The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-05-14
UTAH STATE NEWS

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able damage to- the fruit.
The next convention of the Utah
State Postmasters association will be
held In American Fork on June 18. ~
and 20.
The taxpayers of Santaquln, at a
mass meeting held last week, were
O unit against school consolidation
in that county.
The report of the health depart
ment of Salt Lake City shows 92
deaths and III births during the
month of April.
The property values in Ogden have
Increased over half a million dollars
during the past year, according to
the report of the assessor.
The people of Park City are making
q fight against the consolidation of
the schools OF that town with the
other districts of Summit county.
Felix Long fell from ladder at
Lehi and broke both his arms. He Is
a clerk in store and was taking
down some goods when the ladder
slipped,
In a mix.up in a saloon in Ogden,
Tom Cullen had one OF his ears
chewed from his head by one OF his
assailants. After the fight was over
the member was found lying en- the
floor.
The dry farmers in the vicinity OF
Nephi are rejoicing over the recent
rainstorm. Not In eleven years mad
there been such a dry spell as was
experienced prior to the rainstorm of
last week.
The windstorm which struck Mt.
Pleasant On the 4th did considerable
damage to trees and electric wires.
Broken branches of trees covered the
sjdwalks from one end of the town
to the other.
While she was kneeling in prayer
ir Salt Lake church young woman
OF the capital city was the victim of
sncreligious sneak thief, who got
away with her purse, containing a
email sum of money.
Ogden's chief OF police has ordered
n rigid enforcement of the new liquor
ordinance, barring women from the
wine rooms of the city, and has in
structed the policemen to arrest the
women as well as the saloon keepers
who break the law.
Senator Smoot has introduced an
amendment to the sundry civil bill to
make available during the coming
fiscal year $4,000 for the purchase OF
lands and sheep for the San Juan
Piute Indians. and si0,50O for the
support OF the Kaibab Indians.
June 23 has been set for straw
berry day for Provo. Each visitor
and every passenger on the trains
passing through the city will be
served with berries in beautiful
souvenir bowl bearing the inscription:
strawberry day. Provo, Utah, June
23. 1908.
ANTIQUE Foster. Frenchman, shot
and killed James Story. tallow man
ufacturer, who, presumably while
drunk, was attempting to break into
his general store in Salt Lake City.
The shooting occurred at night. Eos.
ter has been acquitted By an examin-
ing magistrate.
ID. j, Thurman, a Lehi attorney, is
exhibiting curiosity in the form of
a shrimp, which he claims came from
the bottom of his flowing well, 200
feet deep. Finding his lawn sprinkler
clogged, he took of the nozzle and
found the cause of the trouble to be
a live shrimp.
The Cactus Club at Newhouse has
200 members and since its organiza-
tion has built an opera house at
cost of $1,000 and a cafe at cost OF
$4,000. II has a reading room, billiard
hall and other conviences for lis mem
bers-showing wnat the members OF
q small club can do.
The people of Park City have de.
cided to celebrate the opening of the
Ontario drain tunnel, ON May
Is, the day celebration to
be recognized holiday through
cut the district. Three years labor and
half million dollars has been ex.
pended on the tunnel.
Word has been received in Ogden
Of the accidental death at Juraez,
Mexico, of Joseph II. James, former
resident of that city. While at work
at saw mill in the mountains near
Juraez large log slipped from the
chute and rolled over him and Mex
Ican, both being killed.
A movement has been stated by
he Ministerial association of Ogden
cooking to the organization OF Young
Noman's Christian association. an |
similar to the Y. NJ. c. |
A., to furnish homelike conveniences |
or young women who are thrown up |
IN their own resources.
The finding of the body of Joseph |
4. Stevens near American Fork clears |
lp the mystery of his disappearance !
ast December, since when a vigorous
earch has been made for him. There
vas a bullet in his body, which indi-
ates that while rabbit hunting he
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