The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-05-14
UTAH STATE NEWS.

Government surveyors have COM
menced active work surveying the
Utah lake reservoir site.
Thirty-one men Lave signed the roll
for the organization of company of
the National Guard in ogden.
The dog population of Salt Lake City
is expected to reach 1000 this year.
Taxes were paid on 1,4SS last year.
The county fish and game warden
has placed $4,000 young brook trout
In the American Fork canyon stream.
The weeks business on the Salt
Lake mining exchange was confined
to 9S.G22 shares of stock. that brought
s42,11S.90
There are still nearly 5000 piles to
be driven south of Calientes before the
road will be in frst-class shape for reg.
ular traffic.
James Sharp. pioneer of this state,
ex-mayor of Salt Lake City, and for
mer member of the legislature, is dead
after brief illness.
Civil Engineer Jones, at Moapa, ac-
cidentally shot himself by the careless
handling of his gun. The wound is
not believed to be serious.
The week in the Salt Lake ore and
bullion market closed on settlements
amounting to s42O,1OO, compared with
$4,000 for the previous one.
Ogden City has property assets val
ued at nearly 100000. The real es-
tate includes the three city parks. the
gravel pit, cemetery and several other
tracts.
The state will soon have fish hatch
cry for which $4,000 has been appro-
pllated, but no decision has been
reached AZ to the point 1t will be To-
Gated.
William Saley a 14-year-old Salt |
Lake boy, has been arrested on a
charge Of horse stealing. 1t Is alleged !
the lad stole the horse and traded 1t |
for another animal
Mother" Jones has left Salt Lake
City for San Francisco with the
avowed mission of raising funds for |
the striking miners of Colorado and |
Carbon county. Utah.
e. A. Hunsicker, a brickayer, OF
Salt Lake City. was slashed across the
back of the neck with a razor in the
hands OF G. w Thomas, a negro, and
is in serious condition.
Bessie, the 2.year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Phillips Of Rays
vile. while playing on the banks of
small creek near the house, fell into
the winter and was drowned.
A special from Kanab says that the
recent frosts did not kill all the fruit
as at Hrst supposed, but the supply, II
any. win not gut the market to the
extent of annihilating prices.
]. NJ. Shockley. convicted of the
murder OF Carmen Gleason and Bright
on. while endeavoring to hold up
street car In Salt Lake City, has been
sentenced to be executed on June "a.
With approximately so per cent OF
the Utah wool clip already marketed.
buyers claim that the total will be
about the same as last year, despite
the heavy losses during the winter OF
1923.
State Superintendent A. G.. Nelson
is mailing circular letters to all pros
pective graduates from the eighth
grade IN the public schools, urging them
TO continue their study into the high
er branches.
During drunken row at Calientes
on the night of the 9th two men were
shot. neither being fatally injured.
The shooting was the result OF free
for-all fight between Austrian and
Italian iaborers.
The body of o. j. Long, foreman OF
construction gang In the employ OF
the Western Union Telegraph com
pany, was found near Murray on Tues
day OF last week, with a bullet wound
in the head and revolver lying near |
by II was at first thought to be a |
case Of suicide, but the officers now |
suspect foul play,
AS the result of the bursting of tho
big reservoir In Rurch creek east OF
Ogden, a wall of water four feet high |
rushed down into the city on the
morning OF the 7th, causing damage |
to the amount Of $4,000, Cellars |
we're filed and lawns washed away, |
and those In the path Of the food had
the scare of their lives.
As the result Of It collision in the |
dnion depot yards at Ogden, Engineer
]. C. Van Why of the Southern Pacific
was killed and Dr., Tavener of Salt
Lake City injured The engineers
hodY WAS cut half In two and he was /