The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-15
UTAH STATE NEWS.

make all arrangements.
The commissioners Of San Pete
county last week raised the tax levy
from &c mills to 81 mills.
The Salt Lake board Of education
has decided to abolish corporal pun
ishment in the public schools.
There are 1887 school children in
Salt Lake City, according to the cen.
sus just completed, 1858 boys and
8,1i9 girls.
Thirteen carloads of residents of
Butte and other Montana towns came
into Salt Lake on Sunday on their
annual excursion.
The town of Huntsville became an
incorporated city last week, and at
the election all the officials elected
were Republicans.
The date Of the State Teachers as
ISOLATION has been changed from Sep
TENDER 30 to October 6 to 8, the place
of meeting being Salt Lake City.
A. Il. Wakeman, Salt Lake clerk,
was arrested last week on the charge
of embezzlement. He was caught in
the act through the agency Of marked
coins.
While following the circus parade
in Salt Lake City, Robert Howells
got one foot under the wheels of one
of the mounted cages. the member
being badly crushed.
Salt Lake officers are still hunting
for an accomplice for Mrs. Hodge.
not believing that she murdered Ped
dler Ryan without assistance, although
she declares she did
Edward Anthony, employed by tho
Salt Lake street car company, met
death on Sunday, being crushed be-
tween two cars while engaged in his
duties as a car cleaner.
Word was received from Los An.
geles last week that the contracts
had been awarded for the construction
of the Salt Lake route between Cal.
ientes and Daggett, Cal.
The board of directors of the Rio
Grande Western has authorized the
extension Of the Marysvale branch to
the iron deposits of Iron county. Pre-
liminary work was begun last week.
The three-year-old son of Mr., and
Mrs. John X. Madsen Of Mt. Pleasant
while playing with matches set its
clothing on fire and was so severely
burned that death resulted In q few
hours,
Bertha Sorenson Of Mt. Pleasant
was thrown from q buggy last week
while driving along a rough road. her
collar and breast bones being broken,
while she sustained other severe in
turtles,
There were number of people in
Mt. Pleasant last week who came from
the southern counties In Utah, and
even from Arizona, a distance of 200
miles. for the sole purpose of seeing
the circus.
Charles B. MARYLAND, manager Of
the Conklin sampling works, was
found in his rooms in Salt Lake City
one day last week lowering between
life and death as the result of a dose
OF morphine taken with suicidal in
tent because of Ill health and bust
ness troubles. He will recover.
The police are In search Of a wo-
man who has been plying a peculiar
avocation in Salt Lake City. She
would call upon woman and tell her
she could repair her switch" at redic-
ulously low prices. She would Sc
cure the victims back hair and fail
to return it, A Number of women
were thus victimized.
Philip Cassidy, stranger in Salt
Lake City, was picked up by pc.
liceman and sentenced to ten days
for drunkenness. 1t now appears the
man was delirious from illness and
his chances Of recovery are very
small.
Fred L. Thomas, pharmacist EN-.
ployed in a Springvile drugstore, was
found dead in bed one morning last
week. 1t appears he had taken some
medicine to relieve pain. which had
affected his heart and caused his
death.
Mrs. Gilbert McClurg is the win
ner OF the $50 prize for the best ode
on irrigation offered by the board OF
control OF the irrigation congress J.
T. Goodwin of Salt Lake and Miss
Jean Macmillan of Ogden were close
seconds.
A crook was arrested In Salt Lake
City last week who had his pockets
full of bogus $1OO,blls, but owing to !
the denomination there's not many
people in this section that are likely
10 b,un hoo,, Utal,an ioU ~, 1860.