The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-04-29
UTAH STATE NEWS

built at Cache Junction by an Ogden
commission firm, at cost of $4,000
Eight-foot wide cement sidewalks
are being constructed at Green River
and there will be 10000 feet of these
walks.
The dry farming congress will be
held at Billings, Mont, October 26, q
and 2S, according to an announcement
made last week.
Joseph Heath, aged %, committed
suicide at his home In Ogden. drink
ing carbolic acid III health led to
the deed.
The new street lights have been in
stalled in Murray, and the "Smelter
City" is now one of the best lighted
towns in the state.
Michael Connors, aged so, sec
tion foreman. dropped dead from
heart disease while helping place a
handcar on the track in North Salt
Lake.
The twenty-five-year period of in
corporation of the Kaysville Farmers
Union store at Layton having expired,
the company reincorporated for ~
period of 100 years.
The Boosters club of Logan is of
fering prizes to children under 16
years of age for the best kept yard
in town; the first prize to be s25. the
second $15, and ten $3.50 prizes.
The anual show of the Cache Val
ley Horse association. which was held
in Richmond, April 90, was a most
successful affair Nearly 100000
worth of horseflesh was on exhibit
tion.
w. A. Lipsy OF Burrville, charged
with shooting at N l.. Sheffield, the
bullet missing Sheffield and wound.
ing his horse, has been placed under
bonds to appear before the district
court for trial.
The twelfth annual convention OF
the Master Plumbers association OF
Colorado, Wyoming. New Mexico and
Utah was held in Pueblo, Colo, last
week. Salt Lake City will get the
next convention.
Harry Harris and Thomas Delaney,
who pleaded guilty to burglarizng
Southern Pacific freight car in Og-
den several weeks ago. have been
sentenced to six and eight months i'm
prisonment, respectively
Six hundred and thirty-eight of
Salt Lakes school boys are employed
as newsboys on the several newspa-
pers in the city, according to report
compiled by the superintendent of
the city's public school system.
Brig Madsen, chief deputy fish and
game commissioner, has decided upon
n site for the proposed sub-flsh hatch
cry. on Panguitch lake, near Pan
guitch. Work on the new hatchery
will be started as soon as possible.
Nat Dewey of Montana was awarded
the decision over Joe Iefford in the
thirteenth round of what was to have
been twenty-round bout held
in Park City one night last week, the
referee deciding that Jefford had
fouled his opponent.
c. c. Slade, former superintendent
of the city delivery at the Salt Lake
City postoffice, indicted ON thirteen
counts for stealing currency from let
ters, has announced that he will plead
guilty and throw himself on the
mercy Of the court.
The matter of improving the parks
of the city and the completion of the
$4,000 electric fountain, now par
TALLY built in Lester park, on Twen-
ty-fifth street, are questions that are
demanding the attention OF the Og-
den park commissioners.
An unknown man, about 80 years of
age, who was sent to the Ogden jail
by the county physician, dropped
dead soon after arriving at the JAIL
The man complained of heart trouble.
from which he said he had been suf-
fering for several months
Mrs. Anna Knapp, one of the pio-
neer residents of Moroni, died April
81, after an illness of several months.
She had been suffering with rheuma-
tism since last fall She was born in
Denmark, over sixty %ears ago. and
came to Moroni as one of the early
settlers.
1t Is announced that Samuel New
house of Salt Lake is to become in
terested in a mammoth irrigation
pIuJSC III weber county, Wnlcn VIII
involve the expenditure of several
millions of dollars. The total cost of
the work will be between three and
four million dollars.
Mrs. Helma Peterson of Salt Lake
City while temporarily insane, swal.
lowed carbolic acid and died in great
agony while her aged mother and sis.
ter We're endeavoring to break down
the locked door OF her room. The
mother was overcome by the tragedy
and may not survive.
Stones weighing as much as seven
tons each. and others Of lesser size,
are being dumped along the railroad
tracks of the Southern Pacific at
Promontory Point and Lakeside TO
strengthen the foundations of the
tracks and TO act as n hrpalywater for