The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-01-17
UTAH STATE NEWS

gates TO the Dry Farming congress
to be held in Denver
The saloon men of Ogden have com
bned to test the ordinance relating
to card slot machines.
The Twenty-ninth regiment, sta
toned at Fort Douglas, has been or
dered to the Philippines.
The records for the year 1906 snow
that there were in Weber county 43S
marriages and 66 divorces.
Cache valley people are rejoicing
over the heaviest fall of snow that
has occurred in many years.
Mrs. Lillian Bromway suicided In
Salt Lake City by shooting. Mrs
Bromway was a sufferer from melan-
cholia.
There were 178 marriage licenses
issued, 1T children born and eighty
nine deaths in Salt Lake during De.
cember.
The Twin City creamery of Castle.
dale and Orangeville turned out g.
s55 pounds of butter the first month,
that Of December.
The total sum asked for the main.
tenance and improvements Of the
State mental hospital for the next
two years is 100000.
The debate between the universi-
ties of Utah and Colorado, scheduled
to take place In Boulder on Jan. II,
has been postponed until Feb. 15.
Governor Cutler, In response to an
quiry sent out by the Third Term Ma
tional League, declares that he is In
lavor of the reelection of Theodore
Roosevelt in 1908.
Irene Miller, of Mill Creek, Salt
Lake county, was shot and killed at
Lewisyille, Idaho, by l. s. Crouch,
her rejected lover. who suicided after
shooting Miss Miller.
The curfew ordinance is to be en-
forced in Salt Lake City in the future.
All children under 16 years of age
found loafing on the streets after 3
o'clock will be arrested.
Mary Clark, the girl burglar arrest
ed at Park City on a charge of burg
iarizing residence in Salt Lake City.
has been sent to her home in Kansas
City and will not be prosecuted.
Dr. r. B. Beatty, of the state board
of health, will recommend that bill
be presented to the legislature for
bidding the marriage of feeble mind
ed and imbecie individuals and first.
cousins.
1t is now expected that threshing
will continue in Emery county until
the last of March The lucerne seed
crop being so enormous, it has been
necessary to run four threshing ma
chimes all fall and winter.
Jack Smoth, until recently stewart
In the Vienna restaurant at Ogden,
was arrested in Salt Lake, charged
with embezzlement, 1t being charged
the funds of the restaurant.
Jesse Oler, young man of Pleas
ant Grove, has been arrested on o
charge of assaulting Alex Ellis, a man
&C years of age the difficulty starting
over division fence. Ellis is report
ed TO be in critical condition.
Miss Carrie McClosky, thirty years
old, committed suicide in Salt Lake
City, drinking a quantity of carbolic
acid. She had been Respondent for
some time because of an enstrange'
ment between herself and father.
James DAILY, one of the men arrest
ed in connection with the robbery at
Bingham some days ago, tried to hang
himself in the Salt Lake county Jail
having made rope out of a blanket
but was discovered and cut down by
the sheriff.
Fred Leando, claiming to be an ac'
tor, Is charged with inducing young
girls to run away from their homes
In Salt Lake City for the ostensible
purpose of joining a theatrical com
pany which he said he was organic
ing to take to Butte, Mont.
Cyclone Thompson defeated Maurice
Thompson at the Grand opera house,
Ogden, in the fifteenth round OF what
was scheduled to be a twenty-round
contest. Maurice's second threw the
sponge into the ring TO save their
man from further Punishment.
Salt Lake sportsmen will ask the
coming legislature TO take some steps
to raise the dignity. authority and sal
airy of the state game warden's office.
The present state game warden, John
Sharp, has held the office since Utah
became a state. His salary is $1,000 a
year.
In 1896 there were 81 ,GS2 pupils ir
the schools of the state of Utah. The