The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-04-08
UTAH STATE NEWS.

The board of education of the local
school district is working on a prop.
osition to establish a high school in
Mount Pleasant during the coming
school year.
Governor Cutler and the entire
Lewis and Clark commission visited
Portland last week, where they Sc
lected sites and space to be used by
Utah at the exposition.
The fears of the farmers Of the Salt
Lake valley and the northern valleys
OF the state that there would not be
sufficient water this season has been
dlssipated by the recent snowfall
There is a movement on to estab-
lsh a driving park in or about Logan
committee having the matter In
charge is busy with details, and it
looks as II the project would succeed
Edward Gray, of Salt Lake City, has
been arrested at Las Vegas, Nevada,
charged with killing c. De Frater in
a saloon fight. II is claimed De
Frater was the aggressor in the fight.
The body of an unknown man was
found lodged against the pier of the
bridge across Weber river in the
western portion of Ogden, on Sunday.
The man had been dead at least three
weeks.
The fruit OF Weber county, with the
possible exception of the apples, has
been considerably damaged by the re-
cent cold snap, but has not been com
pletely destroyed, as was at first
feared.
The Rio Grande Western railroad
has found 1t necessary to put on an
other freight train on the Tintic
mense output which is now coming
from the mines of the Tintic mining
district.
Cache county is importing Japa.
nese labor. A small colony OF the
brown men are locating at Lewiston,
where they will be employed in beet
culture in the interest of the new beet
factory to be built there this spring
and summer.
DR.. Beatty of the State board of
health is calling attention to the fact
that a great many horses throughout
the state are now afflicted with the
dread disease CHAMBERS, and asks the
help of all interested in stamping out
the disease.
After passing several days In the
Salt Lake county jail, where she was
held on the charge of murder in the sec.
ond degree for performing a criminal
operation upon Margaret Graham, Mrs
Lizzie Geisler has been released on
$4,000 bonds.
According to the supreme court In a
decision handed down last week in the
case of Retta Sterling against the
Woodman of the World, a fraternal or
der can refuse to pay its policies II
the insured have not complied with all
the formallties prescribed; this even
II they have paid their fees.
Treasurer Rudolph Kuchler OF the
Lewis and CLARK exposition commit.
tee last week deposited with the Com
mercial National bank OF Ogden, $4,000
as the first payment on the $4,000
appropriated for the exposition. This
Is the first time that state money has
ever been deposited in an Ogden bank.
The G. A. r. are making elaborate
preparations for their encampment to
be held in Ogden May 10. AS one of
the features arrangements have been
made for 5000 school children to line
25th street, each carrying a flag to
greet the old soldiers as they march
up from the depot.
A County Farmers institute Is 10 be
held at Monroe on Friday, April IA.
A feature of the institute will be a
meeting for women, at which will be
discussed matters of particular in,
terest and concern to farmers wives
and daughters.
1t is announced that Samuel New
house, the Utah mining man, has pur
chased the famous private car former
ly owned by Marcus DAILY, and will use
II in his trips between Salt Lake an'
his many mining plants and in hi
!ourneyings about the country.
John Daynes, Utah's pioneer mus
&c dealer, died in Salt Lake City las
week at the age of "a. Mr.. Dayne
came to Utah in 1862 and soon afte
reaching Salt Lake City engaged in tn
music business, establishing one of tn
first music stores in the state.
The Utah Construction company, G
Ogden, has been advised by Chief Ell
gineer William Hood of the Souther
Pacific company of the acceptance {
its bid for work constructing branc