Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-07-30
utah STATE NEWS

The farmers Of Ogden valley district
have started hauling peas to the FIVE
viners in that district.
The postoffice at the thriving little
town OF Mccormick, fifteen miles east
Of Delta, has been made money order
office.
Harold, the young son Of Bishop and
Mrs. James Il. Ellison, of Layton, was
thrown from O horse and suffered
fractured leg.
The members of the Gas Workers
union OF Salt Lake are out on strike,
but 1t is believed the differences will
he arbitrated.
The Uintah national forest ranks
third In the fourth forestry district in
total receipts received during the fiscal
year just ended.
Jim Paloni was fatally injured In
the Sunnyside mine No. 2 of the Utah
Fuel company, and had died an hour
and a half later.
Assessed valuation of Willard coun-
ty increased from $1S,32S. 467 to &c.,
210,744, and Of Piute county from ST.
55S,011 to s2,7S5,S17.
While playing with fireworks Mt
Elsmore, the clothing Of Doone Wan
lass, aged A, caught on fire and the
child was fatally burned.
Gunnison's new national park held
its opening celebration July 10. This
institution was started July 10 and is
known as the Gunnlson National bank.
The southern Utah trade excursion
Of the wholesale trades department
Of the Salt Lake Commercial club has
been postponed from August % to Au-
gust 30.
Ten head of cattle have recently
died on the Devils Gate range, which
Is located I'm the hills Immediately east
of Brigham City, from eating poisonous
weeds and plants.
Work on the state highway up Otter
creek, on the route from Junction to
Escalante, has been ordered stopped
by the state road commission because
the available funds have been ex-
hausted.
John Phllis, q miner of Eureka, was
taken to Provo last week for the pur-
pose of appearing before the state
sanity board, by which he was eX-
amlned and committed to the State
Mental hospital.
| The assessed valuation of Summit
county, as determined by the county
board of equalization and returned to
the state board by the county auditor,
Is $13,971 1861 in 1920, as compared
with $13,97S.S30 in 1919.
Construction of two large reservoirs
and ten miles of main line canal are
planned for an Emery county irriga-
ton project, which contemplates the
irrigation of 10000 acres, under pro-
visions of the Carey act.
The body of the first Ogden soldier
who died In France was brought to
Ogden last week. Private Earl Cobb,
who died of influenza at Brest, No
vember 10, 1918, five days after the
signing of the armistice, Is the soldier.
Samuel Abbott Maginnis, Salt Lake
lawyer who is now minister to Bolivia
has had conferred upon him the lie
gree of honorary lawyer by the Uni.
versity of Chuquisaca, the Oldest insti
tuition of higher learning in South
America.
The University of Utah at the re
quest of the Institute of Public Serv
/ Of Maui litu 10 anYnniIinU a
record of the achievements OF men ant
women of this state, who have contrib,
uted to the advancement of education
since the war.
Harold Il. Grant and Ernest l.
Perkes, of Salt Lake, narrowly es
capsed death when the steering geal
of the automobile in which they wer,
riding broke and the machine turned
over three times. The accident oc
Cured near Cotton.
More than 1000 Ute Indians gain
cred at Fort Duchesne Wednesday o.
last week to receive government pa!
from the dividends on funds awarded
them in suit against the United
States government for removal to Utal
from Colorado in 1898.
The combined condition of all crops
in Utah July l, as estimated by the
United States bureau of crop esti
mates, was 1868 per cent of the ten
} year average for this state. The con
, dltlon had declined eight-tenths of
! per cent during June.
OF the numerous persons of III,
Mexican colony at Salt Lake who wer
l induced to make loans TO Jose Mon
teros, now being sought as the Kid
naper of Viola Wells Taucher, L
years of age, five have reported thei
$ loss to the sherlr's Office.
!, Saccharine, which Is product o
Y coal tar and has no food value ant
Y is said To retard digestion, but whicl
Z is 500 times sweeter than cane sugar
4 is being used instead of sugar in IN
: manufacture of soft drinks. This !
direct violation of law, according L
: Walter NJ. Boyden, state food an
; dairy commissioner.
: Rivalry between Duchesne an
,. Donca,alt both thrivtnp towns I'm IN