Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-29
UTAH STATE NEWS


at Brigham City.
The annual convention of the West.
ern Congress OF Optometry will be held
In Salt Lake June 90 II. % and %.
The Alumni association of the Agrl.
cultural college will hold It's annual
reunion and banquet at Logan May 30
of this year.
The graduating exercises OF the
Bingham high school will be held May
~. There are eight young people In
the class this year
j. n. Smith of Modena reported to
the state board OF health last week
the loss of about 100 head of sheep
frCm unknown causes.
The Utah national guard will be or.
dered to maneuver camps at American
! Lakes Wash, and Fort ID. A. Russell,
Wyo., during the latter part of June,
In daring attempt to walk across
pipe line which crosses the Bear
river near Garland, Philip Bateman,
aged 10, fell from the pipe into the
river and was drowned.
Slightly more than 81 per cent OF
| the 1919 production of alfalfa seed ia
Utah came from Willard county, ac-
cording to statistics given out by the
United States bureau Of the census.
Utah last year grew potatoes, the
census takers found, on 12,047 acres,
and produced 1854, 400 bushels, or at
about 125 bushels to the acre. The
value of the crop was given as 49,
40i, COZ.
John Edward Standring, 40 years of
age, of Salt Lake, may die rs the re-
suit of un attempt at suicide, Stand
ring tied IA string to the trigger Of "A
shotgun and shot himself just above
the heart.
Charles Frank Whale, . years OF
age, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Fred
erick Whale, of Salt Lake, drowned
when he fell into backyard pool
maintained for the drainage Of the
kitchen sink
Edward Dean Wilkins, chief clerk
In the freight claim department Of
the Oregon Short Line and prominent
In Masonic circles in Utah, died sud
denly In II Salt Lake hospital ms the
result Of being stricken by apopleXy.
The management of the skipper
Bay drainage district announces that
the project, which was begun last fall,
designed To reclaim about 600 acres
of agricultural land near the mouth
of Provo river, Is nearing completion.
The problem for caring for the un.
In Iain tnI tA
the counties OF the state at confer
ence called by the governor and held
under the auspices of the state indus
trial commission at Salt Lake on
April %.
The charge of being an accessory IN
the attempted burglary Of store
placed against Joseph Clark, hote
clerk, following the killing February
8, at Salt Lake, of Detective G. II
Handy by Tom Burns, has been for
mally dismissed.
Supervisor DeMoisey of the LaSa
national forest has notified users Of
grazing privileges that the boundary
fences of the north division of the for
est have been repaired and recon
structed so that the drifting OF STOCK
can be controlled.
Utah, with its comparatively small
. agricultural acreage, shows up Onl!
twenty eighth in the list of thlrty-thre,
states In the acreage planted to pota
toes, in 1919, but is twenly-fifth il
point Of production, indicating th'
value of irrigation.
Thomas Clark, 80 years of age
widely known eastern Utah carnotit
mining man, with interests in Moab
the Henry mountains and La Sa
mountains and western Colorado. wa
stabbed to death by Mexican a
Grand Junction, Colo.
J. The school board of the Alpine dis
trlct will advertise for bids for tn
erection of a modern high schOC
building at Lehl. The plans are praC
tically identical with those for tn
$4,000 building which the district
erecting on Provo bench.
John Dubois, Of Moab, is offerin
reward OF 800 for the arrest an
conviction OF the person who Stable
10 death one of his work horses. NJ
Dubois is road contractor, and tn
horse was killed at his camp Will
ne and the crew were attending
wrestling match.
Bids for the construction Of the gu
= TALL sewer system for ogden, while
will cost approximately II half millio
dollars, will be called for within IL
next few weeks. The city plans 1
get the work started at as early
date as possible, in order to civ
u some relief to the unemployment sit
alton in the city,
ID. A. Bunker, the largest indiyidu
alfalfa seed grower In Willard cOun
last year, is preparing for mut
larger acreage and a diversified ere
this year. lie has already had mo
than forty acres of beets planted,
putting in fifty acres of spring whe
N. and has considerably more than II