The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-28
UTAH STATE NEWS

The Iron county fair, held during
the past week, was a distinct success.
The largest harvest ever known IL
being garnered in the vicinity OF
Panguitch.
Ogden members of the Utah Nation
al Guard are to have new armory
which will cost $4,000.
The fields In the Summit county are
full of harvesters and the crops this
year will be the largest In many years
Twenty more teachers than were
employed last year are at work In
the schools of Salt Lake county tbib
year.
Governor Cutler will award a GOLD
medal and $40 prize for the finest,
fattest and best looking baby present
at the State Fair.
Perry Clark of Alpine had his leg
broken in two places last week, the re
suit of having a horse which he was
riding fall on him.
Impure and infectious drinking
water is said to be the cause OF the
typhoid epidemic which is now pre-
vailing at Lewiston.
W. c. Parker and S. w. Wallace,
Utah cadets at Annapolis, have re
ceived official appointments In the
rnidehinmen,p bripada
Samuel Willis, aged %, was thrown
from his horse near Ogden and when
picked up was dead, his neck having
been broken by the fall.
Citizens of Koosharem are getting
out material for new meeting house
The lower portion will be of rock and
the upper portion of brick.
The work OF installing the electric
light plant at Coalville has commenced
and poles are being placed in position
for the stringing of the wires.
The enrolment of the district school
At American Fork to date is $50, the
largest ever recorded here. The be
sinners' grade has 110 enrolled.
Michael Murphy. mining man, at
tempted suicide In Salt Lake hotel
slashing his throat and wrists ani
jabbing himself over the heart with
pocket knife
The frost which came last week die
IN
The tomato crop was hurt consider
ably in some localities In Davis ant
Weber counties.
Joseph vatrella. who was shot b,
Frank Mazza, in Salt Lake City, OF
September 5, over an alleged Low,
affair, Is dead and Mazza is beinf
sought by the officers.
Mrs. Amy Rhodes, of Liberty, We
Der county, was accidentally shot b.
her husband while he was cleaning
target rife. the bullet entering he,
face, infiicting painful wound.
A fire supposed to be OF incendiary
origin destroyed the barn, corral
sheds, about 100 tons OF hay, and two
stacks OF grain on the farm OF Chris
tian johnson at Elsinore last week.
George Jefferson, the giant half
breed Indian from Green Bay, Wis
dropped dead in saloon in Ogder
from heart disease while on his wa,
home from the Portland exposition.
Claude Blanchard. the young maj
who fell thirty-five feet from a tele
phone cable at Logan, on account O
having touched live wire about
month ago, has succumbed to his in
1uries.
The first of this seasons run of su
gar from the Ogden factory was pu
upon the Ogden market last week
A run of 260 tons of beets was made
the first day that the factory was ir
operation.
Eddie Merode. an acrobat. was
found In dying condition at the
foot of the stairs In a Chinese opium
den in Salt Lake City. There was
evidence that he had been dragged
down stairs, and it is believed he was
poisoned.
The Salt Lake Union of Journeymen
Linemen has declared strike agains
the Utah Light and Power company
and as result forty men walked oui
on Friday. The trouble was caused
by the company refusing an increase
In the regular wages.
The total enrolment OF the Weber |
county schools is 1872, which is about
10 per cent greater than last year |
The largest enrolment is at Hunts |
vile, where the total number of pupils |
is 24O. There are twenty-five school |
building in the county
An S0-acre farm In the Uintah