The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-10-21
THE UTAH BUDGET

streets in Murray.
The four-mlle tunnel OF the Straw
berry Valley project in Utah has oeen
excavated 4,3S3 feet, the rate of prog
ress for September being $40 feet.
James Gibson. doorkeeper at the
Salt Lake theatre for the past TWEEN
ty-fve years, was run down by an
automobile driven by young woman
and dangerously injured
Charles Mcfarland. well known and
prosperous farmer living at West We
Der, dropped dead while at work In
field near his home Death resulted
from strope OF apoplexy.
The Commercial club of Salt Lake
City Is considering the advtsability of
raising the entrance fee from $50 to
800 for resident members and from
S25 to $50 for non-resldents.
Nick Haworth, who is serving a
life sentence for the murder OF
Thomas Sandal at Layton, Davis
county, October 8, 1908. Is again en-.
deavoring to secure pardon.
Charles Stewart, who killed Charles
Wheeler at Cotton, on July TO- has en-
tered plea of guilty to voluntary
manslaughter. The two men were
sheep herders and engaged in fight
while intoxicated.
Backed by number of the ladies'
clubs OF Ogden. a petition Is being
circulated In which the signers pro-
test against the exhibition of objec-
tjonable moving pictures in local
amusement houses,
A circular letter sent to all the
sheepmen ranging their herds on the
Mnnti reserve, foreshadows decrease
of 20 per cent in the number of sheep
TO be allowed on the reserve next year
for all who have the potective limit.
kidnapping soldiers after he had
drugged them and then holding them
until they were classed as ceserters
and collecting reward for their re-
turn TO Fort Douglas, is the charge
placed against George Renlger,
dope fiend." arrested in Salt Lake
City.
William Crabill, aged 20 years and
employed at the Utah Copper mill at
Bingham as an ore classifier, met with
tragic death by being wound around
the shaft at the mill. His clothing
became entangled in the machinery,
and before help could reach him he
was hurled to his death.
Lying face downward, the dead body
OF Otto Johanson, 60 years OF age, OF
Salt Lake City, who disappeared on
Wednesday, was found one and one
half miles up City Creek canyon Sum
day afternoon. Death was due to
heart disease from which he had been
q sufferer for some time.
A daring attempt by Otto Bassett,
held on charge of highway robbery,
to escape from the Weber jail, by
saving away the bars of cell, was
nipped in the bud by Sherin
Wilson and several OF his deputies.
Two bars had been sawed away when
his attempt was frustrated.
Warren Foster Of Salt Lake City,
newspaper man and at one time
candidate for congress on the Social
list ticket, died while visiting
brother in Ogden on October 16,
death being due to tumor w the
stomach from which he had suf-
fered for year or more.
In a drunken brawl In a saloon
in Ogden. patronized by negroes,
Alexander Waters seriously stabbed
n. j. Labortus. Both men, who are
negroes, had been drinking and an al
tercation took place, which led to
blows. Walters drew his knife and
stabbed Labortus several times.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the entertainment of the
pioneers and other visitors who are
expected to be present at the six
tieth anniversary of the settlement
OF Manti, one of the oldest cities in
the state of Utah. The celebration
VIII be on November 22 and 30.
But for the prompt assistance of
two of his fellow-workmen, Jerry
Wright, a lineman in the employ of
the Utah Light & Railway company in
Ogden, would have been electrocuted
by hsavy charged wire. The two
workme, released him from the wire
In time 70 prevent his being roasted.
An il hhgation project, which In
wolves the dlVerung OF stream Oh
water IL Ulntah county from its ma
tural suAterranean channel into a
fiume which will carry 1t over fertile
lands, has been launched by four well
known residents of Vernal. A tunnel
$4,000 feee long and fiume t,04S feet
long will have to be constructed.
After denying himself almost the
necessities of life, living far from kin
dred in the cheapest sort OF room
for the paSt six months, Legrand r.
Anderson OF Lawton, Mich, rs years
of age, died at Ogden. Amer his
death there was found on his person
$4,000 in checks, $40 in monsy and
notes aggregsting a small fortune,
Steel is down on the Utah Southern
railroad as far as the mouth of Miller