The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-13
UTAH STATE NEWS
UTAH

NJ. p. Shontley, liquor dealer o
Parowan, was last week fined $3.50 fol
selling liquor to a minor.
At the present time 5000 tons o.
coal are being shipped out OF SEQ
field every twenty-four hours.
Mrs. Mabe Gustaveson of Salt Lake
City is in a critical condition as the
result of eating canned tomatoes.
AS the result OF the explosion Of @
gasoline stove, the home of Peter
Engstrom of Ogden was destroyed by
fire.
A banking institution backed by Og
den capital will begin business in Hy
rum. Utah, August 15, with capital
stock of $25,000.
The school census of Salt Lake
shows that there will he TIA more
children attending the public schools
this fall than last year,
George Field, who years ago was a
resident of Salt Lake City. was struck
by a street car at Green Bay, Wis, ON
July 30 and instantly killed.
0hui iNb ONphb % ~ Jois
Lake boy, is dead as the result of at
tempting to dive in the shallow water
at Saltair. He struck stone, break
ing his neck
Captain W. II. .Glore, for many
years at the head OF the fire depart
ment of Covington, KY. has been ap-
pointed chief of the Salt Lake City
fire department.
Utahns interested in irrigation are
raising q fund by popular subscrip-
tion to insure creditable exhibit
from Utah at the sixteenth national
irrigation congress.
AS the result of quarrel, Emma
Branch, a negress, shot Mary Garrett
also colored, at the home of the latter
III Salt Lake. The injured woman is
IN q critical condition.
Superintendent Christensen OF the
Salt Lake public schools has recon-
mended to the board of education that
bath rooms be installed In the school
buildings--one at each building.
Before the summer of 1909 opens,
1t is highly probable that the Ogden
Rapid Transit company will have ex-
tended its car line through the Ogden
canyon as far as the Oaks resort
Fifteen Of the Austrlans, Greeks and
Servians who participated in riot at
Garfield, In which several shots were
fred and number injured, but no one
killed, have been lodged in the county
Jail.
The state board of land commission
ers has made loan of $4,000 to Car
bon county for the purpose of build
ing a court house. The money will
be repaid when the taxes are collect
ed this fall.
Wilford H. Osgood OF the National
Biological bureau is just now in the
district In the vicinity of the Sewer
mountains, where he will study Utah
animal life for the benefit of the bio
logical bureau
An effort is being made to interest
the fruit growers of Weber county in
the advantages to be derived from a
membership in the Ogden Fruit Grow.
ers' association and to increase the
membership roll.
According to the supreme court the
word street" means q highway In a
town or city used by the public for
travel by means OF vehicles or on
foot, and embraces all the area be.
tween the lots on either side.
Christopher Anderson, formerly of
Snowville. committed suicide at Twin
Falls, Idaho. on August s, shooting
through the brain with rifle.
Anderson had been drinking heavily
and had threatened several times to
take his own life.
John Rollen, a young man who re-
Gently came to Utah from Arkansas,
was drowned while bathing in the
reservoir of the Utah Copper COM
pany's mill at Garfield. In diving it
is thought he fell so hard that he was
Harrell, the seven-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. William Young of Nam.
moth, secured possession of a giant
cap and proceeded to hit II with
rock, causing it to explode, with the
result that he Is minus the thumb and
two fingers of his left hand.
Gerald Maxfield, aged II, of Butler.
vile, was carrying a bottle of car
bolic acid in his hip pocket when the
bottle broke, as he was STOPPING over,
and he was so badly burned about the
side and limbs that death resulted af-
ter a few hours of horrible suffering.
Monday, August 3, was the biggest
DAY in the history of the state board
Of land commissioners, so far as the |
virtual sale of lands was concerned |
During the day applications were
made for the purchase OF aproximate-
y 100000 acres of land at $3.50 an |
lere.
Salt Lake City's chain gang of about
.wenty members is constructing an
excellent boulevard for automobiles
md carriages upon the county road |
between Whites hill, at the Salt Lake
md Davis county line, and St Marks |
hospital, distance of about four
niles.
Members of the Utah State Wool
iroWers' association and the sheen