Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-22
UTAH STATE NEWS


erected at Orem, Provo bench at
cost of 100000.
The j. c. Penney store in Spanish
Fork was robbed of shoes, clothing
and suitcases valued at approximately
$3.50.
Salt Lake had go more births in
/ 1920 than In 1919, according to the
annual report of the city health com
| missioner.
Earl Murray, II 16-year-old boy OF
Ogden, who ran away from home last
week, had both legs cut off by train
ut Reno, New.
The national convention of the Cen
era Federation of Women's Clubs will
be held in Salt Lake City the week
of June II to IS.
Simplicity and uniformity in dress
will be adopted for the schoolgirls of
| Ogden ut the opening of the public
schools September 10.
The town board at Moab has ordered
I rigid enforcement of the prohibition
laws, and the arrest of all persons
found I'm an intoxicated condition.
The sidewalk committee of the Tre-
monitor Commercial club last week re-
ported funds and material donated by
the citizens to the amount of $1,000.
Mrs. Eliza Cunningham Nelson, civil
| war nurse and donor of the ground on
which the Miners hospital stands at
Park City, died April 10 at the age of
10 years.
Representatives of all lodges of Odd
Fellows of the Utah jurisdiction con-
vened in the Salt Lake /. o. .. II.
temple on April 1S for the three days
annual session of the grand lodge.
Merle Adams of Kanab last week
collected 800 from the state auditor as
bounty on three mountain lions he
killed in Kane county. These were the
first lion trophies to be brought In
from Kane county this year.
Complaints charging murder in the
first degree have been filed against
Zavedro EZequiel and Juan Delgado,
charging them with the murder of
John Westerdahl and l.. L. Peterson at
Dividend on the night of March o.
President John +. Christensen of the
Brigham City Fruit Growers associa-
ton had narrow escape from death
or serious injury when his automobile
skidded and struck n telephone pole.
Mr.. Christensen suffered scalp
wound.
The body of middle-aged man has
been found i'm Big Cottonwood creek,
Salt Lake City. The man apparently
had been dead from six weeks to three
or four months. Nothing was found in
his clothing that would make clear his
identity.
Indictments against officers and d.
rectors of the Utah-Idaho Sugar COM
pany and others, charging violation of
the Lever act were dismissed in the
United States district court at Salt
Lake, April 16, by Judge Tillman d..
Johnson.
More than half a million dollars will
be spent in Weber county this year on
roads. OF this amount half will be
furnished by the federal government
through the bureau of public roads and
the remainder contributed by the state
and county.
by a vote of 80 to s, the taxpayers of
Perry have authorized the town board
to issue bonds in the sum of $4,000 for
the purpose of purchasing the property
of the Perry Electric Light company,
corporation made up of private citi'
zens of the town.
BY unanimous vote of the state board
of pardons, Edmund A. Book, former
| mayor of Salt Lake and prior to that
city auditor, was on April 10 paroled
from the Utah state prison, where he
was serving sentence for the en-
bezzlement Of city funds.
For three days last week about $50
men of American Fork were kept busy
in widening and deepening the city
creek and placing trees and brush and
other blockades necessary to hold back
the spring water which, from all indi-
cations, will be very heavy this year,
AS result of the successful out
come of the alfalfa seed marketing
pool in the recent sale of all remaining
consignments on hand, more than POO
growers in the Willard county district
have unanimously declared themselves
in favor of the pooling for this years
crop.
Despondent because he was suffer
ing from cancer of the stomach, Mosah
Evans, 50 years of age, suicided at
Salt Lake, shooting himself twice I'm
the chest with shotgun, At different
times Mr.. Evans had been engaged In
business in Lehi, Garland and Salt
Lake.
The Utah Power 4 Light company
closed its two power plants in Ameri'
can Fork canyon last week, and also
the one in Alpine canyon, which neces'
STATED the laying off of about ten men
The shutting down of the plants at this
place was due to the stopping of work
mt Garfield, Bingham and Magma.