The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-06-03
UTAH STATE NEWS

The graduates of the Cache county
schools number this year POP, fifty
more than have ever graduated be-
fore in a single year
Smallpox is raging in the town OF
Fairvew, twelve cases being reported
in four families, and the whole town
has probably been exposed.
In attempting to alight from rap
idly moving street car in Salt Lake
injured. his face being badly
cut and his arms and legs bruised.
The Elks of Ogden have filed arti.
cles of incorporation, preparatory
to erecting a handsome club house for
the exclusive use of the members OF
that lodge.
In a stabbng affray which occurred
at Murray between Jim Ritter and
Mike Cricl1vitch laborers, the latter
sustained several severe cuts about
the neck and shoulders.
A monster Interstate Labor day
celebration is to be held at Ogden
next fall, and every following fall, ac-
cording to the plans OF the Ogden
Trades and Labor assembly.
II is probable that the Salt Lake
tabernacle choir will attend the irT1-
cation congress to be held at Seattle
and sing for the edification OF the
visiting delegates and the people of
Seattle.
While attempting to steal ride on
a gravel wagon In Salt Lake CITY,
Donald Nagely, aged 6, was caught
between the brake block and back
wheel of the wagon and his foot and
leg badly lacerated.
Clarence Ernst, the negro proprie.
tor of a pool room in Ogden, will
nave to stand trial for murder, for
the killing of Charles Staples, another
negro, three weeks ago, during a fight
between the two men.
There is a smallpox scare at Will
lard, one man having broken out with
the disease, and about a dozen 9th
ers having been exposed. Drastic
measures have been taken to prevent
a spread of the disease.
Utah county now has formal pos
session of the state central expert
ment station at Lehi. The farm con-
sists OF eighty acres, all under high
state of cultivation. there being from
fifteen to twenty acres OF fruit trees.
Springville is to have system of
waterworks In the near future, an op-
tion having been secured on the Burt
Springs for water works purposes,
and part of the money for installing
the system having already been
raised.
The county commissioners have
passed an ordinance increasing the
county saloon license in Salt Lake
county, outside Salt Lake City, from
$3.50 to $1,000 year. beginning July
!. Thirty.six places of business are
affected.
Ogden business men claim that the
effort to obtain the removal of the
capitol from Salt Lake to Ogden is no
bluff, and as an evidence OF their
good faith propose to raise S250,000
for the erection of capitol building
In the Junction city.
Since the new law went into effect,
reducing the poll tax from So to 81,
Almost one hundred persons have paid
their tax In Salt Lake City at the So
rate. The department will be under
the necessity of refunding 81 to each
person who has thus overpaid.
C. w. Eddington, machinist. was
painfully injured in Salt Lake City
while initiating the tire of an automo'
bile. The tire exploded and part
of the rim struck him terrible blow
in the stomach. He is in the hospital,
with every indication of recovery.
The Miners Union home in Salt
Lake has been offered for use by the
visiting Grand Army men to the en-
campment to be held in Salt Lake
City this summer. The building con.
tains about 100 rooms, and will ac-
commodate large number OF the Wis
itors.
Governor Spry has issued a procla-
nation setting apart Monday, June
IA, the one hundred and thirtysecond
anniversary of the adoption of the
Stars ana stripes as the nag OF the
United States. as flag day, urging its
general observance throughout the
state.
The annual convention of the "Old
Folks of the state viii be held in
Salt Lake City on June 20 next. All
over 20 years of age from Brigham
City on the north TO Payson ana
Provo on the south viii be given free
transportation by the different rail
roads
1t is charged that the change in
handling the mails, which are now de
livered by way of Dragon into the
uintah reservation country, is work
ing great hardship on all the set
tiers in the reservation district, and
that the mail route should be changed
back to Price
The attorney general holds that the