever seen in that sec
ton of the state was seized on the
farm of Frank Otterstrom, one mile
Dinou was placed under arrest on a
government charge.
The supreme court Of Utah has de-
cided, in effect. that the public utili-
curry into the special contracts ex-
listing between the large users of cleo
tric power in Utah and the Utah Pow
er x Light company. These contracts
antedate the passage OF the utilities
law.
Application from the WyIe COM
pany, which has the camping cOnces-
sion for the Zion national park, for
the lease of section OF land near
Bryce canyon has brought out the fact
that the only practicable approach 10
the brink of that scenic wonderland
is over property now owned by the
state.
"Old Big Foot known as the pea
vine wolf and the OUTLAW which,
during the past ten years has lnflict-
ed so much damage on stockmen In
the San Juan country has at last been
captured and the pelt has been deliv-
cred to the commissioners. There had
been standing reward OF $1,000 for
the capture of this wolf.
Wildcats we're taken in every county
in the state last year, including four
in Davis and eleven In Salt Lake.
They are thickest, however, in the
south, Iron again leading with 81,
followed by Washington, with $50
Garfield. 2S4 Beaver, 1872; Kane, 264 ;
Boxelder, with BOG. All other coun-
ties were under the 200 mark,
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