The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1895-10-18
UTAH NEWS.

ANoNA
John Huntsman of Willard county,
had his leg broken the k2th, having
log rolled over it at a sawe}ill.
N. b. Andrews, a miner Working in
Mlercur, was k4lled by rock falling on
him the 10TH He leaves family.
4Chousand bushels of wheat
" o. shipped from Corrinne this
Season, nearly the whole amount 60
ing east.
Springvile beet growers claim for
their product Il greater percentage of
saccharine than any grown elsewhere
in Utah.
The Bear River Canal company sold
500 acres of titled lands in 20, 40 and
S0-acre tracts, on the 18th, to Illinois
parties.
The Mt. Nebo canal, skirting the
southwest corner of Utah valley, is
completed. 1t is twenty miles in
length.
The stock OF goods of M. l. Young
of Park City will be sold by the sher-
i'll to satisfy attachments amounting
to $500.
Henry Parkinson of Wellsville,
Cache county; while examining gun
had finger shot off by premature
explosion.
Dwight Shurtliff, an Ogden boy,
shot himself while hunting, on the
10th, from the effects of which he died
the day following.
The 14-year-old son of Sophus John
son of Mt. Pleasant had his arm bro
ken in three places the 18th by being
thrown from a horse.e
Kate Field, the Washington Jour
nalist, who is recuperating in Utah,
visited the MereHr mine last week and
inspected the interior workings.
A mammoth elevator is nearing
completion at Corrinne, with capac-
requires 10000 feet of lumber and
10000 pounds of nails
At session of the national council
of Congregational churches held in
Syracuse, N. Y, last week, Rev. ID.
M. Bartlett of Utah, said if statehood
were secured it would set civilizasion
back ten years.
Willie Hazard, a 13-year-old boy of
257 Eleventh East street, Salt Lake,
disappeared from his home the 10th
and no tidings of him have been had
since. When he left he wore a black
cap, navy blue waist, knickerbockers
ann black stockings.
A vicious COW, on the 18th, attacked
the 6-year-old son of Neils Y. Hansen
of Logan, tossing him high in the air
from which he sustained severe bruis-
-es. T he animal WAS renewing the at
tack when timely help arrived and
rescued the lad from impending death
Ogden officers have in chage man
giving the name of Seth Carter, who
is demented and was starving him
self to death. He was found at the
half completed structure of the Meth
Odist University, where he had evil
IDENTITY been for some time. He claim
ed to hail from Texas.
AL Holman, stockman from San
Juan, shot and killed Jim Runnel,
another stockman, the 9th. Runnel
first pulled his revolver and tlOurished
it, but Holman was not armed and he
put up his gun. Holman watching
his chance slipped the revolver from
Runnel's pocket and shot him dead.
Frank CARING plead guilty to the
charge of posing William j. Coulter
of Fillmore, and of forging a will in
his favor. The prosecuting attorney
made a statement to the court that
CARING was1|stTaf sound mind, aud
he was given the mir1t sentence,
five years. Carling is B.tI 10 years of
age.
Prisoners, among them two Indians,
tore up mattress, in the Ogden Jail,
and stuffing it in the air shaft, set
fHe to it. The fire started in the roof
md burned downward. One of the
risoners refused to join in the plot
and was threatened with death. The
loss was $4,000, fully covered by in
surance.
An association known as the Civic
Federation, composed of leading bust
ness men of all parties, has been form
ed, with a view to prosecuting alleged
boodling officials of the past county
government of Salt Lake county
$4,000 has been pledged, and addi-
tional counsel procured. The fedora
tion is composed of but twenty-five
members, as larger body would be
unweildy.
1t is said that clay abounds in Utah,
which, by virtue of a recent chemical
discovery, can be combined with
chemicals and converted into dyna-
mite. Recent experiments in Paris,
France, were so successful that they
will be continued on larger scale,
in Utah, and chemicals for that pur-
pose have already arrived. If they
are as successful as anticipated, dyna-
mite works will be established.
A dispatch from Topeka, Kas., the
18th, says that Governor Morrill, has
granted pardon to one u. II. Camp
bell, who is sold to be a resident OF
Salt Lake. He was Il Wells-Fargo
express agent, and, so the story goes,
one night he had "a $500 package of
money, and being afraid TO leave it in
the safe, put it in his pocket. That
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