The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-15
UTAH STATE NEWS


field.
M. Foyle, an aged man of ogden,
was struck by a bicycle while walking
down the street, and sustained a
broken arm.
Arthur Bush, aged %. was accident
ally shot in the right leg while at work
near Liberty. a revolver falling from
his pocket.
A convention of publicity experts
from all the leading cities of the
United States and Canada is to be- held
In Salt Lake next June.
Walter James of Black Rock and n.
S. Nelson of Mt. Pleasant last week
sold 10000 head of sheep to a pack
ing company OF Los Angeles.
Mexican of Salt Lake was beaten in
the checker match with Drouillord or
Kansas City, the former winning three
games and the latter five, with eleven
draws.
The recent storms have made the
roads of Summit county impossible
and hay and grain which is being fur
nished Park City by the county is now
in big demand.
George Capos, a Greek, in the EN-.
ploy of the Southern Pacific company
at Ogden, was run over and killed by
a car under which he had crawled tc
get some tools.
Delegates have been appointed by
Governor Cutler to attend the Trans
Mississippi Commercial congress
which will meet at Kansas City, Mo,
November 90 to 23
The report of the state game war.
den shows that the amount Of fish
taken from the Provo river. of the
sucker species. by graphing. will
reach not less than 100000 pounds per
year.
John William Guthrie, fifty years a
Mason, president of the Commercial
National bank of Ogden and the
founder of the banking business in
Corinne, Utah, in 1869, died at Ogden
on the 10th.
Hugh McGrail, OF Leadville, Colo.
was killed in Salt Lake City, being
run over by switch engine, his
head being found several feet from
his body. 1t is not known how the
accident occurred.
The 500 coal cars ordered by the
Denver & Rio Grande, and which are
soon to be here with twenty new en-
gines for service on the hills. will hell
out the coke and coal trade of Car
bon county wonderfully.
C. A. Griffith, foreman for the Amer
lean Smelter & Refining company In
Tooele county, fell from trestle while
supervising some work and struck or
his head, fracturing his skull, deatf
resulting few days later.
Attorney General M. A. Breeder ha.
issued an opinion in which the right o.
county superintendent of public
schools to specify courses Of study diff
fering from those courses laid down b.
the state board of education, is denied
In the district court at Ogden the
case against Lauritz Farse of Sal
Lake for assault with intent to com
NIT murder was dismissed. Last sum
mer Farse was arrested after he anC
Ora F. Page had rolled down The
mountain side in an encounter II
which each claimed the other haC
attempted to kill him.
At meeting of the stockholders o
the Utah Packing company held il
Salt Lake City last week, a plan t.
raise money for the immediate re
building of the plant, recently destroy
ed by fire, was unanimously agreed up
on.
DR.. Clark of the state board o
health declares that the lack of ;
sewerage system in Provo, outside o
the business district, is a menace I,
the health of the town, and that it i
responsible for number OF cases o
typhoid fever.
The reclamation engineer in charg
of the Strawberry valley project re
ports that 100 feet of the tunnel wer,
completed on the first of the month
Only one shift of eight hours wa
worked on the tunnel during tn
greater part of October.
Samuel B. Howell, of Salt Lake
aged so, is dead at Goldtield, Nevada
of pneumonia. Mr.. Howell was vet
eran prospector, being one of thos
who went to California in '49. and ha
just made some rich locations whel
stricken by his fatal Illness.
The fury of the wind that devaS
tated Davis county on October % ha
claimed a victim. Bishop Jacob Sc
crist's death last week is thought t