The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-07-02
UTAH STATE NEWS.

Tor the Fourth.
The citizens Of Manti are hustling
for the Black Hawk encampment,
and expect to land the prize.
Thomas Joyce, the oldest resident
of Web,r county. died at Marriotts
on the 25th. at the age Of o..
The 6-year-old son OF Joseph Hare,
of Park City, was kicked in the head
by horse, sustaining fractured
skull.
The trouble between the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone company
and the Salt Lake linemen has been
settled by arbitration.
Last year there we're employed 146
teachers in the various county school
districts of Salt Lake county. This
fall the teaching force will number
155.
Salt Lake merchants have practi
cally abandoned the idea of half
holiday on Wednesdays during the
summer season, number of firms re-
fusing to close.
A severe windstorm which visited
American Fork last week did much
damage to growing crops, while trees
were blown down, doing much dam
age to telegraph and telephone wires.
Fire destroyed the sheds, stables
and hay belonging to Aleck Barten
of Manti. The bucket brigade pre-
vented any further damage. Little
boys and matches were the cause of
the fire.
The city council OF Manti has de-
cided that pure, clear water shall
be what the citizens of Manti can ex-
Ipect in the very near future. 1t is
proposed to pipe the water from near
by springs.
The county clerk reports that 1907
pounds of grasshoppers have been
caught by Ephraim people, for which
they have been paid 1 cent per pound
by the county, and still there are plen-
ty of hoppers in that vicinity.
The board OF county commissioners
OF Sewer county, as board Of equali-
cation, has passed upon the assess
ments Of the county for this year.
The total valuation, outside Of some
railroad property. is $1,932.269.
The story comes from Modena that
while Indian Jack and his squaw
were working in the fields, their 8.
year-old son was killed by two older
children, aged and Z. who pounded
the little one to death with rocks.
The articles Of incorporation OF the
Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Rail.
way company better known as the
"Moffat" road, have been filed with
Secretary of State Hammond. The
capital stock of the company is $50,
100000.
A fatal accident occurred on the
Lucin cutoff last week, when a 16
year-old lad, name unknown. was
crushed to death under the wheels o.
a work train. He was riding on tn,
pilot of the engine and fell off in from
of the wheels. Forty cars passed
over his body.
Two children, aged 4 and 6, came
near being burned to death in Sal
Lake City. the mother having locked
them in a room while she went out t
work. The little ones got hold of tn,
matches and started fire. and wer,
rescued by the fire laddies just II
the nick of time.
A 5-year-old girl OF John Nichelsel
OF Huntsville suffered a painful &C
cident last week, by getting her han,
caught in q feed cutter. The mem
Der was lacerated so badly that tn
doctor was obliged TO amputate tw
of the fingers.
Nineteen marriage licenses wer
granted by the county clerk of Sal
Lake county one day last week. Thi
.uOeS HOI COunS up W lhS ISCOIu ~
tablished in June last year, whe
twenty-six couples applied for an
received licenses in one day.
Maurice NJ, Ranney, the waiter VIII
was mysterlously assaulted in Sal
Lake City last April, his skull bein
crushed by some unknown party, die
at the state mental hospital las
Saturday. The man never recovere
his reason sufficiently to tell who hi
assallant was.
The wool crop in Sewer count
this season has exceeded that OF an
previous year. At the office OF tn
Denver & Rio Grande railroad in ST
lima 1t is said that 725,OO0 pounds c
wool have been offered for shipmen
valued at between 100000 an
100000.
d. A. Stark a boilermaker on
ID h.