The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-05-13
UTAH STATE NEWS

Preparations are being maue IN
Richmond, Cache county, for the paw
ing of sidewalks in the business dis
trict.
The viaduct on Twenty-fourth
street. Ogden, over the railroad
tracks, was thrown open to the public
| last week.
The women's clubs of Salt Lake
have started a movement for public
park. with public baths, at the city
hot springs, in north Salt Lake.
There is talk of building a railroad
from the mainland to Antelope island,
| in Great Salt Lake, and establishing
| a. summer resort on the island.
The Daughters of the Pioneers OF
Richmond are building an old-time log
| cabin on the public square in which
to keep the ancient relics of the town.
The blind pig" has made its APP
pearance in Salt Lake City, a man be-
| ing caught by the police selling wills
| key on Sunday in a room on Victoria
alley.
William Nelson, street car CON
ductor of Ogden, while collecting
| fares on a crowded car, came in con
tact with a telegraph pole, was swept
from the car and seriously injured
While on her way home in Upper
Bingham, Mrs. j. w. Burton, well
known resident of that place, was at
| tackled by a strange man and robbed
of s49O. most of which was in paper
]. Fewson Smith, Sr., who for Years
was one of the most prominent lcivll
and mining engineers in the staue or
Utah died from the effects OF loco
motor ataxia at his home in Salt Lake
City on May 5.
AT the close of the first weeks cam
paign of the Salt Lake Commercial
clubs committees efforts to raise =
sufficient sum to clear the indebted
ness of the local Y. M. c. A, $641O9
had been subscribed
AS the result of an explosion in the
High school chemical laboratory in
Salt Lake City, Richard Robinson,
student, received a bad burn on the
face. while Professor Clark narrowly
escaped losing his eyesight.
Herbert Preston. who has been
eral months on suspicion of being
implicated in the murder of Deputy
Sheriff Seymour Clark, at Uintah, on
November 28, was released from Gus
tody last week.
Official notice has been received at
the United States land Office in Salt
Lake that S,395, $40 acres of arid land
in the southwestern part of the state
has been thrown open to settlement
under the enlarged homestead act of
February 10, 1909.
Governor Spry is promoting a con
| terence of the governors. senators
and representatives OF far western
| states for the purpose Of forming an
| alliance to comprehensively foster
| and promote the best interests OF the
| intermountain states.
| Alfred Lorenzo Royal, the tenyear-
old son of William ROYAL, an employe
| Of the Southern Pacific railway at Og-
den, was instantly killed on May 5
by the accidental discharge of shot
gun in the hands of George Smith,
playmate, IL years old
Judge William c. Hail, for many
| years one of the foremost citizens of
| the state, at one time a judge of the
Third judicial district, and a mining
lawyer of high repute, died in Los
Angeles, May T. Judge Halls health
| had been failing for some years.
John H. Brown. aged AS, of Salt
Lake City, was drowned on May 3,
in the Snake river, near St Anthony,
| n Drt y
Brown was walking near the stream
when he was seized with an attack of
heart failure, and fell into the water.
Dave Latham, wanted by the police
of Salt Lake for forgery, attempted
to kill two officers sent 10 arrest him
for creating a disturbance at a pri-
vate residence. Latham fired several
shots at the officers, none of which
took effect, and was finally cverpow-
cred.
l., A. Woodruff, the hermit recently
arrested by the federal authorities
near his home in the mountains 100
miles from Green River on the
charge OF sending obscene and black
hand" letters through the United
States mails, was adjudged insane
last week.
Failing to digest a bucketful OF
white paint, which she drank, D COW
belonging to an Ogden man mad to
be shot to end her misery. While
browsing about the yard the animal
concentrated her attention upon a
bucketful of paint. which had been
left nearby.
Daniel Eisenhauser, a veteran of
the civil war, aged 70 years, arrived
in Salt Lake City last week from
Portland, Ore, having walked the en-
tire distance The aged veteran had
determined to be present at the G. A.
r. encampment, and concluded to
start in time.