The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-17
UTAH STATE NEWS

other day while trying to stop a run
away horse.
Mrs. John Dunsmore who had liv.
flye years. died last week from a
complication of diseases.
While coasting at Murray, Clement
Sanders, an eight-yearold boy, ran
into post on the side of the road
and sustained broken leg.
With an increased population, Salt
Lakes death rate for November Of
this year was lower than for the
corresponding month last year.
Sixty-fve complaints have been is
sued against parents and guardians
in Salt Lake City who have failed to
send children in their care to school
A number of the citizens of Salt
Lake have signified their intention
Of waging a vigorous battle against
the proposed increase in the water
rates.
AS soon as the weather will per,
NIT, the Oregon Short Line WILL IL
Is said, commence the work of dou
Lake and Ogden.
Will Bickerson broke his right arm
Mt Murray by falling upon a slippery
sidewalk. His right hand was also
badly cut by coming in contact with
the rough edges of the sidewalk.
The body of Johan Bottle was
found on his cabin floor the other day
near Annabela He had been en-
geded in the fish culture business
end lived in a cabin near the ponds.
Fred Halverson, young man en-
ployed in the Daly.West mine at
Park City, met with painful acci.
dent in the mine last week. when one
fan of rock.
1t Is announced that freight and
passenger traffic on the Western Pa
cifc will be opened up as far as
Wells, Nevada, during the week,
completing 205 miles of the line west
of Salt Lake City.
The Office of the Richfield Sun
was nearly destroyed last week by
fire. The fire originated in the base
ment among the paper stock, caused
by the careless laying of a cigarette
Gr pipe among the paper.
William Davis is In Jail at Ogden,
charged with horsestealing, it being
charged that while intoxicated he
stole a horse from his employer, Pc
Ter Geisler, of Five Points and trad
I'd 1t to an Ogden liveryman.
While sitting at his post of duty,
early Friday morning of last week
Porter McClannahan Jones, a limo
type operator on the Morning Exam
liner of Ogden. passed away from a
sudden attack of heart failure.
While going through some old pa
pers In his desk, the county clerk OF
Weber county discovered a check for
500 which had been lodged in cor
per of the desk for several years.
and had long since been given up as
lost.
Matt Pavalie was lowering a heavy
mortar board from one of the upper
stories of a new building In Salt Lake
City when the board slipped from the
rope and struck him squarely on the
head, crushing his skull and frac
turing his left arm.
After lying in an undertaking shop
for two weeks while the officers were
cndeavoring to locate his friends, the
body of man believed 10 be w. H.
Rose of Denver Colo. who had sui.
cided by taking carbolic acid was
buried in the potter's field.
Owing to the enormous increase in
sugar beet production In Weber and
adjoining counties the past season
cr two the directors of the Ogden
foctory have decided they must
either limit the production next year
CT increase the capacity of the fac
tory.
new trial has been asked for by
the defendants in the celebrated coal
case, in which 1t was charged that
the defendants, the Union Pacific
Coal company, the Union Pacific rail
road and others, had conspired to put
Salt Lake coal dealer out of bust
ness.
While a party of young people
were coasting in Park City. their
Jennie Wilson was kicked in the face
by the animal. receiving bad cut
over the eye. None of the others
We're injured, beyond a severe shak-
ing up.
David b. Davis, a former resident
of Salt Lake City, who had been con-
victed in connection with the bounty
frauds of a few years ago, fell from
freight train near Inlay. Nevada
about November 80, according to ad
vices just received, and was ground
10 death.
A Russian boy living in Salt Lake
City made plea to daily paper last
week to help him secure employ
ment, stating that he had learned
that he had fallen heir to a fortune
OF a million and half dollars, but
in the meantime had TO earn his