The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-04-22
UTAH STATE NEW s

John de France, colored, formerly a
sesident of Salt Lake City, committed
suicide In Seattle last week.
A supreme court decision rendered
last week holds that school property,
whether personal or real, is exempt
from taxation
Free lunches In saloons in Salt Lake
City are to be done away with, ac-
cording to an order issued by the
chief of police.
The Boosters club of Logan Is tax.
Ing up the question of the building of
macadam road from Main street to
the mouth Of Logan canyon.
The scarlet fever epidemic, which
has been prevalent in Murray for the
past two months has now subsided
and the quarantine has been raised
One of the Oldest residents of Park
City, John Wyckoff, died last week,
after a short illness. He had been a
resident of Park City for over twenty
years.
The people of Bingham Junction are
determined to incorporate. There is
not known to be a single voter in
Bingham Junction against its incor-
poration.
Utah will spend more this year for
the education of its youth than in
any other year since it became a
state. The appropriation last year
was $5.12 per capita; this year it will
be S5.75.
An unknown man, about 80 years
of age, suicided at Kaysville, April
l6, hanging himself, using a wire in
stead of rope. Everything points
to an unbalanced mind as the cause
for the deed
A strike of the painters, decora-
tors and paper hangers of Salt Lake
City has been averted, the men decld
ing to accent verbal agreement with
their employers that the new scale
of wages will be paid
A big conclave of the knights
Templar will be held in Salt Lake City
on May H. One of the features of the
Conclave win be several competitive
drills between teams from Salt Lake
Ogden, Reno and other Communicates
A sheepherder found the body of
Frank White, laborer, about 80 years
of age, in the foothills east of Ogden
one day last week. White had sui
cided, taking carbolic acid, grief over
the death of his mother being given
rs the reason.
At the preliminary hearing in Og
den, Nick Vacos, who shot and killed
John Contos, a prosperous Greek mer
chant of that city, declared he shot in
self defense, that Contos had reached
for his pocket as If to draw a weapon
when he fired.
The gold crowns valued at 500,
which were stolen from display case
in front of dental office in Ogden
have been recovered, n lad claiming
to have found the property behind
bill board and was trying to dispose
of it when arrested.
William Bernard Dougall, pioneer
telegrapher of Utah, and the organizer
of the school which ultimately devel-
oped into the l.. d. S. university, died
at his home in Salt Lake City. April
l2. He came to Utah in 1858, and
learned telegraphy in 1866.
The report comes from Ogden that
a plot to kidnap one of the children
os Joseph Scowcroft, a leading citizen,
was probably frustrated last week by
a warning sent to the Scowcroft fam
lily by negress, who claimed that
she had overheard the plot.
Loren l.. Dibble, aged &c, died in
Salt Lake hospital Sunday, the esult
of internal injuries sustained from a
fall OF eighty feet in the Apex mine
above Bingham Canyon. Alva p,
Dibble. aged 90 years, was probably
fatally injured at the same time.
A strike of gold assaying $3.50 to
the ton has been made in Ogden can.
yon, at the edge of the city, and a
stampede has started of those who
are stalking out claims. From a con-
glomerate mass next to the vein mat
ter proper free gold has been panned.
The frequent storms which occur
on the Great Salt Lake, and especial,
ly those of late, have brought South
ern Pacific officials to the belief that
something must be done to protect its
trackage on the cutoff. A breakwater
will probably be built near the road.
way.
Barney Foley, who was so terribly
inujfed by the explosion of a cotton
condenser in Salt Lake City, died
after nearly twenty hours of terrible
suffering. His eyes were so badly
burned by ammonia that had he lived
he would have lost his sight com
pletely.
John r. Nelson, a shoemaker who
came to Utah in 1875, suicided al
Ephraim, April IA, hanging himself
Mr.. Nelson had always been regarded
as one of the most respected citizens
of the town, and no cause for the deed
is known. unless it was on account of
poor health.
Mistaking a bottle of carbolic acid