The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-02-01
UTAH STATE NEWS


The report comes from Strawberry
valley that the snow is five feet deep
on the level
Miss Bessie Austin of Salt Lake
City was struck by a runaway horse
and badly injured.
Peter Christensen was killed In a
snowslide at Sunnyside. He leaves
wife and nine children
John Peterson and Hyrum Dykman
of Mercur were badly injured in
coasting accidents last week.
A Joint teachers institute of San
pete and Sewer counties will be held
in Bphraim on February and TO-
Smallpox has broken out at Ferron,
but the disease is confined to two
homes and an epidemic Is not feared.
A local company is being organized
to manufacture a music leaf turner
invented by Phil p. Jensen of Eph-
rain.
The thirteenth annual mid-winter
camp fire and reunion Of the Black
Hawk war veterans was held at
Springville last week.
The furniture and fixtures for the
new bank at Mount Pleasant have
been received and the bank will be
doing business in short time.
Two Short Line trains collided at
Pennington as the result of the dense
fog, eight cars and an engine going
off the track. No one was hurt
Thousands of tons of Ice have been
driven ashore by the wind from Utah
lake, in some places the ice, 1t is said,
being piled up to height of 100 feet.
Edwin Kentiield, an employe of the
Commercial club, Salt Lake City, fell
down flight of stairs, Saturday night,
sustaining injuries which proved
fatal,
Theodosius BotBn of Utah was last
week confirmed as consul to Maurit
ius, West Indies. The nomination had
been held up for some time by the
senate.
Over 1900 men are employed on
the improvements under way at Gar.
field, and building ana construction
work of all characters is proceeding
with vigor.
Springville now has three cases of
smallpox under quarantine. All the
cases are light ones and it is thought
that there will be no further spread of
the disease.
Frank Womack, charged with muir
der in the second degree, for the kill.
ing of Joseph Mathews at Salt Lake
City, October %, 1906, has been ac-
Quilted after jury trial.
The biggest horse show in the his
tory of Cache valley was held at the
Agricultural college at Logan on Sat.
urday, Fully 100000 worth of horse
flesh was ON exhibition.
The beet growers of Willard have
appointed committee to work with
the farmers of the district in an effort
to have the sugar companies raise the
price of beets % cents per ton.
George Tying, the American Fork
canyon mining man who was killed in
a snowslide, was buried on Miller hill,
on which his mine was located, ac
cording to the wish expressed in his
will.
Five carpenters were at work on a
scaffold twenty-five feet high in Salt
Lake City last week, when the scaffold
fell and all fell to the ground, all be
ing badly bruised, but none seriously
injured,
The Commercial club of Nephi pre-.
vented a close down of the public
schools last week by securing a car.
load OF coal which the directors had
been unable to obtain on account OF
the coal famine.
II. A. Hathaway and f. E. Buster
of Chicago are in Provo and have ar.
ranged to start fruit and vegetable
canning establishment at that place.
with capacityof $4,000 cans a day.
The plant will cost about $4,000.
c. M, Gochanour, a lineman. was
seriously injured while cutting down
trees to clear the way for wires at
American Fork, a limb falling and a
portion penetrating his abdomen, in
flicting painful and dangerous
wound.
Three street car collisions occurred
in Salt Lake Thursday morning OF
last week during the dense fog, and
in all about twenty passengers and
employees of the Utah Light & Rail.
way company were injured, but none
seriously.
The people of Mount Pleasant ex.
pect to solve the coal shortage situa.
tion by breaking a road through tho