The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-01-24
UTAH STATE NEWS

building of Salt Lake City, was thrown
open to the public on the 14th.
The thirty-sixth annual convocatIon
of the Grand Lodge f. and A. M. Of
Utah, was held in Salt Lake City
last week.
Clifford Burbridge, aged s, OF Salt
Lake City, is dead as the result Of be.
ing struck by SNOWFALL, the blow
causing brain fever
The Ogden teachers and pupils are
TO be hauled to school in cabs and
carriages while the street cars are
tied up by snowstorms.
Peter Romers, a Mexican, was found
by the railroad track near Riverside
with both feet badly frozen and was
taken to an Ogden hospital.
At Fay and Gold Springs the snow
is reported to be three to four feet
deep and much difficulty Is expert
enced in keeping open mail communi-
cation with those points.
The Brigham Young university, at
Provo, feels the need for additional
room for the extension of college
work. and movement is now under
way for $4,000 building.
Judge Willis Browns method of con-
Quoting the Salt Lake Juvenile court
was subjected to Severe denunciation
at the hands of the state supreme
court in a unanimous opinion handed
down last week.
Thomas -. Harris, 16 years old, who
rescued Ivy Blair from drowning
March 25, 1906, in Weber river, at the
risk of his own life. has been awarded
a gold medal by the Carnegie Hero
Fund commission.
Mrs. Zelpha Earll, widow of the
late Hawley II. EARL. was shot and in.
stantly killed at her home in Scofield,
by William Brown, a negro. Brown
then turned the weapon upon him.
self, killing himself.
There were APT mortgages recorded
by the county recorder of Utah county
In 1906. representing values to the
amount of $430,l927O. Two hundred
and eight mortgages were released,
representing s191 ,0102O.
A Salt Lake woman, Mrs. Ella Dug.
man, has announced her intention of
leading party of Eskimos into the
frozen north in search of the north
pole. Mrs. Ougman formerly conduct
ed a restaurant in Salt Lake.
The comb honey crop of Utah for
1906 was about 100000 pounds; ex'
tracted, 2.500.0OO pounds; wax, $4,000
pounds. The comb honey retails at
10 cents per pound, and extracted at
from to 8 1-3 cents per pound.
Ernest Howard, who is charged with
The murder of Frank Yoursq, an Ital
ian laborer. during an alteration at
crandall's camp, near Bingham, last
November, was held without bail to
The district court last week by Judge
: G. B. Diehl.
Representative of the Hartman in,
terests In Salt Lake City are now in
quest Of a centrally located site for
a depot and offices for the Utah Light
and Railway company. Such a build
ing will be necessary for the en.
larged system.
Hyrum Farrell, of Eden, was
caught in snowslide in Ogden can
yon, horse, sleigh and Farrell all goine
into the river The horse was killed
and the sleigh buried under tons o
snow. but Farrell miraculously es
capped uninjured.
Fifty-six years ago on the 18th oi
this month the pioneers entered Paro
wan valley. The company consisted
of 120 men and boys over 15 years
ol age. 80 women and Is children
Only three of that company are now
living at Parowan.
The third annual meeting of the
Utah state Horticulture association
held in Salt Lake last week. was wei
attended. nearly every county in the
state being represented, and most Of
the leading fruit growers and fruit
dealers being in attendance.
Sheep are now being trailed from
the reservation near Myton and Theo
dore to Heber City. from where they
will be shipped over the railroad tC
the desert for the winter, Hay 1!
being hauled TO feed the sheep on the
trail at cost of $50 a ton.
To organize league or association
in Salt Lake having for its object the
suppression of vice, more particular
ly that form of vice known as the
white slave traffic, is the mission oi
Miss Maria Lydia Winlkler, native
OF Germany, at present in the capita
city.
Dry farming on a very large scale