The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-02-28
UTAH STATE NEWS


a runaway, and painfully injured.
The store of ]. p. Hanson of Eph-
rain was burglarized one night last
week, considerable merchandise being
carried away.
Frank q. Ehrbar, structural iron
worker fell from building on which
he was working in Salt Lake City and
was killed, his neck being broken.
George Rasmussen attempted sui
eide in Salt Lake City, slashing his
throat with butcher knife. He is
in the hospital and will probably re-
cover
Mrs. Jane Gardner Bradford, 73
years old, who came to Utah in the
second company of pioneers, died at
her home In Salt Lake City last Sat.
urday.
John ID. Douglass of Weber county,
serving o twenty-fve-year sentence
for murder, applied for his liberty on
parole, but the board last week de-
clined TO honor his request
w. ii. Parent, believed to be one
of the five men WHO swindled the Nc
Whirter brothers out OF $4,000 In
Salt Lake City, has been brought back
to Zion from Denver for trial.
Mrs. Mary O'Brien, wife of w. s.
O'Brien, manager of the Postal Tele-
graph office in Ogden, was stricken
with apoplexy while seated at the din
ner table and died two hours later.
Gambling in Park City must cease,
according to orders issued by the local
officers Gambling in Park City has
been almost part OF the town, as
never since the foundation of the town
has 1t been without games of some
sort
The Utah Credit Mems association
will endeavor TO secure the 1908 CON
vention of the National Credit Mems
association for Salt Lake City. The
next annual meeting OF the national
association win be held in Chicago in
June.
As result of rock slide near Nor.
gan, ON the main line OF the Union
Pacific. about twenty miles east OF
Ogden, Engineer L. Krauss of Ogden
Is dead, and Fireman S. E. Hinley OF
Evanston, Wyo., and mail clerk we're
painfully injured.
q. ID. II. Thompson, receiver of tho
Salt Lake land office, will be appointed
Hobbs. while Colonel M M. Kaighn,
prominent Salt Lake lawyer and a
Union soldier in the Civil war, will be
appointed receiver
The Salt Lake teachers association
figures that the average wages paid
the teachers OF Zion is s5S5 per year,
while the expenses OF pedagogues will
average $633.S3 per year. They advo-
cate legislation which win give the
teachers at least living wages.
The proposed addition to the UIntah
forest reserve, comprising a large
strip OF land extending through a
number OF townships In that section.
has been withdrawn from entry
through the local land office by order
OF the secretary of the interior.
The board of pardons In session
last week continued the application of
Charles Botha for pardon until the
meeting Of the board In April. Botha
is now serving sentence of life i'm
prisonment for murder committed
some years ago In San Juan county.
Four boys of Lehi were the means OF
averting a serious wreck and probably
saving the lives of many of the PCS.
sengers on Salt Lake Route passen-
ger train. when they discovered n
Ing train, using q red bandana hand.
kerchief.
Henry Shelton, young man II
years Of age. whose home is in Beaver
Dam. Box Rider county. but who has
been attending college at Logan, has
been arrested on charge OF forgery.
II be g charged that he had attempt
ed to pass check for $40 which he
had forged.
q. u. Norman, a Union Pacific
freight brakeman, fell from his trnin
near DEVILS Gate and had his right
hand so badly crushed between the
wheels that 1t had to be amputated.
He was not missed until the train had
run distance of three miles. when
It was stopped.
The Oregon Short inc office at
Woods Cross was burglarized on the
10Th and some express parcels and
baggage were taken, the total value
being about S25. Tramps are thought
10 have turned the trick. There is
nothing to indicate the direction taken
by the thieves.
According to the Railway Age, the
Mofrat roPd has let contracts for road
construction from Kremmling to
Steamboat Springs. Grading has been
completed for about so per cent OF the
way. The contracts have been award.
ed to Dumphey & Nelson and Orman