Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-07-16
UTAH STATE news


work.
The Smithfield pea cannery. reputed
to be the largest OF its kind in the
world, started operations last week.
with a brlck-weighted canvas sack
for shroud, the body of an infant
boy was found In canal near Salt
Lake.
Two hundred carloads OF new pota-
toes were loaded at Plain City and
Warren last week for immediate ship
ment to the south and east.
The great pipe organ at the Ogden
Tabernacle will remain silent during
the summer while repairs are being
made and worn parts replaced.
Caught as he attempted to escape
over fence after two shots had
failed to stop him, AL Cowan, 10, was
lodged In the city Jail at Salt Lake on
a charge of burglary.
Three firemen were dangerously
hurt, one of whom may die, and two
others less seriously injured as the re-
suit of fire truck colliding with a
street car at Salt Lake.
Mike Baca, Mexican. % years Of age,
who has served almost three years of
forty-five-year sentence for second
degree murder. died ut the state
: prison of heart failure.
Three mountain lions were killed In
Morgan county last week by one OF
the hunters and trappers In the EN-
ploy Of the government and state. All
were killed within five days.
Fruits show comparatively little
change the past month. Peaches are
! little more than half crop. Apple
production is forecast as 1T per cent
and pears as 100 per cent of last year.
Mail will reach Utah by the air mail
service the last of September, and the
terminal will be at Salt Lake, provld-
ing landing field and hangar are inn
medately arranged for, II Is learned.
Mrs. Ida Smoot Dusenberry, who
|. was recently appointed to represent
: Utah at the international Council of
Women which meets at Chrlstianla,
:, Norway. will sail for Norway on July
= 81.
:. Everett Ross and Eddie Raddick
were sentenced to five months each In
. the county Jail at Ogden, being con
Y victed of having obtained suit case
i. from the American Express company
l. by fraud.
r Assessed valuation Of Morgan
o county this year, as returned by the
ha ~ hno rf
of equalization had completed Its re
e vision of the assessment rolls, Is giver
5, as $5,3S5,243.
II Hurled from her seat In car in thu
10 "Race Through the Clouds" Mt Saltair
70 Maize Felsch, aged Z, received I'm
% juries that resulted in the child
death two hours later in the Emer
y gency hospital.
l. Radio operators in Salt Lake vii
a take part in series OF tests con
70 Quoted by the American Radio Rela.
y league for the purpose of ascertain
y ing what proportion of messages ar
10 lost in transmission.
10 Citizens of Monroe, Sewer county
y will on July 81 vote at a special cleo
10 ton upon two propositlons-to sell TIL
~ municipal electric light plant and Il
- vote bonds for the purpose of better
ing the water system of the town.
Sparks from IA passenger locomotive
falling In pile of rubbish at the rea
of the Consolidated Wagon x Machine
6 company's warehouse are blamed TO
the worst fire Price has suffered II
years, The loss will reach $4,000.
His health broken, his pocketbOo
dwindled to II cents, without a rela
tive or friend to turn to in his hou
of need and dependency, Ray ii. Ray
mond, 40, wanderer, blew his brain
out with .3S-calibre revolver a
OF Ogden.
IN william Wallace Macintosh, q
rs well-known Utah resident, died Jul
" Il, mt Los Angeles where he went |
90 hope of lettering his health. Flo
a. several years Mr.. Macintosh wa
,d secretary Of the state board OF col
u rection.
es Sugar beet acreage In Utah thi
nc year totals 10000 acres, an increas
ne Of 10000 acres over last year, and a
NV increase of 500 acres over average
or The estimated yield for this year
as 1884 900 tons, compared with 1,Ol5
tie 600 tons in 1919, an increase of 1873
900 tons.
ne Testlfying that for some years pa'
ue she has been dependent upon her 50
oo for support, Mrs. Mary +. Dempse
mi mother of Jack Dempsey, world
is champion pugilist, was granted an i
tn terlocutory decree Of divorce at Sa
mt Lake from Hiram Dempsey, father {
oh the fistic champion.
,ut The first publication covering far
NJ ~ mechanics in the high schools Of Uta
're has just been issued by the Utah sta
ad board of education, division of agl
IN. culture vocational education, and vi
ne be distributed among the schO
RI boards, school superintendent al
en- principals and agricultural instructo
me in the school districts of Utah.
q, NicE nhlizaln convicted wi