The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-06
UTAH STATE NEWS.

weather, with no snow, and men out
of doors in their shirt sleeves.
The indications at the oil well at
Mt Pleasant point strongly to early
and very satisfactory results.
In a train wreck near Bascom, eigh-
ty miles east of ogden, Joe York,
passenger. was fatally injured.
A lone bandit held up a street car
in Salt Lake City, Saturday night,
and relieved the conductor Of $50.
During the past year there were 396
cases OF smallpox in Salt Lake City,
all Of whom recovered except two.
The troops stationed at Fort Doug
las have been ordered to be In readi-
ness to go to Panama on short notice.
There we're 352 cases OF typhoid
fever reported in Salt Lake during the
past year, there being 81 deaths from
the disease.
Springville is jubilant over the com
pletion of the new electric light plant,
which has been erected by the city at
a cost of $4,000.
John Crosby, aged IA, employed in
Mine No. q at Sunnyside, was killed
on the End, being run over by trip
of loaded coal cars.
While coasting in Salt Lake City,
John Wiscom, aged Q, and Fred
Thorne. aged 10, ran into a telegraph
pole, and both were seriously Injured.
Sheriff Froyd, of Iron county, has
this year collected $S9342 in fees in
the discharge of the duties of his Of
fee. The sheriff's salary is only
$500
Joseph d. McIntire. n well known
railroad man residing at Ogden, was
killed near Lucin, last week, the sup
position being that he fell from the
train.
A young man named Charles
Hughes of Salt Lake, but who was
visiting friends in Paradise, had his
thigh broken through being kicked
by horse.
1t is reported that on the desert
about Modena and other places sheep
herders are amusing themselves by
shooting horses. Frank Hyatt had a
valuable mare and two colts shot out
there recently.
The Utah Sugar company rendered
the employees of the Lehi factory and
its several cutting stations a compli-
mentary ball in the Apollo at Ameri-
can Fork on the 3Oth. over 400 invl-
tations were issued.
The fees received in the office of
the secretary of state during the year
1908 amounted to $49,49S.65. With
the exception of the two previous
years. this is the largest amount TAX.
en- in since statehood.
The death penalty imposed upon
James Lynch for the murder of Colo.
mel Godfrey w. Prowse in the Sheep
Ranch gambling house. in Salt Lake
City, has been committed to life i'm,
prisonment by the state board of par
dons.
The new superintendent of Meth
odism in Utah to succeed the Rev. J
L. Leilich has been elected. His
name is Harry Talbot, who is at pres
ent located at Portland, Ore, where
he Is pastor of the First Methodist
church.
Frank Rose the Salt Lake barber
who murdered his wife on Christmas
day and left his 2-year-old child alone
and without food for two days in the
blood-stained bed with it's dead moth,
or, declares he win place no obstacle
in the way of the law, and is ready to
pay the penalty.
The 3-yearold son OF B. A. Williams
Of Mounds station, was fatally burned
on the LIST. The child visited thu
camp of freight outfit near his HON,
and in some manner his clothing be
came ignited from the embers OF
camp fire.
AS the result OF a collision with
telegraph pole while coasting down
hill in Salt Lake City, Tommy Bower
may die and George Laux is badly Gu
about the face. while several other
who were on the bob-sled were badl
shaken up.
The Rodes and Bushman familie
OF Lehi held joint reunion last wee
in the opera house At the banque