The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-09-20
UTAH STATE NEWS

Salt Lakes new packing house, with
q daily capacity Of 100 cattle 1000
sheep and 1000 hogs will be completed
by October l.
A. Maucuroso, a section hald on the
Oregon Short Line railroad, w9s In
stantly killed in Salt Lake City, be.
lng struck by passenger train.
During 1906 the coal mines Of Utah
produced 1882 short tons, valued
at S1,79351O. The production 70;
1904 was 1.a9S,O27 tons, valued 4
t1,9aS,44O.
The dedication of 1e now Masonl
temple In Ogden, which marks III
completion OF the first Masonic bull
Ing In the state of Utah, was held Sun
day afternoon.
Frank Revoy, aged 81 is under ar
rest In Salt Lake City, charged witt
attempting to pass counterfeit money
He attempted to pass bogus S. goll
piece at saloon,
Emmett Richesen, q labcrcr from
Logan, shot himself In the breast will
q shotgun In a lodging house in Sal
Lake, and is dead as the result of o
quarrel with his wife.
I. N. Harper, colored man, was
held UP In Ogden by two men. He
started TO run and one robber fred at
him, the bullet striking him in the arm.
The wound is not serious.
The Crystal Springs Trout com.
pany. organized at Morgan City for
the artificial propagation OF fish, filed
articles of incorporation with the sec
rotary OF state last week
The Utah State Federation of La
Dor. as an organization, will not go
into politics this fall. This was de-
eided upon at an all-day session held
in Salt Lake City last week.
Robert Naylor, living in the suburbs
OF Salt Lake, sustained serious iniur-
les In a runaway, his skull being
crushed. He is I'm the hospital with
about even chances for recovery.
There we're 600 students present on
the opening day of the Brigham
Young University at Provo. for the
year 1906-7, the largest number on
opening day in the history of the
school.
II is now believed by the authorities
that the man whose mangled body was
found on the Oregon Short Line track
near Layton. Thursday of last week,
was John l.. Atkinson of Saylersvllle,
Kentucky.
Charles o. Card, who died at Logan
last week, came to Utah in 1866. lie
had served as president Of the Cache
stake and superintendent the erection
Of the Logan tabernacle and the Lo-
gan temple.
Following the example Of the fed
eral court, Judge Morse OF Salt Lake
last week granted preliminary injunc-
lions in three suits brought by rail
roads to restrain local ticket brokers
from doing business.
The sweepstakes silver cup, which
was awarded to Utah for the best
fruit exhibit at the Boise Irrigation
congress, arrived in Salt Lake last
week and will be on exhibition at the
Commercial club for time.
As the result OF a saloon row In
asIr
a slashing at the hands of j. vii.
liams which will lay Coughlln up for
some time for repairs and which re-
quired nine stitches to close.
Arrangements have been made for a
Salt Lake day during the Davis Coun.
ty fair in October, and on that day
the Manufacturers and Merchants as.
ISOLATION will attend the exhibition in
a body, accompanied by band
A general shortage in labor is prev
alent in Utah. as well as throughout
the country. The local employment
agencies have been able to All only
thirty per cent of their orders for
men during the entire summer.
The crops of tomatoes. cucumbers
and sugar beets in Davis county are
In excellent condition, and the yield
will be very heavy. The canneries are
busy now with tomatoes, and the pack
will be large and of very high quality.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
company is planning to shorten its
line between Denver and Salt Lake by
tunneling Marshall pass and Cerro
summit and broad guaging the narrow
guage road between Salida and Mont
rose.
Jacob McCurdy. one of Spring.
villes oldest citizens, is dead Mr..
McCurdy was born in New Jersey
eighty.eisht years ago and came TO
Utah hfty-two years ago He has re.
sided in springvllle most Of that