The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-12-01
THE UTAH BUDGET

the Salt Lake & Ogden railroad al
Clinton, John Winslow was struck by
a car and seriously injured.
The rush for desert lands in the vi
cinity of Modena still continues. Dur
ing the past week seven full sections,
or 4,4S0 acres, were located.
J. b. Davis, 40 years old, a prisoner
in the Utah penitentiary, died at the
prison early Sunday night. He had
been convicted of shop-lifting.
During the past year 100000 acres
of dry farm land in Utah have been
filed upon, with 1,6S0,000 still remain.
ing segregated and subject to entry.
A Bachelors club has been formed
Mt Manti, the members agreeing not to
take wife without first obtaining the
approval of the other members of the
club.
John Scow of Mayfeld committed
suicide on Sunday, shooting himself
through the heart with shotgun. Ill
health and dependency led to the
deed.
Several cases of infantile paralysis
has broken out in the southern part OF
the state, and preventive measures are
being urged by the state board of
health to prevent the disease spread
ing.
Less than seven months ago there
were but two interurban electric roads
In Utah, one a trifie under seven miles
in length, the other ten miles. Today
the state can boast OF seventy miles of
electric roads.
More than $150,000 will be collected
by the farmers of Millard county for
alfalfa seed alone, which they have
raised in the year 1910. Most of the
seed has been sold and the money paid
over to the farmers.
Governor Spry has named an advis-
ory board of Utah business men to
see that this state is properly repre-
sented with display of It's products
at the Western Land Products exhibit
to be held in Omaha, Janaury Is to 2S.
After an illness lasting for period
of three years, Ellen M. Williams, one
of the pioneer residents Of Weber
county, died November %, at her home
In Ogden Mrs. Williams came to Utah
In 1853.
Convicted of holding up a man in
Ogden on July 23, and robbing him OF
So. Frank Bell and Bell Rio, halfbreed
Cherokee Indians, have been SEN
fenced to serve twelve and seven
years, respectively, in the state peni-
tentiary.
The supreme court holds that Frank
Connors, convicted on charge of bur.
glary and also on one of murder, must
serve his term for burglary and then
be delivered to the sheriff of Utah
county for trial. Connors killed Will
liam Strong, city marshal of Provo, in
1899.
A dispute arising over wager
placed on a wrestling match resulted
In fatal shooting in Ogden. Ok
Okana, Japanese, being shot and
killed by G. Kawshata, a fellow coun
tryman, who surrendered to the po
lice, claiming the shooting was in self
defense.
The Murray Commercial club has
decided to hold an auction day at Muir
ray every week. This will be princi
pally farmers day. The farmers ant
others who have cows, horses, chick
ems, vegetables, grains, or anything t.
dispose of. will bring it to the marke
place for auction.
Ruling that it is beyond the power
of the courts of Utah to indicate t
railroads where they shall make stops
because of the absence of statutes
upon the subject, the supreme cour
has overruled the Second distric
court in the case of j. ID. Skeen agains
the Ogden Rapid Transit company.
Henry c. Lee, convicted at Ogden o
having persuaded Grace Muir, Il
years old, of Rock Springs, Wyo., t,
marry him, representing that he hat
obtained divorce from his wife, liv
Ing in Ogden has been sentenced t
two years Imprisonment. "A fax
marriage ceremony was entered into
Vaccine, with the recommendation
that it be used for vaccination puI
poses, is to be sent to the health au
thorities in Washington ana Beave
counties by the state board of health
as the first method of be employed i
the prevention of the spread of small
poN in the southern part of the state
Jack Horne, a messenger boy, Will
riding a bicycle, grasped the side of
street car with one hand with the pul
pose OF compelling the car to furnis
the locomotive power for his whee
Horne slipped and fell under the RAJ
idly moving car, both OF his feet bein
crushed, amputation being necessary
Crazed by habitual drinking cover
Ing period of two years. o. w. Jer
sen, gardener OF Brigham City
placed a 22-caliber rife to his fore
head and killed himself
There were 2SS deaths reported i
the state in October, according to tn
monthly report of the state board @
health. The report shows 1T death
in Salt Lake county alone. The mai