The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-03-05
THE SPANISH FORK PRESS
ANDREW JENSEN, Publisher
UTAH STATE NEWS


S. B. McGovern, a section hand,
was run over by train in the Ogden
yards and instantly killed
Farmers of Mapleton and Spring.
vile will form a 100000 corporation
and build cannery this season.
One of the free soup houses recently
opened in Salt Lake City has been
closed, as the demand for 1t had
ceased to exist.
An Ogden woman has sued the
owners of a gambling house in that
city for $500, which she claims her
husband lost while gambling.
The charity ball given at Park City
to provide a purse for miners out OF
employment, was financial success,
the receipts being close to $1,000.
Henry w. Naisbitt, known to the
older people of Utah as the pioneer
poet" died in Salt Lake City on the
26th at the age of 81. Mr.. Naisbitt
came to Utah in 1854.
BY majority of 9S votes the prop.
osition to issue $4,000 bonds for the
purpose of building new high school
building in Ogden was lost at spe-
cial election held last week.
The mayor of Ogden has ordered
all saloons to close at midnight, and,
while the order is being obeyed, the
saloon men declare they will test the
new ordinance, and are preparing for
a legal battle.
The Utah Fuel company's boarding
house at Sunnyside was destroyed by
fire recently, entailing loss of $10,-
600, and leaving the men without
place to eat or sleep. The cause of
the fire is unknown.
Lille Stahl, aged s, jumped from
moving wagon in Ogden and fell
under the wheel, which passed over
her face, crushing her jaw in two
places and almost tearing one of her
ears from her head.
President Judd and Secretary Tay-
ior of the state board of horticulture
are endeavoring to secure an exhibit
ton of Utah products at the National
Irrigation congress to be held in Al
buquerque next fall.
The Weber club of Ogden has Just
had an attractive booklet printed,
setting forth the advantages of Og-
den and Weber county for prospective
settlers, and will distribute the book.
lets all over the country.
Mrs. Emma Mason OF Los Angeles,
who recently married Thomas Mason,
formerly Salt Lake gambler, has
placed the officers on Mason's trail,
declaring that he has disappeared
with her purse containing $1,000.
Sending his brother for a doctor,
with the remark that he was going to
be very Ill. Rastus Nielsen. 16 years
old, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Soren
Nielsen, of Fountain Green, placed a
revolver In his mouth and blew out
his brains.
AT the old folks party in Mt. Pleas
ant last week, OF those present two
were 81 years old, four "a. two S3,
two 80, one 81, three 80, thirty-five
between 20 and 80. fifty-nine between
60 and 10. There were seventy-nine
widows present.
1t is believed that a large number
OF the contagious diseases, which
promise to become epidemic in the
city of Ogden, have been occasioned
by people dumping the carcasses of
hogs which had died from cholera in
the Weber river
Edward Mangel, young man, lost
his right arm in revolving wringer
In laundry In Salt Lake. In an un.
known manner he got his arm caught
IN the wringer. which revolves, with
terrific force, about 200 times min
ute, and the member was torn off in.
stantly.
Mat Zoran, an Austrian smelter la.
borer, was shot in the back and dan
gerously wounded in the Rio Grande
Western railroad yards at Bingham
Junction by Macy Cochran. a watch
man employed by the railroad COM
parv. who had caught Zoran in the
act of stealing coal.
Mrs. Mary Mcleod of Salt Lake |
was found dead in a bathroom in the |
Sanitarium, one day last week. The |
cause of death is not known, but it is |
believed she was stricken with heart |
failure while bathing. Her body was
found floating in the private pool |
which she had rented.
William Il. Baker, aged 73, a pio-
neer resident of Weber county, died
On the Gath, of general debility Mr..
Baker was the first settler of Hooper.
He was born in Hurley, England, and
came to Utah in 1862 His daughter
was the first white child to be born in
hat part of the country.
The report of the secretary of the
state board of dental examiners shows
hat during the past year fifteen ap-
'lications for licenses to practice in
he state were granted by the board.
Six prosecutions were instituted for
without a license, and five
We're secured.
A plot to blow up the Utah peni-
cntiary and effect the escape OF some
# the most desperate criminals in
he country has been frustrated
through the discovery of a mine in
he penitentiary grounds in which
vas stored phamipo1c nanaccarv 10