The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-03-19
UTAH STATE WS


800 feet, and is making good progress.
The schools of West Weber have
been closed, owing to the develop
ment of number of cases of smallpox
in that vicinity.
The dry farmers of Cedar valley re-
port their wheat sown last fall as be-
ing up and looking promising, and
they expect good yield.
Jerry Shaw. negro jockey, was
shot and probably fatally wounded by
Buck Staten, another negro, during a
fight in a negro dive in Salt Lake City
The body of an unknown man was
found alongside the railroad track
north of Ogden on the 14th In hor-
ribly mutilated condition, as the re-
suit Of being struck by train.
There seems to be very little likeli-
hood of strike of the machinists,
boilermakers and car repairers in the
employ of the Rio Grande, as 1t is
believed that all differences may be
Rmicably adjusted.
Mrs. Dan Whitbeck dropped dead
while dancing at Ephraim. She had
Just made the remark to the gentle
man with whom she was dancing that
she had never felt better when she
fell backward and expired.
Lorenzo w. Cracroft, aged "a, en-
ployed as driver for meat market,
suicided in a barn at the rear of his
home. in Salt Lake, shooting himself
4 4,
spondent over financial troubles.
In drunken brawl at Lehi, David
McCandlass struck Moses Jones over
the head with beer bottle, fractur-
ing his skull. Jones' condition is con.
sidered serious, and McCandass is be-
ing held pending further develop
ments.
Joseph e. White. painter, fell
distance of sixty feet from a smoke
stack in Salt Lake City and escaped
with broken collar bone and dis
located hip. He landed in mud sew
eral inches deep, which broke the force
of the fall.
John Eilts, German who had been
On protracted spree, suicided in his
room in Salt Lake City by hanging,
tying one end of strap to horse
shoe above his door. the other end
around his neck. and strangling him
self to death.
Mace Cochran, the watchman who
shot Matt Zoran while the latter was
picking up coal in the railroad yards
at Bingham Junction, February %, the
wounds causing the death Of Zoran
later. has been charged with volun.
tary manslaughter.
The governor has announced the
reappointment of Drs. A. G. Wherry
and 8. III. Clawson as members of the
state board OF dental examiners. The
governor also reappointed Perley A.
Hill member OF the board Of ex.
aminers of BARRIERS.
The Salt Lake Commercial club win
raise $1,000 by popular subscription
with which to purchase an appropriate
souvenir for Admiral Robley d.
Evans, who was appointed to the
naval academy from Utah, when the
feet arrives at San Francisco.
A report issued by the weather bu-
reau says that the snowfall during
February was slightly below the aver
age of former years, but prospective
water supply will be ample the COM
ing season and the residents of Utah
need have no fear of water famine.
Peter Tsangas, Greek, 22 years
old, was struck and instantly killed
by passenger train near Salt Lake.
Tsangas was walking down the track
and when he heard the train coming
behind him, began running along in
front of the engine until 1t struck him.
At the recent meeting of the Dem
ocratic state central committee, June
was selected as the date for the
state convention for the election of
delegates to the national convention
at Denver, and Frank Nebeker of Lo-
gan was elected national committee
man.
The annual inspection of the Utah
National Guard will be held during
the third week in April, and Major
Willis 7. May of the Fifteenth United
States infantry, stationed at Fort
Douglas, has been detailed by the war
department to be the inspecting Of
flcer.
The constitutionality of the law
passed by the last legislature impos.
ing license tax on all corporations
doing business in the state in proper
tion to the amount of their capital
stock has been upheld. This means
a revenue to the state of 100000 a
year.
The owners of private fish ponds in
Utah may sell the fish from such
ponds to the public the year round,
and restaurants purchasing such fish
may dispose of them to their patrons
without taking out any special license,
is the decision of Attorney General
Breeder.
The United States land office has re-
ceived word that tract of land on the
Monticello national forest. just west
of the town of Monticello, will be