The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-25
UTAH STATE NEWS.
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tine In Salt Lake City.
f. B. Stillman of Salt Lake was
crippled probably for life by being
kicked by a horse last week.
At least twelve Utah boys who have
enlisted in the United States navy
have deserted within the past year.
A gang of $50 men began laying
track on the Moffat road on the 18th,
just one year after the company was
Incorporated.
In trying to catch ride on wagon,
Eddie Kenner, aged g. of Salt Lake.
fell under the wheels, his head being
severely crushed
Thomas Simons of Salt Lake lost
two horses. and other property footing
up about $500, in fire which de-
stroyed his stables last week.
A movement has begun in Salt Lake
TO drive the lunch wagons from the
streets. Property owners claim the
wagons have become nuisance.
Members of the National Guard of
Utah will go into camp at Fort Rus
sell, Wyo., about August 10. The
troops will be gone about eleven days.
Small boys and cigarettes caused
fire at Glenwood last week which cost
two citizens about $500. about forty
tons of hay, sheds and fences being
burned.
1t has been decided by the Salt Lake
City courts that city prisoners can be
compelled to work on the chain gang
or placed in the black hole" for pun.
ishment.
The officers seem to be still in the
dark regarding the murderers of Ped
der Ryan, the man found near Murray
with his head crushed and his arms
and legs tied,
The wholesale sugar dealers of the
state are engaged in lively war, cut
of 20 cents per hundred pounds being
made last week. while further re-
duction is expected.
Five masked men entered saloon
in Salt Lake City on the night of the
10th, badly beat up three men who
were in the saloon at the time and got
away with SIG in money.
J. o. Williams and Wallace Miles
got into an alteration in Salt Lake
City one day last week. In the melee
Williams losing portion of his nose,
Miles attacking his antagonist with his
teeth
Lillian Busby, aged 10, of Salt Lake
City, '1st week awoke from seven
days sleep, her case being diagnosed
by the physicians as hysteria-cata.
lepsy, caused by over study and i'll
health.
According to a decision handed
down by the Supreme court last week
man is under moral, but not legal
obligations to support his plural wives
and educate the children by such
unions.
The Salt Lake route (the San Pedro
road has issued circular letters to
all contractors notifying them of the
intention of building 100 miles at once
and inviting them to be ready for bid
ding on the work.
The state of Utah has cleared the
% of lun Calf
Lake City under the grant for the
State university; also 7,426 acres for
insane hospital and 5,549 acres for
Agricultural college,
1t is charged that there is at least If
teen cases of smallpox in Huntsville
and that the citizens are doing nothing
to prevent the spread of the disease.
those afflicted mixing with their
ncighbors as if there was no danger
George o. Byrne, a butcher, while
trying TO beat his way from Chicago
TO San Francisco. lost his hold while
swinging under the cars at Farnham
twenty cars passed over his body, cut
ting both legs in two at the thighs,
death resulting six hours later.
Vice President j. Ross Clark of the
San Pedro, Los Angeles a. Salt Lake
railroad makes the statement that the
work on his road will be rushed for.
ward as rapidly as possible until the
line Is completed and trains running
between Salt Lake and Los Angeles.
The largest commercial vineyard In
the state is being set out at La Verkin
Washington county, by Hon. Thoma'
Judd, president of the State Board o
Horticulture. He has already set GU
nearly forty acres and plans to set on
10000 more vines the coming spring
A Mormon settlement, with iiy,
Mormon elders in charge, has beer
founded at Fallen. Samoan islands
The elders have cleared twenty-threr
acres of land and are teaching the
natives TO read and write and to plant
and cultivate