The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-05-12
THE UTAH BUDGET

ehe celebration at Ephraim, on May
~. of Norway's independence day.
Contagion is being reduced to a
minimum in Salt Lake, as shown in
the weekly report of the city board
of health.
Two hundred thousand tourists are
entertained in Salt Lake every year
Is the statement given out by those
in position to know.
The Provo board Of education is
considering the question of whether 1t
will make a change in the superin-
tendency for the ensuing year.
Salt Lake actors and actresses in
tend to help in a material way to swell
the receipts Of the actors fund, for
which big fair Is being held in New
York.
The state board OF education, at the
close of an all-day session at Logan,
announced that the state teachers
examination would be held on July
26, 27 and 2S.
While shoveling cinders from the
tracks outside the Garfield smelters,
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struck by a locomotive and so seri-
ously injured that he may die.
The tunnel of the Strawberry Irri-
cation project was driven 3S9 feet
during April and has now a total
length Of 1000 feet, according to the
report of the engineer in charge
The Ogden Rapid Transit company
has signed contracts for $4,000 worth
of copper wire and other materials
for the electrifying of the road to
Brigham City now under construc-
ton.
Forfeiting s1O0 bail, Ed Murphy.
who, 1t is said, played the role Of
missionary in an oldtime skin game
and tricked John Bull of Tennessee
out of $40. failed to appear in the
Ogden police court for trial.
George Bowen, aged 20, while rid
ing bicycle at the Buena Vista race
track, at Salt Lake City. was caught
between two automobiles, sustaining
fractured leg and numerous bruises
about the arms and shoulders.
The weevil, described as small
beetle, the larvae OF which are very
the alfalfa crops of the farmers on
the east side of the Jordan river, near
Sandy and vicinity, 1t is reported
Caught on sharp curve in Weber
canyon. j. p. Mahoney. trackwalker,
was hurled to instant death and II.
Pnr Ixy
Injured when a passenger train struck
the hand car on which they were rid
Ing.
The very latest In pile-drlving ma
chimes is to be used in the construc-
ton of the new trestle work on the
Lucin cutoff. The new driver is pom
derous thing, capable of doing six
times the work of the old-style ma
chine
The latest enterprise to be started
In the state Is company recently in
corporated with capital of 100000
for the growing of roses and carna-
tions, chiefly for the Salt Lake mar
ket, with greenhouses located at
Pennington.
For the first time in three years
every man of the class taking examip-
ations for admission to the bar OF
Utah was admitted by the examining
board in Salt Lake last week. There
was ten in the class, one of the larg.
est to take the Utah examination in
years,
The publicity bureau of the Salt
Lake Commefc al club will immed ate
ly undertake to raise fund of $780, 900
for the exploitation of the resources
of Utah through the medium of judi
cious advertising and publicity in the
newspapers and periodicals of the
country.
The Geyser reservoir, on the La
Sal, from which several thousand
acres of land in Paradox valley were
to- be irrigated this year, broke Sat
urday and the greater part of the
dam went out. Lynn Pace and Laurie
Miller came near being drowned by
the flood
The census enumerators completed
their work in Ogden on May T. 1t is
estimated by the Weber club officials
that Ogden has now had fair count,
and one which will reveal with a
degree OF truth the actual population.
This is estimated at anywhere from
$4,000 to $4,000
The probation officer of Utah county
Is investigating cases OF young hood.
lums throwing rocks at passing trains
This has happened several times of
late in the towns in the north end OF
the county. Windows have been
broken and passengers placed In
danger of serious injury.
The state board of equalization has
completed the annual assessment Of
railroad, telephone, telegraph, car,
power, street railway and other com
panies in Utah for the year 1910. The
gross amount is $42,7S4,359 an in
crease over last year of $3,S1O,431.
There have been 100000 acres of
arid land taken up in the state OF
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