The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-03-06
UTAH STATE NEWS.
UTAH.

Mrs. A. =. May berry, who attempted
suicide in Salt Lake City short time
ago, will recover.
Senator elect Smoot has appointed
Carl A. Badger of Salt Lake City as
his private secretary.
Spring City is arranging for an cleo
trio light plant to be used for street
and residence lighting.
Diphtheria is so prevalent in Salt
Lake City that it has about assumed
the proportions of an epidemic.
A special policeman has been en-
ployed in Richfeld for the special pur-
pose of suppressng hoodlumism.
At Mt. Pleasant, last week, Miss
Tressie Strom won the state Demorest
medal in an oratorical contest In which
four others contested.
There are over 800 men at work at
Sunnyside at this time, and it is said
more are to be given employment, as
the mines there are developed.
The schools of Riverton have been
closed on account OF an epidemic of
smallpox. II no new cases develop,
school will reconvene on March 8.
There is renewed talk of the Utah
Fuel company opening up in Spring
canyon, above Helper, this summer.
The location is adjacent to Castle Gate.
The fruit-growers and farmers
of Utah county are organizing for
mutual benefit, the object being to pro-
mote the fruit and produce industry of
the county.
The citizens of Bluffdale Riverton
and South Jordan have organized
Commercial club, realizing that in or
der to keep pace with the times they
must be up and doing.
Sixty new bills were introduced in
the lower house of the legislature on
Wednesday of last week, the last day
on which new measures could be In.
troduced without unanimous consent
H. l.. Frank of Butte, who owns
valuable deposit of onyx near Lehi, ex-
poets to spend about $4,000 in devel.
opment of the property this year. A
tram will be built from the mine to
Utah lake.
The coroner's jury which investi-
gated the case of the collision of two
Salt Lake City street cars in which
Motorman Farrow was fatally injured
holds the car company to blame for
the accident.
After a delay of almost six months
Peter Mortensen has appealed his case
TO the supreme court through his at.
torneys. On June IA, Mortensen was
sentenced to death for the murder of
James n. Hay.
A movement is on foot by the Wa
satch club of Mt. Pleasant to raise
$4,000 with which to purchase the coal
mine east of that city, in order to keep
the railroad company from getting hold
of the property.
IStul anu Tplh
clubs last week debated the question,
"That the United States should annex
Cuba" Lehi having the affirmative side
of the question. The delegation from
American Fork won.
Work to finish the Manti tabernacle
will soon be commenced and will he
in operation until its completion. When
the work is done this city will have
one of the most commodious gathering
places in southern Utah.
While cutting down trees Edwin
IHutchings, of Lehi, had the misfor-
tune to have one of them fall on him,
breaking his leg just above the ankle,
The doctor removed several pieces OF
the bone, but anticipates no lasting in.
jury.
Reports from the various precincts
where the grasshoppers appeared last
year are that it is generally believed
the storms and extreme cold of this
winter have destroyed the fertility of
the eggs deposited by the hoppers in
the fall.
M. NJ. Steele, rural route inspector oil
the postofiice department, has been
making an inspection of the routes
served from the Provo postofflce. He
will recommend that additional terri
tory be included in the route running
northeast from the city.
The injuries received by Peter Wilde
in the coasting accident at Payson
have proved fatal. Wilde was run into
by three little girls VINO were coast
ing down the hill on February 10, his
'eet being kno ked out from under him,
when he fell On his head.
Many Mt. Pleasant sheep growers
are receiving word from the west des-
erts which is more roassuring than
was that Of a couple of weeks ago