The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1905-09-28
UTAH STATE NEWS

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 this
year.
Governor Cutler will award a gold
medal and $40 prize for the finest.
latest 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 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. @. Parker and s. w. Wallace,
Utah cadets at Annapolis, have re
ssived Official appointments in the
midshipmen's brigade.
Samuel Willis. aged 20, 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
hight 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
einners' grade has 40 enrolled.
Michael Murphy. a mining man. at.
tempted suicide In a Salt Lake hotel,
slashing his throat and wrists and
1abbing himself over the heart with
pocket knife.
The frost which came last week did
some damage TO the late vegetables.
The tomato crop was hurt consider.
ably in some localities in Davis and
Weber counties.
Joseph Vatrella. who was shot by
Frank Mazza, in Salt Lake City, on
September 5, over an alleged love
affair. is dead and Mazza is being
sought by the officers.
Mrs. Amy Rhodes, of Liberty. We
Der county, was accidentally shot by
her husband while he was cleaning q
target rifle. the bullet entering her
face, INJECTING painful wound.
A fire supposed to be OF incendisry
origin destroyed the barn, corral.
sheds. about 100 tons of hay, and two
stacks Of grain on the farm OF Chris
tan Johnson at Elsinore last week
George jefferson, the giant half
breed Indian from Green Bay, Wis.
dropped dead in saloon in Ogden
from heart disease while on his way
home from the Portland exposition.
Claude Blanchard. the young man
who fell thirty-five feet from a tele
phone cable at Logan, on account OF
having touched a live wire about .
month ago, has succumbed To- his in
turtles.
The first OF this seasons run Of su
gar from the Ogden factory was put
upon the Ogden market last week
A run Of $50 tons OF beets was made
the FIRST day that the factory was il
operation.
Eddie Merode. an acrobat, was
found in a dying condition at the
foot Of the stairs in Chinese opium
den in Salt Lake City. There was
evidence that he had been dragged
down stairs. and 1t is believed he was
poisoned.
The Salt Lake Union of Journeymen
Linemen has declared strike against
the Utah Light and Power company
and as result forty men walked out
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 1912, which is about
20 per cent greater than last year
The largest enrolment is at Hunts
vile, where the total number OF pupils
Is 240. There are twenty-five school
building in the county
An S0-acre farm in the Uintah
reservation has been awarded, at the
direction of President Roosevelt, &c
Mrs. Virginia Hahn OF Kansas City
daughter of Jim Bridger. the famous
scout, who discovered Salt Lake. Mrs
Hahn's mother was a Ute Indian.
A team and wagon belonging to