The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-04-19
UTAH STATE NEWS
Wool shearing is in full blast at
Milford and Faust.

Fire insurance on nearly all classes
of risks in Salt Lake City will within
a short time be reduced greatly.
1t is regarded as possible that the
Provo wooden mills will be reopened
for business in the near future.
The Denver e. Rio Grande will spend
in the Deighborhood of $2,5OO,000 for
new equipment in the near future.
The state council of the Knights of
Columbus, comprising Utah, Idaho and
Nevada will meet in session at ogden
on May l.
A general strike of different trades
in Salt Lake is threatened this spring
II some of the different trades persist
in their demands for increased wages
The senate has passed without OBJ
lection the bill ceding the tract of land
lying on the west side of Fort Douglas
Military reservation to the University
of Utah.
Home seekers are going into the
Green river valley OF Utah in large
numbers this spring, and land Is said
to be selling there at from $50 to $500
an acre.
Senator Smoot has secured from the
pension committee favorable report
of his bill to grant service pensions to
Utah veterans of the Blackhawk In
dian war
The 4-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Charles Bridgford of Salt Lake
City fell down the cellar stairs and
fractured her skull. The child is in a
critical condition.
The special election at Price for the
bonding of the town for $4,000 for the
further extension of the waterworks
system resulted in a victory for those
in favor of the bonds.
VIII Moore, convicted of grand lar
ceny at Moab last week, is the only
man ever convicted of grand larceny
in Grand county Moore was convict |
ed OF stealing six burros.
Eugene Sadey, 80 years Of age and |
married, was killed by a cave-in at the
Overland mine. near Cedar Fort, a |
huge rock crushing his skull. His |
three fellow workmen escaped injury |
A girl named Pehrson was badly |
scalded at Logan, She was boiling
L., laht th..
steam generated, blew the lid off and
threw soup into the face of the unfor
tunate girl,
Mrs. Mary Ann Meas McFerson, who
has been a resident of Kaysville since
1851, is dead at the age of SO. She
was one of the Oldest members of the
Mormon church and knew personally
the Prophet Joseph Smith.
Mrs. Lizzie Hickman, who conducts
a fruit stand in Salt Lake, was bitten
by tarantula while she was cutting
some bananas from large bunch. The
tarantula had probably been concealed
in the bunch when shipped,
Albert Rohn, aged 40 a junk dealer
of Salt Lake City, suicided in a saloon,
taking carbolic acid. His dead body
sat at a table for some time before
any one knew he was dead, the bar
tender supposing he was asleep.
When about to be arrested by Of
ficers S. T. Vickery. of Salt Lake, S.
Murakama, Jap, slashed the officer
across the back of the hand with a
knife, inHicting a wound that will
probably render the hand crippled foI
life.
E. G. Porter, w. p. Crozier and NJ. b.
Hart, the advance guard for the com
pany of twenty-five gentle families
from northeastern Utah. have closed
a deal whereby they secured 240 acres
of land from the California Irrigation
Land company at Gridley, Cal.
Plans are laid by the board of gov
ernors of the Commercial club for the
holding of Get Together" dinner to
be given during the early part of May
Invitations for the dinner will be ex
tended to all the officers of the various
commercial organizations in the state.
C. o. Harris, local agent of the De
forest Wireless Telegraph company, is
authority for the statement that the
Salt Lake station of the company will
be completed and in operation by June
10, and the stations in other parts OF
Utah will be constructed Immediately
thereafter.
l. b. Murphy, formerly of Park City.
while working on the Weber river
bridge at Ogden, fell from the struc.
ture, his head striking on rock and
stunning him so that he was unable
to swim, death being due to drowning
His body was recovered an hour after
the accident
Grover, the l2-year-old son of Daniel
Sommers. of Coalvile. while assisting
fs hon |