The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-22
UTAH STATE NEWS

TEN at a cost of $4,000.
r. A. Lowe of Austin, Just north Of
Monroe, will get over $1,450 from If
teen acres of beets this season.
During the past week more than
s1,000,000 in taxes was collected by
the treasurer of Salt Lake county
miniature hurricane which struck
Ogden on the 18th did considerable
damage to roofs and outbuildings.
Mrs. J. Larson was struck by a sign
which fell from building during the
recent windstorm in Salt Lake, and
seriously injured.
j. II. Dollins, q carpenter, fell from
scaffold at the sampling mill in
course of construction at Garfield and
was instantly killed
Mrs. Ellen Mitigate of Ogden sev.
cred a part of her index finger of the
left hand with small hand AK while
chopping kindling wood.
Ralph Collett, of Salt Lake City, was
run down and trampled on by a horse
while he was walking on the street,
sustaining serious injuries
Work will be started on the pro-
posed new electric interuban line be-
tween Salt Lake, Saltair, Bingham
Junction and Garfield this week.
About fifty students registered last
week for the farmers winter course
and for the midwinter semester in
the Brigham Young university at
Provo.
Heber j. Sheffield, who has been
member of the city council of Kays.
vile for two terms. has been appointed
by that body as mayor of the city to
succeed r. w. Barnes, resigned
Extensive preparations are being
made by the executive committee of
the State Poultry association, for a
big poultry show to be given in Salt
Lake City, January 21 to 26, 1907.
Attorney c. C. Richards of Ogden
has filed a civil action for libel
against William Glasmann, editor of
the Standard and Ogden's postmaster,
in which $4,000 damages are asked.
Charles German, fireman, was as
saulted by George Pillsbury, a switch.
man, in the yards at Ogden, and so
badly beaten that he may die. 1t is
not known what started the trouble.
The Utah County Poultry ani Pet
Stock association will hold fair in
Provo, December %. 1t is expected
that the exhibit will be much better
than that of last year, which was very
satisfactory.
The home of Sidney Lewis of yernal
was destroyed by fire last week, the
fire being started by kindling wood
left on the stove to dry. This is the
third time Mr.. Lewis has lost his home
by fire III two years.
Within the past week every slot
machine in Ogden has been put
out of commission as n result of an
order issued by the police department,
and the indications are that they will
be permanently closed.
Vallison Tanner, who had his neck
broken at his home in Malad Valley,
Idaho, and who lay in an Ogden hos
pital for six weeks, after which he
left, apparently cured, died soon after
reaching his home last week.
George Salmon was stabbed in sa-
loon brawl in Salt Lake City by James
Gillespie. Both men were intoxicated
and the stabbing resulted from an ar
gument over some trivial matter Sal.
mon is not dangerously injured.
After twenty rounds of fighting,
during which time neither man
stunned his work, Fighting Dick
Hyland was given the decision over
Cyclone" Thompson, in the Grand
opera house, at Ogden, on the 10th,
Frank L. Epps, an eastern man now
residing in Salt Lake City, who, it is
understood, represents outside capital
lists, is promoting a scheme for the de-
velopment and use of the natural gas
deposits that for years have been
known to exist in Davis county.
Erastus S. Foote, an expert me.
chanic and who built the first -four
mill in Tooele County, was found dead
in the road on the 10th, death evil
IDENTIFY being due to natural causes.
Mr.. Foote was SO years of age and
had lived in Utah about forty years.
Joseph Clark of Chalk Creek lost
his house and nearly all his furniture !
by fire last week. No insurance MIR. |
Clark has been a coal miner all his |
life, and by the strictest economy had |
become the proud owner of a beauti- |
full home. 1t is not known how the fire
started
The farmers OF the river bottom
country between Provo and 0lmstead !
are greatly interested in having the