The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-08-08
UTAH STATE NEWS


prices from 12 to 14h cents a pound
Earlier clip brought IS cents.
The miners union OF Park City de-
clared a holiday on Wednesday of last
week, in order to celebrate the ac
quittal of William ID. Haywood.
Judges of the district court cannot
collect mileage from the state under
the 1908 law, according to a supreme
court decision rendered last week.
Governor Cutler has appointed If
teen delegates TO represent the state
Of Utah at the National Irrigation
congress at Sacramento, Cal, Septem-
ber 2 to z.
William ]. Coda, an aeronaut, struck
some electric wires while descending
in parachute at Ogden. and was
badly burned. 1t Is believed, however,
that he will recover.
During an electrical storm which
swept over American Fork, the hay
stack and barns of A. B. Adams were
set on fire by bolt of lightning which
struck a tree overhanging the hay
stack
iron worker, was found In bad state
OF decomposition in shack in Salt
Lake, he having been dead several
days. Death was evidently the result
Of drink.
William ID. Haywood was given q
rousing reception by laboring men
when he arrived in Salt Lake City
nm hn Otrd Mr 4,
night at the residence of Mrs. Killeen,
his sister.
The school census of Salt Lake
City has been finished and the report
of the enumerators shows 10000 chill
dren of school age in the capital city,
or about 1000 more than reported
last year.
At the celebration of Old Folks day
In Ogden on the 31st, about 700 people
were entertained. The oldest man
present was William Il. Cole, aged
80, and the oldest woman, Mrs Mary
Kavanaugh, aged SO.
Nephi ottosen, of Nephi, last week
killed 500 pound bear, which is sup
posed to be one of the great number
infesting the Wasatch range between
Manti and Willow creek, and which
have killed SO many cattle.
The body. of James A. Strane, pro-
fessor In the University of Utah. who
was drowned in the Mississippi river,
near his home. st. Paul, MINI, July 16,
while spending the summer vacation
with his parents, has been recovered
Buffalo Jones, who has charge of
the national game preserve in the
Buckskin mountains, has under his
charge 100 buffaloes. Mr.. Jones says
the buffaloes are rapidly increasing
There are about 10000 deer on the re.
serve.
Frank Train, aged 2S, suicided at
Bingham, taking morphine. the cause
Of the deed being disappointment in
love. 1t appears that he had been en-.
gagged to the girl. and that she had
broken the engagement and is going
to marry another man.
Judge Theodosius Botkin of Salt
Lake, who for two years has been
United States consul at Port Louis, in
the Island of Mauritius ir the South
seas has recently been promoted to
the American consulship at Camp.
belltown, New Brunswick.
According to a pamphlet issued by
the secretary of state, the life insur-
ance companies of Utah wrote ST..
6S7,919 in risks during the year 1906
received $1196,421 in premiums, and
paid $246,1S4 in losses The amount
of risks carried in Utah is $685.
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A Utah boy is now in command OF
the big battleship Illinois now at the
Charlestown navy yard. The Utahn is
Lieutenant. Commander Henry A. Pear
son, who was born at Draper and who
eighteen years ago was appointed from
Utah a cadet to the naval academy at
Annapolis
An Ogden woman thrust a pitchfork
into stack of hay and was startled
by shrek, A man ran out from the
hay and made his escape, The wo.
man then found a stock of wearing
apparel he had cached in the hay and
which he had stolen from a neighbor.
ing residence.
SnafIeS bro SAT- Lake man, mas
sued the Consolidated Wagon and Ma
chine company for $4,000 for the loss
of toe. It appears that Bird was
carrying platform into dark room
and that he stumbled over pair of
buggy shafts, dropping the platform on
his right foot
Governor Cutler has been notified by
the United States Forestry department
that Utah's share of the revenues from
forestry reserves in this state for the
fiscal year, ending June 81, is S13,.
557 3S. This fund will be paid over
20 the state. and must go into the
road and schoo. funds.
Many fruit trees in Salt Lake county
have been condemned and destroyed
during the past month, the county
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