The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-06-13
UTAH STATE NEWS.
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The experimental farm at Parowan
is now all cleared off and ready for
business.
Charcs f. Talbot, a brakeman On
the Southern Pacific, was killed at
Fromontory Point last week
Mrs Mary Judge has donated $4,000
toward the erection of the new Y. NJ
C. A. building in Salt Lake City.
Milo Vincent. prominent Salt
Laker, was run over by runaway
team attached to a hack, one day last
week, and was seriously injured.
BESSIE Knecht, the famous sleeping
girl" will probably be sent to the
state insane asylum, unless her condi-
ton improves in the near future.
Mt. Pleasant will celebrate the
Fourth of July in an appropriate man
ner. Committees have been duly APP
pointed and work toward that end ar
ready started.
The town Jail at Santaquin was
blown up with dynamite by some mis-
creants on the night of the 4th. The
officers claim to have a clue and hope
TO secure the culprits
TIE body of an unknown man was
Weber, last week. The body bears the
appearance of having been In the river
for some time, and also indicates foul
play.
The trial of Dr. Edward L. Payne on
the charge of murder of Miss Anna ID.
Hill, the Salt Lake school teacher who
was found dead in the doctors office,
comes up before Salt Lake court this
week.
The Salt Lake Press club will pre-
sent Uncle Toms Cabin" at local
theatre during the week. Long" John
Critchlow, formerly president of the
Utah baseball league, will take the
part of Little Eva
odll LANE udS duoNI'l my
terry in the death of George II. Little
field formerly soldier in the Philip
pines who was found in dying condi-
zion by officers. II is believed he was
drugged and robbed.
The state penitentiary authorities
have established quarantine against
the outside world on account Of the
smallpox epidemic in Salt Lake. Visit
ors to that institution will not be per
mltted at present.
A small pox epidemic has broken
out in Sugar House ward, Salt Lake
City. The parents had regarded the
disease as chickenpoX, until placed un.
der quarantine by the city physician.
Fifty cases were found in one day.
1t now develops that the death of
p w. Rogers, who died in a Salt Lake
hospital recently. was due to the fact
that he escaped from his nurse and
Jumped from the roof of the hospital
striking on his head in hedge be-
low, dying few minutes after he was
picked up.
Joseph Monson OF Mt Pleasant was
seriously injured last week by a vic
ious horse. He was holding the ami
nal by the head, and 1t caught him
with its teeth in the breast. In at.
tempting TO release himself he placed
his hand in the animals mouth, and it
bit him. He may lose his hand.
The strike of the employees OF the
Utah Light & Power company has
been declared off and the men have re-
turned to work. The management con
Cedcs nothing, but promises To con.
slider the demands of the employees
for recognition Of their union, uniform
hours and a minimum scale of wages
The state board of mental hospital
commissioners has completed its In
vestigation of the charges made by
Michael Marine, Salt Lake patient
at the state asylum for the insane, and
ind that Marine was not inhumanly
treated, as he had charged.
The thrceyear-old son of Alfred
Stanford Of North ogden was drowned
in a canal last week. The child was
missed from home at IL a. m, and al
+, IN. its body was found two miles
from the home, where 1t had been EAR
rcd by the swift water in the canal
The report of the Salt Lake board o.
health for the month Of May shows the
total number of cases of contagious
diseases reported during the month al
81, as against 1876 for the correspond
ing month of last year and 20 les
than the month before.
Hugh Parman of Provo was drowned
in the Provo river Saturday III
jumped into deep water and could no
swim. A comrade went to his assist
ance and came near being drowned
Parman winding his arms around hi
neck