The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-09-17
UTAH STATE NEWS

lnt CdIHlNNl 10 Dt uelu III fodll Lake
City on September %.
The Ogden team OF the Utah state
league has been awarded the pennant
for the season of 1908.
There viii probably be coal fam
Inc in Ogden soon, unless the strike
now on in the coal fields of Wyoming
ia settled
Sam Samuels OF Fountain Green, %
years of age, was killed by lightning
at a sheep camp in the vicinity OF
Clear Creek.
The town of Fillmore was visited
by a fire recently, the postofiice and
another building being destroyed,
causing los of $1,000.
4 Five miles south of Springville and
four miles northeast from Spanish
Fork, there is to be a new city built.
called "The Orchards"
The school board of Salt Lake City
is advertising for in the neighbor-
hood of G,5OO,0OO pounds of coal for
the city schools this winter.
This has been bountiful year in
and the recent abundant rains have
put the ranges in fine condition.
Two Salt Lake amateur bicycle rid
ers, Farley Giles and Al. Halstead,
have started to ride from Salt Lake
to New York City on their wheels.
Owing to the increase in the mem
bership of the Japanese Y. NJ. G. A.
of Ogden, 1t has become necessary to
move the quarters to a larger build
ing.
The Labor day parade was the best
ever seen In Ogden, and thousands
ingmen filed by carrying the insignia
of their craft.
Superintendent George Austin of
the Utah-Idaho Sugar company has
issued instructions to more than 300
farmers of the Lehi district to start
the beet harvest.
With the opening Of the Utah state
fair, still nearly month away, there
ere Indications that the display this
year will be the largest and most at.
tractive ever held.
General Manager Mohler of the
Union Pacific is authority for the
statement that It Is the intention of
the company to double-track the sys-
tenn from Ogden to Omaha.
Lizzie Zuccunter, 5-year-old Ital-
ian girl, died In Salt Lake hospital
rs the result OF burns received one
IAth
caught fire from bonfire.
AS the result of q quarrel over a
crap game. Henry Taylor slashed ST.
Las Wilson with knife, infiicting a
score OF wounds, none of which are
dangerous. Both men are negroes.
Three men. believed to have been
bent on robbery, set upon a man
named Bergen, near the postofice in
Ogden. and gave him severe beat
ing. after finding nothing of value in
his pockets.
The new telephone company has
completed its line between Cedar
City and Lund, on the Salt Lake &
Los Angeles railroad, and is now
branching out from Cednr City to
other interior points.
Filing Olson, q Salt Lake boy, fell
from train near Centerville one day
last week, while the train was run
ming at the rate of 80 miles an hour,
sustaining a broken collar bone and
bad facial cuts and bruises.
Mrs. Annie Littlefair fell under
meath street car in Salt Lake ON
Labor day, both legs being cut off,
death resulting the following day.
Mrs. Littlefair's father was killed in
Stockton in 1877 by being run over
by train.
Richard Hawkins, a colored man,
known about the dives of Salt Lake
ps Dick Hawkins" was shot in the
abdomen with a 3S-caliber revolver
and almost instantly killed by an
other colored man named David Lo-
gan, on the 10th.
A report furnished by Warden Ar
thur Pratt of the Utah state prison
shows the large extent TO which the
institution is self-supporting. and the
endeavor made by the officials to
lessen the expenses of the big prison
as much as possible.
Fred X. Myton is in Salt Lake hos.
pital and may lose his eyesight as
the result of an accident at Mercur.
He was working around the cyanide
tanks at the Consolidated Mercur mill
when some of the solution was
splashed into his eyes.
A combination mail and baggage
car was destroyed by fire at Fielding
siding on the Malad branch of the
Oregon Short Line one day last week.
The fire was caused by the exploding
of a lamp. No one was hurt, and
none of the other cars caught fire.
Jess Jenson. arrested in Salt Lake
on charge of stealing $3.50 from a
cash register in saloon, attempted
to hang himself in the city Jail, using