The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31
UTAH STATE WIS

Logan ana hlcnmOnu produced lib,-
900 cases in the last year.
Forty young men of Ephraim last
week decided to Join the state militia
end will probably be mustered in dur.
ing the week,
Sixteen hunters from Chester In
dulged in a little rabbit shooting on
Christmas day, killing 1886 bunnies in
two hours shooting.
The Woodmen of the World OF Og-
den brought a carload of coal and dis
trbuted 1t among the deserving poor
of that city last week.
Ben Foreman, who escaped from
the Park City Jail on the night of De-
cember 12, while serving a sentence
for burglary, has been recaptured.
Glen Shafer, an Ogden boy, was
kicked in the face by horse last
week and badly injured, it being
feared at first he would not recover
Fifty complaints have been filed in
the justices courts in Salt Lake City
charging parents and guardians with
failure to send children of school age
TO school without lawful excuse.
The Agricultural college will ask
for an increased appropriation for
next year. 1t is figured that for the
next two years the college will need
$242,700 for general maintenance.
The report of the coal mine inspec
tor shows that eight miners lost their
lives and 124 others were injured in
the coal mines of Utah during the fis-
cal year ending November 80, 1908
Ephraim's new public school build
ing is nearing completion, and it is
expected that school will open there
the first of the year The building
when finished will cost over 100000
William Davis, who some months
ago stole horse belonging to his
employer, and later traded the ami
NAL to an Ogden liveryman, has been
sentenced to three years imprlson
ment.
Edward Peterson Of Murray, aged
IS was killed in snowslide at Sun
nyside, where he was working, being
carried down the mountain side by
the snow and thrown against tree,
his skull being crushed.
Col. Frank M. Sterrett, executive
director of the forty-third national en-
campment of the Grand Army of the
Republic, is in Salt Lake perfecting
plans for the holding of the encamp.
ment in the capital city next summer
Fred Scranton, aged "a, whose
home was in Salt Lake City. was re-
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expedition in Prue, cablegram hay
ing been received announcing his
death, but giving no particulars.
Governor-elect William Spry will be
inaugurated into office in the cham
bers of the house OF representatives
In Salt Lake City at noon on Monday.
January 4. The inaugural ball will be
held about the middle of January
For a reason that will never be
known, A. M. Peterson, 46 years old,
proprietor of restaurant in Salt
Lake City, while In the cellar OF his
eating house "Wednesday forenoon,
shot himself in the mouth with a re-
volver, dying two hours later.
Samuel l.. Barlow has been ap-
pointed chief of police of Salt Lake
City, succeeding Chief Pitt, who was
removed from Office by Mayor Brans-
ford because of difference of policy
in the conduct of the affairs of the
police department of the capital city,
After lying between life and death
for five days, Edgar Emms, 26 years
old, who was shot by his former EN-
ployer in Salt Lake City, is dead.
Emms was caught in the act of TAX
ing food from bakery to provide for
his starving family, and was shot
down.
Stephen II. Babcock we'll known
railroad man, formerly of the Rio
Grande Western railroad, has accept
ed a position as manager of the Salt
Lake Commercial Club Traffic bureau.
The bureau was organized to secure
more equitable rates for Utah ship
pers.
The total enrolment at the Utah
school for the Deaf and Blind for
1867 was 100, of whom 81 were deaf
and 10 blind Last year there were
10, and this year 1O6. Twenty.
seven were admitted during the last
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blind.
Mrs, Corinne Lawrence, colored
residing with her husband Richard
Lawrence, at Ogden. was found dead
in bed Saturday morning. The cir
cumstances surrounding the case are
said to be suspicious, and the man
has been placed in custody pending
en- inquest.
With the completion of the Hatch
town reservoir the coming spring, |
5000 acres of unclaimed arid lands |
in Garfield county will be thrown op'
en- to settlement The cost Of this
project, which has been under way
for almost eighteen months, is about
100000
The 287 prisoners In the state peni.
Il