The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-04-24
UTAH STATE NEWS.


Tho arst shipment of wool from
utah this season went out from Fair.
neid last week
salt Lake and ogden will have irst.
class ball teams this season. II being
the intention to play four games each
week.
Eleven girls we're sent from Salt
lake City last week TO take the place
81 tho striking telephone girls in
Butte
stockton now has an Athletic club
the club being formally opened last
week when a hvoround contest was
pulled on.
A local telephone company Ia being
Organised In Falrviow which will in.
stall an exchange there in tho immo-
date future.
The Utah Louisiana Purchase com.
mission. accompanied by several mem.
bors Of the governors staif and iadlos,
will start for 81. Louis Saturday.
Very little spring wheat has been
planted. and farmers are awaiting the
advent Of more scasonable weather TO
begin tho work OF blowing and plant.
ing.
Arbor day was generally observed
throughout the state Governor Wells
and the state officials followed their
usual custom by setting out number
Of trees.
Mrs. David Collins OF Monroe last
week gave birth to her fifteenth child.
and II ia said friends OF the family In.
tond notifying President Roosevelt OF
the event.
Another Utah pioneer. z. II. Decker
OF Parowan. passed TO the Great 30.
yond last week. Mr. Decker was a
New Yorker by birth and was In his
eighty.slxth year.
Charles Thornton. private sta
toned At Fort Douglas. was almost In
stantly killed last week by falling un.
dor a wagon heavily loaded with sand.
the wheels passing over his head.
}. Boud, a Sal, Lao lad. while on.
aaEed ~ baseball same last week.
was struck ON tho nose With the ball.
receiving broken nose. being ron
derod unconscious for thirty minutes.
Although Bessie Knocht. the sap
Lake girl who has been sleeping for
tho past sixty days. has not yet awak.
ened. she In said TO be improving. and
Il Ia believed she will eventually 70.
cover.
A number OF the farmers Of Spring.
WHO have started to put In their boets.
There arc about 300 acres Of bcets con.
traetod for In sprlngylllo and Maple
ton. and tho prospect for crop Is
very hne.
Hartley Greenwood OF Central had
his foot badly mashed In a hay balng
machine. lilo was forcing hay into
tho machine with his foot when Il
closed up quicker than he anticipated.
catching his foot
Kline and Mcguire. the two students
arrested In Salt Lake City some
months ago on a charge Of highway
robbery. their arrest causing some
thing OF sensation. have been dis
charged from custody,
In Salt Fake last week. william sut
ton shot George Hancock, tho bullet
striking a watch which Hancock wore
over HIS heart. thrs -aylng his life
Tho impact Of the let caused deep
hrulse over the hears.
Arthur Van Meteor OF Salt Lake City
has been trying fasting as cure for
dropsy. After fasting for forty
days he has reduced his weight from
$50 TO i27 pounds. and his flesh IA as
hard as a rock and no Is strong men
tally and physically.
The constltutionality OF tho recent
law enacted by the legislature making
II a misdomoanor for dairymen 10 feed
their cows on brewery malt and like
substances "a 10 be tested a Salt Lake
dairyman having been selected for
that purpose
Homes OF refuge for orphans and dc,
pendent children will be established In
various parts OF the state. n the plans
OF the Chlldron's Aid and Homo.Find.
ing association are carried out. The
association VIII be Incorporated and
the work prosecuted vigorously.
An agreement entered into between
husband and wife. including division
OF their property. to facilitate the pro.
einanco OF divorce Is against pub
llc policy and must therefore be held
20 be null and void. according TO re-
cent decision by the supreme court
All the stone Quarrles located in tho
valley Of the Great Salt Lake are now
controlled by single interest as the
result Of a combine. or absorption Of
interests. which has recently been Of.
fected, and the price OF building stone
has beon advanced 30 conta nor cord