The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-10-15
UTAH STATE NEWS.
UTAH.

state fair on the opening day.
Pleasant Groves wheat product this
season will nearly double that for the
past several years.
All records of the Utah State Fair
were broken on Chldren's day, when
the admissions totaled 20,5OO.
David Newey, a railway mail clerk,
whose home is in Ogden, accidentally
shot himself at Butte, and it is feared
the wound will prove fatal.
The Ogden Real Estate association
has a project on foot looking to the
installation of the long.talked.of iron
works at the Junction City.
Miss Lizzie Davis OF Sunnyside at
tempted suicide by taking poison, For
tunately medical attendance was Sc
cured in time to save the girls life.
The yield of sugar beets in the vi
cinity of Richfield has been somewhat
disappointing this season, owing to
blight which has stunted many of the
beets.
The Salt Lake Route now has track
laid 11G miles below Caliente and
within six miles of Vegas Some Cal
terminus.
A peace meeting was held in Lehi
on the 4th. The speakers devoted
their remarks to arguments for the
settlement of all national troubles by
international arbitration.
Plans are being prepared for new
city hall for the town of Murray 1t is
TO be u building Of attractive design.
two stories and basement. constructed
of brick, with stone trimmings.
While Caliente is still the terminus
OF the operated road of the Salt Lake
route, the traffic to the front, now
about III miles below there, is very
heavy, and shows an Increase daily.
Junius Fummer, a lad of Is years,
while playing with some companions
on the mountain side at Castle Gate,
fell down a cliff a distance of about
twenty feet mad received injuries from
which he suCcumbed.
The Utah wheat crop OF 1904 will
amount to 100000 bushels. The pre-
vailing price for wheat in Salt Lake
Is 90 cents bushel. Taking this as
a basis, the value of the crop of this
year is placed at s4,500000.
The post team of six athletes from
Fort Douglas, Utah carried off the
department ~ Colorado trophy at
Fort Logan, Colorado. The Utah team
scored SO points. Fort Logan was the
nearest competitor with q points.
A Butte baseball enthusiast is in
favor of a series of post.season games
between the Butte and Salt Lake
teams, to be played at some con
venient point in central Arizona, to
determine which is the worst on
earth.
A team driven by Thomas Phillips |
OF American Fork was frightened by
a train and ran away, Mr.. and Mrs. |
Phillips and babe being thrown from
the wagon, both parents being painful. |
ly injured, but the babe escaped with |
out scratch.
Martin Russi an Italian, a resident |
OF Ogden, was killed by the cars near
Cheyenne. He was beating his way
east and fell from the brakebeam on
which he was riding His body was
mangled in horrible manner, thirty
five cars passing over it.
A large barn belonging TO Seth
Painter, in Farr West, Weber county,
was struck by lightning and was
burned to the ground. Four valuable
horses and five cows were burned,
also about fifty tons Of hay, together
with machinery, tools, etc.
Joseph Kendall who murdered his
wife in Ogden on the evening of Sep
TENDER p, was arraigned last week
All evidence tended to show that the
crime was premedltated. Kendall IN
troduced no evidence and was held to
the district court without bail.
Murdocks saloon in Heber was
broken into at an early hour in the
morning, and an attempt to loot the
safe was made. The burglars explod.
ed dynamite, but only succeeded in
blowing out all the windows and
smashing things up in general.
Miss Myrtle Gwinn, aged 20, whose
mother, Mrs. T. II. Thoren, lives in
Salt Lake City, was struck by heavy
coping stone which fell from u build
ing on Main street in Kansas City
and instantly killed. Miss Gwinn was
on her way to a local business col
lege when the accident occurred.
Caught beneath a steel ore car
which he was engaged, with other en-
ployees, in loading on a railroad car at
the works OF the United States smelter
in Bingham Junction, about o'clock
Saturday morning, Joseph Glover was