The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-05-24
UTAH STATE NEWS


ties.
A musicians union, with twenty
members, has been organized in Park
City.
The crops in the vicinity OF Pan.
guitch are late on account of the un-
usually wet season.
Veterans of the Blackhawk war re
siding In Summit county have perfect.
ed an organization.
Diphtheria is again epidemic at Eph
rain, while three smallpox cases were
reported last week.
The number of voting districts ir
Salt Lake county are to be reduced
from fifty.three to forty-one.
A number of painters and paper
hangers of Salt Lake City are on
strike, demanding an increase in
wages.
William Binks, n farmer residing
at Mapleton, suicided last week, taking
strychnine. He leaves wife and seven
children.
The report OF the secretary of state
shows forty-three state and private
banks in Utah. Last years report
showed thirty-nine.
Springvlle is to have a band. Busi-
ness men OF the city have agreed to
pay a liberal amount each month for
the support of the organization.
Mrs. M, Paulson of Lehi and her 49,
year-old son were badly bruised ms the
result OF runaway, the horse being
frightened by a passenger train.
The report OF the county assessor
shows that the value of Utah county
property is $9,696,75 an increase of
s139,725 over the assessment of last
year.
The debate In Salt Lake City be.
tween representatives of the Univer.
sity of Idaho and the University OF
Utah, resulted in a victory for the
Utah boys.
Utah may send between $50 and 400
members Of its militia to Fort Russell
to participate in the general encamp
ment to be held there during the com
Ing summer.
The iron moulders Of Salt Lake City
now out on strike are talking of start
ing into the manufacturing business
for themselves in opposition to the
struck shops.
Hall Crossfield, the Wells.Fargo ex
press agent at Park City. has disap
peared, and 1t Is claimed he is short
In his accounts, the amount missing
being about $500.
Alexander Mckay, 63 years of age,
an inmate of the county infirmary, step.
ped in front of a rapidly moving street
car in Salt Lake and was Instantly kill
ed, his neck being broken.
The students of the Brigham YOUNG
university have erected large "Y"
on the side of the mountain east of |
Provo. The letter is SOOx5O0 feet and
can be seen 20 miles away.
The body OF Mrs. Anna Keyes.
drowned in Ogden river, has been re.
covered, after ten days search. Mrs |
Keyes was crossing the river on o |
foot bridge. fell in and was drowned. |
Albert Anderson fell underneath |
the wheels of heavily loaded wagon
in Salt Lake City, being seriously in
jured, the scalp being torn off the
right side OF his head until his skull |
was exposed.
Robert Chadwick, crippled beg. |
gar, who struck William Short, Salt
Lake butcher, across the arm with a
cane because the latter had refused to
yield aims at his solicitation, was sen.
fenced to serve fifty days in the coun.
ty Jail.
For the first week of May the earn
ings of the Denver & Rio Grande were
sS74.200, an increase of s6S.30O over
the earnings Of the same period last
year. The weeks business referred
to is one of the largest in the history
Of the company,
DR.. Lyman Skeen, who died recently
at Ogden, while not quite 35 years of
age, is believed to have made greater
strides in pathology and in other
branches Of medicine and surgery that
any man of the same or approximate
age in the world.
Private Oscar Smith Of the Twelfth
battery was shot by Private II. Bart
ett while attempting to escape from
he guard house at Fort Douglas.
Smith is probably fatally wounded,
he bullet passing through his body
lbeve the right hip.
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