The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21
UTAH STATE NEWS

Eight divorces were granted by
Judge Morse in Salt Lake during one
days session of court last week.
There were 90 cases of contagious
diseases reported in Salt Lake City
last week, % of typhoid fever and one
OF smallpox.
Mt. Pleasant has more new build
ings in course OF erection, and erect
ed, this year than It has for the past
five years combined
The regular annual convention OF
the Congregational churches and
schools will be held in Park City on
September 2S, 29 and 80.
Thomas Tobin of Anaconda, Mon.
tana, suicided in the Salt Lake county
Jail, taking morphine. Tobin had been
arrested for drunkenness.
Construction work on the Western
Pacific will begin by the end of the
week Camps are now being gotten
ready west of Garfield beach.
Salt Lake is enjoying n steady and
substantial building boom just now,
new buildings having been started in
almost every block in the city.
Alice Mcbride, aged 6, of Ogden, is
dead from burns received while play
ing around bonfire during the abb
sence of her parents from the house.
More than 100000 pounds of wool
OF .he clip OF 1906 were contracted for
in Ogden last week, the prices rang
ing from 22h to 25 cents, according
to quality.
Gus Rubin. the Akron giant, and
John Willie of Chicago will face each
other In twenty-round boxing con
test on the night OF September 2S In
Salt Lake City.
Despondent and disgusted with the
life she had been leading, Lena Will
Jams, q resident of Salt Lakes tender
ioin district, ended her life, taking a
dose of morphine.
The 11-year-old daughter of John
McConkle of Manti, while riding home
from school on horse was thrown
to the ground and sustained brok-
en- arm and severe bruises.
The directors of the Provo WooIlen
Mills company have decided to close
the mills for an indefinite period, till
such time as there is a change in
the market for woolen goods
The two-year-old daughter of P. d.
Delmar OF Salt Lake City got hold of
q bottle of laudanum and drank por-
tion of it, dying two hours later, after
every effort had been made to save
her life.
A 4-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
MRS George Edmundson of Fountain
Green. was badly injured one day last
week by the accidental discharge of
a revolver in the hands of a brother
years of age.
The total enrolment In the Salt |
Lake county school on the opening
day was nearly 1000 higher than the
nrst days enrolment OF last year.
The first days enrolment in the
Ephraim public schools was AIS.
DR.. t. B. Beatty, secretary of the
state board of health, has lust is.
sued supplement to the August bull,
ietin ON health conditions In the
state, In which he lays special stress
on the dangers of typhoid fever.
Mrs Allan Cherry, of Ephraim, and
her three small children were driy.
ing when the horse ran away and they
We're all thrown to the ground. Mrs.
Cherry sustaining broken leg. but
the children escaped without 1
scratch.
A post morten examination over the
body of Robert e. Williams. the og.
den school teacher who died Inst
week, reveals the fact that while he
was suffering from typhoid fever the
real cause of his death was ptomaine
The secretary of the interior has
approved the preliminary plans of the
engineers of the reclamation service
ior the Strawberry valley irrigation
projects in northeastern Utah, which
VIII provide water for $4,000 acres of
land. ''
Governor Joseph w. Folk of Mis-.
souri, was recommended for the Demo.
cratic nomination for the presidency
by former Congressman William H
King at banquet given to the gov.
ernor during his recent visit to Salt
lake City.
Archie p. Bigelow, who early in the I
summer won the famous Globe trophy
ma also the Brownlee trophy in the
;un club meet in the northwest, has f
Lccepted the challenge of j. f. Sharp h