The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
UTAH STATE NEWS

ment
Judging from the results obtained
In the Fourth ward, the school popu-
lation of Ogden Is not as large as II
was one year ago.
Two trainloads of Utah National
Cuardsmen left Saturday for Camp
Emmett Crawford, Wyoming, to par
tcipate In the army maneuvers.
The little daughter of William Da-
Wis of Perry died suddenly one day
last week. as the result of eating some
tablets which she found In the house.
Charles Owen, a fifteen-year-old
Salt Lake boy, attempted to dive in
the shallow water at Saltair, and Is in
the hospital In precarious condition.
The city OF Salt Lake, by majority
of sol of It's taxpayers, last week
voted to bond themselves for 100000
to complete improvements already be-
gun.
The UtahIdaho Hospital, OF Logan,
has filed articles of incorporation in
the office OF the secretary of state.
The hospital is incorporated for $780,
600, In $40 shares.
In a runaway accident near Dewey
Vile the young son of John s. Bing-
ham was thrown from the wagon.
wheel passing over his head, nearly
severing his left ear
Jack Wilson. alias Jack Clark, boy
about is or 10 years of age, whose
home Ia supposed to be In Ogden, was
arrested at Thistle Junction last week
on charge of horse stealing.
While In swimming in Mill creek.
Salt Lake City, Harry w. Peterson,
aged IL, dived in shallow water, strik.
Ing his head against the bottom with
sufficient force to break his neck.
The Golfers of the state were en-.
riched last week by a fee of $22,O05
from the articles of incorporation
and agreement of the Denver & Rio
Grande Railroad company, which was
placed on file.
According to report submitted by
the sanitary inspector, health condi-
tiohs in Ogden are better than they
have been in years, there being but
two cases of measles on the list of
contagious diseases at the present
time.
Francisco Ciddeo, the Italian arrest
ed some time ago in Salt Lake City
on the charge OF numbering girl in
British Columbia, dynamiting the no.
tel in which she was sleeping, was
executed at Kamloops, B. c., on Fri
day.
Mrs. Matt Soban, an Austrian wom-
an, was shot at her home In Bing-
ham on Sunday evening, death result
ing a few minutes later. Joe Mauro-
vich Is accused of the crime, it being
claimed the tragedy was the result of
religious discussion.
According to advices received at To-
cal railroad headquarters, the fruit
crop in the territory adjacent to Og-
den will be larger this year than last
season. A year ago the shipments to
the north, east and west aggregated
more than 800 car loads.
George N. Sanders, an engineer on
the Salt Lake & Ogden railway, was
crushed to death under his engine in
collision between the last train on
Friday night from Lagoon and a dump
car that had broken loose from an
other train near Beck's hot springs.
Alton Brooks Parker, candidate for
president of the United States on the
Democratic ticket four years ago, and
and one of the most prominent figures
in national Democracy, was in Salt
Lake on Sunday on his way back to
New York from Yellowstone Park.
II appears that in the Pace murder
case at Woodland, in which fifteen
year-old boy shot and killed his faith
er, the boy will make the claim of
self defense. the father having start
ed for him with revolver, when the
lad picked up a shot gun and shot his
father.
Western Pacific railroad engineers
think that the east and west end of
the track of the new line will meet
and be connected near Beckwith pass,
which is at the summit of the Sierras.
This will take place some time next
summer, according to present expec-
tations.
|. o, Austin. an aeronaut, who has
been making ascensions from the Salt
Palace grounds in Salt Lake City,
landed in tree one day last week
while making a parachute jump and
fell to the ground distance of fifty
feet, being badly bruised but not seri-
ously hurt.
The business done in the United
States land Office in Salt Lake City
during the year 1907 amounted to
S152,446. Coal land entries, of which /
there were but twenty-five, amounted
to nearly two-thirds of this. So far as |
fees are concerned, homestead entries |
paid the least.
Activity in the state campaign is
lust commencing in Utah. The Repuo. !
leans have fixed the date of the /
state convention for September 10. /
and the place Salt Lake. The Demo
Gratis will hold their convention early /
n September, probably week earlier
han the Republicans.