The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-12-22
THE UTAH BUDGET

the past week.
The CommercialB Boosters club has |
decided that 1t will procure the long
Junction.
Friday, December 16, was gala day |
for the old folks of Monroe. All over
60 were royalty entertained at the
North ward meeting house.
John C. rairweather aged 5S years,
former cashier at the state bank at
Oasis, died at his home in Salt Lake
City, Friday, from Bright's disease.
Efforts are being made to have the
wooden mills at Provo reopen, and 1t
is generally understood the mills will
again be running within the next two
weeks.
An improved race track to cost $751;
600, and cattle coliseum to cost S10,.
900 are the chief improvements in the
plans of the Utah State Fair associa'
ton for the coming year.
A fire broke out in the rear of the
Union Resort building in Bingham, and
before 1t could be controlled did fully
$500 worth of damage. The fire start.
ed from an overheated stove.
Legislation tending to adjust the re-
lations of power companies and irriga'
tors in the use of the states water
rights will be sought by the Utah con-
servation commission of the coming
legislature.
The illicit sale OF morphine and CO
caine to victims of the drug habit is an
important problem worthy of consid'
Grafton by the coming legislature, says
the ninth biennial report of the state
board of pharmacy.
That Brigham City is not alone
famous for her large peaches, but can
also J Use hogs, was shown last week
ward turned loose in his corral hog
weighing 500 pounds.
Samuel Wing had narrow escape
from death at Tucker, when he step,
ped from between two cars in the local
yards and was struck by light engine
of the Rio Grande. He escaped with
a few severe bruises.
Nathan Tanner, for years the last
surviving member of the famous
lions Camp, historic in the early days
of the Mormon church. died Saturday
night at the home of his son, al
Granger, Salt Lake county, at the age
of 90.
Finding that the land was not suit
able for power sites, through the in
vestigations of the United States geo.
logical survey, $500 acres of land IN
Emery county. along the Price river
near Woodside, has been restored to
entry.
III. II. Henrichsen, son of a promi
nent merchant of Provo, charged with
using the United States mails to de
fraud, has been sentenced to three
months in Jail. The young man was
convicted of conducting a fake pro-
duce company.
Dairying and dry farming will be dis
cussed by experts who will lecture on
those subjects when the special dem.
Onstration train makes it's way through
Utah and Idaho counties. The special
train will leave Salt Lake on the morn.
ing of January 8.
The opening of the state bridge
across the river at Green River practi
cally completes the last link of great
interstate and transcontinental auto
highway. The road through Colorado
now gives promise of being completed
by legislative help.
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victed of shooting John Contos, an.
other candy merchant of the same ma
tionality, through the heart, April 3,
1909, at Ogden, may get new trial
Vacos was sentenced to thrty-three
years Imprisonment.
There have been received by the
state engineer during the past two
years 500 applications for water for ir
rigating purposes which will reclaim
1896, 1896 acres; and ZIG applications
for water for power purposes have
been filed, calling for the use of 1851
second feet.
Amendments offered by Senator
Sutherland and incorporated in the In
dian appropriation bill carry $4,000
for the benefit of the scattered bands
of Indians in Skull valley Deep Creek
and southern Utah, and $4,000 for the
completion of the irrigation system of
the former Uintah reservation.
In its new ticket agents manual, re-
Gently issued, the Western Pacific
Railroad, company has placed Ogden
among the list of principal ticket Of
fees, with equal prominence to San
Francisco, Oakland and Salt Lake.
Lyde Dean, an American Fork ped.
der, who has been making the rounds
10 Bingham for number of years, was
knocked down and robbed of between
s35 and $40 in Bingham, the thugs
making good their escape.
According to the annual report OF
Judge V. C. Gunnell, magistrate of the
Ogden juvenile court, over 500 cases
have been acted on by the court dur.
Ing the past year. Out of this number,
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