The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-06-11
UTAH STATE NEWS.


Inst week
Life insurance companies paid out
s572 ,2OG in indemnites in the state OF
Utah last year
There were exactly three times a,
many births as deaths in Salt Lake
City during the past month
A telegraph station will soon be es
tablished at Elgin, twenty miles west
from Caliente, on the Salt Lake route.
Harland Loofbourow of Salt Lake
City, while driving a fractions horse,
was struck by street car and sus'
tanned serious injuries.
It is claimed that within seven
months trains will be running over
the entire Salt Lake route between
Salt Lake City and San Pedro.
The allotment Of $4,000 made by
the quartermastor's department for
improvements at Fort Douglas has
been approved by Secretary Taft.
The freak collection at the Worlds
fair Includes a feathered freak from
Salt Lake, web.footed rooster, n
creature seemingly half duck and half
rooster.
During the month of May only nifty
flve eases of contagious and infec
tious diseases were reported in Salt
Lake City as against l44 for the pre-
vious month.
Thomas w. Bellston of Salt Lake
City Is dead from injuries received
in the Oregon Short Line yards in
Salt Lake City, where he was struck
by a moving train.
Charles Botha will not be executed
for shooting and killing his wife and
William Tibbetts, the state hoard of
pardons having committed his sen.
tence to life Imprisonment.
Ore and bullion settlements in the
Salt Lake market during the month
of May were the heaviest of any
month in the present year, the total
cutting very close to the 100000
notch.
During an alteration at West We
Der. Daniel Mcfarland stabbed
Amassa Harmon with a pocket knife,
innicting injuries that may prove IA
tai. Both young men are members Of
prominent families.
The copper smelters owned by indi.
vidual companies in the Salt Lake
valley made a great record during
May, their production of copper.gold
silver bullion passing well over the
$500 00O-pound mark.
State Treasurer j. D. Dxons report
of receipts and disbursements for
May shows a balance on hand OF
s2l5,99G9G. April 30 there was s2i5,.
12476 in the treasury. The May re
ceipts were S119Gl1.7O
Word has been received in Ogden
Of the death of A. S. Messer in Massa.
chusetts. Messer was one of the first
conductors ever employed on the
Union Pacific out of Ogden, M ran
the first train into Wasatch
A. NJ. Bruce, brakeman, was
knocked from a Union Pacific train
in Weber canyon, near Ogden, and re,
ceived injuries which will probably
prove fatal. His head struck bridge
and he was thrown into the river.
The city council has completed the
knocking out of trading stamps in
Ogden. An ordinance was put
through which imposes a license of
$500 on each trading stamp concern
and 5000 upon each merchant using
the stamps.
A movement known as the Chris.
ton crusade" has been inaugurated
with western headquarters in Salt
Lake City. The movement, while
strictly an Independent one, Is thor.
oughly in harmony with the work OF
the churches
that winter wheat is beginning TO
head. spring grain is coming to good
stands, and uccrn is starting TO
bloom while sugar bocts are in fine
condition Pastures are good and
stool, is thriving.
The secretary of the treasury will
formally notify collectors of customs
In the United States that Salt Lake
City is now port Of delivery and
Imported goods can be shipped on