The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-07-16
UTAH STATE NEWS

pot at odiJ IHke Olty,
The eighteenth triennial conven
hon of the American Instructors OF
the Deaf, held in ogden. closed It's
anal session on July 10.
The people of Ogden have voted ia
bond the city for $4,000 to erect a
new high school building on the site
sonated by Fred J. Kiesel.
A. Fineburg, the young man who
Etole diamonds valued at 1880 from q
Salt Lake firm, has been sentenced to
ten years in the state prison.
II is estimated that there were
1900 visitors in Brigham City on Sun,
day, the occasion of the annual outing
Of the Scandinavians of the state.
The Rev. p. A. Baker OF the Anti
saloon league of America, is conduct.
ing n series of mass meetings
throughout the state in behalf of pro.
hibition.
A. w Terry. who bit off the ear OF
an antagonist In a saloon brawl In
Ogden, has been bound over to the
district court for trial on the charge
Of mayhem.
William Carroll, one of Salt Lake
City's oldest architects, died in Salt
Lake last week, He had been one OF
the city's leading architects for over
twenty-five years.
Tho force at work on the Western
Pacific Is being increased daily. about
500 men being employed In the con.
ctr 30
Lake City and Elko. Nevada.
Their we're so deaths and 142 births
IN Salt Lake City during the month
OF June, according to the monthly re-
port of the board of health. OF the
total number 20 were non-residents.
Clifford Pinchot, chief of the forest
service, 10 expected to arrive In Salt
Lake City some time during the pres.
snt month. Mr.. Pinchot is making
a tour of the west inspecting the var
ious reserves
One of the leading features of the
entertainment Mt the State fair this
fall will be the fireworks, arrange
ments having been made last week
for the greatest pyrotechnic display
ever seen in the state.
The two-yearold son of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. M. French OF Green River se-
cured some fly poison one day recent
iy and took quite quantity before he
was discovered The little fellow was
quite sick but no serious results will
ensue.
AS the result of free-for.all fight
between different factions among the
Austrians employed at Garfield, Mike
Bovich was shot and fatally wounded,
and Sam Petrovich has bullet wound
IN his arm. Four men are in jail,
charged with rioting.
Some idea of the business enter
prise OF Utah business men may be
gained from the fact that within a
few weeks eleven carloads OF Utah
pickles will have been shipped to diff
ferent points In the intermountain
country and to the northwest
Becoming despondent over his unre-
Quilted love for a married woman,
coupled with natural depression
superinduced by protracted spree,
C"N'u WhSSiSif pioiiihcul young
man of Statewide. Weber county,
whote two letters to his friends and
then ended his life.
Mrs. Mary Grice, widow OF Samuel
Grice, British soldier in the Soudan,
when the heroic Gordon met his death
in the siege of Khartoum, and who
died In the Utah state prison while
serving twelve years for burglary,
will sail for England soon to claim a
portion of vast estate left her hus-
band by an uncle.
Peter Nielsen. laborer employed
on the street railway Of Salt Lake
City, was struck by a gravel train
one day last week and fatally injured.
His back was turned to the approach
ing car, and he failed to pay any at
tention to the signals of the motor
man.
BENJAMIN Carter pleaded guilty in
the district court at Junction to an
assault with intent to commit murder
against Lawrence Hamel. and was
sentenced to serve term of ten
years in the state penitentiary. The
,rouble occurred at Kimberly last
June.
For some considerable time the
Southern Pacific has been using
train containing water from the Great
Salt Lake on part of the line out OF
Ogden to kill weeds along the track.
The use of the salt water has proved
very efficient in the destruction of the
weeds
Arrangements are being perfected
by the old folks committee of Weber
stake for the annual outing Of the old
people. which will be held at Lagoon
July 81. Free transportation has been
offered to all of the old folks who
have passed tbe three-score year and
ten mark.
Myrtle Depsmore, a resident of the
RED light district of Salt Lake City.
attempted suicide for the sixth time
last week. but was unsuccessful. The
latest alleged attempt .at suicide. as