The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-04-05
UTAH STATE NEWS
A morse fair is to be held at Provo,


future
The Utah Beekeepers' association
will hold its annual spring convention
In Salt Lake City on April 6.
Miss Gertrude Lake, stenographer,
committed suicide In Salt Lake, taking
carbolic acid. 1t is believed she was
insane.
Mrs. Efiie Rinched died in Salt Lake
City last week from smallpox, she hav
ing contracted the disease from her
son, who has recovered.
Mrs. John Moyes of Plain City had
narrow escape from death in a run
away accident In Ogden. She was
painfully but not seriously wounded.
The iron moulders of Salt Lake City
have gone out on a strike. Seventy.
Ave skilled mechanics and about 125
helpers are affected by the proceed
ing.
The senate has confirmed the nom-
nations Of F. d. Hobbs and ID. II.
Thompson as register and receiver.
respectively, OF the Salt Lake land Of
fce.
The Gold Mountain country, both the
harysvale and Kimberly sections, has
been visited by numerous snowslides
this winter. more than has ever been
known before.
Henry II. Steele and Thomas A. Rod
gers Of Ogden are the patentees OF
device for the protection OF freight cars
In transit and to prevent the stealing
Of freight from cars
Fred N. Hill OF Salt Lake City has
been named by State Superintendent
Nelson for one of the free $1,000 schol-
arships In the Dread institute of Mary
land. awarded to Utah.
There have been several large snow
slides around Mt. Badly on the Marys-
vale and Gold Mountain side. drifts
covering the mountain all the way
from twenty to fifty feet.
JCub luOIudS, WHO SnOt
and killed Harry Wilson, also colored,
in a saloon row in Salt Lake City last
October. has been acquitted, the jury
deciding he shot in self defense.
Cyrus Dallin, the famous Boston
sculptor, who is native of Utah, has
just received the gold medal which
lAl I,t \
for the most characteristic group OF
American sculptors.
William Ross, colored man incar'
cerated in the Salt Lake county jail,
was caught while attempting to escape
one night last week. He had succeed.
ed In saving through the bars of his
cell window when discovered by the
Jailer.
At mass meeting of the citizens
OF Manh 1t was determined to submit
the proposition OF municipal owner.
ship OF the electric light plant to the
citizens at an election to be ordered
by the city council within the next
few weeks.
From the tests just completed by
State and City Chemist Herman
Harms 1t is shown that the manufac
turers of adulterated food stun are !
complying with the law and are mark.
ing their productions Artificial"
across the label
The farmers, stockraisers, poultry |
fanciers and others, in numbers suffi. |
cient to almost fill the meeting house. |
assembled one evening last week at
the first Farmers institute meeting
ever held In Kaysville and listened to
instructive lectures.
Two passenger cars on the Cache
valley express, known as No. IL, on the
Oregon Short Line, running between
Logan and Salt Lake, were derailed
near Mendon, delaying all traffic for
several hours. AS the train was not
running fast, no one was injured.
Peter Caido, an Italian, suicided at
Mercur by jumping down a 100-foot
shaft. He had become estranged
from his wife, with whom he had fire.
quently quarreled, and is the man who
on one occasion was publicly whipped
by some of the women of the town
A young daughter of Niels C. Jen-
sen of Richfeld attempted to swallow
coffee bean a few days ago, when il
became lodged in the windpipe, and the
little one came near choking to death. !
a physician arriving and removing the
obstruction just in the nick of time.
Reports come from southwestern
Utah, one of the widest spots in the
west. of the finding of placer fields in
what is known as Cedar basin. The
mines are north of the Iceberg can
yon, one of the canyons of the Colo.
rado, and in the east side of Virgin
t..