The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-12-02
THE UTAH BUDGET

Lake team, had his leg broken.
A Commercial club han been organ
ICED at Moab, with fifty members, in
Guiding tho leading business men and
citizens of the town.
Utah sheep, it is said, will not suf-
! fer materially on account of the quar-
antine placed against animals from
this state by the authorities Of Ne
vada.
The segregation of the dining car,
hotel and eating house service of the
Union Pacific Southern Pacific and
Oregon Short Line railroads mas been
completed.
1t is likely that silver set, pur-
chased by small contributions from
the 100000 school children of the
state. will be presented to the new
battleship Utah.
Az the result of premature blast,
hyrum Hanion, employed on the di-
yerting dam of the Hatchtown irriga-
ton project, was killed, his body be-
ing terribly mangled.
A Salt Lake woman has sued rail
ToHu COlHpdHy lOI 9o,ooO udhutooo w
cause in boarding a train, which sud
denly started, she suffered sprained
ankle and the loss of two teeth.
Sixty-tour Utah oanks-many OF
them private and the rest state banks
show steady advance in business, ac-
cordng to the consolidated bank
statement compiled at the office of the
secretary of state.
Samuel Whitney Richards, who
came to Utah in 1858, died In Salt
Lake City last week. In addition to
his widow and children, ninety-four
grandchildren and thirty-eight great
grandchildren survive him.
Five thousand dollars worth of dia-
monds and pearls being sent by
Salt Lake jewelry firm to a patron by
a messenger were stolen by the mes
senger, who was captured, admitted
the theft, and Is now in jail.
Victor Turner, an 1S-year-old boy OF
Ogden. suicided in the presence of
his sweetheart, on whom he was call
ing, taking carlrolic acid. No reason
is known for the deed, except that
the youth had been feeling despond
emit
d. II. Roberts, who for thirteen
years has been the official reporter of
the district courts In the Fourth
Sixth and Seventh districts, has ten
dered his resignation, and in the 1u-
ture will make Salt Lake City his
home.
A. L. Williams, convicted in Salt
Lake City of impersonating q govern
ment license inspector and collecting
money from several lodging house
keepers, has been sentenced to one
years Imprisonment and to pay a fine
of $500.
Edward Binns Wilder is dead in
Salt Lake at the age of 95. He was
civil engineer OF note, having help
ed to survey the roadbed OF the Mich
igan Central railroad, and was one OF
he first to find oil in the Juab
country.
L. d. Stapleton, for the past six
months ticket seller on the Seeing
Salt Lake City" cars, has been arrest
ed on the charge of appropriating a
number Of money orders from sub
station and, filing them out, at
tempted to cash them for small
amounts.
Lon F, Morford, fireman, was killed,
and William Kohl engineer, was seri-
ously injured in headon collision be-
tween an engine running light and an
extra freight train on the Oregon
Short Line railway about two miles
east of Cache Junction, Cache county
November g.
Out of a herd of thirty-six cattle
kept at the state prison, twenty-five
mich cows were last week found tc
be afflicted with tuberculosis and
were killed by order of the state vet
erinarian. The barn in which they
weer kept is to be destroyed and new
stock purchased.
A movement to bring about uniform
pure food laws in Utah, Idaho ant
Wyoming was launched at mass
meeting of the pure food officials ant
the state chemists of the three states
and the representative manufacturers
of Utah at a meeting held in Sal
.
Lake City last week
Edward Mccoy, an alleged membe
of the famous Maybray gang of swind
! lers, has been arrested in SAT- Lake
, City upon warrant from Council
Bluffs, Iowa. charging him with fraud
ulent use of the mails in connection
with fake wrestling matches, foo
races and otner athletic events.
Although it was only ten days since
the completion of the Kanab waite
system, for which $4,000 was sub
scribed by just 100 publlc-spirlted cit
lens, many OF whom had to sell Gov
or some other property to pay the sub
srciption, these same citizens las
week decided to finance another pro
Iect.
. Frank Hanson, former postmaste
q NJ FILLMORE. Willard county has beer