The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-20
UTAH STATE NEWS.

Mercur mine at Mercur. Is dead from
injuries sustained by being crushed by
. cave-in. .
The fruit raisers OF Weber county
are discussing the ACCESSIBILITY Of or.
sanizing county fruit.growers' as
ISOLATION.
AS the result of a war among retail
dealers, fine naval oranges sold in Salt
Lake City last week as low as five
cents a dozen.
Mrs. J. d. Paul, wife OF a Salt
Lake groceryman, has eloped with
former partner Of Mr.. Paul's, desert.
three children.
Robert Price will labor year in
the state prison for stealing a keg OF
beer from the Becker Brewing com.
pany's warehouse in Ogden last fall.
A plant for the extraction Of soda
and other by products from the waters
of the Great Salt Lake is to be erected
near Saltair by the Inland Crystal Salt
company.
The Utah Total Abstinence union Is
the latest addition to Ogden societies.
It's purpose is to discountenance and
discourage the use Of alcoholic drinks
in every form.
The bathing problem OF Saltair has
been solved. Two hundred bath
houses are to be built out over the
deep water and connected with the pa
vilion by a wide plank walk.
State Engineer Doremus believes
that the Utah commissions great irri-
CATION scheme, as q secondary consid-
GRAFTON, will do much toward restoring
Great Salt Lake to its former level.
Arthur Dickinson Of American Fork
has Just completed his model Of ro-
tary engine and thinks he has solved
the problem that has been botherlng
the engineering world for a long time.
Stephen Leethem, a 16-year-old Salt
Lake boy charged with burglarizing
stores, admits the charges and has
confessed to a number of other burg
laries performed during the past year.
William Adams and Fred Rogers es-
capped from the State reform school by
a unique trick one evening last week.
They sounded an alarm OF fire, got
everybody excited, then made their
getaway"
Representative Howell has intro
duced bill providing that all that
portion OF Arizona Territory lying
north and west OF the center OF the
Colorado river shall be annexed to the
state Of Utah.
Wesley Loveless Of Ogden claims
the unenviable distinction of being the
first man in the state to suffer sec
ond attack of smallpox. Loveless has
had the dread disease twice in less
than five weeks.
A Salt Lake paper says death is
the punishment fixed by Cinnamon OF
Utah for any of their countrymen who
may be caught "peaching" on Celest-
ials who have slipped into this coun-
try since the exclusion act.
Charles Stallings Of Eden was seri-
ously injured last week while coming
through Ogden Canyon on load of
hay, the wagon overturning, Mr..
Stallings sustaining broken collar
bone and other severe bruises.
At meeting of the stockholders of
the Bank of Southern Utah at Cedar
City, the organization was perfected,
articles OF incorporation adopted and
other matters so completed that moth.
ing now remains but to begin business.
The 6-year-old daughter Of Mrs. J..
NJ Olsen OF Ephrain was the victim
Of peculiar accident last week.
While standing near door with a
pair Of scissors in her hand, the door
was suddenly opened, the sharp point
of the scissors being forced into her
neck. narrowly missing the jugular
vein.
Baron Curt Won Knoblock, who died
in Salt Lake City last week, was a
member Of an old and aristocratlc
family Of East Russia. He came to
this country in 1886, locating first al
Cheyenne and later at Rock Springs
Wyo.
Mrs. MAIDS Jensen, one Of the Oldest
residents of Mt. Pleasant, is dead
Mrs. Jensen crossed the plains witt
the hand-cart train in 1857. with he
husband. They came to Mt. Pleasan
in 1862, where they have resided eve
since.
In cleaning a stove with liquid pol
ish, Mrs. Barrett Of Salt Lake Cit!
permitted the polish to come IN con
tact with the fire, resulting in he
hands being badly burned and the call
ing out of the fire department to say,
the building.