The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-11
UTAH STATE NEWS

A ban has been placed on the slo
machines by the city officials of Muir
ray.
The town of Alpine is now Lighted
by electricity, the lights being frs
turned on February 2.
There is q famine in houses for rem
tai purposes in Green River. and a
least twenty families are looking FOL
homes to live in.
Dog poisoners are busy in Ogden
Over score of valuable animals have
been poisoned by some miscreant dur
ing the past week.
Work on Lehi's new waterworks
system Is to begin in the spring, the
bonds recently issued for that pur
pose having been disposed OF.
Approximately 800 Utah people left
Salt Lake City over the Salt Lake
Route, February 6, on the Elks fourth
annual excursion to Los Angeles.
BY the latter part of August. Muir.
ray will have an up-to-date. modern,
electric flour mill in operation. with
q capacity of 125 barrels per day.
An unknown man, evidently a for.
eigner, met death on street cross
ing in Salt Lake, being run down by
train, the body being horribly man
gled.
Harry G.. Wright, we'll known in rail
way circles in Utah, was killed al
Green River, Wyo., last week, being
caught between two cars and crushed
to death
The Ogden City Improvement
league has passed resolutions request
ing the city council to have clusters
of electric lights installed in the bust
ness section of the city.
1t is understood that seven new
steel bridges are to be built at once
by the Salt Lake route between Salt
Lake City and Los Angeles, the new
bridges to replace the present wooden
structures.
A committee of city councilmen ol
Brigham City has been appointed to
secure plans and estimates of cost,
for a suitable city hall, and to find Il
the necessary funds can be raised fol
this purpose.
The home of Irving l.. Pratt, prin
cipal of the Tucker schools, was
burned to- the ground on February 4
the loss being $2.5Oo. A defective fiue
Is supposed to have been the cause
for the conflagration.
When the farmers institute cars
sent out by the Agricultural college
reached SantaGuin, $50 men met the
cars and attended the lecture on "Hor.
ticulture and Dairying," displaying a
great interest in the discourse.
Jim Donaldson last week began his
ten-year sentence in the state prison
for his part in the robbery of the Nc.
Whirter brothers, the two Scotchmen
tpne in flim-flam game in Salt Lake
City
While running across the street,
Louis Strausberg, aged 72, of Salt
Lake City, slipped and fell in front of
a street car. his right leg being so
badly crushed that amputation was
necessary. Owing to his age the in.
Jury may result fatally.
A local telephone system is soon TO
be put into operation at Gunnison. II
will extend TO Centerfield Fayette,
Axtell and probably Mayfield. Sixty.
five phones have already been sub
scribed with probably ten more If the
line is run to Mayfield.
Joseph Lund, of Castledale, recent
ly lost a fine mich COW under pecu-
liar circumstances. An investigation
e,s,owed that half of q ia1ys nairpln
had in some way passed through the
usual blood channels TIL 1t reached
the heart, causing death
c. r. Savage, the pioneer photog-
rapher of Utah and of the west, hav-
ing established the first Photographic
establishment in the state of Utah.
died at his home in Salt Lake City on
February 3, at the age OF II. Mr.. Saw
age came to Utah in 1860.
Ogden is to have an athletic tourna-
ment late in March. Athletes from
the state school for the deaf and the
blind, from the state industrial school
and from the Ogden High school are
already listed, and other local insti-
tutions will also be represented.
The Utah Indian war veterans have
made application to Colonel f, NJ
Sterrett, executive director of the G..
A. R. encampment, for permission to
take part in the great parade of the
G. A. r. veterans when the veterans
meet in Salt Lake City next August.
Following up suggestions made by
Juvenile Judge Volney c. Gunnell the
police of Ogden will hereafter strictly
enforce the ordinance against fast rid
ing and driving. Already there has
been an unusual activity noticed in
the enforcement of the bicycle ordi
nance.