The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-06-23
THE UTAH BUDGET

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Preparations for the Utah Bankers
convention to be held I'm Ogden early
In July are well under way.
Dan Hansen, found guilty at Rich
field OF grand larceny, has been sen
fenced to seven years in the state
prison.
The sheriff of Salt Lake county an
nounces that he will not permit any
more prize fights. This puts damper
un a number OF contests scheduled.
Ernest Beckert, who was seriously
burned in a fire in laundry at Lo.
gan, is recovering slowly. His face,
hands and breast were badly burned.
The entire steel gang of the Harri.
man system arrived in Ogden last
week to begin work on the steel
structure for the monster new freight
depot.
Blaming the cows rather than the
milkman. a jury in the police court
at ogden found Thomas Brown not
guilty Of violating the state pure food
laws by watering his milk
In a fight at Winter Quarters on
Sunday, Calmo Barberio was disem.
bowled by another Italian, hut tho
injured man was rushed to the hos
pital and has even chances for re-
covery
Salt Lakes population shows a net
increase of thirty-five for the past
week according to the weekly report
of the city board of health, which
shows sixty births and twenty-five
deaths.
The owners of clothing stores in
Ogden, after trying the early closing
scheme for two weeks. have gone
back to the old plan, claiming that
the early closing was injuring their
business
The 7-year-old son of Mayor Glas.
man of Ogden attempted to borrow
his fathers touring car, but got no
farther than the cranking. where a
bareback of the crank shaft broke his
arm in two places below the elbow.
Ten bars of silver bullion recently
stolen from the Murray smelter was
recovered at Ogden by watchman,
who discovered FIVE men burying the
treasure. Two of the men were cap
tured, but the other three escaped.
According to reliable reports which
have been received in Logan regard
ing farm conditions in Cache valley,
the loss to the dry farmers, due to
the excessive drought of the past
month, will reach to so per cent of
their crops.
Logan capitalists have purchased
Jessops grove, wild pasture land
about four miles south of Logan.
which they will turn into n big sum.
mer resort An effort is being made
to get the electric road to extend to
the resort or near by.
With seventy trains a day in and
out of Ogden. facilities for their hand
ling at the union depot are made
quate and. according to local officials.
plans for extensive remodeling of the
great passenger station will be put
In operation within the month.
Mount Pleasant will celebrate the
Fourth in old-fashioned style. The
open air and the citizens are invited
To bring their mncheons and spend
the day In quiet social enjoyment on
the lawns OF the beautiful church
block
BY a remarkable coincidence Ezra
Eames, a policeman of Logan, last
week encountered a brother of his
that he had not seen or heard of in
fourteen years. He met him on the
streets of Salt Lake and took him to
Logan to see his aged mother, who is
over so.
In accordance with the safe and
sane celebration of the Fouth of July
planned by Ogden officials, an abso
lutte city ord nance prohibiting the
discharge of firecrackers, firearms or
explosives in the city limits, is to be
resurrected The law has never been
enforced.
The people of Richfeld are to again
have the opportunity to enjoy ginger
ale hgh-balls and the pleasure of
rushing the can" majority of the
city council having decided in favor
Of a hish-l cense, and in future il will
NOT be necessary 10 hunt up boot
logger" to secure drink
Following positive Identification by
nine of the japanese inmates of the
Mission house At the time of the
tragedy in ogden. first degree mur
der charges have been filed against
James Eberhardt and Carl Kennedy
19-year-old youths. accused of killing
one Japanese and woupding two.
Alonzo f. Hyde, CO years old, for
nearly half a century a well known
resident of Salt Lake, was found dead
in his home on Saturday, having been
dead three days before the fact was
discovered, other members of the
family being out of town. Heart
failure was the cause of death
James Williams is In an Ogden hos
pital, suffering from fractured
skull and may die as the result OF
being struck on the head by rock
while a gang of Greeks was unload /.
ing car of rock ballast at Evanston, /.
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