Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1900-01-19
UTAH NEWS.

ana taken to Manti, where ii was on
exhibition for time.
Six hundred volumessof choice liter
ture that will form part of the free
public school library of Davis coupty
We're received last week.
Philip Brooks, one Of the o,d-tlmers
who came to Utah from England in
1854, died Of heart disease at his home
in Salt Lake City sunday,
The Goshen Creamery and Manufac
thring company, of Goshen, has fled
articles of incorporation. the ca ital
the company being $4,000.
The Cannon brothers of Salt Lake
have purchased $1,000 acres Of land in
Summit county and will enter into the
stock business on large scale.
The opening of the public schools of
Salt Lake has been postponed until the
22nd inst, when all danger of the spread
of smallpox. it is hoped will be past.
The first death from smallpox is
chronieled from Wayne county, the
victim being Jester Lowry of Manti. a
young sheepherder, who died on the
9th inst.
A number of Salt Lake merchants
held meeting last week at which
plans We're discussed for the adoption
of strictly cash system during the
coming year
At least two witnesses will testify
that Hayworth the man charged with
the murder Of Thomas Sandal Of Kays-
vile, was in Ogden all night on the
night of the murder.
A force Of men Is at work at Frisco,
getting out marble for the Kearns
home being erected in Salt Lake, and
which is to BIG one Of the most magnif-
cent residences in the state.
While Neal Springer and Ed. Berry,
of the Creole mine at Park City, were
drilling hole, Berry missed the drill
and struck Springer terrible blow on
the aria, breaking the bone just above
the wrist.
Owing to the number of accidents to
pedestrians by being run into by those
engaged in the pastime of coasting in
Salt Lake, the coasters will in future
have to use the middle of the street,
instead OF the sidewalks.
The telephone company expects to
extend the Stockton line, 1875 miles into
the Dngway and Clifton district, as far
as the Nevada state line. The people
in the western part of tile state are
very anxious for telephone facilities.
An "Anti-Compulsory Vaccination
League was formed in Salt Lake last
week, the organization starting out
1913 members, and legal means may be
invoked TO compel the school board to
admit pupils who have not been vac
cinated.
The seasons run of the Utah Sugar
companys plant at Lehi is drawing to
close. When the cleanup is com
pleted the sugar output will have APP
proximated about 13.00o,oOo pounds,
the greatest record in the history of the
plant.
J. c. Howard, gambler and ex-rail-
roader, committed suicide at Salt Lake
Saturday morning by taking morphine.
What makes the case especially sad is
that his wife is dangerously Ill, having
giving birth to child on the previous
Sunday.
Every Sister of the Holy Cross hos
pitai in Salt Lake has volunteered TO
nurse smallpox patients. There was a
dearth Of ompetent immune nurses TO
wait upon female patients, when the
Sisters solved the problem by volun-
teering their services
The meeting OF the governors of the
trans-NIissouri states, which was called
by Governor Richards of Wyoming to
meet III Salt Lake. has been abandoned,
only the governors of Colorado, Wyom.
ing and Utah taking any interest in
the matter.
William Stone, miner. fell down
the shaft of the Washington mine al
Frisco, distance of loo feet, sustain
ing very s,rions injuries. He was re
moved to Nj Mark hospital Salt Lake
His chances of recovery are not con
sdered good.
The president has appointed Rober
Murdoch postmaster at Logan, vice
orson smit 1t is now said that nn
less the Pr6 postmaster can stand {
searching investigation by congress
sional committee. his successor may b'
named in the near future.
The weather director says there is al
Impression in some quarters that there
is less snow in the mountains thar
usual, but that figures taken from thu
official records show that there is al
average excess of II inches of snow 81
far for the season of 1s00-1900.
A cold storage plant is being con
structed at Richmond which will cos