The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-09-27
UTAH STATE NEWS

Fully 5000 people from outside
points we're in Brigham City on Peach
day.
Miss Louisa @. Taylor has been ap.
pointed postmaster at Goshen, Utah
county.
The First National bank of Pan
guitch has been organized with a cap.
Ital OF a25.OOO
The enrolment in the various
schools of Salt Lake on the opening
day was 1898.
The four.year-old daughter of Mon
roe Wilson, of Lehi, lost one of her
fingers in a lawn mower last week.
Moronl Smith of Heber. has sold HIS
lambs from the range at $500 per
hundredweight on the Kansas City
market.
John Ford, an ogden paperhanger,
was dangerously injured by the col
lapse Of a platform on which he was
standing.
Mrs. Hanna Maria Libbey Smith,
who came to Utah in 1s4s, and moved
to Provo in 1852, where she has since
resided. died on the 21st.
A large delegation of Ogden people
will go to Ely, Nevada, on Saturday
to witness the driving Of the golden
spike on the new railroad
Another car of Bartlett pears was
shipped from Lehi to eastern markets
last week. This makes three carloads
Of this fruit sent east this fail.
The Intermountaln Consolidated
Railroad company has asked for
franchise for the construction of an
electric railroad through Provo.
Three men convicted OF selling
liquor to Indians, near vernal, have
been sentenced to 60, 80 and 100 days,
respectively. in the penitentiary.
NJ N. Norton. who was shot in the
back while attempting to hold up a
Saloonkeeper In Salt Lake City, has
been sentenced TO ten years imprison.
ment.
Mrs. Samuel Regis OF Ogden mirac,
aiously escaped serious injury in an
automobile accident in Salt Lake City
when the machine crashed into tele-
graph pole.
Dee Workman. OF vernal, attempted
suicide while under the influence OF
liquor. by shooting himself in the head
The wound, although serious, Is not
necessarily fatal.
Dilworth Young, hged 9. was shot
Ia the arm by Clarence Olson. in Salt
lake City. Olson was evidently en-.
deavoring TO scare the young boy,
when his rife exploded.
In the vernal land office LOO filings
have been made within the last year
on the government land which was
thrown open some time ago for settle
ment under the homestead law
About four inches of snow fell at
Panguitch on the 18th and caught
great amount of the grain standing, do
ing hundreds OF dollars damage Most
Of the wheat was IN the stack, how
ever, and will be saved.
The skeleton OF a man found in Cold
Water canyon, about six miles east of
Ogden. Is believed to be that OF some
Eaan that had suicided, as a bottle
containing a small amount OF lauda,
uum was found near by.
Arnold and Dickson. the Salt Lake
mediums, who have recently gained
much notoriety through one Of the men
striking an aged woman when she ex-
posed them at one of their "seances,"
has departed for other fields.
Hugh MacKean, OF Salt Lake City,
has accepted the challenge of Joseph
A. Drouillard OF Kansas City to play a
checker match. The series will be
played IN Kansas City about the end
OF October for a stake OF probably
$500.
The bids for the reserved gilsonite
lands on the former Uncompahgre In.
dian reservation were opened at the
land once last week. There we're bids
for 1l2 torty,acre tracts. The land
brought all the way from Sc TO $15l an
acre.
James Lane has been arrested in
Ogden on the charge of passing coun
terfeit money Lane is supposed TO
be the man who has been causing the
Ogden police department considerable
trouble for some time past by circu,
lating bogus money.
The beets In Utah county are ana.
Tying high in sacharine and the ton
mage per acre will be much higher
than It has been in the past half-dozen
years. Conservative estimates place
the yield for the Lehi factory at up.
wards OF 10000 tons.
John C. Clark, a resident of Maple
ton died last week Of old age. The de.
l.