The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-05-17
UTAH STATE NEWS

cent tre at Ogden amounts to $2l,llO.
John NJ. Browning, the Ogden inven-
tor Of firearms. has been awarded a
John Scott medal.
A special train carried 100 Park
City people to Salt Lake City to at
tend the G. A. X. encampment
Phyllis Brown, aged 8. collided with
street car while riding a bicycle in
Ogden and was severely injured.
Mat Bachman, a Hungarian. was in
stantly killed at Mercur by falling
from thirty-foot railroad trestle.
William Pilgrim, Rio Grande
Western brakeman, was fatally in.
jured in the railroad yards at Park
City.
d. M. Morrison of Ogden collided
with an automobile while riding mis-
bicycle and was seriously injured, but
will recover
Victor Becltman, miner in the st.
Louis-M Magnolia at Park City, was palm
fully injured by falling pump rod
while at work in the shaft.
The United Commercial Travellers
will meet In Ogden on June 7, 8 and 8,
and extensive preparations are being
made for their entertainment.
Mrs. Emeline McCurdy, who came to
Utah in 1853, and settled in Spring
vile in 1867, where she had since re-
sided, is dead at the age Of SO.
Committees are hard at work max
ing arrangements for the state en-.
campment of the Indian war veterans
to be held in Ephraim August /, Q
and 3.
Gail Duncan, a young man about 20
years of age, dropped dead In Salt
Lake after he had apparently recov-
cred from an overdose of morphine.
self-administered.
Samuel s. Cohen, a cigarmaker
from Huntington, Ind, was arrested in
Salt Lake last week, charged with
having embezzled $500 from the Hunt
ington lodge of Eagles
A substantial residence building
Fork this season, and the year prom
ises to be record breaker in the ereo-
tion of new residences.
The Springville Commercial club
has petitioned the county commissions
ers of Utah county to buy road grad
err and roller to be used in the good
roads" crusade in Utah county.
It Is the announced purpose of May
or u. M. Conroy of Ogden to have the
at present unused portion of the City
Hall square converted into a beauti.
full park for the benefit of the citizens.
The Mant Commercial club is agi-
tating the erection of a new court
house, and offers to raise $4,000 for
the purpose, providing the county COM
missioners will appropriate the bal
ance.
Dr. Beatty, secretary of the state
board of health. has instructed the
different health officers to quarantine
patients suffering from cerebro spinal
otherwise known as spot
ted fever"
Herbert Williams, who was married
to Irma Reeves while the couple were
serving time in the Salt Lake county
fail has been sentenced to another
term of 100 days for obtaining money
by false pretenses.
Joseph Petelina and James Gordan.
both convicts, engaged in a fight at |
the state penitentiary. during which |
Petelina was so badly beaten that he
has since died. Petelina is said to |
have started the trouble.
The assessed valuation of Summit |
for the year 1906 is s3,26S 563. |
This does not include net proceeds
Of mines, railroads, telegraph or tele-
phone lines, and there are yet a num-
Der of sheep TO be added.
Alonzo Mason, miner. was In
stantly killed by the explosion OF a
missed shot" in the Silver King mine
at Park City. Three other men who
were in ten feet of him when the ac-
cident occurred escaped uninjured.
In connection with the large num-
ber of improvements proposed by the
Hartman lines for Ogden, it is stat
ed that an emergency hospital will be
in the small brick building
which stands just north of the Union
depot.
In the Juvenile court at Provo, Ray
Onl Scott, aged Is, and
Richard Clark. aged II, We're commit
ed to the State industrial school at
Ogden. The boys were accused OF
'etty offenses, such as stealing cakes
It social, etc.
Anna Keyes, aged 30, a colored wo-
nan, was drowned in Ogden river