The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1902-09-10
UTAH STATE NEWS

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Manu has been postponed on account,
of the prevalence of an epidemic u
diphtheria.
The board OF education OF salt Lake
City has decided to raise the salaries
of practically all the teachers in the
city schools.
DR.. Peterson, OF Kimberly, was Sc
verely injured one day last week by
being kicked in the region Of the solar
plexus by a horse.
The linemep in the employ of the
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone com
pany in Salt Lake City are on strike
for an increase in wages.
The ore and bullion settlements In
the Salt Lake market during the pas,
week amounted to s3lI,70O. The stock
sales amounted to s9l7, 767.
Willie Halloran of Salt Lake, aged
IL, who was shot in the abdomen by
another boy while on pleasure trip,
has succum bed to his injuries.
The city council Of Provo has granted
a franchise to local capitalists for the
construction and operation Of an cleo.
trio street railway in that city.
A gang of robbers have been operat-
ing in Davis county recently, two
stores being robbed in broad day light
at Bountiful one day last week.
Gus Blumenthal. young plumber
of Lehi, attempted suicide last week
by taking laudanum, but his life was
saved by prompt medical attendance.
A young woman Of Salt Lake City
secured a divorce from her husband
one day last week, aud took anotl 81
husband on the evening of the same
day.
Peter Mortensen, convicted OF the
murder of James X. Hay, has been sen.
fenced to be executed on October II.
Mortensen chose shooting as the mode
of execution.
Edward johnson, young sheep
herder, is behind the bars, charged
with embezzlement and abducting
17-year-old Bountiful girl johnson
admits his guilt.
Fire broke out in solid row OF
wooden buildings at Kimberly on the
5tb, but fortunately it was gotten un.
der control after damage to the amount
of $500 had been done.
o. Flanders of Junction met death in
the Annie Laurie mine at Kimberly on
the 4th, when cave-in occurred.
Flanders was caught against timber
and died before help reached him.
John Gray, the convict who killed
Mike Mccormick, a fellow convict, al
the state prison, will not be prosecuted
for the deed, it developing that the
deed WAS committed in self defense.
Thomas Lund and wife and two OF
their sons OF Ephraim, had q narrow
escape from death by poison last week
The poisoning was caused by drinking
coffee which had been roasted in cop
per utensils.
George A. Maxwell OF Denver, on
single motor, rode an exhibition mile
on the saucer track in Salt Lake City
last week in ll7 9-5. The time is the
fastest ever ridden on western track
by any kind of a machine.
Eugene Duggins, thirteen-year-old
Provo boy, was shot in the forehead
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youthful companion. the bullet tlatten.
ing against the boys skull. Strange
to say he suffered no serious wound.
Barney Eckstein, bartender, shot
and instantly killed j. A. Jennings a
bridge builder employed by the Oregon
Short Line Railroad company at re-
sort near Salt Lake City. Eckstein
claims the shooting was in self-dsfense,
but the sheriff is investigating the
case on the suspicion that Jennings
haa been robbed aud murdered.
potato is being exhibited in Salt
Lake City than which more perfect
fist could scarcely be modelled by a
SKILLED worker in clay than this tuber
hand. Every finger is perfectly shown
even to iDcipient nails, while the pro-
portions are all correct.
A small child of David Shand, IT.,
OF Manti, met with painful accident
few days ago in which three of her
fingers were badly bruised by accident
ally putting them into feed chopper.
II may prove necessary that the tips
OF the fingers be amputated.
In all portions OF the mining dis
tricts Of Beaver county the greatest
activity is apparent. Properties in
every direction are being worked and
from not few OF them good reports
are daily being made. The hills are
literally alive with prospectors.
While attempting to cross the big
Sewer river bridge at Deseret, a
threshing engine and tank broke
through the bridge and fell to the bot,
tom of the river. Engineer Stout went