The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-02-20
UTAH STATE NEWS

question OF establishing cannery
which will can both fruits and vege-
tables.
Mrs. Kersta Mortensen, a pioneer
of Ephraim, and who came to Utah in
1866, is dead, old age being the cause
of death.
AS the result of an order of the
board OF education, all the pupils of
the Salt Lake schools are to have
their eyes tested
A swine plague has been reported
at Elsinore, Sewer county, and the
state board of health has taken the
matter under investigation.
The commissioner of Indian affairs
has decided to send special agent
to southern Utah to investigate the
alleged troubles between the Indians
and cattlemen.
Two hundred men employed as ma
chinists, blacksmiths, boilermakers,
helpers and assistants in the Rio
Grande shops in Salt Lake have been
laid off until March g
In line with the recent retrench-
ments made by the Hartman system,
the Office of assistant superintendent
for the Utah division out of Ogden has
been ordered abolished.
Wool growers of Sevier county
pose of which Is to advance the in
terests of the wool producing and
sheep growing industry.
Miss Florence Miller, young wo-
man about 19 years Of age, died sud
denly at Parowan last week, being
stricken in the night and death re-
sulting before morning.
Park City Is to have a charity ball
on the evening of February 81, in or
der to raise money for the benefit
IF those who are in temporary need
because of the mining conditions.
III. Il. Robson, Salt Lake insur-
ance man, has sued the street railway
company for $4,000 damages, charging
that he was permanently injured as
the result of being thrown from car
last December.
John r. Lynch, an old resident oil
the city, and one of the best-known
Masons In Utah, died at his home in
Salt Lake City last week, his death be.
ing due to fall on the ice, when his
hip was broken.
1t Is announced that employment
will be furnished to about five hundred
men on the Strawberry valley project
as soon as weather will permit Work
will be prosecuted on the tract dur
ing the summer and fall.
The student team from the Colora
do State University, supporting the
negative in the intercollegiate de.
bate at Salt Lake City, was awarded
the decision over the representatives
of the University of Utah.
The family of Ole Larsen OF Eph.
rain was poisoned from eating canned
beans. Serious results might have
followed had not medical aid been
close at hand. Mrs. Larsen has been
confined to her bed ever since.
Three hundred and fifty men and
200 teams are now working on the
big canal of the Irrigated Lands com.
pany near Price. The canal is to
be nine feet at the bottom, five feet
deep and nineteen feet at the top.
AS the result of school children pc.
titioning Governor Cutler to issue a
proclamation declaring Lincoln's
birthday holiday, the chief execu.
tive announces that he is in favor OF
that day being made a holiday in
Utah.
Sanpete county is threatened with
plague of field mice, or moles. that
promises, If not checked, to be more
disastrous to the farmers than the
grasshopper pest. In all parts of the
county the fields are overrun with
these mice.
Feeling that the prevalence OF con-
tagious diseases in Ogden is more
the state board of health has decided
to take mp the matter and endeavor
to ascertain just what is the cause of
so much eontagion.
horticultural Inspector Rasmussen
of Weber county is authority for the
statement that winter spraying OF
fruit trees With solution which he
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the only method to destroy the pest,
ferrous San Jose scale.
Organizations have been formed
Rll over Weber county by the fruit
growers for the purpose of fighting
and effectually eradiacting the San
Jose scale, which has wrought much
havoc with fruit trees in that county
for the past several seasons.
Attorney General Breeder has rem.
dered an opinion, in answer to query
from the county attorney of Sewer
county that "a man over II years of
age" may hunt and kill coyotes, lynx,
wild cats and rabbits without a Ii.
cense, and not be liable to punishment.
Mrs. Anna Doull, who died in Salt
Lake last week, came to Utah in
lS4S, and has lived in Utah ever since,
living in the same house, which she
help build. and in which wooden pegs
were used instead Of nails; as nails