The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-08-10
UTAH STATE NEWS.

'parncll Park NJ poatmistrcss.
Contracts are being made for the new
crop Of Utah tomatoes at figures 20
cents per crate above those u last year.
The broad gauge tract, from salt
Lake 10 Park cry has been completed,
and standard size rolling stock is now
being used.
Hundreds ~ tickets are being sold
from all points In the east 10 salt Lake
City aud return for the various Utah
excursions.
The school census enumerators Of
Provo report s,l57 children Of school
age In that town The figures last ycai
tolaled 2,i76
Grain harvesting Ia the vicinity OF
Mt Pleasant will have been completed
by the cnd Of the week, a month earlier
than In former years.
Salt Lake county has s,3H native
Sons aud i.l2s men Of foreign birth
who are eligible for military duty. ac.
oording 10 the assessors report
Work has commenced on the accty.
lene gas plant Mt the Lchi sugar works
There will be- 800 lights which will
supplant the electric lights formerly
uscd.
Icclandic day was observed at Span.
ish Fork on tho end. speeches, songi
and recitatlons la lcclandic aud English
being given, grand ball taking place
In the evening.
An explosion Of dust from smuttJ
wheat caused an expensive lire A. Lay
ton, the thrcshing machine, $50 busheli
OF barley aud sovcnty-dvc bushels Of
wheat being destroyed.
The eightmont old child Of David
aud Lucy Hatch, Of ST George, got
hold Of pill box containing arsenic,
swallowed the contents, aud In less
than half an hour was dead.
George W. wiscman, the fireman In.
jurcd by the tipping over OF runaway
engine ON the Park city branch OF the
lliio Grando Western, ON July cath, has
since suecumbcd to his injuries
The Salt Lake weather bureaus re.
port for July gives tho mean tcmpora.
ture for the mouth at 70 degrees. or
iust the average Temperatures for July
t"s n.s r.-. esaoty -ses~~ ysaral ,I1'''
The state auditor last week drew u
warrant Tor the commissioners Of Too.
clio county In the sum Of $500 TO apply
toward the maintenance OF the liza.
waiian leper colony In Skull valley.
H. II. Roberts has received from the
United States treasury warrant for
5000, Every contestant for seat In
congress Is allowed s. 200 by the gov.
eminent To cover his expenses Of max.
Ing the contest
Miss Lulu johnson. the Iowa woman
who is interesting herself In tho Majors
case, has issued an appeal to the public
in which she asks for funds to enable
her to carry the case To tho Supreme
court OF the United States
The .our-year-old son OF q. T. Scott,
OF Lakeviow precinct, Utah county. Is
dead from the effects OF smallpox aud
membranous Group, while the father
aud mother are down with the small.
pox aud under quarantine.
The three men who were arrested ON
suspicion OF having committed burg
larry Mt Goshen, will be taken TO Colo.
RADIO to answer TO n charge OF burglary,
there not being sufficient evidence to
convict them OF the Goshen burglary.
The family Of john Taylor, Of Frisco,
were awakcaed from their slumbers to
hnd the house Ia flames aud bnrsly
escaped with their lives. the lire start,
log from ashes which had been placed
In wooden pail aud loft In the house.
The rrovo city council has douled a
petition Of Mrs. WIN Strong, widow OF
Police Onlccr Strong, ASKING Tor an ap.
preparation Of s. 500 to his family, and
voted $500 to erect . suitable monument
to Strong, who was murdered by Frank
Conuors, June "a, 1899,
while Synagogue, lad OF u years,
reading In salt Lake, Is In Jail charged
with grand larceny. he having stopped
small boy on tho streets aud forcibly
relieved him OF some lemons, glnger.
snaps, pocket knife, some small
change aud a coupon book,
A party Of ten Indian police aud two
white men have been dispatched to the
western part Of the Uintah Indian res
srvatiou with Instructions to bring ali
srespassers to the White Rocks agency.
The agent Is determined to keep tres.
passees of the reservation.
The Third battalion OF the Twenty
third infantry, one Of the first regi.
ments ordered to the Philippines, will
be quartered at Fort Douglas "A few
days The battalion coming consists
OF four companies in whieL are lsi meu,
under Captain j. Il. ClngetL
The section gang on the road TO Salt
air, after unloading n car of ties that