The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-01-06
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UTAH STATE NEWS.

of doors in their shirt sleeves.
The indications at the oil well at
Mt. Pleasant point strongly to early
and very satisfactory results
In a train wreck near Bascom. eigh.
ty miles east of Ogden. Joe York
passenger, was fatally injured.
A lone bandit held up street car
in Salt Lake City Saturday night,
and relieved the conductor OF 500.
During the past year there were 396
cases of smallpox in Salt Lake City,
all Of whom recovered except two.
The troops stationed at Fort Doug.
las have been ordered to be in reaGi.
ness to go to Panama on short notice
There were 352 cases of typhoid
fever reported in Salt Lake during the
past year, there being 81 deaths from
the disease.
Springville is jubilant over the com
pletion OF the new electric light plant,
which has been erected by the city at
a cost of 100000.
John Crosby. aged IA, employed in
Mine No. 2, at Sunnyside, was killed
on the End, being run over by trip
OF loaded coal cars.
While coasting in Salt Lake City,
John Wiscom, aged 9. and Fred
Thorne, aged 10, ran into telegraph
pole. and both were seriously injured.
Sheriff Froyd, of Iron county, has
this year collected sS93.42 in fees in
the discharge of the duties of his Of
flee. The sheriff's salary is only
$500.
Joseph ID. McIntire, a well known
railroad man residing at Ogden, was
killed near Lucin last week, the sup.
position being that he fell from the
train.
young man named Charles
Hughes of Salt Lake, but who was
visiting friends in Paradise, had his
thigh broken through being kicked
by horse.
IL is reported that on the desert
about Modena and other places sheep
herders are amusing themselves by
shooting horses. Frank Hyatt had a
valuable mare and two colts shot out
there recently.
The Utah Sugar company rendered
the employees of the Lehi factory and
its several cutting stations n compll-
mentary ball in the Apollo at Amerl.
can Fork on the Both, Over 400 invl.
tations were issued.
The fees received in the Office of
the secretary of state during the year
1903 amounted to S49,49SG5. With
the exception of the two previous
years, this is the largest amount TAX.
en- In since statehood
The death penalty imposed upon
James Lynch for the murder of Colo
mel Godfrey w. Prowse in the Sheep
Ranch gambling house, in Salt Lake
City. has been committed to life i'm
prisonment by the state board of par.
dons.
The new superintendent of Meth.
odism in Utah to succeed the Rev. ].
l.. Leilich has been elected. His
name is Harry Talbot, who is at pres
ent located at Portland, Ore, where
he is pastor of the First Methodist
church.
Frank Rose, the Salt Lake barber,
who murdered his wife on Christmas
day and left his 2year-old child alone
and without food for two days In the
blood'stained bed with its dead moth.
er, declares he will place no obstacle
in the way of the law, and is ready to
pay the penalty.
The 3-year.old son of b. A. Williams
of Mounds station, was fatally burned
on the lst The child visited the
camp of freight outfit near his home
and In some manner his clothing be-
came ignited from the embers of a
camp fire.
AS the result of a collision with a
telegraph pole while coasting down a
hill in Salt Lake City, Tommy Bowen
may die and George Laux is badly cut !
about the face while several others
who were on the bob.sled were badly |
shaken up.
The Rodes and Bushman families
of Lehi held a joint reunion last week |
in the opera house. At the banquet |
ffty-eight sat down to the Rhodes |
tables, forty-nine to the Bushman |
tables and besides these there were |
about thirty invited guests.
The value of Utah's smelter produc.
ton for the year 1903 amounts to |
$2l,333,75S, an increase over the pre-
vious year Of approximately $4,000.
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