The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1902-05-30
UTAH STATE NEWS.

secured saturday lhhts
Park City IL undergoing a siege Of
smallpox, about dozen new cases
being reported last week.
The Salt Lake street railway COM
pany has increased the wages Of ita
employees 2 cents per hour.
Smallpox has broken out at Kimberly
aud AZ a number have been exposed II
Ia feared the disease will become gen
eral.
The drivers Of the sprlnklinR
wagons In salt Lake arc on q strike.
demanding higher wages aud shorier
hours.
over $4,000 was raised IN two days
last week by The Salt Lake Elka for
their big convention TO DO held in
August.
Two Salt Lake women one night
Last week captured burglar who en-
tered their homo aud turned him over
TO the police.
O @, Wilson, a quarryman was
crushed TO death beneath a ten-tou
rock In a land slide At the quarry near
Salt Lake last week.
Eden, Weber county, Ia to have tele-
phone connections, the people Of that
town having raised bonus for extend
ing the connecting line.
Jacob Kopp, OF Salt Lake, aged 20,
while playing base ball. collided With
another player and received injuries
which resulted In his death.
Az Provo 81, 800 Is 70 be expended on
the driveway to tho lake. IL bolug the
Intention 10 make II ultimately one Of
the finest driveways In the west
Better mail ssrvlce for tho people In
the southern part Of Cache Valley will,
II Is reported, be- established by tho do
partment about the nrst Of July.
The 1908 meeting Of the lntcrna-
tlonai Association Of Ticket Agents
win be held In salt Lake, when several
hundred ticket agents will be In at
tendance.
The unusually large supply Of as-
paragus grown by Utah farmers this
year Is leading the local cannarles to
can great deal Of 1t for next fall and
winters trade.
II Is now believed that a smelter
win be- established at Basin, Grand
county, known as the La SAILS mining
district. A Chicago company Ia Inter
ested Ia the project
One Of the greatest benefits Of the
recent storm In Sewer county will be-
the probable end OF the threatened
graashopper plague, the storm dealing
death 20 all the young hoppera,
A sheephcrder named Foutz acct.
dentally ahot himself, at the camp near
Provo, while attempting TO scare away
mountain lions from his herd. The
wound while painiul 10 not serious.
Hardle Lynch, a well known young
man Of Salt Lake, has achieved un.
usual houors and success In the Phila-
delphla Medical college. lie has won
two gold medals and a $500 cash prize.
Ralph Hansen Of spriugvlle, com.
mitted suicide at the Smith ranch near
Rawlins, Wyoming. Thursday OF last
week. Hansen left note, saying no
was tired OF lie, and did not care to
live any longer.
The total amount Of death claim |
paid by the life Insurance. companiea
70 residents Of Salt Lake City 10 1901
was s1io,47i. In Utah, outside OF Salt
Lake City, s9s,sso was paid, making a
total for the state Of sS76,S0l,
Alexander Wilkins, member Of the
city council OF Provo. was stricken
with apoplexy while hoeiug 10 the |
garden and died In few moments Mr..
Wilkins came TO Utah Ia 1851, aud Tor
hfteeu years was member OF tho |
police and sheritls force Ia the city OF
Provo.
A Mr.. Moss Of Moroni narrowly
missed a serious accident last week.
He was In a tent and reached ont un.
der the Dap 10 get his guu, which was
lying near rc pulled It toward him,
when. Of course, 10 went on. The
charge shattered one dagger, which
was afterward amputated.
James @, Wullams, a young married
man Of sprlngvllle, took two.lhlrds OF
an ounce OF laudnnum with suicidal
intent sunday. His rash act was dis
covered soon after he took Il aud med-
teal assistance was az once summoned
and prevented the fatal effect OF the
drug, Dependency on account Of
money matters was the cause OF his
rash act
Quicksilver, Ia commercial quantity,
has made ita appearance IN the prop
critics OF the Sacramento Mining com.
pany At Murcur, and 10 put IL into com.
merclnl form furuace win be- included
ia tho new plant with which mines
arc now being equipped.
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