The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-08
UTAH STATE NEWS

Work on the new Rio Grande de.
pot in Salt Lake City is nov pro-
crossing rapidly.
August 26 has been set apart as
Utah day at the Alaska Yukon-pacific
exposition at Seattle The tabernacle
choir is expected to be present at that
time.
An Italian succeeded in passing a
Confederate 500 bill at Helper one
day last week, but the man VINO took
the bill soon noticed his mistake and
had the italian arrested
The secretary of state received In
fees for the quarter ending June 80,
the total of 29,OSS.94, which is three
times as much as the office receipts
OF the corresponding quarter last year.
From almost every agricultural dis
trict in Utah there comes call for
help in garnerng this years crop.
the general cry being that it is al
most impossible to secure farm la.
borers.
The people Of Sandy are discussing
the proposition of buying the water
works system, the control of which Is
owned by Salt Lake people. 1t is pro-
raise the money.
Three men caught shooting fish in
Silver lake have been fined 500 each,
while four boys who were arrested on
suspicion OF having been watchers for
the law-breakers were released for
lack OF evidence.
A man who's name is supposed to
be Riley, was picked up on the
streets of Salt Lake while suffering
from acute alcoholism and taken to
the police station where he died a
few hours later.
Morris Beckstead, a former resi-.
dent of South Jordan, was crushed
by & tram car in the gilsonite mine
at Dragon, last week, succumbing TO
his injuries after being taken TO the
hospital at Grand Junction
The business men of Ephraim are
advocating half holiday each week,
when all places of business will be
closed and employees given rest,
band concerts and ball games to be
provided for their amusement
The war against Salt Lakes stock.
ede seems to have resulted in vic.
tory for the west.siders, and the
buildings intended for use of women
OF the underworld are to be torn down
and hotel erected on the site.
Former United States Senator
Frank j. Cannon, who is now EN-
ployed as an editorial writer on a
Denver newspaper, was married in
Denver ON June 80 the bride being
Miss May Anderson Brown of Ogden.
Farley Giles. the holder of five
worlds bicycling records, died at his
home in Salt Lake City, June 2S, from
heart trouble caused. the doctor be
lieved, by the strain of his track
work. Giles was but % years of age
AS the result of fight between
two colored men in Salt Lake City
Harry Weaver had his nose slashed
half in two and his lip almost sew.
cred and came near dying from loss
OF blood, his assailant using a pock,
ef knife.
Wallace Johnson, aged 10, and his
brother Douglas, aged 8, were drowned
while bathing near Salt Lake in a
pool by the side of the Jordan river
The older boy was drowned while en-
deavoring to save the life Of his
brother.
The plumbers of Salt Lake City
have gone on strike, demanding
an increase In wages from $500 to
80 day. The employers declare the
wage asked is entirely too high and
will res st the demands of the men
to their utmost.
Jack Haywood and George Sprat-
Ing of Murray came near being killed
In Big Cottonwood canyon while driv-
ing, the horse becoming frightened
and crashing into boulder, the rig
being demolished, both men injured,
and the horse killed.
The Ogden sugar factory has com
pleted the work of transforming
100000 pounds OF molasses into
brown sugar, and has closed down for
the season. The brown sugar will
be refined into white sugar during
the regular beet season.
A grass fire in the hills back OF
Fort Douglas came near causing a
serious conflagration at the fort one
day last week, 200 soldiers being en-,
gagged in fighting the flames for sew.
eral hours before they succeeded in
getting the fire under control,
Selma Murphy, the eighteen.months.
old daughter of William Murphy, a
prominent merchant of Green River,
while playing beside the gravity canal
fell into the canal unnoticed and was
drowned. The mother rescued her
babes body half an hour later.
The resolution authorizing the
secretary of war TO loan to the citi-
zens' committee having the G. a. r.
encampment at Salt Lake in charge