The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-02-11
UTAH STATE NEWS.

an influx of undesirable characters,
hold-ups and robberies being a nightly
occurrence.
An epidemic Of measles is raging in
Salt Lake City, twenty.three cases be.
Ing reported in two days the latter
part of last week
A street car line is to be constructed
during this season by the ogden Rapid
Transit company to the sanitarium at
the mouth of Ogden canyon.
The artificial stone factory at Lehi
Junction is turning out an average OF
1000 blocks per day. These ara
shipped south as fast as manufactured.
Lucy Bigelow Young, sixth wife OF
the late President Brigham Young,
died at her home in Salt Lake City on
the 3rd, of pneumonia, after a Two
weeks illness
A. l. Johnson of Salt Lake City,
resident agent of the Remington Type
writer company, is said to be short
over $1,000 in his accounts. Johnson
has disappeared.
In bidding for the construction OF
the Ogden public building the Stand
ard Construction company of Chicago
was the lowest bidder. Its proposal
was for $4,000.
Lester Ogden and John Dali, two
Richfield youths, are serving out ten
day sentence In the county Jail for en-
deavoring to purloin a large sack OF
peanuts from a car at the depot
Another spasm Of morality has
struck Salt Lake City. as a result of
which several dancing halls are to be
closed, and girls are warned to keep
OF the streets after certain hours.
Mrs. C. j. Edwards suicided at Park
City, taking carbolic acid, Mrs. Ed
wards was a widow. with several chill
dren, and worry and a constant strug-
gle for existence is said to have LED
TO the deed.
The Utah County Black Hawk war
veterans met in American Fork last
week and elected officers and decided
upon Payson as the place for holding
their next encampment, which will be
held some time during August.
Lee Cow, the Chinese gardener OF
Forest Dale, who was arrested week
ago for an attempted assault upon
11-yearold Beatrice Seager, has be-
come a raving maniac. 1t is now be,
lieved he was insane at the time of the
assault
A. w. Mountney, we'll known in Salt
Lake City, and secretary of the BAN.
berger Exploration company, has dis.
appeared, and 1t is charged he is short
in his accounts to the amount of ST..
500. A fondness for poker is given as
the reason for his downfall
Advices from Beaver county are to
the effect that in the Wasatch King,
In the Beaver Lake district, a disclos.
ure Of highly oXidized iron, carrying
better than the usual gold values, has
been made in the vertical shaft which
the management is sinking.
Several Murray business men have
recently been the victims of an ancient
graft, worked by a stranger. He rep
resented to them that he was in charge
of a railroad construction gang, or
dered bills of goods, borrowed sums or
money and then disappeared.
Buried beneath Pile of rocks in a |
secluded spot near Little mountain,
fourteen miles west of Ogden, with |
the back of his head crushed and |
otherwise mutlated, the body of a |
man. supposed to be Enoch d. jenkins, |
was found by a hunting party on
Sunday.
A short-weight raid is to be insti-
tuted by the Grocers and Butchers |
association of Salt Lake. Such produce |
as butter, cheese, canned goods and |
other articles sold in packages will be |
weighed, and If they fall short, the |
dealers say they will not agree to sell |
them.
William J. Pickett has brought suit |
against saloon in Ogden for the sum |
of $4,000 as damages. The suit is a |
novel one. Plaintiff alleges that while |
in the place he was stricken with apo
pleXy and was thrown in back room
and allowed to remain there without
care or attention.
l.. C. Rasmussen Of Mt. Pleasant is
certainly unfortunate, Early last win.
ter he had his leg broken and was just
able to get out again and attend to
his work when an unruly COW kicked
him, again breaking the leg in the
same place, but making the break
more serious than the first
Emanuel Kahn, one of the most
prominent business of Salt Lake, died
in San Francisco on the 3lst, where
he had gone for his health. MIR. Kahn
came to Utah in 1864, being then en-
ployod by his brother, Colonel Kahn
who established tue first wholesale