The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-12-13
UTAH STATE NEWS

route is contemplating building a spur
to Grantsville from the main line.
Representative Howell introduced
two public building bills last week.
For Brigham City, $4,000; for Park
City, $4,000.
The biennial convention of the
united Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America will convene In
Salt Lake City in September, 1908.
At Elsinore 5000 tons of beets are
stored by the track awaiting shipment,
and at Moroni there are $500 more
tons awaiting cars to haul them to
Lehi.
Pneumonia is again appearing in
Park City, and as is usual in such
high attitudes. il is serious Guy
Tracey native of Idaho, Is the first
victim.
Utah canning companies are invad.
ing the Nevada fields with their prod.
ucts at rate that means that the
market will secure control of that
region.
The beet tonnage for the Lehi sugar
factory will far exceed the earlier
estimate of 10000 tons. It now looks
nearer 10000 tons would be har.
vested.
The Black Hawk war veterans have
formulated a petition to be presented
to congress for the passage of the
Black Hawk war veteran pension bill.
now pending.
In order to keep pace with the
growth and prosperity of Spanish
Fork, Postmaster Lawrence has re-
modelled the Office and added ninety.
five more lock-boxes.
James Mcdonald has been convicted
at Ogden on the charge of stealing
three horses from Henry Larson, Of
Ogden, and selling them to farmer
near Syracuse Junction.
The supreme court in an opinion
handed down last week, held that 1t
Is not contrlbutory negligence If COW
wanders on the track of a railroad
company and Is killed.
o. p. Washburn of Monroe, one of
the leading and most successful or.
chardsts of Sewer county, harvested
q crop of apples this year, SO per cent
of which were free from worms.
The Western Pacific has now TWEEN
ty miles of track laid on the desert
and is almost 100 miles out from Salt
Lake, thus making the road only about
20 miles from the Utah-Nevada line.
Eight men were injured by the ex-
plosion of a gasoline tank in fire
In the D. +. Walker building in Salt
Lake, most of the injured being fire.
men. The property loss was small.
Park City capital has just finished
eQuipping three prospecting outfits for
Nevada The outfits go in different
directions, and it is expected some
new wealth producers will be dis
covered.
Many complaints of shoplifting made
by the Ogden merchants, lead to the
belief that the city is infested with
shoplifters. concerted effort has
been decided upon and detectives will
be placed in all the larger stores.
The Utah State Poultry association
will ask the legislature for $4,000 this
winter to promote the poultry indus
try in the state, secure the raising
Of better birds and to interest more
people in the proper care of chickens
The clerk of Sewer county has pre-
prepared statement for Governor
Cutler, upon request of the executive
Of the income of this county from all
sources, which shows that the coun
ty's income for the year ending June
80, was s63,034.17.
An organized system to rob the rail
road companies of brass and copper
has been discovered at Ogden, and a
large amount Of the plunder discov
cred also. Those taking part In the
thefts are said to be boys not yet
out Of their teens.
Joseph Day Bryant, trucker EN-
ployed in the Oregon Short Line
freight yards, was struck by shunted
car on one of the sidetracks and In
stantly killed. He had secured pol
icy for 81 900 insurance just an hour
before he was killed,
A refrigerator service to cover the
entire system, is the latest move OF
the Hartman lines. Salt Lake is the
birthplace and the probable home OF
this immense enterprise, articles OF
incorporation having been filed in the
capital city last week.
Sidney Reeves, 26 years of age and
unmarried suicided at Mercur, shoot
ing himself. Reeves was a former
resident of Salt Lake City, where he
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