The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-02-07
UTAH STATE NEWS

nearly completed.
Earl Ashton. of Lehi, was struck by
a SNOWFALL in which rock was con.
cealed, resulting in the breaking OF
his jawbone.
There are about 800 tons OF beets
still at willard. The sugar company
has lost lots of the beets on account of
the bad winter.
The proposition to teach telegraphy
In the Ogden High school is being op
posed by the Commercial Telegraph
ers' union in Ogden.
A strike Is reported in the Midnight
Bell mine above Alpine, which goes
sixty-eight per cent lead, four ounces
silver, and some gold.
The Utah Kayolin company of Le-
hi, last week shipped 1,400 pounds of
kayolin to different schools, where 1t
is used for modelling purposes.
The coal shortage has been keenly
felt at Payson, the mild weather max.
ing the suffering much lighter than
ordinarily would have been the case.
A luncheon was given William Jen-
nings Bryan at the Alta Club In Salt
Lake City on Saturday, at which a
number of prominent people were
present.
Minnie Dearing aged 4, OF Salt
Lake, is dead as the result of eating
the hardened sugar from can of
condensed milk, causing ptomaine poi.
soning.
Walter Cowley, aged 8, died IN
Salt Lake last week from brain con.
cussion, the result of a bump he re-
ceived in falling from his sled while
coasting.
BY raising the saloon license to
$1,000 Il year. the city fathers of He
ber City have compelled three Of the
five wet goods emporiums to close
their doors.
William Chambers died at Smith.
field last week at the age of 80. He
came to Utah with his family in 1858,
engaging in his trade of blacksmith
to the day Of his death.
An Italian convicted of shooting
rabbits near Ogden was fined $40, un.
der the statute that prohibits any
Allen from doing any shooting Of wild
animals without first securing a per.
init,
Charles Riss, an all-around crook,
escaped from the Salt Lake jail by
Sawing through the bars. Riss was
wanted in number of places, and had
just been sentenced to seven years
Imprisonment for burglary.
City Attorney Ogden Hiles of Salt
Lake has advised Mayor Ezra Thomp.
son, chairman of the juvenile court
commission, that the commission is
without power to remove Judge Willis
Brown of the juvenile court.
f. III. Hamilton, lawyer and San
Francisco earthquake refugee, pleaded
guilty to charges of forgery and utter
ing forged instrument, in Salt Lake
last week, and was sentenced to
serve five years in the state prison.
The Kaysville Brick company, a cor
poration of Salt Lake and Davis coun-
ty men. expects to begin operations
not later than May l. The plant has
capacity of 100000 and the company
controls forty-five acres of excellent
brick clay in Davis county.
Robert B. Paine, former councilman
Of the First ward, Ogden, who was
elected from Office for the alleged ap-
preparation of illegal fees, has filed no
tice of appeal to the supreme court OF
Utah to have his case reversed and
referred back for new trial.
Oliver Carlson and John B. Hopkins,
two youths of Logan, went to the barn
OF John Il. Dahle and took valuable
mare therefrom. They hitched the ami
NAL up and drove her almost to death,
t being necessary to kill her when she
was found the following morning.
The preliminary examination OF
William Hanley, who is accused OF
robbing II. M. Edmunds at Stockton
on January II, was held at Tooele. AT
the conclusion of the evidence for the
prosecution the defendant VAS held to
the district court under $1,000 bond.
While Davis, 14-year-old Salt Lake
boy, is dead as the result. of prac
tical Joke by some of his playmates
He was pushed from a bench while
resting at the ice skating rink. the
bench striking him in the back of the
head, causing concussion of the brain
The city council of Green River last
week granted to Merit g. Cook an
electric franchise for the purpose OF
-unning a street car line from the
iepot to the dam in the river, dis:
sance of about seven miles, also for