The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-01
UTAH STATE NEWS

destroyed Dy nre recently, VIII be re-
built.
Fire which is thought to have or
stroyed the home of DR.. G. o. Dixon
of Kaysville.
Frank Mcdonald, arrested In Salt
Lake for drunkenness, was found
dead in his CELL death being due to
acute alcoholism
w s. Mccormick, the Salt Lake
banker, has purchased a controlling
interest in the Utah National bank,
OF Salt Lake City.
Samuel Ostler, who came to Utah
in. 1867 and settled at Springville,
VI ere he had resided ever since, is
ad at the age of 60.
Milford is rapidly coming to the
front as an important business center,
and, 1t is predicted, will soon become
city of no mean proportions.
G. p. Held, an express messenger OF
Salt Lake City, is dead as the result
of being caught between q heavily
laden truck and car, and crushed.
The ward house at West Bountiful,
recently erected by the people of the
ward at cost of $4,000, is a, mass
of ruins as a result of the recent heavy
windstorm.
Peter Charland and H. III. Hawley,
convicted of breaking into Salt Lake
bakery and stealing 500, have been
sentenced to three years in the state
penitentiary.
Edward H. Williams, one of the
early settlers of Salt Lake City and
also of Nephi City, and a pioneer of
Parowan. Iron county, Utah, died at
Nephi on the 25th.
Miss Mamie Tout of Ogden has
signed contract with John Cort, the
theatrical manager. for a series of
concerts next year, for which Miss
Tout is to receive $4,000.
An option has been taken on the
Sanpete Valley railroad by the Salt
Lake & Garfield railway company,
and this Is taken to indicate the pro-
moters' desire to enter the coal fields
beyond Sterling.
Beet digging is going on at Monroe
in full blast. The yield Is better than
had been estimated, some places go
ing as high as twenty-five tons to the
acre, where last year it was three
acrs to the ton.
The roof and north end of the indus
trial school at Ogden was blown down
by the recent storm, causing damage
of such extent to the building that it
will be necessary to rebuild 1t from
the second story.
General Manager W. H. Bancroft of
the Oregon Short Line, who personally
inspected the damage done to railroad
storm, estimates the loss at between
$4,000 and $4,000.
The body of John Gardner, who was
shot and killed by Oscar Gilmore on
October 13, was buried last week in
the potter's field. Gardner's death
resulted from his attempt to rob ELL
more's grocery store.
Arthur Livingston was severely in
jured while climbing the mountains
north of Ogden in company with
George Farr and John E. Salmon,
when he missed his footing and fell
distance of seventy-five feet.
Mrs. Amelia Dudley, who has been
in the Salt Lake City Jail for nearly
month on suspicion Of having caused
the death of James Reilly. who died
September &c under somewhat myste-
rious circumstances, has been dis
charged from custody.
The city attorney has been instruc-
ted to commence proceedings against
express companies doing business in
Prove for the collection of license
fee imposed by an ordinance enacted
about a year ago and which the com
panies have failed to pay.
The scarcity existing in the local
labor market has forced the Amalga-
mated Sugar company to employ
number of young women in the sugar
factory at Ogden, This is the first
time in the history of the plant that
women have been employed.
Eighteen locomotive firemen were
discharged by the Union Pacific last
week for failure to report for duty
when called during the recent wind
storm. On Sunday this number re-
fused to go out of Ogden on the Linn
tied, saying that it was too dangerous.
Workmen digging trench in Salt
Lake City unearthed two skeletons,
which are believed to be those of a
cowboy and man whom he muir
ffrht