The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-11-11
THE UTAH BUDGET

bear near ogden rev days ago.
The animal was n cinnamon, weighing
about 800 pounds
The first train travelling all the way
from San Francisco to Salt Lake over
the Western Pacific railroad arrived
In Salt Lake Wednesday,
James Beeston, who many years
ago was one of Queen Victoria S
guards at the Windsor palace, died
ut Ogden, Monday, at the age of 10.
A party of eastern and Utah men
are in the rel1 between Lund and St
George looking over the possible
route of a proposed railroad between
the two points
There are now four irrigating com.
panies in Beaver county which has
eleven and a quarter miles of canal.
These canals furnished water for
4,172 acres of land.
At mass meeting held in So
lake City, Sunday night resolutions
were adopted dcnouncing the Spanish
government for the execution of
Francisco Fegrer, on October IS.
Salt Lake City was visited by an.
other earthquake shock at an early
hour Sunday morning. The shock
was so pronounced that beds and
pictures we're shaken and dishes
ratified
A man who had registered as
Judge" Harper, fell down the stair
way In Salt Lake rooming house
and was killed. II is evident that the
man was intoxicated at the time of
the accident.
Beaver county is the largest county
in the state. with an area of 2,675
square miles an an acreage of 1,649,.
900 acres. 1t Is on the western bor-
der of the state, and the third county
north from the southern boundary
line.
Julia Mueller. aged s3. attempted
to end her life by throwing herself
in front OF a street car in Salt Lake
City, but was removed from the
tracks by an officer and locked up
until her relatives can be communi-
Gated with.
Emery w. Soule has begun an ac-
tion in the district court at Ogden
against Albert r. Weatherby and
others for $4,000 damages, which he
alleges he received by falling into an
excavation made by the defendant in
front of Weatherby's store.
Interesting services were held Sun
day afternoon in connection with the
Saying Of the cornerstone of the
Westminster Presbyterian church in
Salt Lake CITY. The ceremonies were
simple, consisting OF brief addresses,
Scripture reading, singing and
prayer.
That the Salt Lake az Los Angeles
Railway company intend electrifying
the line to Saltair during the summer
of 1910 was indicated few days ago
when officers of the company asked
the board of county commissioners for
. franchise over the present line for
an electric road.
Arrangements are being made for
the erection of a handsome new ho-
tel building at Green River, and ten
new cottages for the accommodation
of the people will be started this fall.
During another year 1t is proposed to
increase the number of these houses
to about thirty.
Ruby Eastman, the young Ogden
girl, through whom the Salt Lake po-
lice obtained information which led
TO the arrest Of John Wilson on four
charges of burglary and the recovery
of $4,000 worth of diamonds, jewelry.
furs and costly gowns. will be tried
on the charge of incorrigibility.
Samuel H. Cave, who opened the
first merchandise store at Terrace.
Utah, and who later moved to Ogden,
where he has been prominent In
civil and political affairs. is dead fol-
lowing an operation for an abdominal
ailment He was bailiff of the Sec
ond district court when he died.
Harry NJ. Layne of Salt Lake, an
electrician in the employ of the Utah
Copper company. at Bingham, was
Instantly killed Sunday evening at
Lark, about six miles from Bingham.
Layne lid been sent down to Lark
to move some dead" electric feed
wires, and in some manner got hold
oil live wire.
A movement is being started by
Lorenzo Hopla. prominent farmer of
Mapleton, Utah county, to interest
the public in general and legislators
in particular in the necessity OF com
pelling farmers TO eradicate from
their fields such crop-destroying
weeds as cockleburr, the burdock, the
white weed and wild oats.
Latest reports from Springville and
Pleasant View are that the small
pox epidemic is now well in hand.
DIR. Beatty of the state board of health
declared that the affliction has taught
the people of small towns and vii
lagos the value Of vaccination. Nearly
1000 people have been vaccinated re-
Gently in that section.