The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-07-14
THE SPANISH FORK PRESS
THE UTAH BUDGET

held at Logan, Tuesday and Wednes
day.
The Provo city council has received
an offer from the Provo Electric com
pany to sell its distributing plant tc
the city for the sum of 100000
The state board of barber examin
ers had granted licenses to thirty-siS
applicants at the conclusion of two
days session held in Salt Lake City
More than 100 descendants of the
Austin family, pioneers of Utah, gath
cred at Saratoga Springs, near Lehl
for the annual family reunion, on
July 8.
Rather than collide with a wagon,
Clifford Moulton, chauffeur ran his
automobile onto the sidewalk in Salt
Lake City, colided VITA tree and
sustained broken arm.
The seventh anual convention OF
the Postmaster's association of Utah
was held in Ogden on Friday. nearly
hundred delegates, from all parts of
the state. being present
Charles Otto. a Swede, while intoxi-
Gated, made an unsuccessful attempt
to drown himself in the Weber river
at Ogden, being fished out by two
men who saw him jump from the
bank.
Although the property values for
Weber county and Ogden City show
marked increase over that of last
year the tax levy fixed by the Weber
county commissioners is the same as
that for 1909.
Charles Lange, known as Salt
Lakes heaviest citizen was thrown
from the front end of street car
when the car made a sudden lunge in
turning corner, and is in hospital
In serious condition
The county commissioners of We
Der county have received a number
OF sanitary drinking fountains, ordered
for use at various points along the
county roads, and their immediate in.
stallation has been ordered.
Sixty freight and passenger men of
the various railroads entering Salt
Lake have signed call for a meeting
to be held in Salt Lake City, Friday,
July %, to organize what they will
call the Salt Lake Traffic club
Melvin Karth, the butcher who at
tempted to kill his wife and then com.
NIT suicide on the morning of June G.
In Salt Lake City. shooting the woman
and cutting his own throat, is to be |
tried for assault with intent to com,
NIT murder.
Reports come from Juab county |
that the wheat on the dry farms in |
that locality Is headed out in fine |
shape and that pretty good crop |
would be raised, also that most of the
grain will average about twenty
bushels to the acre.
Robert Steanhardt and Arthur Scott.
who fought a duel with revolvers on
Main street in Salt Lake City, have
each been charged with assault with
Intent to commit murder. An inno-
cent bystander was shot in the shoul
der by one of the duellsts.
At the rate of half a mile per day
the Ogden Rapid Transit company Is
pushing its track for an interurban
trolley line between Ogden and Brig
ham City. The grade has been com
pleted beyond Willard and is within
few miles of Brigham City.
Buried nearly nalf an hour under a
heap OF sand in the sand pits near
Warm Springs, in Salt Lake City.
George B. Meredith was extricated
more dead than alive. He did not re-
cover consciousness until physicians
had worked over him for two hours.
JEFF Lost and So Did T. were the
words placarded on the back of Ar.
-hur Thayer of Bingham, as he
wheeled in wheelbarrow, Sunday af-
Iernoon in the hot sun. Sam Byron
with whom he had wagered on the {
outcome of the fight, giving Byron a
nile ride uphill. !
1t Is announced from the Fourth
district forestry headquarters at Og.
len that Ogden has been chosen as
he central point for the forestration .
department. of the entire service in J
he United States. This department o
las charge of the planting of seed for
lew forest trees, etc.
Edmund Shepherd Lovesy, for six q
cen years president of the Utah Bee. q
,eepers' association and leader in h
he bee industry of the state, died at a
is home in Salt Lake City, July 8, of Il
eneral debility. Mr.. Lovesy was II r
ears of age and crossed the plains to
alt Lake City in 1859.
Instead of causing the Juab coun-
Y farmers TO be discouraged. the pro- n
racted dry spell is proving beyond a p
oubt that they have some of the best d
'nds in the state for dry farming, and 6
nat during the driest seasons they IL
an raise fair crops if they but EN- j.
10y the proper cultivation. y,
James Larkin, aged 80 accidentally M
I'll INTO an old shaft at Bingham
reaking his leg and being badly
ruised, lying for four days at the q
ottom of the shaft before boy g
lssing that way Deard his cries and ci
Fought aid. He will recover A
AS the result of an automobile acci. nj
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