The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-04-04
UTAH STATE NEWS
There we're SO births and "a
deaths in Salt Lake City last week.

thrown from his wagon last week and
seriously injured.
The annual meeting of the Utah
Woolgrowers' association will be held
in Salt Lake City on Saturday, April G.
The Provo City schools will close
May TO- having then ben open for eight
and half months during the school
year.
Johanna Evenrood. who had been
resident of Fairview for the past
ffty-four years, is dead at the age
Of SO.
The citizens of Bountiful are consid
ering the proposition of installing an
Independent electric lighting plant for
that city.
The Rev. P. A. Simpkin. pastor of
the Phillips Congregational church, OF
Salt Lake City, has been appointed
Judge Of the Juvenile court of Salt
Lake City.
The merchants of American Fork
have agreed to close hereafter at
.. m. and to open in the morning at
o'clock during the spring and sum-
mer seasons.
There are about one dozen new brick
houses being built at the present time
at Ephraim. These, with several
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summer. will be a credit to the city.
During the past week it has been
impossible to reach st. George be-
cause of the floods which have GOV.
cred the country between the town
and Modena, the nearest railway sta
ton.
According to the official list, issued
by Registrar George Coray OF the Uni.
versity Of Utah, there are almost
thousand students registered in the
different departments and schools of
the institution.
1t is figured that 594 bills, memor.
ials, resolutions and petitions were
introduced during the recent session
of the Legislature The printed bills
of the house required book of 619
pages and those of the senate 524
pages.
Charles V. Nichols, 22 years of age.
employed as derrick watchman for
the Southern Pacific railroad company,
was run down and killed by freight
train near Rambo station on the Og-
den-Lucin cutoff during binding
snowstorm.
The first merchants excursion to be
conducted by the Commercial club, of
Salt Lake into territory tributary to
the trade and commerce of Salt Lake,
will be taken in May and the objective
points of the trip will be the principal
cities in Idaho.
According to Thomas Judd of ST.
George. Washington county. the al
mond and apricot crops in that section
will be so per cent less than last
year because of the recent bad wealth.
er. Mr.. Judd is president of the State
Horticultural society.
After cutting his throat from ear to
ear. William Ward, prosperous far.
mer and fruit grower of North Ogden,
calmly made a moose in the trip rope
of the hay fork in his barn and hung
himself Grief over the death of his
wife led to the deed
Garfield is TO have bank. Articles
OF incorporation were filed with the
secretary of state last week, and the
new institution will go into comm.s-
sion for the transaction of business
just as soon as the necessary arrange
ments can be completed
The exhibits at the Utah Chamber
of Commerce, 56 West Third South
street, Salt Lake City. are for the
purpose of showing what Utah can pro-
duce and what the state is doing.
Visitors are always welcome, and no
admission fee is charged.
For the first time in the history of |
this state, Decoration day has been set |
aside as day of rest and not as day |
of recreation, as has been the case
in the past. The new law prohibits
baseball games. races and all other
public amusements on that day.
Henry Bird, of Ogden, while feeding
his pet eagle, was caught by the bro
and his left hand severely injured
His arm swelled to twice its natural
size and medical attention was neoes.
;ary. Bird has had the eagle for some
ime, but has never been injured by it
before.
Mike McCabe and VIM. ]. OLeary
wo privates in the Twenty-niath in.
antry at Fort Douglas, who were
ound guilty of robbing Harold Ber.
'um, of Salt Lake City, of SIS on
he night of February 7, will serve
fifteen years in the state prison at
lard labor
Governor Cutler has announced the
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