The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-12
THE UTAH BUDGET

ham City VIII be hold thlS year on
September 18th.
The willard Power company is now
furnishing the power to operate the
Ogden street railway system
All reclamation work on the Straw
berry proposition is practically stop
ped, awaiting the appropriation.
All of the persons injured a; re-
suit of the stampede of horses during
a circus parade at Ogden are recover
ing.
Rafe Grange is at an Ogden hospital
in a critical condition as a result of
collldlng with street car while rid
ing bicycle.
II is believed that the work on the
Ogden High school building will be
completed in time for the opening of
school In September.
The valuation Of sheep assessed in
fourteen counties Of the state has been
ordered raised from 20 to 80 per cent
by the board of equalization.
Governor Spry has named twenty
three delegates to the twentieth ses-
sion of the Transmississippi congress
to be held at Denver August 16 to 81.
There are 21,017 boys and girls of
school age in Salt Lake City, accord
ing to the report of the school census
enumerators made to the clerk of the
board of education.
The four.months-old babe Of Mrs. w.
p. Broughton OF Salt Lake is dead, and
the charge Is made that impure milk
ia.
cause of the little ones death.
J. ID. Moore, Grand Army veteran
hailing from the south, was robbed of
$50 and his railway tickets within a
few hours after landing in Salt Lake
City to attend the encampment.
So long as the heavy freight traffic
on the Salt Lake division OF the
Southern Pacific railroad continues
there will probably be no more lay
offs in the Ogden shops of the road.
Miss Mae Barton, school teacher,
from Iron county. has brought suit
against Harry l.. Parker, superintend-
ent or the Apex mine at Bingham, for
100000 damages for alleged breach of
promise.
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of Utah, died at his home in Salt Lake
City on August 4. Mr. Hoffman was
an old soldier, and had been a resi-
dent of the capital city for nearly
forty years.
John c. Baker a business man Of
Ogden. Is lying at the point of death
AZ the result of an attempt to suicide,
firing four bullets into his left breast.
Financial troubles led to the attempt
at self-destruction.
Judge Ritchie of the Third district
court has issued temporary restrain
ing order enjoining the striking
plumbers of Salt Lake City from in
terfering with the non-union workmen
employed by local firms.
The State Fair Association has let
n contract for an $4,000 poultry build
ing. exclusive of equipment To
equip the building and set the egg
makers up in housekeeping in proper
style will cost $1,000 more.
George Rose and William Stackman
had narrow escape from being en-
tombed alive in gravel pit cave-in
in North Ogden. They were buried
under several feet of earth, but were
rescued by fellow worlimen.
There is a typhoid epidemic among
the settlers on the desert near Cisco,
supposedly caused by contaminated
water which at this point is shipped
in barrels. Four deaths have occur
red during the past two weeks
1t is expected that Utah's irrigation
projects will be well represented at
the great United States Land and Ir-
rigation exposition to be held at the
Coliseum, in Chicago, from November
20 to December A OF this year.
The Weber club, the commercial
organization of Ogden, has filed
petition with the interstate com
merce commission, charging discrimi-
nation in passenger rates. They want
excursion rates for the Inter-mountain
fair equal to the conference rates.
While riding through the railroad
yards ON the rear footboard of a
Denver K Rio Grande cog-wheel en-
gine, at Bingham, Theodore Sealas, a
Greek track repairer in the employ OF
the company, l9 years of age, lost his
footing and the engine, which was
backing up, struck him down and ran
over him. killing him instantly.
The days of the coal-burning en-.
gines on the Sparks division of the
Southern Pacific railroad company
are numbered Following an investi-
CATION into the feasibility of the plan
to use oil burners on this stretch of
the Southern Pacific line by officials
detailed for that purpose ii has been
decided to adopt the oil burners ex
clusively.
Stephen Tyne, stonecutter, 5S
wears of age. was struck by q falling