The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-03-14
UTAH STATE NEWS

Sandy is to be provided with {
modern school building of twelve tt
fourteen rooms.
Ogden is to have new hospital
$4,000 having been raised for tha
purpose by Rev. p. M. Cushnahan.
The Elks of Park City have de
cided to purchase new home ant
furnish up club rooms as soon as the
furniture can be installed
The month just past was a record
breaker for health in Park City, as
there were no contagious diseases re
ported and only two deaths.
George Libby resident of Lead
vile, Colo, suicded in roomina
house in Ogden, taking morphine. Nc
reason is known for the deed.
Mrs. Charlotte McGary Sharp, who
came to Utah in 1852 with n hand
cart company and had resided in
Ogden ever since, died on the 7th
dt tne age OF VI.
Daniel w. Thomas, one of Lehis
most prominent citizens and a Black
Hawk war veteran, died on the 4th
after lingering illness. Mr.. Thomas
settled in Lehi in 1852.
Mary Henderson, aged 13, attempt.
ed suicide in Salt Lake City, drink.
ing two ounces of spirits of turpen.
tine. The child's parents are dead
and she had tired of battling with the
world alone.
A force of men commenced work
on the Salt Lake & Ogden railway
line on Lincoln avenue, Ogden, last
week, which indicates that the line
will be completed by the early part
of the coming summer.
The Kaysville Commercial club at
a recent meeting decided to push the
matter of having a system of water.
works installed for Kaysville City
and 1t now looks as though the city
VIII have waterworks within year
The continued wet weather is caus.
Ing some concern among those whose
farms are in the lowlands between
Layton and Ogden. 1t is said that in
some localities the land and crops are
being damaged by the excess of wa.
ter.
Salt Lake is TO have modern
home for girls, place where home.
less working girls can stay at small
expense surrounded by proper envir.
onments. It Is announced that San.
uel Newhouse will erect and main,
tain the home.
The Pelican Point Mining & Devel.
opment company is preparing to com.
mence work at once on their marble
quarries at Pelican Point. This mar.
BILE is pure black, and the ledge is AZ
feet thick, the marble being remark.
ably free from flaws.
The faculty of tile State Normal
school has decided to teach agricul.
ture in a modified form at the univer.
sity. This action was found neces-
sary because of the establishment of
a course In natural science In the
grade schools of the state.
The efforts of Vernon Calder, ID
years old, Salt Lake boy, to manu-.
facture a steam engine out of a tin
can and bicycle pump, met with
disastrous results, The can which
was used as the boiler for the con-
trivance, blew up and badly scalded
the inventor and Willard Calder, his
S-year-old brother.
Reports from the farming districts
of Davis county are not the best as 70
the condition of the winter wheat
crop. in some instances the heavy
and unusual storms of last August
and September hindered the planting
OF the grain until late in the year.
". II. Rawlins, arrested at Rawlins,
Wyo., few days ago on a charge of
has confessed to being the
man who robbed the Edmunds Tailor
ing establishment In Ogden about
three weeks ago. Eaton will be
brought back to Ogden to stand trial.
The court martial which has been
.rying First Lieutenant Edward p.
Crowne at Fort Douglas on the charge
'f embezzlement, finished its work
asst week, but the result has been
from the public. Crowne
vas prominent socially in Portland
Ore.
The Salt Lake & Ogden railroad
las been forced to suspend the run.
ling OF trains TO Layton. There is "A
stretch of track between Kaysville
md Layton that passes over some
owlands, and the new roadbed is SO
oft that trains cannot travel with
afety.
A mass meeting held in the Salt
AXE theatre on the night of the 7th,
nder the auspices of the American