The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-01-13

UTAH STATE NEWS.

nOnOT OF tne Olu IOlkS.
The Utah state building AT the st
Louis exposition will be adorned by
paintings by Utah artists
Wayne county is taking a step to
have creamery established and a
telephone line put in the county.
The snowstorm of Sunday night was
SO heavy in Ogden that street car
traffic was brought to standstill
Nick Bocas, a Greek, was instantly
killed on the Lucin cutoff last week
He fell between the cars and was bad.
ly mangled.
The bodies of Mrs. Lulu Alexander
and her two children, victims of the
Chicago fire, were inferred at Spring.
Vile on the 9Th
Orders have been received by the
Twelfth infantry, stationed at Fort
Douglas, to prepare to leave for the
Philippines on March /.
Frank Rose, the barber who muir.
ueieu MS WIG III odlI Like tlIy On
Christmas day. will probably be ex.
amined as to his sanity.
The Uintah creamery received
s1,959 pounds of milk during the
month of November. From this 3,5l5
pounds of butter were made.
Utah now has a state band, articles
of incorporation having been filed last
week. The band is composed largely
of Salt Lake City musicians.
During the year 1903 the county
clerk of Cache county isued 354 mar,
rage licenses. which is more than
were issued in any previous year.
1t is rumored that there is a deal
on foot for the absorption of the Og
den street railway system by the Con.
solidated Light & Power company.
The people of Willard City are
thinking very much of the proposition
OF having Willard City and its pri.
vate dwellings lighted with electricity.
Richfeld has a curiosity in four.
year-old Merino wether which has
four horns. The animal will be placed
on exhibition at the st. Louis expo
sitlon.
A sheepherder by the name of Pol.
lab. Mexican, froze his feet badly
while in the mountains east of Thistle
and was brought to Fairview for med.
ical attention. He may lose part or all
of one foot.
Senator Kearns has introduced
Joint resolution providing for printing
10000 additional copies of the report
of Professor Elwood Mead of the agri.
cultural department relative to irri.
CATION affairs in Utah.
Manti people are becoming some
what excited over oil of late, and are
thinking of investigating their own
section with view of learning
whether or not anything of the kind
can be discovered there.
John Uhariet, a sheepherder for A.
r. Smith, committed suicide on Hog.
up mountain, fifteen miles southwest
of Kelton, on the 9th. No cause is
known for the deed, as the man
seemed in excellent spirits.
G. NJ. Wiley of Salt Lake has been
appointed to a position in the Office of
the secretary of the senate Mr.. Wiley
was formerly connected with one of the
banks of Salt Lake City, and his new
position pays $4,000 per annum.
Joseph Mergenic, an Italian EN-.
ployed in lime quarry near Salt
Lake City, was instantly killed by
being struck on the head by a loose
rock which in some manner became
dlslodged and struck the man without
warning.
A number of the Weather members
of the Commercial club of Salt Lake
City have formed themselves into
sort of committee on ways and means
for the financing of new club build.
Ing, which they wish to build as soon
as possible.
Great excitement prevails at Cal
ientes, due to series OF hold.ups OF
men supposed to have money, BY
thugs and FOUNDERS who frequent the
hobo saloons of this place one mar
was shot last week, but fortunately
was only slightly injured.
Isadore Leland, 2S years of age
was found dead in the drunk house
OF the Salt Lake City jail on the Sth
the cause of his death being acute al
coholism. Leland has spent almost
the entire past eighteen months in
Jail for drunkenness.
Watkin Reese, a miner, fell eighty,
five feet down shaft in the Horn
Silver mine at Frisco and was instant
ly killed. He leaves a wife and five
nht h.,