The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-12-29
THE UTAH BUDGET

factory will be established at Brig
ham City.
The coal dealers of Logan have
made a reduction of 80 cents a ton in
the price of coal
The farmers organization in Box
Elder county has decided to demand
IS a ton for their sugar beets next
season.
1t is estimated that for the years
1911 and 1912, the sum of S56,37O
will be needed for the maintenance of
the National Guard of Utah.
The Thomas Dee Memorial hospi-
tai, erected at Ogden by the heirs of
the late Thomas Dee, was formally
thrown open to the public for inspec-
tion Thursday afternoon.
While hurrying to catch a train to
attend the funeral of brother, Orson
Clark, a coal miner of Coalville, was
thrown from his horse, striking on his
head, being instantly killed.
j. C. Anderson, who attempted to
hold up policeman In Ogden and
was overpowered and placed in jail
by his intended victim, is to be ex-
amined by lunacy commission.
AS the result of a drunken quarrel,
at Bingham, Nick Alikobac, an Aus
trian, shot Mike Polovina. a country
man, through the left leg, near the
hip. The wounded man will recover.
Four men had a narrow escape from
death in the Jennie mine at Gold
Springs when the cage fell 200 feet.
All of the men received severe injur'
les. but it is believed al will recover.
The Juab experimental station and
the advancement of dry farming in
Utah have reached the ears of people
In Cape Town, South Africa, and they
are highly interested in this phase of
farming.
ii. w. Lotan, switchman, was Sc
verely injured at Ogden, while at
work, being caught in some manner
between two cars, his back Deing
wrenched and his shoulder dislocated.
He will recover.
A powder magazine in Freeman
gulch, west of Bingham, blew up Sun
day morning, the explosion throwing
the residents of the gulch into pan
Is, breaking windows and dishes, but
no one was injured,
An assessment of so cents a share
on all stock in the Utah Wool Grow
ers' association has been declared by
the directors of the association, tC
cover the expense of fighting the pro
posed reduction in the government
tariff on wool.
Fish-destroying birds are becoming
30 numerous around Utah lake thai
the fishermen and sportsmen who are
interested will ask the Legislature
which convenes in January to provide
Tor the payment of bounty on al
tsh-eating birds
In his biennial report to Governor
5pry, covering the period from No
vember 80, 1908, to November 80
1910, Secretary of State c. S. Tingey
recommends that state banking bu
reau be created and a bank commits
sioner appointed
Dependency from drinking and the
loss of considerable money in an Og
len gambling house in the last two
weeks, caused Joseph H. Payse, pro
prietor of the Commercial club a
Layton, to commit suicide in Ogden
taking carbolic acid.
What appears to have been an at
tempt to blow up the huge smoke
stack of the American smelter a
IA l. tnll
in the United States, has come t.
light. A box containing fifty pounds
of dynamite was discovered by an EN-
ploye in time to prevent an explosion
For the first time for eight years
grand jury has been called at Provo
The last grand jury was called to in
vestigate the case of frank Connors
convicted of killing Policeman Wi
liam Strong there in 1899. 1t is be
lieved the grand jury has been calle
10 investigate illegal selling of intox
eants.
A negro who attempted to hold u
three Cinnamon in Salt Lake is /,
Jail with fractured skull, broke
jaw, and other cuts and bruises, tn
Celestials beating him almost t
death.
The duck season for 1910 will com
20 an official close Saturday night, Dc
cember 81, a half hour after sunse
A bill for search and seizure OF
dinance, tending TO regulate the liquo
traffic, is before the Provo council.
Vasa Wurdal, a Servian miner fe
down a stope in the underground worl
Ings of the Boston Consolidated min
at Bingham and was instantly kille
Wurdal was working in one of tn
slopes when he lost his balance an
fell.
The Ogden sugar factory has close
this year with an output record q
100000 pounds of sugar. This /
about 100000 pounds less than wa
turned out last year, the deficit bein
que to the fact that there was a short
hge of beets.
Cancer of the stomach resulted i