The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-09-24
UTAH STATE NEWS

Springville fruit growers have
shipped over twelve cars of Alberta
peaches SO far this season.
The Salt Lake & Ogden railway will
start work upon the Temporary passen.
ger and freight depot In Ogden within
a few days
William Moreton, aged 10, while
placing a cartridge In revolver, acci.
dentally discharged the weapon and
shot himself In the knee.
The total enrolment In the Park
City schools for the opening day was
e61 pupils. There are 10S pupils reg
istered in the high school.
All OF the contracts for furnishing
the material for the Richmond water
works system have been let, and con.
struction work will begin in the near
future.
George j. Ross, while driving in
buggy along the streets OF Salt Lake,
was run down by an automobile and
fatally injured. death resulting the
following day.
Joseph Davis. alias Joe Cunning
ham, a prisoner in the state peniten
tiary, died last week. Davis, who was
but boy, was sent up from Weber
county for robblng a clothing store in
Ogden.
Wyoming coal is no longer to be
had in the Salt Lake market, the cap
ital city now receiving its entire sup
ply from the Utah mines. The output
of the Utah coal mines is about 5000
tons day.
While Mrs Robert Lund of Harris
vile, with her two children, was driv-
ing into Ogden. a passing train fright
ened her horse, she being thrown from
the buggy and badly injured, the chill.
dren escaping without a scratch.
Ben Foreman, resident of Park
City, was arrested in Ogden last week
ing claimed that he had taken val
liable animal owned by the superin-
tendent of the Silver King mine.
Thomas Manix, well known young
man of Park City, was thrown from a
horse and received injuries that may
prove fatal. The attending physician,
found the skull fractured at the base.
and the young mans condition seri-
Gus.
Practically every labor union of any
size In this state was represented at
the convention of the Utah Federation
of Labor held in Ogden last week. The
next convention will be held in Salt
Lake City the second Tuesday in May.
1909
Sidney X. Hooper. son of the late
Captain W. ii. Hooper and a member
of the Caine & Hooper Insurance com.
pany of Salt Lake City. died Wednes-
day morning of last week, at the age
of oS years. Death was due to ty-
phoid fever.
Over 500 people visited Brigham
City on Peach day. September 10.
When the visitors had partaken of
their fill of the luscious fruit each was
presented with neatly packed box OF
the finer specimens. with the compli-
ments of the Boxelder Commercial
club.
Albert l.. Howe, a tiagman on the
Rio Grande Western, while leaning
from the platform of train was
struck on the head by one of the side
girders Of the bridge across the Provo
river and killed Howe was IL years
of age and had lived in Ogden for IS
years.
All the saloons on the former Uin-
tab reservation will be forced to close
after the last of this month At the
last meeting of the county commits
sioners of Uintah county they declined
TO grant further liquor licenses to sa-
loon men after the present licenses
expire.
Mrs. Frank Kiner of Salt Lake was
badly burned while preparing some
hot turpentine to put on the throat
of n sick child, the solution catching
on fire, and before she had time to
throw the burning fluid from her or
escape the flames. her nightrobe was
ablaze.
David Logan, the negro who shot
and killed Dick Hawkins, colored, in
a Salt Lake saloon, as the result of Il
quarrel, will be charged with murder
in the first degree. Logan claims that
Hawkins was after him with the In
tent to take his life and will plead
self defense.
Henry Goss, of Salt Lake City, had
narrow escape from lightning last
week. During an electrical storm a
bolt of lightning struck the side of
the house, within two feet of the head
of the bed, tearing a good sized hole
and scattering cement and plaster all
over the room.
The Amalgamated Sugar company
of Ogden is now running on full time,
and the sugar beet harvest is rapidly
being delivered, The sugar beets this
season are said to be OF the finest
variety, and something like 100000
pounds of beet sugar will be manufac
tured, 1t is said.
The news of the fatal shooting of
William Kerr at Denver has been re-
ceived In Ogden. The young man vas
engaged to be married to Miss Syl.
via Shurtliff, the 1S-yearold daughter