The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-08-23
UTAH STATE NEWS


The thlrty-sixth annual conference
OF the Methodist missions was held in
Salt Lake City last week.
Harold Jones, aged 10, of Salt Lake
City. is dead from lockjaw, caused by
a small splinter in his foot
Grasshoppers are doing consider
able damage to the second alfalfa
crop in the fields near North Ogden
Work on the waterworks system for
Monroe is progressing rapidly. the
last carload of piping arriving last
week.
The United States Ozokerite com.
pany has purchased 1,0l5,000 feet OF
lumber on the Ulntah reserve in the
vicinity Of Cotton.
The public schools of Salt Lake City
will begin week later than the
usual time this year, the date set be-
ing September IL.
1t is expected that 1900 delegates
of the National Wool Growers, which
will be held in Salt Lake City in jan
uary.
Wholesale dry goods men say that
fall deliveries will be heavier In spite
of the fact that prices nearly all round
are higher than at this season last
year.
The fall campaign in Utah will be
formally opened this week, when the
state committees will meet and issue
calls for their respective state conven.
tions.
Abe Jones and Royal Hanson, Provo
lads about II years of age were Sc.
verely scalded through the explosion
of can of boiling water with which
they were experimenting.
Because the Garfield smelter re.
Quired 100000 more brick in the con.
struction of the plant than was at first
calculated upon. there is serious
brick famine in Salt Lake.
The threatened trouble between the
employees and the officials of the Utah
Independent Telephone company at
Ogden is likely to be averted and the
demands of the men granted.
While returning from visit with
neighbors, George Wahlen, about 35
years of age, dropped dead Sunday
ut noon just as he was entering the
gate to his own residence at Ogden.
The Kaysville Canning company has
been making successful run on
beans and fruits during the last two
months, and last week the first carload
shipment was made to Boise, Ida.
firm.
The sixth annual meeting % the
Utah State Pharmaceutical associa
tion was held at the Hermitage in
Ogden canyon last week, pharmacists
being in attendance from all parts OF
the state
While painting smokestack at tho
Inland Crystal Salt company's works
near Saltair beach, John White. a
painter, fell distance of twenty-five
feet, sustaining injuries which may
prove fatal
Councilman A. H. Moyes and Rob
ert Paine presented their resigna
tions to the Ogden city council at the
regular meeting last week The res.
ignations We're accepted and the men
were reelected.
The committee appointed by the
Miners union has succeeded in rails.
ing sufficient funds to guarantee big
celebration at Park City on Labor
day. Addresses will be made and all
kinds of sports pulled off.
While mixing combination of Ii.
guilds and powders for the manufac
ture of fireworks, X. Sanaw, a Jap
anese restaurant keeper of Salt Lake.
was badly injured and the room
wrecked, the chemicals exploding.
Joseph Barker of Huntsville, who
owns one of the biggest private fish
hatcheries in the mountain country,
received last week 100000 trout fry
from the Amethyst fish hatchery In
Colorado, to be planted at his hatch.
cry.
Burglars entered the West Jordan
meeting house Wednesday night OF
last week and stole three quilts made
by the Ladies' Relief society. The
quilts are of ornamental design, with
a picture of the temple worked into
the goods.
Information has been filed in the
district court at Provo against George
Ferre, charging assault with dead.
ly weapon with intent to murder.
Ferre is the man who stabbed youna
Wright with a pocket knife on the
svening of July "a.