The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-07-21
THE UTAH BUDGET

Castledale, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed.
A hotel, ten cottages and a pavilion
is to be erected at Fish Lake for the
accommodation of visitors to the lake.
Senator Smoot is scheduled at the
principal speaker at the Pioneer day
celebration in Salt Lake City, on July
"a.
A number OF Utah dentists are In
Denver this week, attending the meet
ings of the National Dental associa-
ton.
John Swenson of Huntsville, while
driving a team OF horses in Ogden can
yon, was run into by an automobile
and severely bruised.
A Salt Laker convicted of "snag
ging" fish has been fined $25. The
would-be-sportsman used "a grab-line
containing seven hooks
DR.. j. Prescott Dyos, aged 80, a
prominent eye specialist OF Reno, Ne
vada died from heat prostration in
Salt Lake City on Saturday
Wholesale chicken thefts, in which
q number of local restaurant man are
believed to be acting as fences are
now under Investigation by the Ogden
police.
The wooden mills at Provo will be
In operation again within the next
two or three weeks. This will mean
the employment of from 200 to 250
persons.
The Elks of Ogden will build a new
lodge and club room at cost of about
100000, plans for the building hav-
now hunting for site,
Struck by bolt of lightning within
a few feet of his father, who was en-
gagged in milking cows. Alois Mueller,
Jr, 13 years of age, was instantly
killed at his home near Salt Lake City
The campaign committee of the var
tous trades and labor organizations
In Salt Lake City and county met Sun
day and formed permanent organizar
ton, to be known as the Utah Labor
party"
Applications for more than 100000
acres of land under the Carey act were
denied by the state board of land com
missioners last week, because the ap-
plicants had failed to comply with le-
gal requirements
The county clerks report of the as
sessment for Cache county this year,
state board assessment include, shows
the total to be sS.671 PAP, and the aver.
age valuation of the land In the coun.
ty is given at IS per acre.
James Browning, of numerous ali.
ases and believed to have forged
checks in every city between Ogden
and Omaha, has been captured in Og.
den. Browning is said to be the most
dangerous forger and sharper in the
west.
An electrical storm which visited
Provo on Saturday wrecked the tow.
er of the First Ward meeting house,
put the power lines temporarily out
of business, crippled the telephone ser.
vices, and terrified the people by it's
intensity.
w. c. Richmond of Salt Lake City,
a passenger brakeman on the Denver
& Rio Grande, was caught between
two passenger coaches while endeav.
oring to adjust an automatic coupler,
and crushed TO death, the accident oc-
curing at Manti.
While William Marshall and Charles
Hardy were trying to replace cable
which had gotten out of place on the
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company at MChrlaad, they were both
thrown to the ground and each svs-
tained a broken right leg.
Six men narrowly escaped death by
asphyxiation in the freight yards of
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad at
Ogden, when the transfer gang at
tempted to unload carload of chlori-
mated lime. The warm weather had
caused the deadly chlorine gas to form.
Harry Thorne, convicted of murder
ing George w. Fassel, in Salt Lake
City, on March 26, has been sentenced
TO be executed on September 8.
Thorne, who claims to be but II years
old, chose shooting as his method OF
execution, but will try for a pardon.
Work on the concrete and cement
swimming pool at the Mountain View
hot springs, near Monroe. is being ra-
pidly pushed The pool will be 40 by
80 feet and from three to seven feet
deep. The company expects to have
the pool in readiness by the 25th OF
July.
William Call of San Francisco, who
became demented and left the train
at Ogden while on his way home from
the east, was found running toward
Brigham City. He was captured and
placed in buggy, but died a few mo-
ments later, the heat, physical eXer'
tion and the altitude all contributing
TO his death,
The state of Utah has been granted
title to 34,S2S acres of public lands
by acting Secretary Pierce of the in.
terror department The lands are To-
Gated in the Salt Lake City land dis
trict and represent indemnity 10 the
state for the loss of school lands.