The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-11-14
UTAH STATE NEWS.

At the recent election in Santaquin
only forty-nine votes we're cast In both
polling places.
The Citizens Prohibition ticket at
Cedar City was elected by an over
whelming majority.
Tom Cunningham Of Ogden was Sc
riously injured in a runaway accident,
his spine being badly injured.
It q expected that the telephone
system at Malad will be in working
order before the close Of the week
It is claimed that trains will be run
ming from Salt Lake to Los Angeles
over the San Pedro road early in 1905.
Mrs. Nalen of Elsinore, while cut
ting cabbage last week, got her finger
under the knife and cut the end of 1t
of
Peter Mortensen has asked the
state board of pardons to commute
his sentence to that of life imprlson.
ment.
Woodey Hodgson died suddenly In
an Ogden restaurant as the direct re-
suit of choking on piece Of beef.
steak.
Mrs. Benson has secured verdict
IN the district court at Junction, for
$744 for breach of promise, against d.
w. Stokes.
Two barns were destroyed by IRE
at Manti last week as the result OF
carelessness of small boys or cigar.
cite smokers.
The Lehi sugar factory has cut
about one-half of the seasons beet
crop and has sacked nearly 100000
pounds Of sugar.
There were seventy-seven cases OF
typhoid fever reported in Salt Lake
City during the month of October, as
against 12S for September.
Two horses were stolen from the
barn of F. G. Jensen at Mt. Pleasant
one night last week. 1t is thought
couple of tramps took the horses.
Mrs. B. S. Wyatt of Ogden was Sc
verely injured by being thrown from
her buggy in collision with street
car on the main street of the town.
The report of the Salt Lake board
of health for the month of October
shows an annual death rate of per
1000, as against 1910 for September.
AS the result of street car COLI.
sion in Salt Lake City, caused by the
breaking of brake chain, several
people were injured, but mono seri.
ously.
Articles of incorporation of the B.
]. Lund company, organized at Mo.
dena to carry on a general mercantile
business, have been filed with the
secretary of state
Probably the first charge Of va
grancy ever entered against a woman
in Salt Lake City was placed on the
police register one night last week
against colored woman.
Louis Winders of Grant, Idaho, find
ing he had boarded the wrong train
jumped from moving train in Salt
Lake City, sustaining injuries which
will probably prove fatal.
The sugar beet harvest at Mt. Pleas.
ant was finished last Saturday and
the crop has made an average of four
teen tons to the acre. paying double
what the same acreage would have
done in grain.
George w. Chance, OF New Orleans,
Is in Salt Lake City hospital suf-
fering from broken nose and two
badly broken wrists. as the results Of
falling down the stairs in the city
and county building while visiting that
building.
An effort is being made to secure
the pardon of Roy NJ. Kaighn. who is
now serving a five-year sentence in
the state prison for the shooting OF
Willard Haynes in Salt Lake City In
December, 1901.
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, Messrs. Nose Johnson, T. II. Cut
Ter and b. T. Piper of Logan, are
organizing a company to present Cor
ianton" throughout the state. They
will leave about November 10th and
will play Cache Valley towns before
proceeding southwark.
Lineman Van Wagner, In the en-
ploy of the Utah Light & Power COM
pany Ia Salt Lake City, was struck
by a current of electricity one night
last week which had a power Of 1000
volts and still lives, but he will lose
a portion Of each hand.
Tracli.laylng win begin in earnest
this week on the San Pedro The Har-