The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-03-17
THE UTAH BUDGET

MhHtl, SuDecleu VI having ioppeu 'hV
post office.
Half of Pioneer park, in Salt Lake
City, is to be converted into a play
ground for children.
The first supplies have arrived for
the new $4,000 wagon bridge to be
built over the Green river at Green
River, Utah.
Nick Bergman, convicted OF enter
ing a lodging house at Bingham and
stealing $3.50, has been sentenced to
six months in the county Jail.
The city of American Fork has just
received new hose cart with 500
feet OF hose, and 1t is their intention
to organize volunteer fire depart
ment.
Active construction work upon an
irrigation project that will entail a
total expenditure of $1,2o0,000 will be
started in Beaver county within sixty
days.
A franchise has been granted to the
Ogden Rapid Transit company to run
an electric line in the city limits OF
Willard. The road gave $1,000 bond
to have cars running within year.
Ervine Hoyt, an employe of the Ore
gon Portland Cement company, was
accidentally killed at the plant of the
company north of Brigham City. His
clothing caught in belt and he
was literally torn to pieces.
AS a result of the wreck of the
Malad motor car in the Ogden yards
on the morning of February 4. two
damage suits, totaling $10,40O, were
filed in the district court against the
Oregon Short Line Railway company.
II is announced that the Salt Lake
Elks are to have a burial plot in Mt.
Olivet cemetery that will cost 100000,
and which, when completed, will be
one Of the finest plots owned by any
fraternal organization in the western
country.
william Naughton, the Oregon
Short Line brakeman, who was
charged with criminal negligence af-
ter the wreck at Lemay. January II,
when four persons were killed and
many injured, has been discharged
from custody.
nt Sldlt 1911 anu SAINT wal
nounces that 100000 fry, representing
In even proportions eastern brook
trout, rainbow trout and German
brook trout, will at once be planted
In streams of Salt Lake, Utah and
Wasatch counties.
Overturning kettle of boiling
water that had been placed by her
mother on bench outside the home
at Carr Fork, Bingham Canyon, Hill
ma, 2 years of age, daughter of Mrs.
Eli Perttunen, was so terribly scald'
ed that she died six hours later.
Nicholas Vacos, convicted of mur'
der in the second degree for the kill.
ing of John Contos. the Greek mer'
chant, at Ogden, early in April, 1909
has been sentenced to thirty-three
years imprisor maut the motion for a
new trial haviug heen overruled.
Resenting Leing called niger
l. M. Duncan. colored, watchman for
a construction company in Salt Lake
City shot and probably fatally wound
ed Archie Fame, blacksmth's helper
employed in the Rio Grande shops
Fame is In the hospital and Duncan is
in Jail.
l.. X. Culver, a member of the Salt
Lake Aero club, attempted to make a
flight at Midvale on Sunday in ma
chine built by himself When the
machine reached a height of fifty feet
1t fell, and although Culver escaped
injury, the machine was partially
wrecked
Rush lake, near stockton which
years ago dried up and since then
has existed only in the memories OF
the early pioneers, is again thing OF
the present. This sheet of water was
and Is again, over five miles in length
and of an average width of a mile
and half.
Farming is carried on extensively
In the valleys of Summit county
which is known as one of the great
hay raising counties One farm alone
last year producing $4,000 worth OF
hay. Dairying is another Industry
carried on extensively by the farmers
of the county.
Summit county has no bonded or
floating debt. The assessed valuation
of the county IS 1921, ,667 and the
property owned by the county, that
is court house, jail and other prop,
erty, amounts to $4,000 There are
two forest reserves in the county
the Ashley and the Uintah.
The news comes from Green River
of the drowning of MAIDS Madsen,
aged so, and who leaves a wife and
five children. Madsen with five other
men, was crossing the river on a fer
ryboat, when he was accidentally
knocked from the boat, and, after
swimming quite a distance, sank with
in 100 feet of the shore.
John Freed, a tailor, was found in
a mudhole in north Salt Lake on Sun
day morning, and died short time
later. 1t is believed that he missed
the last car to his home early Sunday
morning and started to walk, was
stricken and fell into the mudhole.