The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-10-13
THE UTAH BUDGET

Buildings are going UP in all parts of
the camp.
Arrangements are now being made
60 dispose of the Ephraim city water.
works bonds.
According to the records of the
but ding inspector, 400 homes have
been built in Ogden since January 1.
The annual conference of the Swe.
dish Lutheran church of Utah and
Idaho was held in Salt Lake City last
Friday and Saturday
While he was attempting to make
away with a valuable mare which had
been stolen, Clyde Peterson, aged 81,
was arrested in Ogden.
William Gibson, an employe of the
Grasseilla Chemical compaDys works,
had his nose broken while attempt
ing to step off train at Park City.
The total attendance at the state
fair was 116,500. the opening day being
the poorest from the point of attend
ance, while the greatest crowd was
present on Friday.
The police force of Bingham is
searching for Walter Gale on charge
of forgery. He passed three forged
checks, amounting in all to about 500
on the local merchants.
A free employment agency has been
established by Rev. Elmer I. Goshen,
a Salt Lake minister, the agency be.
ing conducted In the basement of the
First CONGREGATIONAL church.
That horse racing may be made
success without the selling of pools
and other disagreeable gambling fea-
lures, was demonstrated at the state
fair, when a most successful race
meet was held.
Hardware men from different parts
of the state met in Salt Lake City on
Saturday and organized Retail Hard
ware Mems association for the pur-
pose of protecting the retail hardware
trade throughout the state.
Payson's homecoming jubilee will
be held on October 10, 90, 81 and 20.
On October 10, sixty years ago, the
first settlers came to Payson. Promi-
nent state officials will be present
and an extensive program is being
proposed.
Half dozen laborers nad narrow
escape from death in Ogden when the
south wall of the Auditorium skating
rink on Hudson avenue tumbled into
the excavations being made for a
new building. Several were struck by
falling brick.
Utah will be well represented in the
dairy department of the National Dairy
show, to be held at Chicago October
1929 under the auspices of the federal
bureau of animal industry. The Utah
exhibits will consist of milk, cream,
butter and cheese.
With the driving of the last spike
on the main street of Brigham City
on October z, the Ogden Rapid Tran
sit company completed its interurban
electric road between Ogden and the
Box Elder metropolis. An hourly SER
vice is to be inaugurated.
A proclamation has Just been issued
by President w, H. Taft under which
approximately $3.50 acres of land
have been eliminated from the Powell
national forest in this state. The area
grazing than for watershed protection
or timber.
News has been received of the death
in st. Joseph, Mo-, of w. Booth Major,
80 years old, native of Kentucky,
whose regiment fired the first gun at
the battle of Buena Vista in the Next
can war He was the Salt Lake City
manager of the old Pony Express COM
pany at one time.
Application has been mace by the
state land board of Utah for 165,000
acres Of land, under the Carey act,
near Green River, Utah. The land lies
north and south and east and west OF
at present is what Is known as tenn
porary segregation.
The Gunnison Valley Power com
pany has reached a point In the con
struction of its power plant and trans
mission lines which enables one to
readily see that service will be In act.
ual operation very shortly. The poles
are set from Centerfield through Gun.
nison, and some miles east
Plans for another sheep sale to be
held in Ogden in November have been
completed by those who engineered
the recent international sheep show
and auction sale, A large number OF
breeders from all parts of the United
States and Canada, who took part in
the sheep show, are behind the plan.
Charles Jorgensen of Peterson sat in
the top of a slender sapling for thirty
minutes, while bear on the ground
below. too cumbersome to climb the
small tree endeavored to chew II In
two. Jorgensen finally killed the bear
with a .22-calibre rife which he car
ried
More than 100 of the Willard county
contingency attending conference ban.
quoted in the Cullen cafe in Salt Lake
Friday night After a course dinner
a program of music and speeches was