The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-06
UTAH STATE NEWS

The total assessed valuation OF
Summit county, just reported by the
county assessor is s4,625,S56.
The track of the Western Pacific is
now 1876 miles west of Salt Lake City,
which brings 1t fourteen miles into
Nevada.
gang of hobos broke into box
car at Colon and while in the act of
iooting the car were surprised and
captured.
After the heavy rains OF the first
part of the past week an excellent
crop is assured throughout the Paro-
wan section.
Bear river is now higher than foi
years. In many places 1t is over the
banks, and the tributary creeks are
also very high.
Two non-union llnemen were escort
ed TO the city limits of Park City by
about 200 union men and warned TO
never return to the city.
Grain in the vicinity OF Randolph is
looking very good and the hay crops
also. The grass Is in good shape in
the hills for the stock on the range.
James Ward, miner of Bingham,
was fatally injured by premature
blast, his eyes being torn out and
both arms torn aft by the terrific ex-
plosion.
The report OF the Salt Lake City
board of health for the week endins
May 81, 1907, shows 3S births, 22
males and 16 females; 20 deaths, IL
males and s females.
Mary Cochran, three.year-old tot,
ate quantity of laxative pills which
she had found on shelf in her home
In Salt Lake City and died before
medical aid could be summoned.
Horton Hammond of Providence,
cut his knee cap very badly with IA
drawing knife. A physician was
called and found 1t necessary to take
several stitches to close up the
Wound
Sylvan Park, the only strictly tenn.
perance resort In Weber county, was |
thrown open to the public ON Decora-
tion day. The resort is on the car line |
and but six blocks from the business
center.
1t is predicted that Price will be a |
city of 5000 population within five
years. There is much being done and |
projected around there to justify the |
conclusion that this is q conservative
estimate. .. -. i
> The report .of the assessor of Sum
NIT county on live stock shows that
there is in that county 2152 head OF
horses and mules, 1888 cattle, 1885, |
sheep and goats. and 20 swine, val.
ued at sS77,201,
Lightning struck barn owned by |
Mrs, Jacob Rensch, of Mt. Pleasant, |
and killed three cows and a horse. |
The hay in the barn was not set on
fire, and scarcely any damage at all |
was done to the barn.
The Lehi city fathers have pur-
chased a 200-foot sheet iron liberty |
pole, and will set it in cement foun-
dation on the city square Old Glory |
will float from its topmast on holidays
and state occasions.
The district schools of Summit
county have just completed very
successful year, and the class of grad
yates is the largest for number of
years. The average per cent re-
ceived by the pupils is higher thar.
for previous years.
Tom Brown of Park City climbed a
pole to disentangle his kite, which
had become caught in the wires, and
grasped a live wire which burned his
hands severely and caused him to fall
twenty-five feet. He will recover.
Edmund. the 3-year-old son on
Lewis E. Wilhelm, of Greenville,
Cache county, met with an accideng
the other day by which he may lose
the sight of one of his eyes. The lit.
tie fellow was striking a bottle with
an ak and particles of glass flew in
his eye.
Perret Noorda, laborer, and
Thomas Frederickson, an air inspector,
We're run down by freight car in the
Salt Lake yards. 1t is likely that
Frederickson will lose one foot, am
putation probably being necessary.
Noorda received severe scalp
wound.
David Morgan, pioneer of Utah
who reached Ogden from Swansea,
Wales, in 1854, and engaged in the
freighting business from Salt Lake to