The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1905-07-06

State. and the utmost efforts of
6lth officers win be directed to-
ward their suppression.
As the result of fight over a game
of dice John Campbell of American
Fork is suffering from severe
scalp wound and Ernest Hindley is
lying in the city Jail. as result.
Charles Hebenbahl, practically
stranger In Ogden swallowed a guam
ity of corrosive sublimate at the pho
tograph gallery of II. II. Thomas,
where he had been employed, and died
few hours later.
Japanese laborer was set upon by
two hoboes, near West Weber, and
when he resisted their attempts to rob
him, received cut in the throat
which narrowly missed the jugular
vein. He will recover.
William G. Ence met a tragic death
on his farm near Central. falling under
"a wagon load os hay, the hind wheel
passing over Lis head, crushing his
head so that the brains oozed out.
death being instantaneous.
John M. Hancock. on trial at Phoebe.
Nevada, for tie murder of DIR. George
Engelke of Los Angeles and Peter
Edmiston of Ogden, committed near
Las Vegas in 1898, was found guilty
of murder in the rrst degree.
The nine-year-old son of Mrs. r. p
Hastings of Ogden last week shot him.
self in the thigh with toy-pistol, frag.
lments OF the paper cap and particles
of the boys clothing being forced into
the leg, causing a painful wound.
The three-months-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Chapman of American Fork
smothered to death one night last
week. The little one rolled over on
its face in its sleep. and, being unable
to right itself, smothered to death.
Cornelius Smith attempted to kill
Maggie Jennings, in Salt Lake City.
because the woman spurned his af-
fections, stabbing the woman while
she lay in a hammock Smith is in
jall and the woman will recover. Both
are colored.
Mrs Michael Kane of Vermillion
had a narrow escape a few days ago
while returning from Richfeld to her
home in buggy. The horse she was
driving became frightened and she
was thrown out of the buggy and rem
dered unconscious.
The farmers of Cache valley are jln
bilant over prospects for this season.
In addition to a great grain crop the
sugar beets are doing well, and tho
supply TO the three factories of the
valley will be heavier than in any
preceding season.
To show their willingness to do
what they can in the upbuildlng OF
the Grester Salt Lake City, the Com.
mercial club last week pledged its
members to raise $4,000 to be used in
completing the boulevard from City
Greek canyon to Penrose drive.
Incomplete returns of mortality from
eighteen counties, with twenty-three
cities, six incorporated towns and
twenty-elght villages, having an esti-
mated population OF 144.14O reporting
show a total OF 1863 deaths from all
causes during the month of May.
Justus Jensen Of Pleasant Grove has
been taken to the county jail TO serve
out twenty-day sentence for appro-
priating irrigation water that did not
belong to him. Justice Holloway fined
him 500, which he refused to pay, pre-
ferring to serve time behind the bars
The police of Denver have in Gus.
tody a woman who gives her name
as Christina Davis and who claims
90 have walked from Salt Lake to that
city. She claims to have walked the
entire distance, refusing many offers
of railroad men TO ride free of charge
The skeleton of man was found in
the mountains east of Provo by two
boys who were out hunting last week
The skeleton is believed 10 be that OF
a man named John Johnston, a stone
cutter, who DISAPPEARED from Provo in
1902 and has never been heard from
since.