The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-06-07
UTAH STATE NEWS

City.
o. Sinclair was run over by an au'
tomobile in Salt Lake City and seri.
ously injured.
The Sanpete county teachers VIII
hold their examinations in Ephraim
June Z, 8 and 8.
The business men Of Lehi are put
ting cement sidewalks in front of their
places Of business.
Lehi is to have a modern candy fac.
tory, the finances being furnished by
leading capitalists of the town.
Peter Stubbs, who came to Utah in
1853, and has lived in Provo almost
continuously since that time is dead at
the age of SO.
Grant Robinson, the young son OF
MIR. and Mrs. j. E. Robinson OF Farm
ington, was Kicked by q horse ano
severely injured.
Four thousand extra lights are to be
used TO decorate the streets of Ogden
during the United Commercial Trav.
elers' convention.
James Gordon, convict accused or
killing Peteline, n fellow prisoner at
the state penitentiary has been bound
over to the district court for trial
Odes Kendall, aged "a, whose home
was in Lehi, died from heart failure
while taking bath at the Valley Hot
Springs, near Carson City, Nevada.
The recent heavy rains have caused
the inundation of several farms in
Huntsville valley, in many places the
fields being under four feet of water.
Two deaf pupils from the state deaf
and dumb school were seriously in.
5ured by team running away in Og.
den, both children being thrown out
of the wagon.
About 150 members of the Brigham
Young Family association met in
Provo on Saturday, attended the COM
mencement exercises of the Brigham
Young university, and held its annual
banquet
James Burton, fourteen-yearold
boy working in the Provo Pressed
Brick company's yard, had his right
hand caught in the machinery in some
manner, the member being badly
crushed.
nf 10 tp,r tafn
pensive results of the disastrous fire
in Ogden on May % is the increasing
of the insurance rates in Utah, ex-
cepting Salt Lake, and in Ogden in
particular.
Among the students who graduated
from Phillips Exeter academy New
Hampshire) are Paul Williams of Salt
Lake and Thomas ChallSley Coffin OF
Nampa, Ida. Both rank high in the
honor list.
George M Davis, for a number OF
years well known in railroad and min
ing circles in Utah, was found dead
in Salt Lake lodging house, death
being due to an excessive Indulgence
in intoxicants.
Articles of incorporation of the We
Der County Humane society have been
fled with the county clerk. The pur-
poses of the society are to prevent
the practice of cruelty to animals and
TO women and children.
The dam on the Sewer river in
Juab county and belonging to the
Deseret Agricultural company, some
fifteen miles south of Juab, is in i'm
minent danger of destruction, owing
to the recent heavy rainfall.
Decoration day was observed by the
people of Ephraim in commendable
way. Loads of flowers were taken to
the cemeteries and placed upon the
graves of the dead. At the Park Gem
etery an interesting programme was
conducted.
Walter Baxter, the 15-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Baxter of Sill.
yer City, fell distance of about sew
enty-five feet in an incline shaft at
the Showers mine near Diamond and
sustained injuries which resulted in
his death.
George Brokaw met with a severe
accident Saturday while working in
Goodman's stone quarry east of Pro-
vo. A sharp rock struck him on the
left side of the head and split his ear,
cutting into the bone, but did not
fracture the bone.
The Grass Valley tribe of Indians,
which live near Koosharem, are now
without leader since the death of
Chief Mokanowitch a short time ago.
Just who will be selected as his sue
cessor is not known, as Mokanowitch
left no descendants.
Miss Catherine Hancock and three