The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-04-09
UTAH STATE NEWS

All dStHL Vi lHe lnulun bureau VIII
be sent into southeastern Utah to
look into the trouble between the
Southern Utes and cattle men.
The people OF Willard are getting
interested In the fruit industry, about
twenty thousand Elberta peach trees
other fruit.
The receipts OF the Office OF the
secretary of state for tthe quarter
ending March 81 amounted to $780,
50150, as against $21, 1880 for the
same period In 1907.
The trustees OF the State Industrial
school have decided TO erect new
girls cottage one-half mile northeast
of the present building, on land
owned by the school.
The Citizens club of Park City has
expended $500 during the past thirty
days in aiding families who have been
suffering as result of the depres.
sion in labor circles.
l.. Il. Gilman, an accountant for
nlerly employed in Salt Lake City,
suicided in Tonopah, Nevada, on
April 2, taking morphine. No cause
10 assigned for the deed
The Newhouse betterment home
for boys, in Salt Lake City, has been
discontinued because the charity did
not produce the results hoped for at
the time of its establishment.
This has been the earliest spring
Sanpete county has experienced for
several years. and If the present good
weather continues the farmers will
BOON be through with their spring
work.
Within the next few weeks 5000
employees will be added to the con
struction crews of the Western Pa
cific. If possible this army of work
men will be recruited from Utah la
borers.
Dune McCandlass, who Is charged
with killing Nose Jones at American
Fork by hitting him over the head
with q bottle of beer, has been re-
leased from the county Jail on a bond
OF $4,000
Engineer Thomas Lee was fatally
injured and Fireman Walter ]. Cat
ron sustained fracture of his collar
bone, when both main rods OF their
engine broke near Layton, demolish-
ing the cab
Thomas Vance will be placed on
trial in Salt Lake City ON April 20
for the murder of his wife. 1t Is
claimed that Mrs. Vance died from
the results OF a beating given her by
her husband,
Mrs Mary Ann Mcbride committed
suicide in Ogden. hanging herself in
her room, Family troubles are al
legged to have been the cause, as she
had been separated from her husband
for some time.
James b. Young, a grocer residing
at Portland. Ore. claims the $500 re-
ward offered by Governor Cutler for
the arrest of JOS. Sullivan, convicted
of the murder of Policeman Ford in
Salt Lake City.
The question of Mount Pleasant
maintaining high school during the
coming year was submitted to the
voters and resident taxpayers last
week. and resulted In splendid vic
tory for the proposition.
Sol Geiger, Union Pacific car In
srector. had his leg cut off just
above the knee in the Union Pacific
yards at Ogden. He was under
car coupling the air hose when the
train moved and caught him beneath
the wheels.
Charles f. Hail. who attempted to
commit suicide by cutting his throat
with razor, while being pursued by
officers who had warrant for his
arrest ON charge of petit larceny, Is
recovering Hall cut his throat from
ear to ear, severing the wind-pipe.
A. l.. Parker, workman employed
at the Garfield smelter of the Utah
Copper company, was found dead in
two feet of water in sluice back of
the smelter Sunday morning. It Is
not known whether the man fell into
the sluiceway or committed suicide.
John McAllister formerly a resi-
dent of Salt Lake, was found dead
in hotel in Ogden, death being due
to apopleXy. McAllister had started
for the Utah hot springs to be treat
ed for rheumatism, and had stopped
in Ogden, where death overlook him.
At the conclusion of the prelimi-
nary examination, Mrs. Gertrude
Reeves (colored) of Salt Lake City,
was bound over to the district court
for trial on a charge of murder in
the first degree, it being charged that
she strangled to death her newborn
babe.
There is to be bitter opposition to
the consolidation of the school dis
tricts of Cache county, which was of.
fected by the county commissioners
recently. That was decided when
convention of anti-consolidationists
was held and a permanent organiza-
tion effected
Eben j. Gregory, who has posed as
n mining man in Salt Lake City,
has been arrested on the charge OF
sweating" gold coins, Gregory is
said to have made a regular business
of treating gold coins with acids, OBJ