The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-09-12
UTAH STATE NE WS


Missouri Dry Farming congress will be
held in Salt Lake Jan. 23, "a. 25 and 26.
The principals of the Salt Lake
schools threatened to go on strike,
and their salary was Increased $40
month.
There will be but little fruit put up
by the Salt Lake housewives this sea-
SON. owing to the extreme high price
of fruit.
The state board of examiners met
last week aud approved bills amount
ing to $4,000 for the recent guard ell
campment.
Burglars looted the tailoring estab-
lishment of George w. Putnam in
Salt Lake City, securing about $1,000
worth of goods,
Mother Jones" was the speaker Of
the day at the Park City Labor day
celebration, which was one of the big
gest celebrations ever held in the
camp.
Ernest Bolin, of Salt Lake City, was
struck by an automobile, while he was
driving to town in a buggy, his rig be-
ing demolished and Bolin suffering Sc
we're injuries.
Fifteen thousand people attended the
Labor day celebration at Lagoon,
while 10000 were at Saltair. Labor
day Is the closing day Of the season
for these resorts.
The trial of Mrs. Annie T. Bradley,
indicted for the murder of former
Senator Brown of Utah, which was
set for October Z, PROBABLY will be
postponed until November II.
The number of men employed in the
coal mines of Utah in 1906 was 1,572,
against 1861 in 1905, and 1876 in 1904.
The average working time in 1906 was
2SS days, against 247 in 1905 and 294
in 1904.
J. w. Blom. contractor, living in
Salt Lake City, committed suicide on
the 5th by shooting himself in the
abdomen. Business worries and fin
anclal reverses furnished the motive
for the suicide
Utah carried Off the honors in con-
nection with the Interstate exposition
of land and forest products at tie Ir-
rigation congress. Utah was given
seven trophies, seven cash prizes and
one Durham bull.
Luther Burbank. the celebrated bot
anist and horticulturist, declares that
the Utah exhibit of peaches at the Ma
tional Irrigation congress In Sacra.
mento was composed of the finest
fruit he had ever seen In California.
The constitutionality Of that portion
of the new Juvenile court law passed
contributing to the delinquency of chill
dren to appear before the Juvenile
court will be tested in the district and
supreme courts.
The proposed $l,000,000 passen-
ger station to be erected in Salt Lake
City for the Short Line and Salt Lake
route will in all probability stand on
immense concrete piles driven to a
great depth into the clay subsoil of the
Oregon Short Line yards.
Nearly two miles of marching men
paraded the streets of Salt Lake City
in observance of Labor day. The line
was a little more than twelve blocks
long and contained more than 1000
when finally II returned to Fedora
ton hail. whence 1t started.
The secretary of the treasury has re-
jected all bids for the extension to the
public building at Ogden, Utah. The
reason that they were not acceptable
WIS on account of new drawing of
specifications for the further enlarge
ment of the building which is to be
made.
That litigation in Sail Lake Is in
creasing much more rapidly than the
population Is shown by the August re-
port of the county clerk During the
past month his receipts were $3,965.3S,
as compared with 81 SIT for the cores
pending month last year. or an increase
of $2,14S.3S.
At the first meeting of the Utah
State Poultry association, held in Salt
Lake City last week. it was decided
by the association to get in line and
make the poultry show one OF the
features of the fair this year putting
IL upon much higher plane than 1t
has been heretofore.
The State Humane Society, at a
meeting held last week. decided that
coursing is cruel, but despite their
decision. 1t is probable that the great
national dog matches will be held in
Salt Lake City next month, when the
fastest hounds in the country will be
sent after the rabbits.
A barn belonging to Councilman
Christian Madsen, of Manti. was struck
by lightning and destroyed by fire. The
barn, which contained twenty-five or
thirty tons of hay fine surrey and
farm wagon, and other vehicles, was to-
tally destroyed. and only by hard work
was the home saved.
Governor Cutler will lie required to
call convention of representative citi-
2eps from the towns and cities of the
third class of Utah for the purpose of
discussing the matter of public town
libraries. The request T. to come
from the Office of the state superin-
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