The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-11-28
UTAH STATE NEWS.
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his leg being broken.
William Singleton. who came tc
Utah in 1860 and moved to Kamas in
1869 is dead at the age of "a.
A subordinate lodge of the United
Commercial Travellers association OF
America was organized in { den last
week.
The Westminster Presbyterian
church of Salt Lake City last week
be erected building at cost OF
$4,000.
Plans are being made for the estab'
,ishment of Bohemian club in Salt
Lake. Many of the doctors, lawyers,
artists and others are interested in
the idea.
Earl Cunningham. aged 10, fell from
building at American Fork, but
struck the ground twenty feet below
in such manner that he escaped with
a broken arm.
Frank Jacobs of Salt Lake brother
OF Bessie Knecht, the famous sleep
ing girl" who died recently, has be-
come insane as result of worrying
over family troubles.
james Lynch, convicted Of the muir
der Of Godfrey Prowse, has for the
third time been sentenced to death, the
date for his execution being fixed for
Friday, January s, 1904.
N. c. Hancks, the young man who
was very badly injured in an eXplo'
sion in the Mt Nebo mining district
is progressing favorably, and his eye.
sight may possibly be saved.
A Malad correspondent says the
people of that town are fortunate in
having a good supply of timber in the
mountains, and are in a position to
buck the coal trust to finish.
The Fairview Telephone company,
an Independent concern, which has
been conducting a private line in that
town, is making arrangements to
branch out in the very near future.
AS the rsult of a quarrel over
woman, w. II. Walker was shot in the
back by Alex Doles In a saloon in
Salt Lake City. Walker, it is believed,
will recover Doles is out on bonds.
The San Pedro people now have
rails laid to a point about seven miles
south of Calientes. 1t is claimed rails
will have been laid to a point eighty
miles south of Calientes within three
months.
Daniel Whipple and L. Mcdonald,
Salt Lake carpenters, were injured
one day last week by the falling of a
scaffold upon which they were work
Ing, preciptating them into a pile Of
old junk.
George Masters, aged 2S, well known
in Springville, where his parents re.
side, was killed Saturday as the result
of premature blast while engaged in
railroad construction work near
Fruita Colo.
Mrs. ]. w. Crlger, an actress, at.
tempted to kill her husband, with
whom she had quarreled, at a lodging
house in Salt Lake City, attacking
him with a penknife while he was
asleep. Crlger's wounds are not seri.
Gus.
Mick" Haworth, who was TO have
been executed on December IL, for the
murder of Thomas Sandal at Layton,
on the night of March 20, 1899, had
his death sentence committed to life
Imprisonment by the state board Of
pardons.
Robert J.. King, twice sentenced to
death for completely in the murder OF
Godfrey Prowse, in Salt Lake City,
has at last been released from Gus.
tody, the prosecution having decided
there was insufficient evidence against
King.
Jud Grant has been arrested in Salt
Lake City on a charge OF passing
counterfeit money 1t is believed that
Grant is the man who has set IN cir
culatlon a greater portion Of the bad
money which has been found in the
capital city Of late
The road supervisor at Green River
is having a hard time collecting poll
tax from the Italians IN that district
being attacked by one Of them who
carried a long knife, one day last
week. The Italian is now awaiting
trial on a criminal charge.
y. A. King, Familiarity known
throughout the state as doc" King,
died at Alameda Cal, Sunday. He
had lived in Salt Lake City for over
thirty years, and at one time was EN-
plcye by President Brigham Young
as q guard at the famous bee Hive