Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-11-26
UTAH STATE NEWS

able property in the state of Utah. ac-
cording to complete returns for 1920,
is $717,3OS,321.
Sugar reached ITS lowest price in
more than year In Ogden last week,
when stores offered the product at
Sl1.30 pee hundred pounds.
Funeral services for Robert f.. Dur
rant, the first Spanish Fork soldier
who died in France to be brought home
for burial, were held November 20.
To be knocked down and rolled along
the railroad track by switch engine
and escape injury was the unusual
experience at ogden of Carl Engelke,
8 years of age.
Glen Jensen, 20 years Of age, ar EN-.
ployee Of ranch on Antelope island.
conducted by B. Il. Harris OF Rays
Vile, was kicked in the right side by
a horse and seriously injured.
1t now appears that there will be
one Democrat In the lower house of
the Utah legislature. On the face of
returns from Grand county, G. A.
Hammond, Democratic candidate, has
been elected.
The board of directors of the Bonnie
vile irrigation district has decided to
accept the offer of the industrial com
mission of Utah to purchase for the
state insurance fund $4,000 of the ir-
rlgatlon districts bonds at 90.
Willard Vance, 80 years of age, and
his brother, France Vance, 81 years of
age, both of Fairview, are at n Salt
Lake hospital recovering from injuries
received when blast in mine at
Scofleld went off unexpectedly.
n. T.. Ipsom, member of the state
land board, who was severely injured
I'm an automobile accident near Bea-
yer, is progressing rapidly toward re-
covery. Mr.. Epson suffered broken
collarbone. when his automobile turned
turtle.
Frank X. Nebeker of Salt Lake, now
assistant attorney general of the
United States, has been appointed by
the president to be assistant of the
attorney general" which Is the second
highest office in the department of
justice.
Boyd Kemp. the 20-months-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Kemp, was
drowned at Lehi. The child wandered
away from the home and was found
later by Its mother in a tub of water
in neighbours yard, about quarter
of n block distant.
John William Brown, 80 years of
age, Of Ogden, was instantly killed
| from an electric shock, and five other
| persons In the immediate vicinity es-
capped similar fates, as the result of
| the feed wire for an arc light crossing
wires leading to their homes.
Abe Majors, who commenced sen
tence for the murder of an Ogden po
lice captain In 1901, and who has beer
out under Communication of sentence
since January IS, 1919. has appealed
TO the pardons board for Il full par
don. but his application was denied.
There is no warrant in the statutes
or constitution Of Utah for II schoo
district to charge fees from the par
ents of pupils resident in the schOo
4 district for attendance at the public
schools of the state, according to III
opinion rendered by the attorney gen
eral.
Immediate steps in statewide cam
u paign to persuade young people %
| Utah to remain on the farms rathe
than to seek city employment, will b
undertaken by the Utah state farm
bureau, cooperating with the exten
sion division of the Utah Agriculture
college.
v II. J. Norton, assistant state super
lntendent of public instruction, ha
been appointed by Governor Bamber
ger as the official representative
from Utah at a conference to be hell
in Butte, Mont, December >, to tax
up problems of the schools and schoo
\ support,
II Heber NJ. Hollands, 80 years of age
II formerly of Coalville, was killed In
II stantly when he fell twenty-five fee
from the top of tree on the farm q
II his brother, George Hollands, tw
miles southwest of Sandy. Holland
4 was trimming the tree when rhe acc
II dent occurred.
Il In the hope of supplying the Uta
II Gas & Coke Company with sufficien
II revenue 10 pay operating expenses
II depreciation, and the interest on II
y bonds, the public utilities commissiO
| of Utah has granted the company pei
II mission to raise its rates on gas by ,
II cents per 1000 cubic feet.
II 1t will cost $765,OO0, according to e.
| Inmates presented to the state roa
: commission by its engineers, to con
plete the work now in hand by tn
state road commission so far as 1t
possible to complete 1t the preser
year.
Mrs. william Banks, wife Of a Mu
ray undertaken, Is in critical cOnd
tlon at the County hospital, as II
result of taking bichoride of mercur
tablets by mistake,
Jack Pass and Gus Burr wei
charged with murder in the first d
gree when they were arraigned in II
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