The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-01-21
UTAH STATE NEWS.
UTAH,

association or salt Lake City Is tC
have a weekly newspaper.
A new mining association to ad
vance the mining interests in the vi
cinity of Ogden has been formed
James o. Mitchell dropped dead
while walking along the streets Of Salt
Lake, death being due to heart failure
Utah leads all states in tho percent.
age OF increasd copper production in
1904 over 1903. This increase was 81
per cent.
In runaway accident near Salt
Lake City, Frederick Solomon, aged
FL, OF Granger, was killed, his neck
being broken.
A rabbit hunt between Mona and
Santaquin for a dance and supper re.
suited in Mona beating the Santaauin
boys by three.
There is at present a great deal OF
typhoid fever in Park City, and the
MUSICIANS are attributing the preva.
once OF the disease to the water.
A man named Burns had his feet so
badly frozen while trying to make
trip afoot from Kimberly to Fish
creek that he is in precarlous condi.
ton.
rabbit hunt between the married
and single men of Santaquin resulted
In the defeat OF the young bloods. who
rendered banquet and ball to the VIC
tors.
Members of the Democratic minor
tty in the legislature decided to give
Judge w. II. King the compliment of
their six votes for United States SEN
ator.
committee from the four wards OF
Lehi has been appointed to organize a
home dramatic company, which will
put on a series of plays for the benefit
OF the new meeting house.
There are rumors OF the establish.
mert at Modena OF clay works,
where various articles of pottery will
be manufactured The material for
such an industry is abundant.
Mick" Haworth. who is serving
life sentence for the murder OF Thos.
Sandal at Layton, and who figured in
the break at the state prison some
time ago, will make another petition
for pardon.
Silas Smith, the ex-soldier from
Fort Douglas who is charged with hav.
ing shot and killed Albert Hassctt, an
other soldier, on the morning Of De
cember "a, 1904, in a brawl, has been
discharged from custody.
B. H. Schettler the Salt Lake
banker, whose bank has been placed |
in the hands Of receiver, has been |
arrested on charge Of receiving
funds for deposit after his bank was in
an insolvent condition.
The monthly reports up to the |
month of December last for 1904 shows !!
that in twenty-seven towns in the state |
there has been 1,1O9 cases of whoop-
ing cough, and from that number
there were sixty-three deaths.
Frank Signorretti, a mining man
from Ogden, was brutally assaulted by
n brace of negro men in San Francisco,
relieved of $500 in cash, two Wells.
Fargo money orders for 500 each, and
left for dead by his assailants.
Safe crackers attempted to loot the
safe of the First National bank at
Morgan, but were frightened away be.
fore they had accomplished their pur.
pose. The vault was damaged by the
burglars, but no money was secured.
The Uintah reservation lands will be
subject to any entry applicable to the
public domain. with the exception that
the homesteader will be required to
pay $l25 per acre, while under the
general law five years residence en-.
titled the homesteader to a patent
without paying for land.
Charles Jones of Salt Lake is under
arrest, charged with defrauding the
state Of about $4,000 in bountes.
Jones is accused of running a wolf
and coyote farm, and of sending the
same pelts twice for bounties on nu-
merous occasions.
Hama Tope, Familiarity known as
Mad Beaver" is dead. Tope was one