The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-10-11
UTAH STATE NEWS

The health officers OF the state met
in state convention In Salt Lake City
last week
Frank Eggington, aged 18, of og'
den, shot off one OF his fingers while
duck hunting last week.
5ohn W. Parsons has been detailed
to investigate and report on sites Of
fered the government at Provo and
Logan.
In a street car collision in Salt Lake
City a number of passengers were
badly shaken up, but no one seriously
injured.
Between 200 and 300 people were
present at the first reunion OF the
handcart veterans held in Salt Lake
City last week.
Alfred Peterson and Hiram Poulson,
two prisoners at the state industrial
school at Ogden, escaped from that
institution last week.
X. Possart, a Swiss, was struck by
a passenger train while walking on tho
track near Harrisville. He was badly
hurt, but will probably recover.
1t is proposed to organize a roller
polo league, the towns represented In
the league being Salt Lake, Ogden,
Provo. Boise, Ida, and probably Butte.
Mont.
The Lutheran church conference
was held in Salt Lake City last week,
prominent clergymen from Utah, Ida
no, Montana, Oregon and Maine being
present.
walking on the Union Pacific tracks
in Ogden was struck by switch ell
gine and killed. the body being badly
mutilated.
Douglas Wardrop met death while
duck shooting near Salt Lake. 1t is
supposed he tainted and was drowned,
as he was lying in foot of water
when found.
The survivors of the handcart COM
psnies which crossed the plains to
Utah between the spring of 1856 and
the fall of 1859 held reunion In Salt
Lake last week.
George Skachiouroes, Greek la
borer, fell from a new building on
su,1,y ,ynl. ha nj nor AnId
tanning injuries from which he died
shortly afterward.
track in Provo has been accepted by
the National Trotting association as
an association track, and will be con
Quoted under the rules of the associa,
ton.
Nick Lunde, a blacksmith al the
Highland Boy mine, at Bingham, was
shot at five times by Joe Resish, an
Austrian. Two shots took effect, one
in the thigh and The other in the
wrist.
Joseph Il. Frick, Republican nom-
fnee for justice of the supreme court,
has been appointed by Governor Cut
Ter to fill the vacancy on the supreme
bench caused by the resignation of
Chief Justice Bartch.
BY means of bogus police raid on
sure'thing poker game. Alexander
and William McWhirter, two recent
arrivals from Scotland, claim to have
been robbed of $4,000 In Salt Lake
City on September IS.
Three duck hunters on Utah lake
came near losing their lives when a
storm came up and their boat filed
with water. They reached the shore
in an exhausted condition, after losing
their guns and provisions.
Mrs. Nellie Elsbury attempted sui.
eide in Salt Lake City, taking carbolic
acid, but emetics were administered
and she Is now out of danger. The
belief that she was being neglected by
her husband led to the deed.
Fred Price, state statistician, who
was severely injured month ago by
falling into shaft at the Mountain
Chief mine. is able to be out. When
he fell down the shaft he struck n
two.by-twelve timber and broke 1t in
two
Sam Davis was instantly killed by
falling down shaft at Bingham Da.
Wis was signaling to an upper Level
when in some manner he lost his foot,
ing and fell to the bottom of the
shaft, a distance of SO feet, breaking
his neck.
Alta Hollist aged FIVE years, OF
Pennington, was burned to death in
the yard of her mothers home at
Pennington. The child had been play
ing near a large bonfira togather with