The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-04-30
UTAH STATE NEWS.

Lake CITY at tn0 close OF tne week.
Building permits issued in Salt
Lake City last week aggregated $41,-
$50. Nearly all were for residences.
Charles Stopley, a pioneer of Dixie,
Is dead. He settled in Toquerville
In 1858, while the country was yet a
desert
The right of way along the line of
the San Pedro read has been fenced
to point twenty-five miles south of
Calientes.
Frank Roses execution at the state
pontentiary on the END was the fifth
that has taken place In Utah during
the past ten years.
Slot machines which pay in checks
or which have any element of chance
about them will no longer be permit
ted in Salt Lake City.
Ole Hanson the Mt Pleasant dairy.
man, is putting up new skinner at
Chester, with a capacity Of $500
pounds of milk per hour.
Mountains along the San Pedro
are being explored by a score of pros
pectors from Calientes and many rich
claims have been located.
Twelve gold-silver claims were To-
Gated about twenty miles south of
Calientes within a mile of the line Of
the San Pedro railroad last week.
Cold weather in Dixie has caused
considerable damage to fruit. TWEEN.
two miles north Of st, George the
peaches and berries are destroyed.
Alex Jennings. on trial on a charge
of having set fire to the Lehi cream
cry on the night Of November 0, has
been adjudged not guilty by jury.
In the debate between representa-
tives of the Colorado college and the
University of Utah, held in Salt Lake
City, the Utah boys proved victors.
Horticulturalists of the state will
petition the next legislature to estab-
lish an auxiliary experiment station
somewhere in the middle southern
portion of the state.
Mrs. Mary Dixon suicided In a lodg-
ing house in Ogden, taking carbolic
acid. The woman and her husband
had quarreled and she declared that
she was tired of life.
Judge Jacob Johnson, at Monticello.
sentenced Charles Botha, the Grand
county murderer, to be shot on Fri
day, June 10 Botha broke down
when sentenced and sobbed piteously.
Sarah Wolf. young girl confined
IN the Salt Lake City jail, attempted
suicide by strangling herself with her
belt, but was discovered by the Of
fcers and removed to the padded cell.
Sheridan Ostler. aged 10. was killed
by a Rio Grande Western train at
Springville, the accident happening as
the boy was getting off the baggage
car, after stealing ride from SEQ
field.
The new Salt Lake City directory.
now being issued. shows the popula-
ton Of the capital city, including Fort
Douglas, Murray and the outlying sub
nrbs. to be 91,195; for the city proper.
$4,000.
Four men attempted to burglarize
the general store OF c. c. Grape at
Sandy one night last week. but were
surprised by the city marshal and
three of the men were captured after
an exciting chase.
Reports presented to the grand
lodge. I. o. o. f.. held In Salt Lake
City last week, show that there are
forty-six lodges. with a membership OF
$500. in the state, an increase of four
lodges since the beginning OF the year.
At Acoma the Sky ear-old daughter
of +. NJ. Morrison ran up behind a
horse and was kicked in the face, Sc
we're and painful injuries being In.
fiicted to her forehead and her face
badly bruised. She will probably be
disfigured for life.
Damage suits aggregating sl55, 900
have been filed against the Southern
Pacific company as a result OF the dis.
astrous dynamite explosion on the
Lucin cutoff on February 10, when q
score or more Of persons were killed,
mostly Greek laborers.
The fourteenth anniversary Of the
establishment OF branch OF the
Young Mems Christian association in
Salt Lake City May 4, 1890, will be
commemorated Sunday. May 1. by the
laying OF the cornerstone OF the new
home to be erected In the capital city
The body of Alfred Peterson. aged
%, a West Jordan student at the Lat.