The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-09-10
UTAH STATE NEWS.


August.
Utah ranks first in production OF
silver. The output for 1903 was H.,
l25 ,694 ounces.
The two-year.old son OF II. ]. wag
staff Of Charleston was drowned in an
irrigating ditch last week.
A Springville farmer is reported to
have raised 326 bushels Of wheat on
four acres of land this summer. SIN
bushels to the acre.
Thomas Featherstone, Sr., Of Amer
lean Fork, last week shipped two car
loads OF pears, Of 500 boxes to the car
They we're shipped east.
The report comes from Ephraim
that crops we're never better in that
vicinity, and the farmers are Justly
jubilant over the excellent harvest.
A big cut has been made in the
force at the Southern Pacific shops at
Ogden. About 200 men have been laid
on, but II is said that 1t Is only tenn.
porary.
The lead output Of this state last
year was marketed for s6,000,000, the
copper product was 37,s09.74O pounds,
while the gold output was 277,74O
ounces.
The census enumerators appointed
by the board OF education some time
ago report that Provo has 2,379 chill
dren OF school age, 1.195 girls ant
1874 boys.
March 10. 1905, is the date on which
The government agents on the Uintah
reservation have been ordered by the
secretary of the interior to have the
reservation ready for opening
The citizens OF Ephraim have raised
$4,000, to be used in the county seal
fight. In addition to the money raised
the city offers to donate ground 70,
building purposes, valued at $4,000.
Mildred, the 1O-year-old daughter OF
John w. Winterrose Of Heber, was
probably crippled for life last week
when she got in front of moving
machine, her legs being horribly lacer
ated.
Burglars entered two saloons In
Ephraim one night last week, securing
a small amount Of money and guam
tity of bottled goods. This is the
second robbery of the same places this
year.
1t is said that the unusually heavy
rainfall at St George and vicinity for
the past month will be OF incalculable
benefit to that section. This is the
,&sttest August known there for many
years.
The body OF the young man ground
10 an unacceptable pulp by three
passenger trains several days age
near Promontory, Utah, were found to
be that OF Alexander Hawaiian, a med.
lcal graduate of Yale.
To the Indianapolis knights TEN
plars was accorded the distinction OF
being the first revenue passenger train
TO make the run across the celebrated
ogden-Lucln cutoff, crossing the lake
on the evening of the Goth.
The real estate men OF Salt Lake
City have collected an exhibit Of
products Of the state and placed It II
the Utahna Park, in Salt Lake City
whore passing tourists are given an
excellent idea of the fertility of th'
state.
The Caliente correspondent OF tn,
Salt Lake Tribune says: The Sal
Pedro road will undoubtedly present &
completed line to Los Angeles ant
Salt Lake for Christmas present ant
its opening will be celebrated royalty
all along the line.
Heber Wright formerly sheriff o,
Weber county, was fatally injured
while employed as a brakeman on thu
Ogden-LuCin cutoff He fell beneath
the cars and his left arm was crushed
several ribs broken and the toes o
his left foot crushed.
The La Sale syndicate Of Chicago
which has been developing the OF
folds at Promontory, south OF Rosell
station on the Southern Pacific, re
ports great progress, The outfit pu
in has cost the company about 50 ,OOC
and they are now down about 10 fee
Milo Andrus, Of Draper, while hans
Ing on behind moving wagon, &c
his foot caught in the wheel and wa
seriously injured, his knee and thig
being dislOcated, the muscles OF on
leg almost entirely torn from the bon,
and he was considerably bruised a
over his body.
Mrs, Minnie Cummings of Heb,
was leaning over a tubful OF wat,
Into which she was just going to POI
come Carbolic acid, when a chickC
few directly in front of her fac
tausing the open bottle of acid whiC
LhO held in her hand, to be spilled {
her face, causing painful burns.