The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-10-15
UTAH STATE NE WS

week after a brief Illness.
Dave Taylor, a miner, while bath.
ing at the Sanitarium in Salt Lake
city, dropped dead from heart. dis.
case.
Hon. Fred j. Kiesel OF Ogden has
been selected as one of the board of
governors of the National Irrigation
congress.
Supplies for the forestry depot in
Ogden are arriving each day in car.
load lots. The headquarters will be
opened November 1.
All previous records for attend
nnce at the State fair was broken on
october Z, when 25,0O0 people
passed through the gates.
Voters of Utah will have six differ.
ent state tickets In the field this
year, viz: Republican, Democrat, So
cialist, Independence, Bryan-National
and Taft-Liberal.
George Hickenlooper, while en-
rloyed in putting up some decorations
at the State fair grounds, in Salt
Lake City, fell from a ladder and
was seriously injured.
While at play in front OF school
house in Ogden, Paul White, aged
8, was run over by a heavily loaded
wagon, sustaining internal injuries
which may prove serious
While at play in front of school
house in Ogden. Paul White, aged
z, was run over by heavily loaded
wagon, sustaining internal injuries
which may prove serious.
The record for marriage licenses
issued in one day was broken in Salt
Lake City on Wednesday of last
week, when thirty-one couples made
application for license to we'd
James F. Smith, an attorney Of
Salt Lake City, was thrown from a
wagon when the horses ran away,
falling underneath the wheels, sus-
tanning serious internal injuries.
Clifford Baddley of Willard was ac.
cidentally shot, but not seriously in
jured. while shooting ducks one day
last week. The doctor found Ave
shot in the back, one In his head and
two in his right leg.
No action has yet been taken by
the county commissioners of Weber
county regarding the franchise asked
for by the Ogden Rapid Transit COM
pany to extend its line through Og-
den canyon to Huntsville.
A day nursery for the accommoda
tlon of mothers who are unable to
employ competent help to care for
their children when they are COM
PEELED to be away from home. was
opened in Salt Lake City last week.
The epidemic of scarlet fever at
the state Industrial school, after be.
Ing almost exterminated, has again
broken out. and sixteen inmates OF
the institution are now confined to
the quarantine ward with the disease.
A mail pouch containing eight reg
lstered packages destined for the east
was stolen from truck at the Rio
Grande depot in Salt Lake. The
rjfled pouch was found later in box
EAR. 1t Is believed the robbery was
made by tramps.
AS the result OF delivery wagon
being struck by a street car in Salt
Lake City. Roy Stewart. six-year-
wagon, was thrown underneath the
car and one leg so badly crushed that
amputation was necessary.
Mrs. Oscar Anderson of Sacra-
mento, Cal, gave birth to child on
board a passenger train near Ogden
train at Ogden the mother and child
were taken to the hospital and placed
under the proper care OF physicians.
After reaching the unusual age of
SO years, Mrs. Mary Ann Stratton
West, one Of the earliest pioneers of
this state, died at her home in Og-
den on October 5. Mrs. West lived
with the family of Prophet Joseph
Smith at Nauvoo before coming to
Utah.
A. w. Davis. a conductor on the
Oregon Short Line, who lived In Og-
den, fell from his train near Brigham
City and was horribly mangled. No
OI6 NllHtSScu lHt dCClutHtt Dul II 10
supposed he was walking on top of
the cars when he fell beneath the
wheels.
Harry w. Griffith, clerk of the Utah
suprem court, among whose friends
there was considerable anxiety ow-
ing to his apparent disappearance,
has returned home. He was taken
sick while in California and neglect
ed 10 advise his friends of his where
abouts.
State Treasurer Christiansen's re-
port for the month of September,
shows the receipts of that office to
have been s71 O3O.96 and the disburse-
ments S57,036,54, leaving, with the
balance of S243, ,297,97 on hand Aug.
ust 81, a balance on hand September
80 OF $1S6.036.54
The J. p. O'Neil Construction
company of Ogden has been awarded
en- $4,000 contract by the Utah