Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-10-08
UTAH STATE NEWS

the state treasurer.
Utah national guardsmen will re-
celve a substantial increase In pay II
plans formulated are adopted by the
next state legislature.
The University of Utah has complet-
ed its plans for the opening of the
course In life insurance fundamentals,
through Its extension division.
A two-day community service cele-
bration was held in Ogden last Fri
day and Saturday, concluding with
community singing in Lester park.
Decision has been made by the pub
lie utilities commission OF Utah per-
hitting the city OF Nephi to increase
its rates on electric light and power.
The secretary of state has collected
In the last quarter $24,924.25 in mo-
| tor vehicle license taxes, bringing the
total for the present year up to $780,
| 91049.
The Layton municipal authorities
| are graveling some of the principal
streets of the town. Contracts will
soon be awarded for a half-mile Of
concrete sidewalks
Six carloads OF Indian ponies, 262 in
ALL passed through Ogden last week
en- route from Ross Fork, Ida, to Pc
taluma, Calf, where they will be used
as feed for chickens.
Eddy Martin, convicted Of grand
larceny, and Il. j. Markham, convicted
of robbery, are the only persons APP
pealing for pardon to the state board
of pardons at the october meeting.
The fourth synod OF the Pacific
province of the Protestant Episcopal
church will be held at Salt Lake City
next year, II was voted at the closing
business session of the synod at Sc
attic.
Preliminary plans for the creation
Of twelve irrigation districts have been
worked out. These twelve projects in
clude eight counties, as follows: Salt
Lake, Davis, Weber, Morgan, Summit,
Wasatch, Utah and Tooele.
The school population of the state
of Utah for 1920-21 Is, officially,
130,39S. The total school population
of the state last year was 12S,s48. The
largest increase in any district was
In the Salt Lake City schools, be-
ing 900.
| Zion National park will close Octo-
Der 10 after what those Interested de-
| clare. to be a very successful season.
| During the fall and winter, roads lead
ing to the park will be improved and
placed In good condition before the
season opens next year.
Potato day was observed at the
| Timponogos school, Provo, one day
one or more choice potatoes for the
occasion. When they were measured
1t was found that more than eight
bushels had been contributed.
1t has been learned that James s.
Hickman, formerly of Eureka, who
served term In the Utah state prison
for killing David Hutchinson, also of
Eureka, In 1912, is charged with the
murder of his wife in Oklahoma.
Hickman killed Hutchins with knife
during II quarrel.
This year the assessed valuation of
the state is about $715,O00000 on
which tax Of "a mills is levied for
state school purposes, which will pro-
duce n revenue, roughly, of Sl,71600O.
TO this will be added the revenue
from the state school land grant,
which runs In the neighborhood of
$350OO0
In compiling reports from the varl-
Gus school districts of the state, show
Ing the summer activities under the
twelye-month plan now In operation
In Utah, Francis w. Kirkham, state
director of vocational education, found
that twenty-seven districts this year
have employed some instructors for
the Twelve months
In place of an alleged road up Dan
iels canyon that formerly crossed the
canyon creek thirty-siN times, and
which was the bugbear of all whose
business compelled them Ito travel
that way, the state and federal gov
ernments are now completing road
that crosses the creek not at all. The
highway is nearly finished.
Nathaniel Flinders, aged IL, was
strangled to death in his home at Og.
den while playing with some boy
friends. The boys tied Flinders TO the
post of his own bed with n leather belt
which was placed around his neck.
During a few minutes the boys were
out Of the house the boy attempted to
move and he fell and choked to death.
Farmers in the Sugarvlle commun-
ity are having much trouble with wild
horses, which have appeared in large
numbers and are doing much damage
10 the crops. The animals visit the
fields at night, and the farmers, who
have been trying to Kill them, are
meeting with difficulty in locating
them during the daytime in shooting
range.
The Utah County Medical society