Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-05-21
UTAH STATE NEWS.


The assessed valuation OF Salt Lake
City this year is SlS9,264, 100 us
against $1I0762,S92 last year.
Tooele county's total assessed valua-
ton this year is Sl1 ,310,sl5, as com
pared with S1l,141,140 last year.
Cold weather has greatly retarded
the growth on the Alpine, Pleasant
Grove and American Fork ranges.
Miss Eleanor f1arbeke, OF Salt Lake,
while serving as Il nurse in the u. 5.
navy met death by drowning at Pen
sacola, Fla.
A fire of unknown origin broke out |
at the home of Eugene Titus at Park
City, and the home and its contents
were destroyed.
Realtors will use their efforts to
have the Utah legislature enact state
license law for dealers In real estate
| at the next session.
Knights of Pythias from all parts
| of Utah were In Salt Lake the fore
part of the week tn attend the annual
convention of that order.
Trail through the Ashley, Uintah
| and Wasatch forests Is planned for
this year to open up many scenic
beauties now inaccessible.
| Louis Provataris, wanted in Astoria,
Ore, on charge of forgery. is In the
| county jail In Salt Lake awaiting ex-
tradition. lie was arrested in Bing.
ham.
Bids for the building 81 twenty miles
OF road In eastern Utah, extending
from Price to Castle Dale, will be re
| ceived by the state highway commits
sion.
Charged with stealing diamond
ring valued Mt $3.50 while washing win
dows nj an apartment house in Ogden
Eddie Thorngreu, aged %, Is In Jail
awaiting trial.
| Ernest Pennywell, a switchman EN-.
ployed by the Oregon Short Line, was
instantly killed while coupling cars AT
Salt Lake, being caught between two
cars and crushed
L. Barra, 30 years of age, is held by
the police at Salt Lake on suspicion
OF having, with fellow countryman,
swindled Steve Petkovich out of $1,000
by the "boX trick" on April z.
Twenty-Five miles Of the Wendover
highway, where 1t crosses the mud
flats on the eastern side of the Great
Salt Lake desert, have been graded
and will be completed within ten days
A community clinic will be estab
llshed in Ogden In the near future,
under the auspices OF the Medical so.
ciety, and committee Of physicians
has been authorized to arrange the
details.
Willard county drainage district No.
., embracing $1,000 acres, will have
been completely drained this year, II
is announced. The land is adapted to
the cultivation Of sugar beets, alfalfa
and grain.
Merchants Of Ogden will be urged to
decorate the fronts OF their stores with
the national colOrs May 81, June i and
Q, when the annual convention of the
American Legion of the state will be
held there.
III Automobile transportation for BOY
Scouts making the caravan trip to
Bryce and Little Zion canyons this
summer will be supplied through the
, efforts of the Utah State Automobile
| association.
Approximately 1000 persons attended
| n benefit concert held in the Assembly
hall at Salt Lake in behalf of the suf-
fering and destitute members OF the
L. ID. $. church In the Swiss and Ger
man mission.
Weber county's assessed valuation
this year, according to the report of
the county assessor, Is S49,0l4, 7GO,
which is about 10 per cent increase
over the total assessed valuation of
S42, 9S3,015 last year.
The first authenticated instance OF
a badger having been infected with
hydr0phobia In Utah, so far as is
| known to the state board of health,
has caused John Olson of Vernon, in
Tooele county, to undergo the Pasteur
preventive treatment in Salt Lake.
War savings stamps belonging to
Francis Coolidge OF Ogden were found
by Los Angeles authorities in the pos
session of Cyril A. Nick, who was ar
rested In Los Angeles when his suit
case fell from II transfer truck and
burst open, disgorging $500 worth OF
elverware.
Plans for the twenty-seventh annual
commencement of the Utah Agricul
tura! college, at Logan, which will be-
held May 20 to 81 inclusive, include
the unwilling of memorial tablet ded
icnted 10 students who lost their lives
during the world war, and appropriate
memorial services,
L. J. Muir, mayor OF Bountiful ant
principal of the Davis County High
school, has been selected by Governor
Bamberger as state superintendent OF
public instruction, TO succeed George
n. Child, who will resign that office
June 30 to become superintendent OF
the schools of Salt Lake.