The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-03-31
THE UTAH BUDGET

ON II new ulStllleTy at Murray.
Builders of Salt Lake are nearly all
working on overtime schedules.
The new $4,000 Catholic church in
Bingham is fast nearing competitor,
and is a beautiful structure.
The Richfield school board has de-
cided to add third years course to
the high school and to provide two ad-
ditional teachers.
The Commercial club OF Midvale
has now taken hand with regard to
the installation of fire department in
that growing town
Salt Lake bank clearings for the
past week show an increase of $780,
6S4.01 over the total for the CORE
spending week of last year.
A convention of the supervisors and
rangers of Manti. Fish Lake, Beaver,
Powell, Sewer and Fillmore, will be
held at Richfeld on April 4, 5 and 6.
Tooele will have big celebration on
July 20, under the direction and man
agement of the chamber of commerce,
late progressive organization of that
place.
The schools of Parowan have been
closed, owing to a smallpox scare, one
case having developed and a number
OF people having been exposed to the
disease.
"Toy" Smith, the negro desperate,
who attempted to murder a policeman
at Ogden, but failed in his purpose,
was captured at Evanston, Wyo., and
Is now in jail at Ogden.
Riverton Is promised a first.class
water system. The county commits
sioners have received petition from
private persons for a franchise for
water system in that town.
Word has been received In Salt
Lake City to the effect that Miss Bes-
'sie Chambers, former school teacher
of the capital city, had died in Omaha
as the result of an accident
Carbon county's new courthouse,
built and furnished at cost of SIS, 900,
and the most modern building of the
kind in the state, located at Price, was
formally opened on March 26.
Fred W. Williams, Union Pacific
brakeman, who lost both of his legs
while coupling cars at Coalville on
Friday, died at the Ogden General
hospital early Saturday morning.
A scratch from rusty buggy
spring, developing into blood poison
ing, caused the death of James c.
Beck, aged 80, a farmer of Centerfield.
Sanpete county, at Salt Lake hospi-
tai, Saturday last.
Business has grown so rapidly with
the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany in Salt Lake that direct wires
with the greater cities have become
necessary in order to trnsact the
great volume of business.
school exhibit will be made at
Murray this spring which promises to
excel any previous effort. A display
will be made of shop work by the
boys, needle and fancy work by the
girls, art and school work generally.
Plans are being made to send the
famous Tabernacle choir OF Salt Lake
City to Wales in 1911 to participate in
the great international Eisteddfod. 1t
is figured that it will cost $4,000 to
send the singers across the Atlantic,
but that 1t will be worth that amount
in the advertising secured.
After two hours discussion at
meeting held In Ogden on Saturday,
In which bitter strife and disagree.
ment was rampant. the representative
beet growers of Weber county voted
to raise beets this year at the old
price offered by the Amalgamated
Sugar company-s450 per ton.
Having gained frightful momen
tum after bounding down the steep
slope from the Utah Copper highline al
Upper Bingham, large boulder
crashed into Frank De Lamar's resi-.
dence, tearing out the whole front
side and demolishing the veranda
Fortunately no one was at home.
In the arrest at Ogden of two boys
under is years of age, the officers be-
lieve they have captured the leading
members of gang of young chicken
thieves that has been operating in
Ogden for several weeks and has come
near depicting the hen boosts of resi-
dents In the eastern part of town.
The result of the registration work
of the commissioners in taking the
afiidavits of the Utah Indian war vet
Grams, was as follows: Number who
went on expeditions, 1,43S; home
guards, l,055; short service, under
thirty days, and not entitled to pen
sion under the act, IA total who en-
listed in Utah, 2.507.
Eugene Day, aged 46, committed
suicide at Pennington, Sunday morn
ing, by shooting after an unsuccessful |
attempt to end his life by an overdose
of morphine. Day was employed on
the Pennington Reflex as a printer
and news gatherer, and the tragedy
occurred at the Reflex office,
While employed on the Tooele Val
ley railroad Sunday afternoon, at a
point about midway between the now
smelter and the city of Tooele, C. X.