The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-11-21
THE SPANISH FORK PRESS
UTAH STATE NEWS

There were $50 teachers present at
Utah county teachers held in Lehl
last Saturday.
1t Is announced that Representative
Joseph Howell has appointed his son
at his private secretary, at a salary
Of $1,000 year
The sum of $6,436 has been added to
the state treasury as a result of the
sale of public lands during the year
ending June 30 last.
The home of John Savage, at Park
City, was destroyed by fire on the
18th, and loss of about $1,000 was
sustained by the owner, as there was
no insurance.
Governor Cutler has issued a proc
lamation designating Thursday, No
vember 2S, as Thanksgiving day, and
declares that Utahns have abundant
reasons for thanksgiving
The Ephraim Commercial club has
taken hold of the city waterworks
proposition and are figuring on the
cost of installing a new system Of
waterworks for that town.
Claude Clark, the negro who shot
and killed Lewis Jones, another col
ored man, during a fight in Ogden on
September 8, has been found guilty
OF voluntary manslaughter.
Joseph Manoney, an Ogden man,
was last week convicted of stealing
load of hay which Hooper farmer
left standing on the square, and was
sentenced to ten days in jail.
According to a statement prepared
by ]. A. Edwards, state auditor, the
total acreage of irrigated lands in
Utah is 2,135.900. No irrigated lands
are now available for settlement.
The taking of testimony in the case
of the United States, plaintiff, against
the Utah Fuel company, defendant, is
dragging along slowly before Master
in. Chancery S. II. Lewis of Salt Lake
City.
The Beaver National bank, Beaver,
Utah, has applied for authority to
start business. Charles ,Woolfend Of
Beaver is the pricipal mover in the en-
terprise. The capital stock is to be
S25,000.
David Eccles of Ogden has pur-
chased the Grass Creek coal mines, in
Summit county, and company of Og-
den capitalists, with capitalization
of $250,000, will operate the mines in
the future.
Under a new ruling recently made
by the general land Office. registers
and receivers are prohibited from
certifying to copies of citizenship
papers, which heretofore has been
the practice.
Salt Lake banks last week began
the issue of the new currency. This
new money is local bank circulation,
which Is adequately secured. and is
expected to pass as freely as national
bank currency.
Chris Barley, thirty-two years old,
employed as a switchman in the Union
stockyards at Ogden, was killed in
stantly by falling from one of the
cars, which passed over his body, mu-
tilating 1t horribly.
The management of the Utah Con-
struction company, who are han
ding the Western Pacific construc-
tion work. have determined to reduce
their forces owing to the condition
of the money market.
There are three government
reclamation projects now under way
In Utah, by which 100000 acres of
land will be made to yield crops.
This land will cost $40 an acre, in.
cluding water rights.
1t is probable that Arthur B. Hayes,
formerly of Ogden, may be appointed
assistant attorney general to succeed
j. A. Van Orsdel of Wyoming, who
was appointed judge of the court of
appeals of the District of Columbia.
1t is announced that the Salt Lake
& Ogden railroad will be completed
within ninety days, and that work of
extending the road up Ogden canyon
will be pushed, The project was
started by Mr.. Bamberger early in
1893.
Stanish Mesich who shot and |
killed Herman Obradovich on June 10, |
1907, in Salt Lake City, because OBJ
had eloped with Mrs Mesich,
has been committed to the asylum,
having become raving maniac since !
The shooting.
A woman who attempted to pick the
pockets of young man on the streets
Of Salt Lake was caught in the act,
and in her endeayor to escape, she
attacked the young man with hat
pin, stabbing him in several places.
She was finally captured.
Minerva Hall, aged 20, threw car.
1olic acid into the face of Isaac Ryan
of Salt Lake City, as a result OF which
he man will be disfgured for life. 1t
s claimed that Ryan betrayed the girl
md refused to marry her and she took
his method of vengeance.
Edwin d. Crowther, OF Salt Lake,
Who died at Miner, Idaho, last week,
vas one OF the pioneer actors of Utah,
laving been a member of the old Salt