The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-04-08
UTAH STATE NEW s

considering the proposition OF lnstall'
ing city waterworks system.
Preliminary arrangements are be-
Ing made for the beginning Of work
on the Utah building at the Alaska.
Yukon-Pacific exposition to be held Mt
Seattle.
Park City Is to have a Commercial
club, this being practically decided at
banquet given to seventy-five busi-
ness men of the city one night last
week.
Wallace Peterson, aged a. attempt
ed to climb upon the car of trac.
tion engine at Levan. fell under the
car and two wheels passed over his
body, killing him instantly.
The juvenile court commission has
appointed Volney C. Gunnell Of og-
den, the incumbent, judge of the
Juvenile court of the second judicial
district at salary of 5000 year
In attempting to board the pilot of
q moving engine at Lakeside, Dan NJ.
F1aherty, a brakeman employed on
one of the work trains at the cutoff,
fell and sustained serious injuries.
The loss and damage to property
belonging to the Union Pacific com.
pany, as the result of the passenger
wreck near Castle Rock Is estimated
10 be $25,000.
While attempting to pass between
two cars at Willard, Clarence Stauffer
was painfully injured, the train start
L.. % l.; fnn laI
crushed thai amputation will be
necessary.
Garrett L. Conover, the oldest white
man in Utah, celebrated his ninety.
ninth anniversary Tuesday, March 30.
at his home in Salt Lake City, Mr..
Conover was born in New Jersey
March 80, 1910.
1t Is believed 1t will not be long
until the Moffat road enters Salt Lake
City. The road Is now completed and
trains are running 200 miles west OF
Denver, the western terminus being
Steamboat Springs.
Mrs. Cynthia Crosley, widow OF
Powell Crosley, pioneer telegraph line
constructor Of the west, is dead at
Seattle. Crosley built the first tele'
graph line from Salt Lake to Sacra,
mento, during the year 1861.
Joseph F. Smith, president of tho
Mormon church, and party OF eleven,
arrived In Salt Lake from their visit
TO the Sandwich islands on April l,
having enjoyed a pleasant trip and
having had many interesting expert.
ences.
AS the result of a careless work
man failing to nail down plank on
the viaduct being built at Ogden,
Claud T. Moyes, who was employed
as riveting inspector, fell from the
top Of the bridge, breaking both legs
just above the ankles.
While sitting In chair at her
home in Kanesville. Mrs. Isabella M.
Jones, widow of the late John I.
Jones, was suddenly stricken with
apoplexy and died in few minutes.
Mrs. Jones was eighty-seven years OF
age and one of the pioneers of the
state.
Samuel Bithell, better known to
the residents of Ophir as Dad" Is
dead at the age of seventy-two years,
He was born in Liverpool, England,
August 12, 1897 He came to Utah
in December, 1856, crossing the plains
as the driver of one of Squire Ten
nant's teams.
The eight-year-old son of Jesse Gle.
ments of Fairview, while playing In
planning mill, got too near the ma
chinery and his coat caught In the
cogwheels. Before the father could
stop the machinery the boy was so
badly mangled that he died few
minutes later.
Governor Spry has announced the
new state food and dairy bureau au-
thorized by the last legislature. The
governors appointments are George
A, Hone of Benjamin. merchant,
the Rev. ]. E. Carver of Ogden, and
John C. Sharp of Salt Lake City,
livestock man.
Mrs. Alice Davidson, widow re.
siding In Salt Lake, has fallen heir
TO $4,000, which is on deposit in the
Bank of England. 1t represents
portion Of a large English estate, and
1t was through the columns of news
paper that Mrs. Davidson learned OF
her good fortune.
Becoming temporarily insane, Celia
Hogan, a domestic, jumped from
window, at the residence of William
Dunn in Salt Lake. and dashed down
the street, tearing her hair and
screaming. The girl finally became SO
violent il was necessary to place her
in a padded cell,
John Il. Dooley, owner of the buf.
falo farm on Antelope island, last
week shipped two fine bulls from the
herd to the Conrad estate at Kalis-
pell, Mont, in return for two animals
from that place. The purpose OF the
exchange was the general improve
ment of the stock.
Ogden citizens are appealing to The
governor to pardon or parole John d.