The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1907-03-20
UTAH STATE NEWS

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August 20-23.
The street railway company OF Salt
Lake City has ordered steel rails to-
construct over 100 miles of track.
The annual convention of the Inter
mountain Photographers association
was held in Salt Lake City last week.
The shearing OF sheep begins at Mo.
dena April IA. One hundred and TWEEN
ty.five thousand head are listed thus
far.
The town of Loa, in Wayne county,
is thoroughly alarmed over what is
believed to be an epidemic OF spinal
meningitis.
Peter Etzel, miner working at the
Little Bell mine, Park City, was ser
lousy injured by falling down a chute
a distance of thirty feet.
A case of smallpox was reported in
Salt Lake city last week. the first
case of the disease to be reported in
the capital city since August 8.
During the coming summer the city
of Nephl will lay sewer blocks of
street and sidewalk pavement, con-
structed Of concrete and cement.
Three clever pickpockets robbed
Clarence Johnson, young farmer
from Glenwood. Sewer county, Utah,
of $40 in Salt Lake City last week.
The contract for the new daily mail
service from st. George to Modena,
via Enterprise. Utah, has been award.
ed to Charles j. Bastian, of st. George.
Walter Green, resident OF Hooper.
was thrown from his horse at that
place and killed instantly. Green was
26 years old and leaves wife and
one child.
Henry DeHuff, one OF the Oldest
citizens of Park City, was run down
by a freight train and killed. DeHun
was deaf and did not notice the APP
preaching train.
The range sheep of Utah are to be
inspected this year before they are
dipped, and the inspection will start
at the regular dipping points in the
state early in April.
Chief of Police George A. Sheets
OF Salt Lake City, has been bound
over to the district court on a charge
OF conspiracy, in connection with the
McWhirter robbery.
The dog show held in Salt Lake
City last week proved grand sue
cess, a number of fine dogs being ex-
hibited and the attendance and inter
est OF the public being most gratifying.
Laura Cox, a seamstress employed
at bedding manufacturing establish
ment in Salt Lake City. was caught
by the hair in a sewing machine ana
almost scalped, her head being badly
cut.
Despite the protests of the Sioux In
dams against having the White river
Utes share their reservation, the presi-
dent has decided to quarter Utes with
the Cheyenne Sioux Indians for the
present.
Teachers in the Salt Lake schools
are assured OF more pay. the senate
having passed house bill No. PIT,
raising the limit which Salt Lake may
levy for school purposes from 51s to
6ls mills.
Fred Bentson, of Evanston. Wyo.,
aged Fl, brakeman employed by the
Union Pacific. was killed near
Emery, Utah. He was riding on top
OF freight train, when his back was
broken by a pipe from a water tank.
Judge Thomas Maloney, candidate
on the American party ticket for the
supreme court of the state at the last
election, died at Ogden on the 18th,
after an illness OF four weeks, the
cause of his death being an abscess
OF the liver.
The whole section of central Utah
is greatly enthused over dry farming,
and there is a section OF country about
ten by fifteen miles in area lying west
and south of NephI which is shortly
to be the center OF great grain pro
ducing country.
Mike McCabe and William j.
oLeary, two of the six soldiers who
were arrested on February 2S on the
charge OF having assaulted and robbed
Harold Berrum In Salt Lake City,
have been bound over to the district
court for trial.
w. II. Parent. a selfconfessed Grim
inal and the star witness for the prose
cution in the conspiracy case against
Chief of Police George A. Sheets, OF
Salt Lake City, has been released on
his own recognizance, by request Of
the county attorney.
While driving across the tracks in
Ogden, wagon in which Frank SHANE
was seated, was struck by a passenger
train and Skane thrown under the