The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-10
UTAH STATE NEWS

OF Ine SCllOOl DOdlu uSlu Ill odIJ lidhC
City last week.
The total number Of arrests for vio
jations of the fish and game laws in
the state during the past year was
2GS; the number of convictions, 220.
Reuel Greaves, while out hunting
ducks near Bphraim, sustained
deep cash in his cheek as the result
of the muzzle being blown off his shot
gun.
A couple of would-be bad men who
attempted to Shoot up" the town OF
Green River recently were hailed be
fore magistrate and fined $25 and
costs
George A. Boyd, a ranchman, liv-
ing near Plain City, was thrown from
his wagon when his team became
frightened at a passing train and seri
ously injured.
Thomas Vance, the Salt Lake man
under conviction for the murder of
his wife, has not been sentenced, and
probably will not hear his sentence
I'll some time next month
Despite the efforts of the health
officers the number of cases of
smallpox in Salt Lake City are on
the increase, there now being thirty
patients under quarantine.
C. Woodland the Willard man who
was injured by falling from a plat
form while working on the dam, is in
critical condition. Mr. Woodland
fell about twenty feet on to cement
floor.
There is enough wax in Utah to
supply the world, says Charles
Schwager of New York, wax expert.
Samples of Utah earth show that it
is the richest known in the production
Of wax.
The next annual exhibit OF the Utah
Poultry association will be held in
Salt Lake City on January %, when
1t is expected that the exhibit will be
the largest and best ever conducted
by the association.
Edward Boyle, a conductor on the
Union Pacific, who resides in Ogden,
slipped on the ice one day last week
and fell with his hand on the rail,
the wheels of the car passing over it,
amputation being necessary.
Already arrangements are being
made for the entertainment of visitors
to Salt Lake City during the ma
tional encampment Of the Grand
Army of the Republic, which will be
held in the capital city next year.
The state fish and game warden will
advocate the abolishment of duck and
other hunting clubs in Utah, before
the next legislature. The claim is
made that these clubs work a hard
ship to the sportsmen in general.
The body of the unknown man
found near Bountiful badly mangled
by a train on the Oregon Short Line
railroad, was buried after being held
three days for Identification, no clue
having been found to identify him.
A case will be brought before the
supreme court to decide whether or
rot cigar slot machines are gambling
devices, cigar dealer of Salt Lake
having been fined $5 for permitting
the use of Slot machine in his place
of business.
Considerable excitement has been
aroused in Springville by the receipt
of a postal card which threatens the
life of John Reynolds. who is a clerk
employed by II. T. Reynolds & Co,
and his brother, II. T. Reyonlds, who
is the head of the firm.
The state fish and game warden re-
ports that for the expired part of
1908, 23,0S5 hunting licenses were is
sued. which, with fines brought the
receipts of the department for the
year to $21 ,643,S6. The expenditures
amounted TO about 100000
James Kindred, about so years old,
whose home is thought to have been
in Davenport, Ia, committed suicide
in a lodging house In Salt Lake City
by taking two ounces of stryChnine,
washing the poison down his throat
by taking a drink of port wine.
Arrangements will shortly be per-
fected to send a committee of three
persons, acting under the directions
of the Civic Improvement league of
Salt Lake, to Des Moines, Iowa, to
make a thorough investigation of the
plan of city government at that place.
Grandma" Kofford.' one of Spring
Citys pioneers, met with serious
accident few days ago, which may
result in her death. Mrs. Kofford was
a survivor of Haun's Mill massacre,
where she saw the Indians shoot her
father and throw his body into
well.
Louis Arnold, aged &c years, died
from exhaustion, superinduced by hic-
coughs at his home In Salt Lake.
Prior to his death Mr. Arnold had
been in i'll health for about four
months Last August he was attack
ed with hiccoughs, which lasted eight
days.
The Ogden chamber OF commerce
has shown its determination to take
steps toward securing a reduction OF