The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-06-24
UTAH STATE NEWS

The union painters and paper hang.
ers OF Salt Lake City have gone on
strike objecting to the use of the EN-.
ployers' card of merit"
A nine-year-od son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Jones OF Wellsville was
drowned in what is known as the
big Creek" at that place Sunday.
Frank Mangum, manager of the
Oaks in Ogden canyon, was seriously
injured on Sunday as the result of
runaway, his skull being fractured
and his collar bone broken.
Robert Patterson, newspaper
carrier, collided with an automobile
while delivering papers from his
bicycle in Salt Lake City, his leg be.
Ing broken.
Mrs. Sarah Kershaw, aged 80 years,
one of the pioneer women OF Weber
county, died at her home In Ogden
on June II. She had been living in
Ogden since 1866.
Soren Sorensen, an aged and high
Iy respected citizen of Fountain
Green, is dead after an illness of
several months. Death was due to
rheumatism and heart trouble.
John c. Walters, Nevada mining
man, attempted suicide in Ogden, cut
ting his throat with razor. while in
toxicated. He did not succeed in sew.
ering the jugular vein, and will re.
cover.
The body of James Newton, so
years old, was found on the brink of
To-, GnIt \ nh los
week He had been gathering water
cress, and death was due TO heart
failure.
Coal is again selling in Salt. Lake
City at $5.75 per ton, delivered. the
summer storage rate having been
abandoned, the dealers reporting that
very few people had taken advantage
of the rate.
Lehi will have to hold another bond
election in order to make her last Is
sue OF water works bonds legal The
city council has accordingly called an
other election for July 27. The new
Issue will be for $4,000.
Several of the young men OF Eph-
rain have organized town band
Sixteen members are enrolled
supply of music has been ordered
and when 1t arrives the citizens II
Ephraim may expect public concerts.
Love for teacher of a Baptist mis-
sion school in Seattle so upset the
mind of w. s. Shing, Chinese stu
dent that he is declared to be insane
by Salt Lake physicians, and Will
probably be sent to the state mental
hospital.
The three-year-old child OF Grant
Moser was so severely bitten by
bulldog in Salt Lake last week that
the little ones life was In danger
for a time. 1t seems the dog at
tackled the child without the slight
est provocation.
Salt Lake county, including Salt
Lake City cast a total of 1886 votes
In the recent election on the state
capitol opposition, 3.l33 of which
were in favor of the capitol and 463
against It, The vote in the city was
2,525 in favor and 230 against it.
While walking along the track
near Boulder siding, Howard Beck
stead. aged 30, resident of Sandy,
was struck by a train, suffering a
compound fracture of both legs.
Beckstead failed to hear the whistle
OF the engine approaching behind
him.
AS the result of an automobile ac-
cident near Lehi, Mrs. Eugene Willie
was seriously injured, while Mr..
Willie, Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Hines and
Lillian Hines were painfully bruised.
N n "a
automobile went over an embank-
ment.
Representatives of about sixty of
the national, state and private banks
of Utah met in Salt Lake City last
week and formed the Utah Bankers
association, with the idea of promot,
Ing the general welfare and efficiency
OF the banks and banking interests
of the state
Arch Thomas, a resident OF Lehi,
was killed by train at that place on
June 10. Thomas body was found in
the early morning, the supposition
being that he was walking along
the track, fell and struck his head on
the rail. where he lay until the en-
gine struck his body,
In attempting to catch ride on
the rear end of concrete mixer at
tached to a wagon in Salt Lake City,
Theodore Matson May, years old,
was caught between the side of the
machine and one of the rear wheels
and was killed The heavy wheel
broke the childs neck.
Dan-Tso-Se, the 16-year-old Navajo
Indian who pleaded guilty to killing
four members OF his tribe in south
ern Utah, has been sentenced to ten
years Imprisonment at Fort Leaven.
worth The boy was practically their
slave, reyolted at their brutal treat
meut, and slew them.