The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-02-04
UTAH STATE NEWS.

Lehi's new tabernacle is nearing
completion. The building when com
pleted will have cost $4,000.
American Fork is enjoying a decid
cd building boom at present, there
being six different business buildings
under way.
Hama Takedo the Japanese slave
girl who was rescued from her self
constituted master in Salt Lake City,
has been ordered deported.
Hyrum Cooper aged %, dropped
dead at American Fork while chop
ping wood death being due to heart
disease from which he had suffered
for many years,
The Ogden sugar factory has closed
bts seasons run. The season has been
one of the most successful in the his.
tory of the factory amounting to more
than 100000 pounds.
Carl Anderson, a 1G.year.old Ogden
boy, has been arrested on a charge OF
smoking cigarettes, and it is said his
case will be made a test to decide
the validity of the law.
Charles d. McNeal is under arrest
In Ogden on a charge of attempted ex,
tortion in the iudgeshis case. II is
claimed he attempted to extort $500
from a brother of Judge Howell.
The election contest OF w. d. Liv'
sngston against Ferdinand Erickson
on trial at Manti, come to a sudden
ending last week when counsel for Liv.
ingston moved that the contest be dis.
missed.
The old folks OF American FORK
were treated to a grand gala day on
the 25th. Through a permanently or
ganized committee these events ara
annually given the old people of Am,
srlcan Fork.
Jesse S. Brown, one OF the men who
brought the first wheat into Weber
county and who plowed the first fur,
row and planted the first grain, died
ut his home in Ogden, Sunday, az the
age of rs.
At mass meeting OF the citizens
of Willard It was unanimously decided
20 take steps toward obtaining from
Brigham City electricity sufficient to
furnish Willard the desired power and
light necessary for her needs.
Albert Houston of American Fork,
foreman of the Wyoming mine, was
fatally injured as the result of n cave.
in at the mine, a massive body Of ore
falling on him, burying him to tho
neck, death resulting two hours later.
Citizens of Price have sent a pro-
test to State Superintendent Nelson
against the new bill which will con.
solidate the county schools. They
say that they will object to any law
which will consolidate the county dis
tricts.
A. u. Hale, resident of Hooper,
Weber county, while occupying a cell
IN the Ogden Jail on the charge OF
drunkenness, was notified OF his
mothers death. He was Immediately
released and permitted TO go to his
home.
Ernest Paulson of Richfield was
painfully injured at the Annie Laurie
mill, the sleeve of his Jumper catch
ing In the cogs of some wheels and
his arm being so badly cut that thirty.
seven stitches were required to close
the wound.
In Utah, during the year ended De-
rember 81, 1902, there was one tele,
phone for every fifty persons in the
state, the average number of mes
Bages per capita was Al, and the aver
age number of messages or talks per
telephone per year was 1850.
Jedediah Wiley, a pioneer of East
Bountiful was accidentally killed in
the canyon near his farm while after
load of wood His body was found
later by a searching party. He had
seemingly slipped from the load and
struck his head on the hard roadway.
Miss Emily Youngblood, who com,
united suicide on the night OF Jan.
uary 20, at the home of her grand.
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. ]. Ryan, at
Stockton, Cal, WIS reared from early
childhood in Salt Lake City and was
quite well known in the capital city,
In Los Angeles 1t is stated that
about February ! Senator Clark and
party will arrive in Salt Lake and
with number of people will make
the first trip over the entire new line
but that the regular excursion will
not take place until some weeks later.
Frank Pannetier, a cook in a Salt
Lake restaurant suicided in a hotel
in that city, taking Carbolic acid. He
left a note to his family in which he
stated he was tired of life. Pannetier
had gone to the hotel and secured o
room for the purpose Of ending his