The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-09-15
THE UTAH BUDGET

Mercy hospital
About million and a quarter dol
lars are expended annually by the
people of Salt Lake City for heating
and lighting purposes.
Thomas Ryan, of Garfield, SO years
of age, who attempted to kill himself
by cutting his throat recently, died In
a Salt Lake hospital on Friday.
A tin can factory has been estab'
lished in Salt Lake City, where prac.
tically every size of can, from two
ounce to fifty gallon, is manufactured
The annual state convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will be held at Provo this week,
beginning Wednesday and lasting for
three days.
Running gauntlet of revolver
shots, John Wilson, a prisoner on
Salt Lakes chain gang, escaped from
the guards in City Creek canyon Fri
day afternoon.
Fires burning in Parley's canyon de-
stroying the summer home of ex-Gov-
ernor John G.. Cutler. at Birch Grove,
Saturday afternoon, entailing a loss
of about 81 500
Freight traffic through Ogden over
the Hartman lines for the month Of
August, 1910, shows a 30 per cent in
crease over that of the corresponding
manth of last year.
Governor Spry has ben asked to
name fifty delegates to represent Utah
at the fifth annual meeting of the Dry
Farming congress, to be held in Spo-
kane Wash, October SO.
Governor Spry last week appointed
twenty delegates to attend the first
annual meeting of the Intermountain
Good Roads association, to be held In
Ogden, September %. "a and 26.
Railroad traffic men with headquer.
ters in Salt Lake City, have effected
q permanent organization to be known
as the Salt Lake City Transportation
club, there being 1865 charter mepl-
bers.
Physicians from all parts of the
state are expected to attend the an
nual meeting of the State Medical as.
sociation which will be held in Salt
Lake Monday and Tuesday, October
and 4.
for use, with the exception of install.
ing reading matter. Considerable e2.
pense has been involved in improving
the Central school building for this
purpose.
A 10-year.old son of Lavinius Olson,
Of Logan, fell upon pitchfork and
ran one of the tines into his head.
As result he is now at the point of
death. He has been unconscious
since the accident.
Friday, September 8, was the six.
tieth anniversary Of the creation of
Utah territory by congress. The bill
was passed by the senate September
z. but was not signed until Septem-
ber 8, 1850. However, the news of
the passage of the bill did not reach
Salt Lake until January, 1851.
Desperate to the point of suicide be-
cause his cravings for "hop" could
not be satisfied, John Bell, dope
fiend," attempted to take his own life
by hanging himself from the ceiling
of his cell in the city Jail at Ogden,
but was discovered before life was ex-
tinct.
The Socialists met in Salt Lake
City and nominated a complete state
and county ticket. The platform re-
affirms the principles embodied in
the national platform of 1905 declar-
ing in favor of complete overthrow
of existing economic and political
conditions,
Nine of Salt Lakes greatest retail
to the late closing Saturday nights
and. beginning September II the old
hours will be resumed. The big mer-
chants claim they have lost sl50,000
this summer as a result of the early
closing movement.
Marie Armstrong, the Salt Lake
girl who created considerable excite
ment at the state industrial school
last week when. in a fit of. temper,
she attempted to kill other inmates
of the reformatory with long
butcher knife. has been committed to
the state mental hospital.
Examination of twenty samples of
milk taken from as many Salt Lake
dairymen during the last week shows
that eight of the samples were dirty
This condition, according to the city
food and dairy inspector, is due to
on the part of those who |
handle and distribute the milk.
Several buildings on the site of
Salt Lake City's watershed in Parley's |
canyon were destroyed and nearly |
800 acres of brush and light timber |
growth laid waste by a spectacular
brush fire which ragged in Parley's
canyon Thursday and Friday. The
fire was started by sparks from an
engine
After posing as a legitimate real es-
tate promoter, with unlimited capital
behind him, a man who operated in
Salt Lake City for about five weeks
under the name of l.. A. Drew has
al If.t