The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-04
UTAH STATE NEWS.
UTAH.

vile last week.
Charles Schllcht, the circus en-
ploye who was shot and seriously In
jured in Pocatello last week, was for
merly a resident Of Salt Lake City.
The floods of the east have caused
a serious shortage in the tobacco mar
ket Of Salt Lake. Especially is this
so in regard to the supply of plug to
bacco.
Santo Talarico, an Italian, fell under
n switch engine at the coke ovens at
Castle Gate. on Saturday, both of his
feet and one arm being severed. lie
cannot survive.
At the Fourth of July celebration ir
Santaquin, Cuba, will be represented
by the most beautiful young lady OF
the. town. Porto Rico and the Philip.
pines will also be represented.
The management of the Saltair re.
sort has reduced the fare from 80
cents to % cents, the same as It has
been in years past. The public would
not stand for the increase in rates.
Florence Roper. 15-year-old boy,
while stealing a ride on a street car
in Salt Lake City, was struck by
pole and knocked under the wheels,
his body being badly crushed, death
being almost instantaneous.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
TO burglarize the Oregon Short Line
depot at Eureka, one night last week
After gaining an entrance to the office
however. the burglars were frightened
away, without securing any plumber.
Seven new cases OF smallpox were
quarantined in Salt Lake during the
week, and 10 were discharged as
cured, leaving 80 cases now in deten
ton, as against AZ for the previous
week, when 10 new cases developed
The year book of the department OF
agriculture estimates that on January
1st last Utah had $3.50 70 head OF
sheep, worth an average of s2.4C
each, or total of sS,561, 1856. These
sheep produced in the previous year
100000 pounds of wool.
The state of Utah has added s27,sS2,.
153.te to the value of the visible sup.
ply Of precious metals produced IN the
Unaed States during the year 1902
The quantity of gold silver, copper |
and lead mined during the year being
the largest in the history OF the state. |
The International League OF Press
clubs, in session at Atlanta City, N. j.,
decided on Salt Lake City as the place
for holding the convention in 1904.
The convention will bring to Salt Lake
City the largest and most influential
body or newspaper writers It has ever
known.
) A coroners jury has decided that
the death OF George II. Littleheld, the
soldier whose body was found in Sal,
Lake City, was due to poisoning, and
that the poison used was carbollc acid |
thus proving It case OF suicide. II |
was at first thought the man was muir,
dered.
Theodore d. Boal, a prominent con.
tractor Of Denver, was probably fatal
ly injured In a runaway accident in
Salt Lake City, Sunday. He was
thrown from the vehicle after making
a game fight to stop the team, his leg
being broken and his head cut w
badly.
! Alfred Pink of Salt Lake was set
upon by five footpads near the Warm
Springs and beat into insensIbiIIty,
the robbers securing all his cash and
gold watch. The men are believed to
have been haneers-on Of circus
which was passing through.
Max Blanl, and Edward Roy, Of Salt
Lake, quarreled one morning last
week when Ray shot Blank, tho bul,
let striking him in the shoulder, in.
flictlng a slight wound. The men were
neighbors and the shooting was the
result OF a standing quarrel.
Thomas Fitzgerald, a section fore.
man at Mounds, was brought to Price,
Saturday, suffering from severe
beating with clubs at the hands of ten
Jap section men, half OF whom were
his gang. Fitzgerald had refused tc
get Ice for the Japs after G p. IN.
The osmose plant at Lehi closed
down last week, During its To-day
run It converted the leftover syrur
into about two and quarter million
pounds of brown sugar which, wher
the regular campaign commences this
fall, Will be refined into white sugar
Two Provoites had an exciting OK
perience at Soldier Summit, Saturday,
when five hobos attempted TO rot
them. The men put up a game fight
but were beaten into insensibility and
robbed one OF the men having his
arm broken In two nlaces