The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-08-15
UTAH STATE NEWS.

600.
Alma Thomas, aged 8, was thrown
from buggy during runaway In
Salt Lake City and almost instantly
killed.
A movement has been started by
the reform element of Park City look
ing to the closing of the red ligIt
district.
For stealing a watch valued at $3.50,
Emmett Brady OF Salt Lake was last
week sentenced to two years in the
state prison.
The First State bank OF Salina has
been Incorporated, with capital OF
$4,000. Local capitalists are back OF
the enterprise.
Paving contracts have been award.
ed by the Nephi city council and that
town will soon have substantial ce.
ment sidewalks.
The unimproved portion of the city
hall square in Ogden IS being parked,
most of the work being done by the
prisoners in the city jail
A young man named, Butterworth
was accidentally shot while ON an out.
ing In Logan canyon. He Is in the hos
pital at Logan and will recover.
A general strike of all the switch
men on the Denver G. Rio Grande
railroad between Denver and Salt
Lake is possible in the near future.
Cliff Anderson, a carpenter, collided
with an automobile in Salt Lake City
while riding his bicycle, and was SER
1ously injured, his skull being frac-
tured.
Isaac Hatch, aged IL, was accident
ally shot and killed by his cousin.
George Hatch, while the two boys
were hunting chickens near Koosh-
arem.
J. III. Mcconnell attempted to
board moving train in Ogden,
was thrown under the wheels and his
right foot crushed SO badly that ampu-
tation was necessary.
A Salt Lake man has sued the To-
cal street car company for $4,000
damages because conductor broke
his nose and blackened his eyes dur
ing an argument on a street car.
An ordinance limiting the speed OF
automobiles on all public highways
In Salt Lake county, outside the city,
to fifteen miles an hour has been
passed by the county commissioners.
Mike Seppala, aged 20, was killed
by cave-in in the Yampa mine at
Bingham, his skull being crushed. 1t
ia not known how the accident oc-
Cured as Seppala was alone at the
time.
Miss Blanche Musser, one of the
passengers on the Columbia, when
was wrecked on the California coast,
when large number of the passen-
gers were drowned, arrived home last
week
imagining that she has attained
state of perfect exaltation and has be-
come a god, Mrs. Clara Sullivan, aged
20 years. Salt Lake woman, has
been adjudged insane and sent TO the
State Mental hospital.
The work OF taking the school cen.
sus for Lehi has been completed IL
shows an increase of twenty over last
year There are $40 boys and 400
girls between 6 and Is years of age.
making total of 1.0S9.
A Salt Lake boy dropped lighted
match into the bunghole of whisky
barrel on which he was sitting and
was blown fifteen feet into the air.
The lad was not badly hurt, but his
face was slightly burned.
Three young men convicted of con.
cealing themselves in; bathrooms at
Saltair and taking kodack pictures OF
women as they were unrobed, pre-
paratory to donning their bathing
suits, were fined $40 each. - rsr,s
Because of blunder of the last leg.
islature there is danger that the state
experimental farms. run In connection
with the Agricultural college at Lehi
and st. George, will have to be
closed, owing TO lack of funds.
The Robinson -four mills, near
American Fork were destroyed by fire
last week, entailing loss of $4,000.
A lantern was accidentally over
turned near the elevator shaft, and
the blaze was soon beyond control.
Mortimer Bairows, aged G, while
playing in the bath tub at the family
residence in Ogden. fell backwards |
out of the tub and struck a pile OF |
broken glass. He was badly cut, but |
it is not thought that his injuries are
fatal.
The July report of the Salt Lake |
City health department shows
death rate of 1.0i per 1000 of popu. |
lation. There were SO deaths and 213 |
births during the month. OF the |
births there were 103 males and 10 |
females.
Lille Fowler, aged S. was burned to
death in Salt Lake City while play.
ing with matches. her clothing catch,
ing on fire and being burned from her |
body, the flesh being cooked to the |
bone, death resulting after eight |
hours of suffering.
William j. Coda. the aeronaut who
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