The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-07-23
UTAH STATE NEWS.


fatally hurt at Promontory Point A
large rock struck him and broke his
back.
The week on the Salt Lake mining
exchange closed with the sale of l41,,
sos shares of stock that brought
s29,96OS7.
Between twenty and thirty trap
shooters Of Salt Lake City have or
gained gun club and expect to
soon have 100 members.
Local meat dealers are of the opin,
ion that the packers strike in New
York and Chicago will not cause
meat famine in Salt Lake.
The state convention of the Repub.
lican party to nominate candidates
for all state Offices will be held in
Salt Lake city August rs.
Andrew Christensen, arrested in
Butte on a charge of circulating coun.
aerfeit IS and $40 gold pieces in Salt
Lake City. has confessed his crime.
In the ore and bullion market, of
Salt Lake, the week closed on settle,
ments aggregating $4,000, com.
pared with s321,7OO for the previous
one.
All the pool and billiard halls in
American Fork were closed last week,
owing to the fact that the own.
ers would not pay a license of $50 per
table.
Miss Bessie Spencer of Ogden,
while visiting at Spencer, Idaho, was
incidentally shot in the hip, but 1t IL
mot believed her injuries will prove
eerious.
Definite steps have been taken by
khe Salt Lake Real Estate association
Tor erecting a packing house and es'
Publishing a livestock market in Salt
Lake City.
Inquiries regarding the prospects
of this years crop as compared with
last years reveals the fact that the
lucerne crop will be much heavier
this season
Archie Shields, aged ~, OF Lake
View was thrown from a load Of hay
by the wheel dropping into a chuck
hole. his back being broken, death
resulting almost instantly.
N. b. Manning. an engineer who
was well known in Utah about ten
years ago, committed suicide on the
night Of June 81 on steamer plying
between San Francisco and Stockton,
by taking carbolic acid
Company f. of the Utah National
Guard, recently organized at Ogden.
IS to have a first class gymnasium,
s1tted up and maintained by the state
for the use of the militia boys.
A. C.. Peterson of Elsinore was the
victim OF a dynamite accident one
day last week which will lay him up
for some time, both his legs and
hands being badly injured by the ex-
plosion.
Cattlemen are becoming alarmed
over the presence OF a large number
of bears in the mountains east OF
Manti and Ephraim, number Of
animals having recently been killed
by bears.
The parents OF George Elsmore of
American Fork, who 1t was thought
had been killed by train in Idaho,
received a letter from him, saying
that after sending his trunk he de-
cided to stay for a short time longer.
The Moffat road has filed with the
u. s. land office its maps showing the
definite location through the Uintah
reservation. The filing is highly i'm.
portant in the fact that It is another
step toward the building OF the road,
The historic beehive, which Brig.
ham Young placed on his residence
in 1855, has been presented TO the
Utah State Historical society by
president Joseph f. Smith. A new
beehive now adorns the Brigham
Young house.
Andrehas Olson met with a pain.
fll accident near Ephraim, a fork
Mailing and striking him in the
back. One OF the tines embedded
Itself near the spinal column, pene,
trating the flesh to a depth of two
or three inches.
Pat Smythe, the Ogden saloon keep,
or who was shot by James Bottomer,
win probably recover Bottomer
claimed Smythe had beat him out of
a sum of money, and, walking into
Smythe's place Of business, shot him
without any warning.
Four-year-old Jennie Rasmussen OF
Salt Lake City, was thirsty and drank
several swallows Of corrosive subj.
mate in solution. Her mother
Knocked the glass from her hand and