Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-02-18
UTAH STATE NEWS


The Provo Commercial club has gone
on record as being in favor of legisla-
ton which will give the Fourth judi
ciai district another judge.
Nigu Singh, 35 years of age, labor.
er and apparently stranger in the
state, was crushed to death by Bam-
berger train at Clarified.
An outbreak of scables In the sheep
herds wintering in Grand county,
which II Is believed will reach serious
proportions, has been reported.
Forest supervisors from twenty
eight forests in the intermountain for
est service district met in their annual
convention at Ogden, February 7.
Mike Burke, 40 years of age, who
was injured In the wreck on the
Union Pacific at Knight Wyo., a week
previous, died of his injuries at Og-
den. va,
The Lehi Commercial club is plan
ming a minstrel show and vaudeville
performance, to be staged early next
month. Most of the prominent men of
the town will take leading parts.
Charles L. Bune was killed by gas
from grain pit and three men were
badly gassed one probably fatally, by
the opening Of the barley pit ut the
Globe mills at Ogden, February 8.
The senate has agreed to Senator
Shoots amendment to the sundry civil
bill, appropriatlng 100000 for the
purchase of tract of land adjoining
the Salt Lake City federal building.
Two hundred former residents OF
England and missionaries who have la
bored in that land met in Brigham
City, February 8, and enjoyed a re-
union. The feature was a big supper.
Zenetheon Yearsley Of Salt Lake has
brought suit against Willard PETERSON,
his father-in-law, alleging alienation
Of his wlfes affections. Damages in
the sum of $4,000 are asked by the
PLAINTIFF.
Mrs. Sarah Farr Smith, widow Of
the late John Henry Smith and daugh-
ter of Lorin Farr, one Of the pioneers
OF the state, died of cerebral hem
orrhage at her home in Salt Lake,
February 4.
The fourth annual convention of the
Utah state council of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers OF America took place I'm Provo
last week with fairly good represen-
tatiOn of delegates in attendance.
Efforts to obtain requlsitlon papers
for the return from Montana to Utah
of e. II. Peacock, alias Defreyne,
wanted in Salt Lake on charge Of
robbing the Utah Savings & Trust
company at Sat Lake of $500, are
being made.
Representative James II. Mays Of
Utah recently introduced q bill author
izlng the president to. construct and
operate railroad from the Kaibab
national forest in Arizona to the near
est practicable railway connecting
point to the north.
Sheepmen along the Colorado border
who have been ordered to dip their
herds before February 10, will not be
granted an extension of time. A petit
ton signed by twenty-one sheepmen
was considered by the executive com
mttee of the state livestock board,
and denied
f. A. Book, former mayor of Salt
Lake, has filed with the state board
of pardons a petition for parole from
the state prison, where he is serving
an indeterminate term as a result of
his confession and conviction of having
used to his own ends $4,000 of the
city's money.
Mrs. Sarah A. Tabor, accused OF the
murder of her daughter, Maud Tabor
Virgo, an Ogden school teacher, whose
body was found buried in trunk at
her Lawton, Mich, home in December
1919, made a "deathbed" confession,
February 4, in which she said her
daughter died of an overdose of chloro-
form, sef-administered
Elmer Bear, whose home is in
American Fork and who is employed
by a sheep outfit, was arrested at
Sego recently, charged with stealing
horse from A. l.. TOmlinson. Bear
states that the horse in question fol-
lowed his outfit and that he could not
drive II away, and adds that he at no
time had a rope on the animal.
In an attempt to extlnguish blaze
which threatened to destroy the COM
pressor plant at the Woodlawn Copper
Mining company in Big Cottonwood
CANYON, Abe Erickson, a miner, was
killed when he threw bucket OF wa
ter upon the fire, caused by short
circuited electric wire
Roland Herman, 81 years of age,
graduate of the University of Utah, n
civil engineer and school teacher, com
United suicide at the home Of his ia
Their, at Salt Lake, by firing a pistol
bullet into his forehead. Dependency
over Ill health was the cause
Two young men of Spanish Fork
have pleaded guilty to having at
tempted to burglari2e the safe In the
city hall, claiming that they had heard
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