The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-11-18
UTAH STATE NEWS

carrier have been added to the force
IN the Provo postofIice.
A heavy snowstorm struck Park
City on the 9th, the snow being about
13 inches deep the following morning.
The new postoffice building at Og-
den has been finished and the post.
Office is being moved into its new
quarters.
During heavy windstorm in Salt
Lake City, a small frame building was
picked up and tossed onto an sdjoin-
Ing lot.
In attempting to dismount from a
horse at Uintah. Roy Russell, aged 8.
fell into barb wire fence and was
severely cut about the arms.
Two masked highwaymen held up
. street car In the suburbs of Salt
Lake City, early Thursday morning,
securing $2450 from the conductor.
The Midvale city council has or
dered that all the principal streets oe
that place be named and appropriate
designs erected to designate the same.
Directors OF the Utah Oil Refining
company, whose plant in Salt Lake
City was destroyed by fire recently,
have appropriated money for the re-
building OF the plant.
Cannan Lewis, who came from
Wales to Utah in pioneer days and
who was a veteran of several fights
with Indians, is dead at Ephraim, at
the age of 60 years.
Being angered because large dog
kept them from breaking into store
In Ogden, robbers hurled bricks and
stones through the two plate glass
windows. The robbers got nothing.
Salt Lake is now listed among the
hfty largest postofflces OF the country
and hereafter will be included in the
monthly comparison Of business. Salt
Lake displaced Allegheny, Pa, in the
list.
A Salt Lake man has purchased a
distillery in Tennessee, and will move
II to Utah. II is said that the plant
will be erected not far from Salt Lake
and that 1t will be in operation before
the first OF January.
The Office of the Salt Lake Route
snd Oregon Short Line at Murray has
within the past few days been equipped
with telephone service for train dis,
patching. The new system complete.
ly does away with telegraphing.
Following simple but beautiful SER
vices, the body of Fisher Sanford Har-
ris, one of the best known and best be-
loved men in the state of Utah, was
laid to rest in the Mt. Olivet cemetery
In Salt Lake City on Wednesday.
Utah will be represented at the Chi
cago farm land congress. beginning
November 16, by an exhibit Of the
largest and best apples grown in the
state, grains grown on dry and irri-
gated lands and various other pro-
ducts.
Work has been started In earnest
by the boosters committee Of the Re-
tail Merchants association, in the d.
fection of furthering the interests of
the Greater Salt Lake Food and In
austrial exposition. to be held in Salt
Lake City from November % to De-
cember T.
The father OF Emma Rogers, the for
ger Salt Lake girl who is said To nave
attempted suicide at Los Angeles by
shooting herself. has demanded an In
vestigation, declaring the suicide story
was Matched up to cover crime. an.
other woman being blamed by him for
the shooting,
Every dairy COW in the state of
Utah is to be put through a test Tor
tuberculosis germs by DR.. s. u. prim-
hail. an expert of the agricultural de-
partment at Washington, working with
Utah state. county and city officials.
No charge will be made for examina-
ton of the cattle, the most of the ex.
pense falling on the government.
An Ogden railroad man ueciares
that although the cost of double-track-
Ing the Denver & Rio Grande between
Ogden and Denver would be i'm
mense, 1t is the opinion of many rail.
road men that this will be started
within the next few years.
With half-dozen six-shooters in
their possession and wellflled car
fridge belts, Fred Bvemer and Ed
Stewart, two lads not yet IS years
of age, have been arrested in Ogden
on the charge of larceny. and 1t is be
lieved they are responsible for q
number of petty burglaries.
James N. Kimball, one of the old
est members of the legal fraternity
Of Ogden, ana regarded as the dean
of the locai bar, was sentenced to
sreve thirty days in the county jail
for contempt of court by District
Judge J. A. howell. The order was
later resoinded and Mr.. Kimball re
leased.
The Oak Creek Orchard company
which is to plant an immense orchard
In Millard county. believes that Mil
lard county within the next few years
will run close second to the Brigham
City and Cache county orchards II
point of production.