The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-02-03
THE UTAH BUDGET

Records of the state board of sheep
commissioners show there are approx
imately 2,105,9S2 sheep in Utah, val
ued at $75O0,00O
James Moore, who is said to have
relatives in Sonning county. Texas.
was struck by train while walking
along the track near Murray and fatal
Iy injured.
Hugh A.. McMillin, district super
visor OF the United States census, has
sent out 5000 cards of admission to
applicants for the examination for
enumerators for the coming census
Samples of oleomargarine are being
collected by the state food and dairy
department to be tested, to determine
whether or not unlawful coloring mat
ter Is being used in its manufacture.
That the livestock Of Utah has been
exceptionally free from disease during
the past year is shown by DIR. A. G.
Young, state veterinarian, in his an
nual report submitted to the gov
ernor.
A team hitched to bob-sled In
which eight young people were riding
ran away in Salt Lake City, all being
dumped out into the roadway Miss
Hazel Bowman sustaining painful in
juries.
Lawrence Nelligan, train dispatch
Or, employed by the Denver Rio
Grande railroad. died in Salt Lake
hospital Monday morning from in
iuries received by falling ON the slip
perry sidewalk in Salt Lake City.
William Igleheart, at one time en-
ployed on the Salt Lake Tribune and
Telegram, and later manager of the
Herald, died at his home in Salt Lake
City on Monday, at the age of AZ,
death being due TO tuberculosis.
Lying on a slab in morgue in Salt
Lake Is the body of an unidentified
man who was found after he had evil
IDENTIFY committed suicide by drinking
the contents of an eight-ounce bottle
Of laudanum in rooming house.
Abram Noe, one of the oldest men
N Springville, was found dead in his
dead Monday morning by members of
his family He had been in feeble
health for some time. He came to
Utah in 1852 and to Springville in
1866.
Every retail liquor dealer in Park
City has joined the Retail Liquor
Dealers of Park City, an organization
for fraternal and social encourage
ment, and for the protection of the
members. There are nineteen saloons
in Park City.
John w. Cassidy was seriously in
jured in runaway at Bingham. He
was riding in cutter with two other
men when the horses ran away, he
was thrown from the cutter, his head
being almost split open and his face
severely cut and bruised.
Physicians of Cache county have
reached an agreement to increase
their charges thirty-three and third
per cent, and have so announced to
the public. They plead as an excuse
the prevailing high prices of every
thing they use and consume.
What is said to be the highest price
for hogs ever paid in the state of
Utah was paid by the Ogden Packing
company to Calvin Wheeler of Collin.
ston one day last week. The entire
carload of flfty-nine hogs brought
SLABS, or nearly $25 head
Morgan county, which is the small
lest county in the state, was named
after Jedediah Morgan Grant, the mid
die name being used, who, with
Thomas j. Thurston and others, first
occupied it in the spring of 1855 The
county was organized in 1862.
By vote of approximately five to
one, Salt Lake taxpayers on Saturday
placed the stamp of approval upon
the proposed issue of 100000 school
bonds, by registering heavy major.
ity in favor of the measure. 1t is pro.
posed to erect new High school build.
ings.
That hundreds of coyotes killed in
Nevada and Idaho are shipped into
Utah to obtain the increased bounty
of $3.50 head is practically charged
In the annual report of the state board
of sheep commissioners, which was
submitted to Governor William Spry
last week.
Louis Paulhan, the French aviator,
made two flights in his biplane at the
fair grounds in Salt Lake City on Sat.
urday and Sunday, not reaching any
great height on either occasion, but
demonstrating to the thousands in at.
tendance that his machine is a prac,
ticable one.
The beet farmers of Greenville,
Hyde Park, College, Providence. Mill
vile and Logan, are organizing for
the purpose of securing higher prices
for their beets. The farmers are now
getting S4.25 per ton, the same price
that they received when the started
raising them, expecting an increase.
Katsu Gotta, Il Japanese railroad la.
borer, was killed at Bingham by being
run over by a train. Both the right
leg and the right arm were severed
from the body. The japanese, in
jumping from a switch engine, fell in
front OF an approaching train.