The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-05-21
UTAH STATE NEWS.

thirty graduates from the eighth
grade this year.
The question Of removing the
county seat from Manti to Ephraim is
being agitated at Ephraim.
The week on the Salt Lake Mining
exchange closed on the sale Of 102, 465
shares OF stock for $37.716.63.
Members of the Utah Press asso-
citation to the number OF sixty are on
= visit to the St. Louis exposition.
Thomas c. Callister will have his
telephone line connecting Oasis and
Fillmore completed by the end of the
week.
Reports from Silver Park, thirty.
hve miles northwest of Stateline, are
fattering as to the ore finds in that
vicinity.
The waterworks system In Mt.
Pleasant. which has been under con.
struction for the past year. is practi.
cally completed.
James II. Wade, who shot and
killed q Chinaman at Alta on Decem.
Der last, has been acquitted of the
charge of murder.
The new telephone line from Mo-
dena to st. George has been COM
pleted. The line connects with Cedar
City. via st. George.
DR.. F. e. Jones Of Salt Lake City
was chosen by the Utah State Medi.
cal society as its president at its re.
cent session in Ogden.
Indications point to the present
yenr proving a record-breaker In the
building of residences, fats and ter.
races in Salt Lake City.
The ore and bullion settlements on
the Salt Lake market for the past
week aggregated S4S1. ZOO. as against
$4,000 for the previous week.
One of the largest creameries in
the United States is to be installed
In Salt Lake City about June 1. The
plant will turn out 10000 pounds of
butter daily
An increase OF nearly 100000 In
the valuation Of all the taxable prop
erty in Salt Lake county is noted by
the county assessor. who has just
completed his work.
A rich copper strike has been made
IN the Dixie group Of mines, near st.
George, a twenty-five foot body of ore
having been uncovered which aver
ages 16 per cent copper.
There is talk of the establishment
of manual training school at Manti.
It rs said the state superintendent and
ether leading educators are very fa-
vorable to the proposition.
An epidemic of whooping cough
threatens to decimate the infant pop
ulation of Richfeld. Within fort
night eight babies have been sudden
ly taken off by this disease.
While the graduates from Pleasant
Grove were driving over to American
Fork, two hacks began q race, when
one of the vehicles was overturned
and several of the occupants slightly
injured.
Richard Bassett. aged 80, and
nephew were drowned while boating
on the Bear river, near Collinston.
Lorin Bassett, father of Richard, and
grandfather of the boy, escaped by
swimming ashore.
A. Y. Moada of Salt Lake City was
the victim of an accident on the Og.
him for life. Moada fell beneath
the cars and had his left foot crushed
ana his right leg amputated.
Reports of contagious and infecti-
GUS diseases and deaths therefrom to
the state board of health for the
month of April from sixty-four local
health officers shows that smallpox
was reported in eleven places, where
i13 cases had occurred.
hp ,hc iSouib Va n bloW
struck him on the back OF the skull
on the night of April II last, Maurice
M. Ranney of Salt Lake City has been
robbed of reason, vitality and liberty
and is now an occupant of the state
insane asylum.
John NJ Stalker OF Wilson's Lane,
In Weber county, is dead as the re-
suit of taking dose OF carbolc acid
by mistake The bottle of carbolic
acid was standing on a dresser beside
bottle of whisky, and Stalker took
the acid, thinking it was whisky.
The vocal department ~.hibit Of
the schools of Salt Lake City at the
St. Louis fair, which viii form por.
tion Of the state educational display,
will be in "A bound volume, consisting