The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-29
UTAH STATE NEWS


injured in a runaway accident last
week
Esther Clifford has been appointed
postmaster at Springdale, Washing
ton county.
The first teachers institute of the
for Summit county, was held in Park
City last week.
Threshing is in full blast again at
Grantsville, busy shifts being put in
between storms.
In street car collision at Ogden,
Motorman Charles Fisher was badly
cut about the face and hands by brok-
en- glass
The recent windstorm at Vineyard
did considerable damage, number of
small buildings being blown down ana
trees uprooted.
The Tooele electric light company
Is putting in more facilities, in order
that better service can be given to
the citizens of Grantsville
The Davis County Teachers insti-
tute, which for years has been held
monthly during the school season, in
Kaysville.
Samuel Steel, Victor Shill and viii
Sanders, all Utah men, who had lived
at Provo, were killed by premature
explosion in lime quarry near Doug
las, Arizona.
The great scarcity OF coal has been
creating considerable trouble In Park
City lately, and several times some of
the mines have been on the verge Of
closing down.
Several Grantsville capitalists have
purchased 1900 acres of land near
the City of Mexico, and will cultivate
the rubber plant on their newly ac-
uuired plantation.
Many settlers on the Uintah reser-
yation, 1t Is said, have made no at
tempt as yet to put in any crop. hav-
Ing spent their time in erecting their
houses and barns.
An irrigation system is now under
construction on the Ulntah reserva-
tion which will water about 10000
acres of land. The cost of the canal
will be about $4,000.
David Galliphant, driver of laun-
dry wagon, was struck by street car
In Salt Lake City and seriously In
jured. The wagon in which he was
riding was demolished.
Over $4,000 was distributed by the
Utah Sugar company among the sugar
beet growers of Sewer county two
weeks ago as one installment on the
beet crop for this year.
William Il. A. Innes, a Nevada min
ing man, suicided in Salt Lake City.
choking himself to death with his sus-
penders, which he knotted tightly
about his neck, while on a protracted
spree.
Green river is TO be made division
point ON the Rio Grande system. With
the establishment of a division point
ut this place it is said that the freight
division Offices now at Helper will be
moved TO Cotton.
Bruce Ditty, twelve-year-old boy
of Granger, has been deserted by his
parents, who sailed for Ireland last
week and neglected to take the boy
with them. He will be furnished
good home by citizens interested in
his case.
What will be one of the most gigan-
tic electric railroad systems In the
west will be the electrification of the
Hartman lines from Green River,
Wyo, to Sparks, New, and from
Butte. Mont, to Salt Lake City and
the Garfield smelters.
The cold snap, which 1t is feared
will be continuous for the winter, will
cause considerable loss to beet farm.
ers in the neighborhood of Provo, who
have not yet been able to deliver
their beets, for the reason that the fac.
tpIy Coulu hOl WoIh tiSiu up
Hyrum Youngberg, alias Hyrum
Young, has been arrested in Salt Lake
City, and is charged with a dozen bur.
glaries. Though Youngberg is but
nineteen years old, he is believed to
be one Of the cleverest burglars that
ever operated in the city,
A. j. Coleman, the colored waiter,
who shot and killed John F. Larson,
business man, in the yard of the
city and county building in Salt Lake
early one morning in last March, will
not be brought to trial. The negro
mistook Larson for a highwayman.
In decision by the supreme court
last week in divorce case, the court
holds that where a marriage is con.
summated in Utah, or is consummat
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