The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-04-02
UTAH STATE NEWS


About 125,000 head of sheep viii b.
sheared at Cisco this season, and r.,
600 at Dewey. Cisco is the largos
wool exporting center in Utah.
Weber county is to have another
fruit canning concern, company
having been organized last week
which will install an $4,000 plant al
North Ogden.
The five-year-old son of Professor
Bradford of Ogden fell to the pave
ment while at play, sustaining a frac-
ture Of the skull. The little fellow is
in n serious condition.
Duane McCandlass, who killed
Moses Jones at Lehi on the 18th
inst, by hitting him on the head with
beer bottle, has been bound over to
the district court for trial.
Ernest Roth met death near Ogden
while stealing n ride on a train. In
some manner Roth fell underneath
the wheels and both of his legs were
cut off, death resulting few hours
later.
George b. Smith, the Ogden hotel
man convicted of robbing guest of
500, and then declaring that the
money was taken by hold-up. has
been sentenced to eight months in
the state prison.
Governor Cutler has been invited
to speak at the fourteenth annual
Lake Mohonk conference Of interna-
tional arbitration, to be held at the
Mountain house, Lake Mohonk, N.
Y, May 20, 81 and 90.
March &c was the fourteenth ami
versary of the birth of the Utah ma
tional guard. During that fourteen
years 1t has grown from an organiza.
ton of $50 men to an efficient and
well drilled military body.
Rather than face prosecution for
petty theft, Charles f. Hall, a car
penter OF Salt Lake City, cut his
throat from ear to ear when the Of
ficers came to arrest him, and Is now
in the hospital with little hope of re-
covery.
The jury in the case of Joe Sulli-
van, tried In Salt Lake City for the
murder of Policeman Ford on De.
cember IA, returned verdict Of
guilty of murder in the first degree,
with a recommendation of life i'm
prisonment.
At meeting of the board of edu-
cation of Ogden, 1t was proposed to
remove heating plants from the
school buildings and thus minimize
the danger from fire and give addi-
tional room. which can be advantage
ously utilized.
Samuel c. Wing, aged 61, promi-
nent real estate and insurance agent
of Salt Lake City. suicided ON March
26, blowing his brains out with
newly purchased revolver. He had
become Respondent because of con-
tinued i'll hoolth.
The Salt Lake Commercial club
has been asked by the striking en-
ployes of the Rio Grande shops to
use its good offices in an effort to
bring about a settlement of the diff
ferences between the railroad COM
pany and the men.
The regular spring inspection of
sheep at the different shearing cor
rails throughout the state will be
made by the bureau of animal indus
try during the next six weeks. Col. |
George S. Hicox is Immediately in
charge of this work.
Farmers and ranch proprietors who |
make and sell butter either to the |
public direct or to retailers need not |
stamp their name on the wrappers of |
the packages, according to an opinion
On this question handed down by At |
.orney General Breeden.
Recent reports from Huntsville, |
Weber county, show that this locality |
g in the throes of an epidemic OF |
measles Although precautions have
,een taken, the spread of the malady |
'emains unchecked and the number
,f cases reported is increasing daily. |
Eastern capitalists are in Salt Lake
the organization of mil
ion-dollar corporation to control The
zaolin deposits two miles west of |
Utah lake in fhe Cedar valley coun-
ry and to establish in Salt Lake
arge porcelain and enamel brick fac.
DRY.
Archie Burns, who killed James
Jensen at Mt. Pleasant during an al
creation, has been lodged in the
danti Jail for safe keeping. Burns
insists that the situation was one of
he man who could shoot first saving
lis own life, and that his action was
n self-defense.
Ella Bibbins. colored woman of
ogden. was last week declared in
ane, The negress is laboring under
he hallUcination, so popular among
lembers of her race, that she Is en-
owed with the power to throw
spelr or "hoodoo" over those who
lcur her displeasure
The commissioners of Weber coun.
= exceeded their authority when
hey recently appropriated to Sheriff
wilson of that county $500 to be
sed by the official as a contingent
Spense fund according to an opin.
IN handed down by Attorney Gen