The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-11-21
UTAH STATE NEWS.
UTAH.

inc Huntsville city council mas
fixed the saloon license in that city at
5000 per year
The professional musicians of Og
den have organized a branch of the
American Federation Of Musicians.
reward has been offered for the
arrest and conviction Of the party who
murdered Roy Mills in Ogden, oct. IS.
Albert Mortensen of Porterville is
suffering from severe case of blood
poisoning. caused by a cut by barbed
wire
In ogden last week Bert Trunkhill
was convicting of stealing a keg of
beer and sentenced to one year in the
penitentiary.
An effort is being made to revive the
brass band at Moab the movement be.
ing encouraged by several members of
the old band,
The Lehi creamery was destroyed
by fire on the 10th, entailing a loss of
about $4,000, the fire being the work of
an incendiary.
Among the appropriations made at
the Methodist convention held in Oma.
ha was an item giving to the Utah
mission $4,000.
Governor Wells has issued a proc.
lam alton designating Thursday, No
vember &C. as a day of public thanks
giving and prayer.
An increased price of so cents per
ton has been put on the product Of all
the coal mines which are operated in
the states of Utah and Wyoming.
The sugar beet crop at Pleasant
Grove this year has been unusually
favorable, some Of the farmers rails.
ing as high as eighteen tons per acre.
Ray Booth a Salt Lake football
player. is in the hospital with his
lower limbs paralyzed as the result of
injuries sustained in a football game.
Mrs. Mary Ann Dixon Wightman
died at Payson last week in her S0th
year, leaving nine children, all over
40 years old, and 100 other descend.
ants.
Tom Coffin of Huntsville, who was
stabbed by Chris Peterson, will prob.
ably recover. Peterson, who was bad.
ly beaten by Coffin is on the road to
recovery.
lgH of
Charleston, will lose both hands and
his eyesght as the result of an ex.
ploson of giant caps while working at
q mine at Mt. Nebo.
State Auditor c. S. Tingey has been |
authorized by the board of loan com
missoners to pay off the 100000 Dor.
rowed by the state last summer when |
the funds in the treasury were low.
There Is a scarcity of school, teach.
ers in Utah this fall, at the present
time there being several vacancies in
schools in different parts of the state
at salaries ranging from $40 to $50.
Harry Craig of Ogden came near
factory last week, his hand getting
caught In belt. He was fortunate
enough to escape with a broken wrist.
Senator Kearns has selected j. C.
Littleaeld Of Ogden for his appolntee
as naval cadet. Littleheld is now q
second apprentice on the Brooklyn,
hn
stationed at Annapolis
The beet sugar industry has made
rapid growth in Utah in the past year
The output is 5OOOOOOO pounds, an
increase over last season of 80 per
cent The beet acreage is probably 80
to 40 per cent over last season
The worst windstorm in the memory
of the oldest residents of Salt Lake
visited the capital city Thursday
night of last week uprooting many
trees and causing much damage to
telegraph and telephone wires
Mrs. Flora l.. Clement, widow of the
late Victor NJ. Clement, a prominent
mining man, has presented the Uni.
verslty Of Utah with her husbands col.
lection of European rock specimens,
numbering some 600 or more pieces,
the collection being a very valuable
one.
Ada Hollend,ake, aged 10, OF Am.
erican Fork, while playing "crack-the,
whip" with other school girls, was
thrown violently to the ground. allght.
ing on her shoulder dls!ocating her
shoulder blade and breaking her arm.
While backing an engine out of the
roundhOuse at Scofeld the engine
struck a hand car running from Hale
station, which was loaded with the |
section foreman Stanley Gardner, and |
big Tpnp IRafal paIntn EaptiOu In. ]