The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-27
UTAH STATE NEWS.


possibilities of the near future for og-
den.
Salt Lake physicians are opposing
the appointment of n city physician
who is opposed to vaccination.
1t has been made unlawful for any
one to drink intoxicating liquors
upon the streets or alleys OF Malad
City.
The five-year.old son of Mrs. Susan
Winward of Salt Lake City. fell into
tub of boiling water and is in a pre-
carious condition.
Lasca Black, an eight.year-old girl
of Kanosh, was tripped up while rum
ming from school by boy and her
collar bone broken.
The San Pedro is pushing the work
on the seven-stall round house at Tin
tic Junction and material is being
rushed there as fast as possible.
While hauling ice at Deweyvllle,
B. NJ. Burbanks had the misfortune to
lose his team. The horses slipped into
the river and floated under the ice.
Andrew Marx, convicted of casting
two ballots at the last regular election
held at Mt. Pleasant, has been SEN
fenced to six months Imprisonment.
In a rear-end collision at Promon-
tory, on the Lucin cutoff, three Greeks
were killed and six injured. car.
pillow being overturned and failing on
the men.
Large deposits OF pitchblende. from
which radium is obtained, have been
discovered in southern Utah. and
quantities OF this will be shown at the
st. Louis fair
Secretary Shaw has transmitted to
congress request for an appropria-
ton OF $55 900 for the construction of
a modern hospital for thirty-six beds at
Fort Douglas.
John Peterson and Joseph Thorpe
have contracted with Salt Lake parties
20 furnish ten carloads of ooiite stone.
Their Quarrles are located about two
niles east of Ephraim.
Mayor Morris OF Salt Lake City has
decided to allow boxing contests in
Salt Lake City, so long as the fights
ara conducted in clean. legitimate /
way, and do not SAVIOR OF fakes.
Mrs. Karen Maria Morcusen, who
recently died at Moab, was the oldest /
woman there, being 80 years of age. |
She came to Utah IN 1867, and until
three years ago had lived in Salt Lake. /
John Smuin an aged and prominent !
resident of Ogden, was found dead in
bed at his home. Death was caused
by apoplexy He was SO years of age,
and leaves wife and three children. /
During a theatrical performance at |
Ephraim, some one shouted Fire" |
panic resulting. no one being seriously /
injured. however. The fire proved to
be in a building some distance down
the street.
A special election was held at
Springville last week on the prohibit I,
ton question, and resulted In victory
for prohibition. The vote stood 344
for prohibition and 212 In favor OF
granting license.
Florence Fullmer, aged Q. OF Abra-
ham. walked of moving train be-
tween Salt Lake and Ogden, while
asleep, sustaining a broken nose and
being badly shaken up. She is rapidly
recovering, however,
At the annual meeting OF the Utah
Press association, held in Salt Lake
City on the 18th, II was decided 10 ac-
cept the invitation extended to attend
NE Editors congress at st. Louis dur
Ing the week of May IA.
The new officers of the Utah Press
association are: President, William
Buys, Wasatch Wave, Heber City; first
vice president. Major e. A. Littleheld,
Utah State Journal, Ogden; secoA
vice president ]. M. Boyden. Ma
Pleasant Pyramid; third vice presi-
dent ]. b. Graham, Bingham Bulletin;
corresponding secretary. I. II. Dlehl.
Mammoth Record; secretary, Farley p.
Jenson. BilSuben, Salt Lake City;
treasurer, w, r. Mcbride Provo Dem.
ocrat; historian. ]. T. Jakeman, Mer-
cur Miner.
Utah's mining exhibit is expected TO /
be one OF the most interesting made /
by any state at the ST. Louis exposl /