The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-07-05
UTAH STATE NEWS

Work will begin in few days on
the picking plant at Springville
Louis Clapp of Park City Is laid up
with broken leg and severe bruises,
the result of his horse falling On him.
The extension of the Ogden Rapid
Transit company to the Sanltarium at
the mouth of Ogden canyon is com
pleted.
Davis county is to have n fair this
fall, Bountiful, Pennington and Kays-
vile people all working together to
make It a big success.
The house accepted the senate
amendments to the public building
bill giving Provo 100000 and Ogden
$120000 for new public buildings.
The farmers Of Gunnison, like many
Others are complaining of light yield
of alfalfa in the first cutting The sec.
'ond crop, it is thought, will be good.
The Butchers and Grocers' associa.
tion of Provo has decided to give its
employees half holiday every Thurs
day during the months of July ana
August.
Elmer ID. Murdock, aged 30 Of Clif-
ton, Kan, sulcided in Salt Lake City,
shooting himself in the head. De.
spondency over financial matters led
to the deed.
Seized with an attack of delirium,
Mrs. Anna McCune, "a years of age,
jumped from a second-story window in
Salt Lake City, breaking her left wrist
and suffering severe bruises.
Driven to despondency by excessive
drinking, r. F. Tolf. aged 35 years,
blacksmith, employed at the Utah Cop
per company concentrator at Garfield
committed suicide by hanging.
John vanderveen of Ogden, while
walking down the street, was shot
twice In the back by Eddie Kelly.
aged 0, who used .22-calibre pistol.
Vanderveen's injuries are not serious.
Word comes from Joseph and Mon.
roe that the entire fields of potatoes
have been nipped close to the ground
by the recent frosts, but so far It has
not harmed the sugar beets or fruit In
the least
Considerable damage was done by
the heavy rainfall at Kaysville on the
2Sth, one and quarter inches o,
water falling between l and s a. m
Many stacks were open and much hay
was damaged.
Jack Hayes, aged 80, suicided in
Salt Lake City by throwing himself ip
front of switch engine, his body be
Ing almost cut in two. He leaves 9
wife and three children. No cause is
known for the deed.
A hoodlum placed giant firecracker
In the trousers of aged William Best
at the Saltair depot, Salt Lake. Best
is In the hospital, with frightful hole
In his leg, and blood poisoning is
feared, The hoodlum escaped.
The reunion OF the trail blazers OF
Southern California and the pioneers
Of the Salt Lake valley in Salt Lake
City which had been planned to be
held in Salt Lake July "a, Pioneer day
has been indefinitely postponed
Samuel Newhouse of Salt Lake CITY
has accepted the appointment on the
international policy holders commit
tee to vote the Lawson proxies at the
meetings of the New York Life aud
Mutual Life Insurance companies.
For the first time in the history OF
Provo drug stores were closed from 12
o'clock midnight Saturday night until
z O'Clock Monday morning, an ordi.
nance having been passed prohibiting
the sale of drugs or merchandise on
Sunday.
The Civic Improvement league OF
Ogden is to award cash prizes for the
best kept lawns, grounds and shrub.
berry in the city. Prizes will be given
In each ward, and a committee of la.
dies will be appointed who will award
the prizes.
The VIM NJ. Roylance Co. of Provo
shipped a carload of strawberries to
the eastern market last week, the first
car ever shipped out of this section
Of the state. Mr. Roylance expects to
follow this with other carload lot ship. |
ments this summer.
Lauritz Farse. Salt Lake painter.
Is 10 be tried at Ogden on a charge |
,f attempting to murder Ora S. Page.
L is claimed Farse became Jealous or
Page and enticed him into Ogden can.
'on, where he tried to kill him, strik.
ng him with a rock.
The state board of equalization has
completed its assessment for 1906 OF
telegraph and telephone and
'ther property which ii Is its duty to
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