The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-05-26
THE UTAH BUDGET


ran away in Salt Lake City, landing on |
his head, sustaining severe bruises and |
a concussion of the brain.
The news has been received that |
Frederick William Clark, prospector |
whose home was in Salt Lake City, |
had been killed by snowslide near |
Cape Horne, Custer county, Idaho.
Entering the lobby of the European
hotel in Ogden at an early hour In
the morning, two masked men forced |
the night clerk to hand over the keys !
to the money drawer, but secured
only SIT for their trouble.
At the anual field day OF the schools
of the Jordan district on Saturday,
West Jordan won the meet with 25
points Draper came second with 16,
Sandy third with IA points, and Mid
vale fourth with 13 points.
Tom Rice. the Shawbit Indian, was
convicted at Salt Lake of manslaugh-
ter for the killing of John Rice, a
fellow tribesman, on the Shawbits res
ervation at Shem, Washington county,
and will serve a term at Fort Leaven-
worth.
The spring migration of tramps
from balmy California to the east has
brought into Ogden numerous unde-
sirables within the last week, necessi-
tating a general roundup of idle char
acters by the police of ogden. These
transients are OF the worst class.
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George Cocheron, aged S5 years, of
Salt Lake City, attempted suicide
four times on the tracks of the Salt
Lake & Ogden railway. He was fin
ally taken to his home, and promised
to make no further attempts on his
life.
At the request of many dairymen OF
Weber county. the new milk ordi-
nance, passed by the Ogden council,
will not go into effect until June 10,
so as to allow them to install the
necessary machinery for the bottling
of their milk, as required by the Or
dinance.
The shearing of sheep was success
fully concluded at Modena on May 22.
One hundred and sixty thousand head
have been shorn since April l, yielding
100000 pounds of wool. A consider
able quantity of this wool was con
tracted for last winter at 1Sc per
pound.
Anthon Kohler, a boy, had narrow
escape from death Saturday evening,
when he attempted to stop runaway
team at Logan. The horse on which
he was riding was impaled on the
wagon tongue of the vehicle to which
the maddened animals were attached,
killing the horse.
In an interview in Ogden, Henry s.
Graves. chief forester of the United
States, declared: There will be no
deviation from the policies of my pre-
decessor, Clifford Pinchot, in the oper-
ating of the national forests. except
where changed conditions in particu-
lar instances demand it."
Professor Blankinship, the botanist
for the International smelter, has dis
covered that the lucern weevil has
Just appeared in Tooele valley. Its
first appearance is at the Buffalo Park
farm on the lake shore. He advises
the farmers to cut and burn the In
fected plants and plow the land,
The monty bulletin of the state
board of health for April shows 1928
deaths in the state from all causes
with seventeen deaths not reported
from the previous month. OF the 1Sl
towns and districts reporting, 1Ol re-
port no deaths, and seventy-two local
tiles are entirely free from disease.
Burglars robbed the First National
bank at Layton, but only secured
$3.50 for their pains, whereupon they
locked the cashier, l.. E. Ellison, and
Night Watchman Evans in the vault
and left them to smother to death
Fortunately screw driver had been
their escape.
Joseph Fife of Hennifer died on May
81, In sanitarium at North Yakima
Wash, from injuries received one
year ago, when he was thrown from
his horse, He sustained conclusion
VI lHt u poibiOh VI ShuA
had to be removed and a silver plate
was inserted. An abscess developed
causing his death.
Proceedings against William How
ell, an Ogden merchant, Elliott w
Kennedy, John Larson and George
Larson, the latter city councilman
charged with running down and fatally
injuring Parker Faut, while on JOY
ride, have been dismissed it being
shown that Faut's widow has accept
ed $4,000 and abandoned prosecution
John T. Began and wife, of Bing
ham, were injured when their auto
mobile leaped over twenty-foot EN-
bankment in Parley's canyon during
a pleasure trip on Sunday. Other oc
cupants of the auto escaped without
injury.
Elmer Booth. an actor, may lose
the sight OF one eye as the result
Of an accident at Ogden. The heroine
of the play fred a shot at him with a
pistol loaded with blank cartridges