The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1901-09-06
UTAH STATE NEWS.

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The assessed valuation Of Utah
county Is sio,5io.5s1.
A suit was alcd In Justices court,
Salt Lake, last week for the collection
OF % cents.
Much Interest is being manifested 10
tho discovery made Of a deposit OF
kaolin near Richheld.
The posioilce building at MIL Creek,
together with it, contents. was de-
atroyed by Gre last week.
A scheme Is on foot TO establish =
sugar factory "over Jordan" about
three miles west Of Salt Lake City.
A raid 10 being made on Salt Lake
drug stores accused OF selling liquors
at the saltwater fountains, nine drug
giats being arrested last week.
Miss Ida Halliday Of collinston is IN
Salt Lake hospital suffering from a
broken jaw and other injuries received
In runaway accident
Fully 500 scholars were enrolled tho
opening week Of the brigham Young
Academy At Provo, breaking all pre-
vious records for opening week.
Threshing Ia going on at n rapid rate
In the vicinity OF Manti, aud farmers
say that the wheat crop IL, with the
exception Of a slight shortage, Aa good
~ ever.
The town Of Kimberley came near
being burned down Tuesday OF last
week, Gre spreading from a peddler's
campfire TO the timber which sur
rounds the town.
Representatives OF railroads aud pro-
duee men are securing theatate looking
for fruit aud vegetables for shipment
east All are looking particularly for
apples and potatoes.
A smut explosion occurred In a
threading machine working at Loren
horterson's place, near spanish Fork,
the machine, straw, grain, stables and
granarles being destroyed by Dire.
Hugh @. Gibson, miner well known
In Utah and especially Tintlc district.
was killed Thursday last by prema-
ture blast while wording prospect
about twenty miles from Ely, Nevada.
The school census Of Salt Lake coun-
~, outside OF Salt Lake City. shows a
total Of 1871 children Of school age.
There are $50 attending public and
private schools and LOIS not attending
any school.
Oficlala Of the war department say
ti~s hoth che r~pinh nnd 1'wcnty-see-
ond battery OF artillery will be sta
toned at Fort Douglas when the latter
IL organized. Each battery Ia to have
half veterans aud half recruits
Josiah Beek's jewelry store at Provo
was burglarized Of over $1,000 worth
Of jewelry Tuesday night Of last week.
The safe was blown open About si2b
In money was also secured II 10 the
biggest burglary ever perpetrated 10
Provo,
Superintendent Tullan OF the United
States hsh commission, who recently
Investigated Utah lake, ands that tho
lake trout have done poorly, owing to
tho muddy water, but that the black
baAa have thrlven, while there Is plenty
Of carp.
Jeremiah Reese. who served In the
early hardships Of Utah and the Indian
wars, is dead at Payson at tho age Of
80. lie came TO. Payson In 1850 with
the hand-carts and made several trips
back to Omaha for emigrants with OK
teams.
while Christie Hyldahl and Louia
sodsrberk were repairing dirt roof
cabin near Richheld. the roof fell Ia on
them and the men would have persisted
but for the timely arrival Of a man
and woman passing by, who dug them
out.
The sale Of the states oil lands In
the Green River country, advertised
for recent date, proved a failure,
there being no bidders. A little Agri-
Iuisural land was sold. II oil IL de-
Ssloped that barren section will be a
bonanza to the state
Henry Pearson, engineer at the Des-
eret News. Salt Lake, while at work
about the machinery, got hia right
arm caught In belt, the arm being
wrenehed and twisted until II was
broken In two places Pearson having
q narrow escape from death.
The Utah Sugar companys idea OF
locating a factory at Gunnison, with
pipe llnes from sanpcte and Sewer
counties has been abandoned, aud II Il
now proposed TO locate "A small factory
in each OF these two counties as soon
a. conditions justify.
shAdrach Green. arrested In Salt
Lake for burglary, has confessed "a
burglarizlng twenty houses Ia that
city, taking anything saleAble, from
fountain pens TO gold watches Pow,
erty and the illness Of his yeung wife
~ the excuse given for the crime.