The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1904-07-01
UTAH STATE NEWS.

Nhl Allt A'laiA III
The citizens Of Mantl arc hustllng
for tho Black Hawk oncampment.
and expect to land the prize
Thomas Joyce. tn oldest resident
Of Weber county. died at MRrriotts
on tho 25th. at the age Of o.
The G-yearold son Of Joseph Hare.
OF Park City. was kicked In the head
by a horse. sustaining fractured
skull.
Tho trouble between the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone company
and the Salt Lake llnomon has been
settled by arbitration
Last year there we're employed iiG
teachers In the various county school
districts OF Salt Lake county. This
fall the teaching force win number
1856.
Salt Lake merchants have practi.
cally abandoned the idea Of a half
holiday ON Wednesdays during tho
summer season, number OF firms re.
fuslng 10 close.
A severe wlndstorm which visited
American Fork last week did much
damage TO growing crops. while trees
were blown down. doing much dam
age 10 telegraph aud telephone wires.
Fire destroyed tho sheds. stables
and hay belonging 10 Aleck Barten
OF Manti Tho bucket brigade pre-
vented any further damage Little
boys and matches woro tho cause OF
the firo.
Tho city council Of Mnnti has do
oldod that pure. clear water shall
Do what the citizens Of Manu can OK.
poet In the very near future. It In
proposed 10 pipe the water from near.
by springs.
The county clerk reports that 1907
pounds Of graSshoppera have been
caught by Ephraim people. for which
they have been paid cent per pound
BY tho county. and stlll there are plen.
~ Of hopporu In that vicinity.
.,rhas heasAzst. aaxpty eongAiaslonera
of Sewer county. as a board OF equal.
cation. has passed upon the assess
aents OF the county for this year.
The total valuation, outside OF some
railroad property. Is ,i.932. 269
Tho story comes from Modena that
while Indian Jack and his squaw
were working In the fields. their 3.
Jearold son was killed by two older
children. aged 4 and Z. who pounded
tho little ono to death with rocks.
Tho articles OF Incorporation OF tho
Denver. Northwestern a Pacific Rail.
way company better known as tho
"Monnt' road. have been iilod with
Secretary OF state Hammond. Tho
capital stock OF the company Is s2O..
100000.
A fatal accident occurred on tho
Luoln out-off last week, when a lG'
yoRr-old lad. name unknown. was
cruahed 10 death under the wheels OF
work train He was riding on tho
pilot OF the engine and fell on In front
of the wheels. Forty cars passed
over his body
Two children. aged 4 and 6. came
near being burned TO death In Salt
Lake City. the mother having locked
them IN room while she went out TO
work. The little ones got hold OF the
matches and started a ERE, and were
rescued by the IRE laddies Just in
the nick OF time.
A 5-yoar.old girl OF John Nicholson
OF Huntsville suffered a painful nc.
cldont last week. by getting her hand
caught In feed cutter, The mem.
Der was laccrated 80 badly that the
doctor was obliged TO amputate two
Of the fingers.
Nineteen marriage licenses were
granted by the county clerk Of Sal,
Lake county one day last week. This
does not come up to the record es.
tabllshod In June last year, when
twentysix couples applied for and
received licenses In one day.
Maurice NJ. Ranney, the waiter who
was mysterlously assaulted In Sail
Lake City last April his skull being
crushed by some unknown party. died
az the state mental hospital last
Saturday. The man never recovered
his reason sufficiently TO tell who hill
assailant was.
The wool crop In soyler count!
this season has exceeded that Of an!
previous year Al tho office OF Thu
Denver q Rio Grande railroad In sa
dina II Is said that 1876 600 pounds O
wool have been offered for shipment
valued az between 100000 an
100000
d. A. Stark, bollermaker en-
ployod In the Southern Pacific shop
at Ogden. was probably fatally IL
5urod while engaged IN cutting Of
tho boiler head of n locomotive. th
hoad Unexpectedly falling away pin
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