The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-11-12
UTAH STATE NEWS

deavoring to raise sufficient funds to
establish a hospital in Salt Lake
City.
Salt Lake City is to have another
election, on December 2, when FIVE
members of the school board will be
selected.
Two hundred and eighty-one prls-
oners are now confined in the Utah
state prison, the high water mark in
the history of the institution.
With very good attendance and
lots of enthusiasm, the annual confer
ence of the Woman's Missionary union
~as held in Salt Lake City last week.
There will be no coal famine In
Utah this winter, In the opinion OF
State Coal Mine Inspector j. Il. Pet
tit. and there will be no serious short
age of cars.
Governor Cutler last week appoint
ed ten delegates to the eleventh an
nual session of the American Mining
congress, to be held at Pittsburg, Pa,
December 2, 3, 4 and 5.
One of the freak election bets in
after election by one man pulling
cart through the streets on which was
seated his successful opponent
A general walkout of $50 engineer
ing students at the University Of
Utah was barely averted last week
when one of the students was tenn
porarily suspended for giving fellow
Gfudpnt "a pra ttlitOuS hair cut.
While suffering from spell OF mel
ancholia, to which she was frequently
subject Mrs Bertha Wall, Fl years
of age, made an unsuccessful at
tempt to commit suicide at Ogden by
swallowing six large antiseptic tab
let's.
The use OF drinking cups has been
abolished in all of the Ogden schools.
instead upturned spigots have been
installed By which pupils may slake
their thirst, thereby preventing the
danger of sprsading INFECTIOUS dis
eases.
George NJ Peck, who had been SUI
perintending the tin roofing of build
ing In Salt Lake City, attempted to
reach the street by sliding down
rope, when the rope broke and he
fell distance of As feet, being
fatally injured.
That the people of Davis county are
thoroughly alive to the advantages of
good roads is apparent from the man
ner in which they are carrying out
the work OF improvement on the high
way through that county between Og.
den and Salt Lake City.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the immense mill and warehouse OF
the Inland Crystal Salt company at
Saltair beach on October 5, resulting
in loss of $125,O00 to buildings, ma
chinery and contents. The company
carried $500 insurance.
Great preparations are being made
by the Utah State Poultry association
for the poultry show to be held in
Salt Lake City, January % to 80. The
owners of fancy pigeons will unite
with the poultry men to make an es-
pecially fine showing in January.
James Horpole, who died recently
at Castleton, Grand county, was born
in Ohio, November /. 1901, and Lacked
but one day of reaching the age of lO7
years. He was one of the pioneers
and was widely known and beloved
by ranchers, farmers and miners.
Two fires, which broke out In the
business section of Ogden in the early
hours of Friday morning, November
6. kept the fire laddies from both sta
tions busy for several hours. and en-.
tailed an aggregate loss of $1,000,
most of which Is covered by insur-
ance.
The descendants of the late John
Taylor, president of the Mormon
church. held a family reunion at the
Granite stake tabernacle last week,
the occasion being the centenary OF
MIR. Taylor's birth. John Taylor was
the third president of the Mormon
church
Mrs. Emily Warford, whose husband
is engaged in tn ecement business in
Salt Lake and Ogden. was run down
by a passenger train at Philipsburg,
n. j., and killed Her S-year old son
escaped injury, having run ahead OF
his mother when the crossing was
reached.
Final organization of the Utah
branch of the American Mining con-
gress was perfected at meeting
held in Salt Lake City last week,
vixen officers for the Utah branch,
including president, three vice-presi-
dents, secretary and treasury, were
selected,
The supreme court has held valid
the so-called stamp tax which the
state, through legislative act of last
year. imposed on all corporations
other than charitable. religious, in
furance or irrigation companies,
where the incorporators are the sole
heneficiaries.
John Moulton Hawkins we'll known
in Salt Lake City, which had been his
home for many years, committed sui
eide at Mill Creek nv placing the muZ