The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-03-18
UTAH STATE NEWS

interior, according to the latest re-
ports.
Chief Forester Clifford Pinchot will
be In Ogden March %, for the purpose
Of inspecting the forestry work in
this district
Henry Brown OF Koosharem is re-
ported to be recovering from injuries
sustained some time ago, when a
horse fell on him
1t is probable that President Taft
will attend the national encampment
OF the G. A. r. to be held in Salt Lake
City. August to IA.
1t is stated by wool buyers that
from SO to 80 per cent of the Utah
wool clip has already been contract
ed for at from II to 22 cents.
l.. d. Wilbur, machinist employed
In the Southern Pacific shops at Og-
den, is dead as the result of heavy
steel beam falling upon him.
Through the efforts OF the Weber
club, the prospects for the early erec-
tion of a Y. NJ. c. A. club house In Og-
den will probably be soon assured
The railroad between Ogden and
Plain City, passing through Farr
West, Harrisville and other prosper
GUS communities, Is now certainty.
Within short time there is prob
ability of large wooden mill be-
ing erected in Ogden for the manu-
facture OF blankets and other woolen
articles.
George and Frank Taylor, the me-
groes who pleaded guilty to burglariz-
ing dwelling house at Tucker, have
been sentenced to serve ten months
in the state prison.
Mary Ann Frier Smith, wife of Pa
triarch William ]. Smith, and one of
Utah's pioneers, died at her home in
Salt Lake City on March 9th. Mrs.
Smith came to Utah in t849
Governor Spry on Thursday of last
week granted reprieve to Thomas
Vance, the Salt Lake man who was to
have been executed on Friday, March
IL. for the murder of his wife.
Daniel P. Gavin has been placed
under arrest in Salt Lake City on
the charge of attacking his divorced
wife on the streets, knocking her
senseless and badly beating her.
The report OF Salt Lake county's
commissioners for the poor shows
that during the month of February
the pauper department rendered as
sistance to 3G7 different families, or
1929 persons. at cost to the county
of $3,155.40.
Among the many pleasing features
OF the Old Folks day celebration at
Draper was the celebration of the one
hundredth anniversary OF the birth
of Father Osborne. a resident OF that
town, and said to be the Oldest person
in the state of Utah.
While at work In the Southern Pa
cific shops at Ogden. l.. G. Wilver suf
fered injuries by being crushed by a
falling steel beam, which may result
fatally. The heavy beam fell at least
thirty feet and struck the unfortunate
man squarely on the back.
Already over $4,000 has been raised
by the committee in charge of the
sheep exhibit, which will be held in
Ogden next Janaury in connection
with the convention of National Wool
growers, TO be hung up as premiums
for the best stock exhibited.
That Hugh Meyers, the youthful
cripple, who came to Salt Lake from
Park City in company with Boston
Joe" and Phil Mann, was implicated
in the murder of John G. Barnett, who
was found dead in a Salt Lake room
ing house. is the opinion of the cor
oner's jury.
James X. Gillespie, dean of Utah
real estate men, died at st. Luke's
hospital, in Chicago, at an early hour
Thursday morning, March IL, follow
ing an exploratory operation for can
tered the real estate business in Salt
Lake City in 1878.
AT meeting of the directors of the
Utah Manufacturers association last
week, a scheme which had been work
ed upon some time to give an indus
trial fair in the chamber of commerce
building from April 2 TO April 10, dur
ing the period of the semi-annual con-
ference, was approved.
John McAvanie, an employe of the
DAILY Judge mine at Park City, met
with painful accident last week.
which made il necessary for him to
have three fingers of the left hand
amputated. McAvanie was working
in the carpenter shop and had his
hand caught in a saw.
Dr. James e Talmage is to be the
president of the organization which
will be known as the Utah Health
League, which has been organized in
Salt Lake City as a result of a move
ment started some weeks ago in re-
sponse to the call OF some OF the
physicians of the state.
Until Ogden City and the Ogden
Rapid Transit company get to-
gether" on the differences existing