The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-02-24
THE UTAH BUDGET

Ooi Vi commerce is investigating the
Feasibility Of installing municipal
electric light plant in Ogden City.
Robert Gerald, aged 6, died in Salt
Lake City as a result of eating pois.
oned candy. An investigation is being
made to determine how the little fel.
low came In possession of the poisoned d
candy.
The body of Andrew Wilson, the
miner who disappeared from Eureka.
has been found. The body was dis.
covered by searching party, in a
gulch. covered by snow. Wilson had
undoubtedly frozen to death.
fire alarm system invented by X.
b. Marshall Of Salt Lake City is being
carefully tested by Fire Chief T. J..
Paine OF Ogden and II is probable that
III the apparatus is successful II will
be Installed In the Junction city.
Gordon Peck, aged "a years, OF Salt
Lake City, was killed in a cavein at
the Evergreen mine at Brighton, Sat.
urday night. Mr.. Peck was working
In the New York tunnel of the Ever.
green mine when the cavein occurred.
vicious assault was made upon
John Dartago, a Chinese truck gar
dener, at Ogden, Sunday night by
three men, robbery being the motive.
The Chinaman is suffering from nu.
merous cuts on the head and bruises
all over his body.
Since the first of the year county
clerks of Utah have issued bounty Ger.
tificates amounting to $1S,5O0, as
shown by the records in the state au-
ditor's office. The state legislature of
1909 appropriated $4,000 for 1909 and
1910 to pay bounties.
Hurling handful of cayenne pep.
per into the eyes and mouth of III. Mel.
pag, jeweler of Salt Lake City, Har.
ry Williams attempted to steal tray
OF valuable diamond rings but was
caught by Neipag and held until the
arrival of the police.
San Juan county was the first por.
ton OF Utah where the feet of white
men trod. The Spanish expedition.
under Captain Garcia Lopez de Car.
denas, with twelve men, 1t is believed,
were the first white men to enter
Utah. This was in 1910
A movement is on foot in Provo to
have the land along Utah lake, which
was withdrawn a number of years ago,
when 1t was proposed to make of the
AXE reservoir, thrown open to en-.
.ry. The project of making a reser
'oir OF the lake was abandoned.
The announcement is made by
salt Lake newspaper that the organi.
.ation of a million-dollar corporation
or the purpose of taking over all the
Zig Touring mills of the state and the
erection OF thousand-barrel capacity
mill In Salt Lake City is well under
way.
After lingering for several hours at
he Ogden general hospital, C. E.
ierber of Cheyenne. Wyo, died from
he effects of rifle ball. which passed
through his left breast and which the
olice believe was fired with suicidal |
ntent the tragedy occurring at a
otel
The telephone system at Annabella
as been completed. The citizens :
ave built their own lines and own I
heir own instruments, but are con
ected to the Richfield exchange, and :
ave access to all the towns in the 1
ounty except Salina, without extrs r
III charges. +
Representative sheepmen from vari
is parts of Utah met in Salt Lake
lty Friday afternoon to DISCUSS the 4
ctoI tSh, - |
sriod for dipping sheep in this state
ieepgrowers were present from Salt
AXE, Utah. Weber, Wasatch, Iron and
arfeld counties.
j, Wesley Walker, whose home is
lieved to be in Redwood, Cal, was
und In an unconscious condition in
wagon shed at the rear of resi-.
nee In Ogden. he having attempted
icide by cutting his throat with a
nknife. Little hope is entertained "A
: his recovery. q
Michael Gray, an engineer on the
uthern Pacific railroad, is GONZALES Nv
: at the Ogden general hospital
m injuries received at Montello pl'
days ago. Gray was looking out an
his cab when the window broke
owing him to the ground His left
was fractured in two places.
Weary of the loneliness caused by
aration from his family and driven
his brooding into a state of morbid
NJ. w. Wilcox, 90 years OF m,
of Salt Lake City slashed his ret
Oat from ear to ear and lacerated rel
left wrist with razor, in an at nh,
pt 10 end his life There Is
nee for his recovery.
t convention of laymen, repre- L
ing all the Protestant churches OF
h and Idaho, to be held i'm Salt rs
e City, March s, 8 and 10, u
ement will be started to reduce NL
teachings in the missionary fields N
'ver the world to common belief
which sect and creed differences
to be entirely eliminated.
'minico Albanese was sentenced to y
e five years at hard labor in the
prison by Judge Lewis at Salt A
on Wednesday for assault with