The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04
UTAH STATE NEWS

of Peter Chaido and partially de.
Stroyed the home of Mr.. Hall
The members of the Calvary BAPTIST
church (colored), of Salt Lake City,
served 'possum dinner to all eomers
on Christmas day.
Utah has more dividend-paylng min.
ing properties than any other state in
the union, and she is fast pushing to
front as copper producer.
George Sherbert, signal employee
of the Union Pacific, was struck by
an engine near Castle Rock and is
now in the hospital and may die.
The poultry farms of Utah were
cleaned of gobblers in supplying the
Christmas markets and there we're few
turkeys for New Years dinner in
Utah.
The continued heavy storms are do
ing much to hinder the construction
work Of the Utah Independent Tele.
phone company on it's Park City ex.
change.
August Hansen, a Swede, threw
himself in front of train at the
union depot in Ogden and was ground
to pieces. Hansen had been on pro-
tracted spree
Ogden has been without street car
service greater portion of the past
week, owing to trouble with ma.
chinery at the power house and the
heavy snow storms.
The municipal eelctric light plant
at Coalville was started on Christ
mas, and for the first time In her his.
tory the county seat of Summit coun-
" was illuminated by electricity.
Walderman H. Peterson, who came
to Salt Lake in 1S4S, crossing the
plains on foot, and who for the past
twenty-five years has conducted
meat market in the capital city, died
on the 26th.
AT the fourth annual banquet given
by the Salt Lake Commercial club last
week $50 members and friends, rep
resenting every business and profes
sion, were present. The speech-malt.
ers included some of the best in Utah.
injunction suits to prevent eleven
"scalpers" who have offices in Utah
from buying OK selling railroad tickets
Issued by the Southern Pacific and the
Denver & Rio Grande companies were
fled in the fedoral court last week.
ID. Beynon Davies, former deputy
county clerk of Salt Lake county, was
sentenced to nine months in the coun.
ty Jail by Judge j. A. Howell last
week for criminal conspiracy in con
nection with the bounty frauds OF
last year.
Mrs. Anna M. Larkin, mother of Roy
ID. Larkin, who was drowned in the
Great Salt lake July 23, 1903, will re-
cover $4,000 from the Saltair Beach
company as result of a decision
handed down by the supreme court
last week.
w. A. Shaw, living at Five Points, a |
suburb of Ogden, used an electric |
light bulb to heat his bed at night. and |
about O'Clock In the morning was
awakened by the cries of his little |
child. He found that the globe had |
set fire to the bedding.
j. Frank Hinton, for six years in
charge of the assay department OF the |
Nine & Smelter Supply company at |
Salt Lake, was found dead at his desk
on Christmas afternoon, he having
been engaged in writing a letter when
the death summons came.
]. F. Horrup, aged forty-one, and a
former employe of the Southern Pa
cific boiler shops, was run over in the |
Ogden yards by a switch engine of the
Rio Grande Western, and sustained
injuries from which he may not re |
cover, and certainly will lose his left
foot.
The excursion of the Salt Lake
Elks to Los Angeles in February may
have to be abandoned. There is a
growing belief in railroad circles that
the Trans-continental Passenger asso
citation, which has Jurisdiction over
the matter, will refuse to sanction the
excursion.
The Rio Grande is at present con.
the erection of large
new ice plant at Provo The plant will
be capable of storing 3,00e tons of ice
and Will be modern and complete
building in every detail. The plant is
to be erected for the icing of re
frigerator cars.
The traffic department of the Salt
Lake Route is preparing for the sec.
retary of the Manufacturers and Mer.
chants association of Salt Lake, a
tabulated statement of the prospects
and possibilities for the location of in.
dustries at all points on the line and
its branches in Utah.