The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-23
UTAH STATE NEWS
wv JENSEN. Publisher


Salt Lake City last week.
A state anti.saloon league is being
organized, prominent prohibitionists OF
Salt Lake being behind the movement.
Jim Savage was badly Injured at
Park City last week by encountering
a missed shot in the mine in which he
was working.
w. G.. Goodfellow, brakeman, was
seriously injured near Ogden, a ca
boose in which he was riding being
derailed, owing to a misplaced switch.
Juab county will uphold the name of
the banner arid farming county OF
the state by sending full delegation
20 the Dry Farming Congress in Salt
Lake.
The value of all the sheep In Utah
Is placed at $7,500,000 in the annual
report of the state board of sheep
commissioners, filed with the governor
last week.
A bill has passed the senate and
now goes to the house, providing for
a fish culture station in Utah. in
which is to be grown carp and other
food fish
Howard Coray, for many years sec
retary to Joseph Smith, and his close
friend till the time of his death, died
in Salt Lake City on January 16. at
the age of 81.
The lid is on at Eureka. Last
Sunday all the saloons were closed
from midnight Saturday until Mon
day morning, and gambling has been
practically stopped.
The Salt Lake Charity association
has established a free employment
bureau. The first day the bureau was
in operation, so applicants for posi-
tions had registered.
The Socialists of Salt Lake last
week presented petition to the city
council, asking that some provision
be made, IL possible, to provide work
for those persons now out of employ
ment.
The smallpox scare at Hooper,
which threw the residents into widest
excitement a few days ago has about
collapsed. Most of the cases thought to
be smallpox have proven to be chick.
enpox.
The state superintendent of pub
lie instruction last week apoortioned
the state school fund among the vari-
GUS cities and counties according to
their school population. The fund
amounts to s3O5,170.36.
Walter Simms, who has been arrest
ed in Salt Lake City, charged with
murder committed in Alabama, admits
killing his man, but insists the killing
was in self defense. Simms will be
taken back to Alabama for trial.
The right of stockholder In a cor
poration to make an inspection of the
corporate books at reasonable times is
an absolute and not a qualified right,
according to decision handed down
by the supreme court last week.
Products representing four years
development of Utah's dry farms at
the six experimental stations author
lied by the state government were
on exhibit in Salt Lake during the
session of the Dry Farming congress.
Governor Cutler has been asked by
the war department to nominate one
candidate from the Utah militia to en-
ter competitive examination, to be
held in July, 1908, for appointments
as second lieutenants In the regular
army.
Boys returning from rabbit hunt
created q panic in Santaquin by firing
fusillade in the center of the town,
soaring the women and children 90
badly that many hid underneath the
beds. Several arrests have been
made.
The 72-year-old son of Emelia Garff
of Lehi had the thumb and first finger
of his left hand blown off and his
right hand was badly Iacerated by an
explosion of three giant powder caps
with which he was playing Saturday
afternoon.
Mrs. Joe Conley, wife of Nevada
saloon man, whom she had deserted
for life of shame, was found dead
in her room in Salt Lake, death being
due to gas asphyxiation. 1t is sup
posed that the gas was accidentally
left turned on.
January 15 being the fifty-seventh
of the settlement of Paro-
wan, that town enjoyed a holiday. A
banquet was given in the opera house,
to which were invited all persons
more than 60 years of age. A dance
ended the celebration.
Perry Neal was severely burned at |
as the result of coming in
contact with electric wires. The only |
thing which saved his life is the fact |
of his standing on dry boards. and |
the force of the shock threw him |
away from the high tension line.
After having an anaesthetic admin |
istered to her by dentist who was
treating her teeth, Mrs, Frank Earl, |
Of Brigham City, was overcome by the |
powerful drug and died in few min
utes. She had recently recovered |