The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-07-02
UTAH STATE NEWS

will be thrown open to settlement on
July %.
According to an order from tho
president the Bear River National
forest will in future be known as the
Cache National forest.
The state board of land commits.
sioners last week purchased 100000
worth of Beaver county school bonds,
bearing per cent interest and matur-
ing In 1928.
A. j. Pendleton, a pioneer resident
OF SAILS Lake, was kicked by horse
Inst week and fatally injured Mr..
Pendleton was 70 years of age, and
was blacksmith.
Several horses in the vicinity or
Brigham City have been killed by or.
der of the state board of health ow.
ing to the fact that they were af
filcted with glanders.
Along strip of land about eighteen
miles long, traversed by the Salt
Lake Route, between Nephi and Juab,
about one million bushels of wheat
will be grown this year.
Wallace, the son of John A. Ward.
met with serious accident at Will
lard, while loading hay. In some
way he fell from the load and his leg
was broken Just above the ankle.
Considerable discussion is being
given the subject of having the rail.
roads entering Salt Lake allow all pas
sengers travelling through the city the
privilege of q two or three days stop
pver.
Brooding over an indictment by the
federal grand jury for alleged coal
land frauds caused the suicide of Theo'
dore G.. Schultz, a well known young
insurance man and abstractor of Salt
Lake City.
For using the United States mails
for illegal purposes, Dr. e s. Payne,
a practicing physician of Salt Lake
City and man 20 years old, will serve
two years at hard labor in the gov.
ernment prison at Leavenworth, Kan.
Assurances received from schools
and colleges all over the state indi.
cate that the exhibition Of edu-
cational matters at the Utah state
fair, to be held in Salt Lake City
October $40, will be much larger than
ever before.
Some of the business men OF Park
City are working hard to have the
Moffat railroad pass through that
town, as they are we'll aware that this
mining camp would be greatly helped,
as would number of other towns In
Summit county.
Alfred F. Heaton, the young man
charged with the murder of Mary
Stevens, OF Orderville, Kane county.
has been bound over to the district
court for trial, and will be confined
IN the state penitentiary until court
sonvenes, August 4.
u. Emerson Of Shoshone, Colo.
while walking along the track near
Beck's Hot springs. was struck by a
Lagoon train and killed. Emerson was
bound to the brick yards in search
of work, and evidently did not hear
the approaching train.
The board of land commissioners
lost week paid to the contractor S1.S00
for sinking a 600-foot experiment well
In Cedar valley. Water was struck in
the well at 1S0 feet, but none was en-
after that. The flow at 1S0
feet, however, is abundant.
While Christian Jensen of Dewey
was unhitching his horses from a
suiky plow the other day. a bolt OF
struck the outfit, killing two
horses instantly and knocking another
and Jensen down. Jensen was badly
bruised and hands and feet lacerated
Mary Lehan. full-blooded Chero
kee Indian. who is an active exponen,
of the anti-race suicide proposition OF
President Roosevelt, called upon Gov
ernor Cutler last week. Mr.. Lehap
claims to be the mother of twenty
one children-six boys and fifteen
girls.
Through the efforts of the chamber
Of commerce, the Civic league and
members of the local fire insurance
board of Ogden. fire insurance rates
on dwelling houses have been reduced
affecting a saving of be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 yearly to
policy holders.
Mrs. II. l.. Cress. of Portland, Ore,
committed suicide in her room in an
Ogden hotel, because her husband
had deserted her, leaving a note re-
questing her to return to her parents.
The despondent woman took carbolic
acid and was dead before medical aid
could be summoned
Friends fear that William Fry, a
farmer who recently disappeared from
/ point near Denver, has met with !
'oul play in Salt Lake City. Since he |
eft his home to come to Salt Lake |
'ecently, they have heard nothing of |
lim, and are asking the Salt Lake po-
lice to locate him.
Suffering from incurable- stomad, |
.rouble, William Taylor. an early set
Ter OF Utah, "A years old, committed
suicide in Salt Lake City, sending
,ullet into his abdomen, death re-
iulting from internal hemorrhage. |
ra vlnr lIvad al0na his lifalaSs hod1y