The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-11-26
:UTAH STATE NEWS.
UTAH,


lake City last week of smallpox.
Young Manning had the disease in a
virulent form.
Hugh Wilson of Salt Lake City tried
20 Kill himself with morphine sulphate
Sunday evening, because he and his
wife do not get along. He is now out
Of danger.
The total yield of sugar beets in Sc
yier county this year Is in the neigh
borhood OF 1000 tons, which will
bring in between $4,000 and $44 900
70 the growers.
The farmers of American Fork have
shipped two carloads of onions to the
eastern market. This is the largest
shipment Of onions ever sent out OF
his place at one time.
Charles Swanson is the latest victim
of road hog" driving in Salt Lake
City, a reckless driver having run
over him while he was waiting for a
car, his leg being broken.
John Broughton, a waiter, aged "a
years, suicided in Salt Lake City by
swallowing a quantity OF rough.on.
rats. Temptations Of the gambling
table led to the tragic consequences.
Ogden has been flooded the past
week with Japanese who congregate
for shipment west on their way to
Japan, where they go to enlist to
eight for their country against Russia.
Edison Halstead, the Ogden boy who
accidentally shot himself while duck
hunting, died after being unconscious
four days. The lad never regained
consciousness from the time he was
shot until his death.
Wash Everett of Sunnysde was
thrown from his wagon while cross
ing the railroad and run over by the
empty wagon, severing his right ear
and fracturing his left leg just below
the knee. Mr.. Everett is 62 years old.
There is a movement on foot to stop
Sunday. Manager Grant OF the Grand
opera house has been notified that
there Is a possibility of his arrest II
he continues the Sunday perform
aBces.
The eighteen.months-old son Of Mr..
and Mrs. T. NJ. Herbert of Salt Lake
City was drowned last week by falling
into tub of water which stood by an
artesian well The little one was play.
ting around the tub, unnoticed, and
fell In.
Theodore P. Sophimis, a Greek, was
struck by a passenger train while
standing near a coal chute at Lake
side, and probably fatally hurt. The
man was thrown under the train, his
left leg crushed and his skull frac-
tured
Judge Lewis OF Salt Lake has decid.
ed there Is no penalty in law for pois-
oning an animal unless IL can be
shown that the poisoner is actuated by
malice toward the owner. The case
was one where a man was accused Of
poisoning a dog.
Roy Scott, a mentally irresponsible
young man Of o. slashed Miss Elsie
GALLAGHER across tho throat with a
knife on the streets OF Salt Lake, the
girl being but slightly injured. Scott
ia In jail and admits the deed, and
says he is the same person who at.
tempted to assault Miss Mary Burton
in like manner on October 10.
Reuben Davis Of American Fork, |
who was poisoned at the Utah sugar
factory two weeks ago, is able to get |
around again. The evidence in the |
case establishes that strychnine was
placed in Mr.. Davis dinner bucket
after he arrived at the factory.
More than &C per cent OF the pa.
tents in the state reported to have
been suffering from infectious or con.
taglous diseases during the month OF
October were affected with typhoid |
fever, mad nearly 40 per cent Of the
deaths resulted from the same cause. |
William Hobson Of Preston, Idaho
has admitted killing James Lynch,
whose body was found in n box car at |
Ogden. Hobson declares Lynch at. |
tempted to rob him while the two were
travelling in the same car, and that no |
shot him in selfdefcnse. Hobson has
wife and seven children.
DR.. w. T. Gleason of Salt Lake City
has discovered a new drug. He has
found that by special treatment OF the
common quaking aspen a certain thick
emulation is secured which forms a
pungent acrId liquid, which possesses
twice the aperlent properties OF castor
Oil.
A young man by the name OF Smith
whose home is In Beaver, met with an
accident in % Annie Laurie mill al
Kimberly few days ago which at best
will leave him minus a leg and Grip
pie for life His clothing came IN