The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-10-04
UTAH STATE NEW s
Lehi is to have another bank

~. 4. NelSOn, secretary 10 governor
Cutler, has resigned and will go into
business for himself.
A cornstalk thirteen feet eight
inches in height is on exhibition in
Provo. 1t was grown on Provo lot.
John j. Dennis, lneman, was
killed while at work at Bingham juno.
ton, coming in contact with live
wire
Two steam plows are now at work
in Ceder valley plowing up the lands
preparatory to planting dry farm
wheat.
Nearly 100000 has been distribu.
ted In dividends among shareholders
In twelve Uoah companies during
September
The Utah County Fruit and Produce
company has had returns from car
Of peaches which netted the growers
60 cents a case.
The statement is given out that a
telephone line will be constructed and
in operation from Salt Lake to the Pa.
cific coast within one year.
The season for the sugar factory at
Ogden promises to eclipse that of any
former season in the tonnage Of beets
and the production of sugar.
Utah now stands In the front among
the leading producers in nearly every
prominent mineral, and Is about to
forge ahead as an iron state.
Yee Jim, Chinaman WHO had DeeSS
ccTAnsai IN the ogden jail for about
week, appears to have gone insane on
account OF being deprived OF the use
of opium.
Thirteen carloads of peaches were
shipped from Springville In fourteen
days. This breaks the record for
peach shipments from Springville In
single season.
A building boom has struck Park
City, and several new houses are In
course of construction. Every carpen-
ter is employed, and many jobs are
waiting for men.
Frank Coursey a brakeman, whose
home was in Ogden, was shot and
killed by a woman at Grand Junction,
Colo The woman claims she thought
Coursey was burglar
At Promintory Point, William
O'Connell OF Ogden was dangerously
shot through the left arm by the ex-
plosion of 44-caliber rifle, which ne
was placing in wagon.
State Superintendent of Public
Schools Nelson is sending out CIR
cular letters to the county superinten
dents advising them of the law requir-
ing all parents to send their children
\ to school
Utah is busier at the present time
than for many years. All camps are
prosperous, with the old mines contin.
uing to yield big quantities of good
ore and with new mines being opened
up on all sides almost daily.
The Merrill Lumber company of
Brigham City has signed the contract
with the city of Provo for the con-
struction of the wooden stave pipe line
for the waterworks extension in Provo
canyon, to be completed December /.
After remaining practically idle for
twenty-five years, the Mooney mine is
to be opened. This is located about
twenty-five miles west of Frisco, in
southern Utah, and was quarter of a
century ago the property of Matt Gull
len.
Lincoln Greene Wenner, the 1S.year.
old son of the late U. j. Wenner, the
man who built the fine house on Ire
mont island, in the Great Salt Lake
many years ago, and who died on the
island died in Ogden last week from
tuberculosis.
The milk producers of American
Fork met last week and formed a
union, demanding a better price for
their product from the creameries. II
the creameries do not give them a
fair price for their milk they will erect
and operate creamery themselves.
The loss of $50 prompted Mazie
Blakeley, proprietress Of resort in
Salt Lake City to attempt suicide
She owes her life to her own excite.
ment and the failure of her revolver
to explode the cartridge with which
she planned blowing out her brains.
David Prior, principal of the Lake
Shore public schools, was thrown from
his buggy and suffered dislocatiou
of the knee and some bad bruises. His
two little children remained in the
buggy while the horse ran several
blocks, but the children were not hurt