The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-12-12
UTAH STATE NE WS


serves in the state for 1907.
Appropriations asked for by Tho
secretary of the treasury include $40,
900 for the public building at ogden
The city council of Park City has
issued an order to the officers to put
stop to the practice OF skating or
the sidewalks.
At the old folks annual mid-winter
reunion, held In Lehi on the 5th
nearly 200 persons over 60 years OF
age were present.
Mrs. Guy Condor of Salt Lake
drank quantity of wood alcohol, mis-
taking It for medicine, and had mar
row escape from death.
AS the result of the giving way of
a scaffold, on which he was working,
Robert o. Corkhill. of Salt Lake, was
probably fatally injured.
Mrs Thomas Vance, the Salt Lake
woman who was brutally beaten by
her husband is dead, and Vance will
face charge of murder.
An effort is being made by the old
soldiers OF Salt Lake City and Ogden
to form a Utah chapter OF the mill
tary order of the Loyal Legion.
That Salt Lake City will have a
new assay Office is the confident
opinion of Senator Sutherland, who
has introduced a bill authorizing one.
It has been definitely arranged that
the great musical event of the Welsh
people, the Eisteddfod, will be held
in the Salt Lake tabernacle October
/, 2 and 8. 1908.
Henry westerhold, VINO was in
jured In mine accident near Lund,
Nevada, died in Salt Lake hospital
last week. Westerhold was resi-
dent of Cedar City.
The trial of Fred Walker for the
murder of Dr. Earl s.. Beers, at Og-
den. began in earnest ON Friday, De-
cember 6, when the work of selecting
q jury was finished
Representative Howell played In
poor luck In the selection of seat in
the house, drawing a place on the
Democratic side in what is known as
the Cherokee Strip"
Peter and John Adamson, brothers,
are at their homes in American Fork,
each with a broken leg, and the former
with his right arm broken in addition,
as the result Of a runaway accident.
Two tramps were found by a train
crew, one night last week, lying along
the Southern Pacific tracks 100 miles
west OF Ogden, suffering greatly from
exposure. The feet of both men were
frozen. bAsfs ls$t.
Walter Neal, stranger in Salt
Lake, was run down by passenger
train, Sunday, and killed. 1t is be-
lieved that the man deliberately sui
cided, throwing himself in front of
the train.
While driving wagon containing
green lumber through Cedar City
canyon, Daniel Pendleton, Jr., resi-
dent of Cedar City, was crushed to
death under the vehicle. which was
overturned.
David Henry Peery. mining man
and national Democratic committee
man for Utah. died at Los Angeles,
Cal, on December 6, after an Illness
extending over period of two years,
from Bright's disease.
Senator Sutherland has re-iAtro
duced his bill of last congress author
izing 100000 to be expended for
monument to General Patrick e. Con-
nor, to be selected by the secretary
of war and the governor of Utah.
The statements of four national
banks In Salt Lake City which were
given out last week, show that the |
banks are in an exceptionally strong
condition. A compilation of the
amount of money actually on hand |
shows a total of over $5,000,000.
Joe Molander, the Italian who killed |
John Massa and severely wounded |
Dominick Asalie in an ARRAY at Mer. |
cur. has so far escaped arrest, and |
the officers who are searching for him |
assert the belief that Molander's |
friends are hiding him in Salt Lake
City.
Dave Tobin, who was so badly
burned by a powder explosion near
Caliente, Nevada, when Tom Duggan
was fatally burned. died in Salt
Lake hospital last week. Duggan, in
the torment caused by the burns,
pleaded for some one to end his
misery.
The execution of A. T. Day, which
will take place at the penitentiary
December 13, will be the first one In
Utah for three years and half. The
last murderer to pay the death pen
atty was Frank Rose. who was shot al
the penitentiary April %, 1904, for
the killing of his wife,
While his aged mother was rebuk-
Ing him for his hardness in prepar-
Ing breakfast, Thomas Redman, 60
years old. of Salt Lake City, fell
dead. The mother, who is more than
30 years old, fell on his PROSTATE
body, in faint, and was found in
that condition by neighbors,
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