The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-06-04
UTAH STATE NEWS

Df Ogden, was struck by street car
ast week and seriously injured.
The state convention OF the Social
ist party was held in Salt Lake City
on last Saturday, when candidates for
state Offices were nominated.
The Newcastle Reclamation com.
pany last week filed articles of incor-
poration. The company will reclaim
by irrigation lands in Iron county.
Nephi Bowthorp, OF Holiday, was
found unconscious in the suburbs OF
Salt Lake one day last week, and died
the next day, death being due to apo
plexy
Frank Campbell who hired horse
and buggy from an Ogden liveryman,
and was later found in the act of sell
ing the outfit, Will face charge OF
horse stealing.
George Tremayne, a mechanic, was
found dead in his bed in Salt Lake
City, death being due to alcoholism of
the heart, Tremayne having been
heavy drlnker
A fight for fewer saloons and better
regulation OF those that continue in
business is on in Davis county, the
antl-saloon movement having its in.
ception in Kaysville.
Alonzo Watson, Salt Lake boy.
while riding his bicycle alongside a
street car, holding to- the car slipped
and fell, his hand being thrown
across the rail and cut Off.
The state board of land commissions
ers has completed its purchase of
land on which to locate the proposed
Piute reservoir, near Marysvale, at 9
cost of between 100000 and $4,000.
Four cases of smallpox have devel-
oped in Ogden within the past two
weeks, but 1t Is believed rigid en-
forcement of the quarantine law will
prevent a further spread Of the dis
ease.
The state organizer of the National
Humane society is endeavoring to en-
list the efforts of the school children
throughout the state in warfare
against the mistreatment of dumb
animals
II Is estimated that there will be
5000 uniformed men and 100 floats in
line in the parade to be held in Salt
Lake City during tho convention OF
the Commercial Travellers. June Is.
10 and 90.
Leonard Boutwell,, who says he is a
son of the late Governor Boutwell, of
Massachusetts, has been arrested in
Salt Lake for attempting to get money
on check issued on q bank In which
he has no funds
The senate passed the bill granting
a perpetual basement and right of
way across the Fort Douglas military
reservation to the city of Salt Lake
for the purpose of laying conduit ana
water pipe lines.
The fruit growers OF Weber county
have organized an association which
will take care Of the fruit shipments
from that county, and in future 1t is
expected that fruit will be shipped in
train loads instead of carload lots.
Frank Gilbert. 10-year-old Salt
Lake boy, was accidentally shot and
injured by playmate
who pointed target gun ut him,
thinking 1t was not loaded The bull
let struck the Gilbert boy in the neck
Not only in Utah, but in southern
Idaho and western Wyoming the wool
growers are joining in the movement
started In Salt Lake for the storing
r,f Tho vaar,c cIi,. until fba r,raeart
low prices are broken and better
prices offered.
Benjamin Hopkins of Henefer, en-
ployed as foreman of a repair gang
at the Devils Slide plant of the Union
Portland Cement company, near Og-
cen. was instantly killed by falling
from an elevator distance of fifty
feet to the ground
One immediate result of the meet
ing of the good roads advocates in
Salt Lake was the appropriation last
week by the Salt Lake city council
of sum of money to assist In the i'm
proyement of the road leading out OF
that city to Ogden.
The fifteenth annual convention OF
the Commercial Travellers will be held
in Salt Lake City June IS. 10 and 90
Rates have been granted by all the
and it is expected the great
est crowd of me year will be in Salt
Lake on those dates.
L, U. Goliath, one of the most
widely known mining men in the
country, died at his home in Salt Lake
On Tuesday of last week. He came
to Salt Lake in 1870, and had been
connected with the Ontario Mining
since 1872.
The movement recently taken by
the Utah woolgrowers to store this
years clip until the market becomes
more satisfactory to them is said to
be meeting with great success. The
total amount booked for storage is
said to be 100000 pounds.
A dead man was found on the
tracks near Echo, his pockets being
empty, nothing being found about his
person that would serve to identify