The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-06-30
THE UTAH BUDGET

east steps OF lne Tempe.
p. J. Beard, an old-time miner OF
the Tintic district. died at Spring
vile, June 25. at the age of 81 years,
following an operation for abscess OF
the lungs.
Lars Christian Larsen, who was
born in Denmark and came to Utah
over 35 years ago, having lived at
Manti most OF the time since, is dead
at the age of 81.
The 16-year-old son of Postmaster
drowning The boy went to the river
10 bathe with some other boys, and
was overcome by the current.
The Union Pacific has finished the
telephone line between Ogden and
Rawlins, Wyo., and henceforth trains
will be operated over that section with
telephone instead of the telegraph.
While under the influence of liquor
Patrick Seeley, aged 35 years, fell
from a second story window at his
rooming house in Salt Lake City and
sustained a fracture of the right leg.
Caught under loose slab rock in
the porphyry tunnel of the Boston
Consolidated mine at Bingham, Nick
Evanoff, an Austrian, sustained frac-
ture of the skull. He will probably re-
cover.
While the season has been excep.
tionally dry, the crops in the country
tributary to Richfield were never bet.
ter looking than they are this season
This is especially true OF the beets
and hay.
The continued dry weather is caus.
Ing great deal of uneasiness among
the American Fork sheep men, and
unless there comes rain in the near
future the prospects for the sheep are
doing poorly.
Hugh Morton, the 10-year-old son OF
DR.. and Mrs. j. II. Morton, was
drowned while swimming in ten feet
of water in reservoir No. 1 of the
kaysville Irrigation company, half
mile north of Kaysville.
Representative Howell has made
request to the geological survey that
a Typographical map OF Box Elder
county, Utah, be made by the survey.
Director George Otis Smith has taken
the matter under advisement.
There is some talk at Provo of ac-
tion being taken looking to the es-
tablishment of park by the state at
the head of Provo river, where the |
Provo. Weber. Bear and Duchesne riv- |
ers all rise in a comparatively small |
area.
An overdose of opium, mixed with |
proved the undoing of Wong |
Toy, a Chinese cook, whose dead body |
was found in Utahna park, in Ogden.
the oriental took the dose
with suicidal intent or not is not
known.
There is said to be great scar
city of track laborers on the Oregon
Short Line. Many of the Japs who
have been employed on roadbed re-
pair and construction work have
abandoned the section and taken to
the beet fields.
While excavating in Salt Lake City.
workmen found grindstone, the date
on the stone being 1S49 w. II. Clark.
the Sugar House druggist, has laid
claim to the grindstone, declaring that
he buried 1t when he was a boy be-
cause he was weary of turning It,
District Judge Howell of Ogden has
made himself clear on the point that
before divorces are allowed in his
'ourt some real good reason must
be shown for it. and that the friv-
'lous manner in which some regard
he marital relation will not be toll
,rated.
At the Fourth of July celebration
1t Upton, more than 100 prizes will
'e given away. including four horses,
buggy. five sheep. two fleeces, two
'ocking chairs. There will be broncho
1ding, steer roping, steer riding,
orse racing. automobile and motor
acing.
William j. Anderson, the 15-year-
I'D son of Peter Anderson of Sandy,
vas smothered to death by cave-in
n the sandhills about two miles east ,
4 Sandy. 1t appears that the boy &,
hlIS ChuSdN olluS W GStdpt lus ullHu- | Z
ng rays of the sun, crawled into =
he narrow cave.
Sudden change TO a high altitude.
dded to the joyful prospects of soon
eturning to the land of his nativity, b
J believed to have caused the men S
Il arrangement of Oreste Caralle, an G
allan, who was taken from an east r
ound train and placed in a padded
I'll in the Ogden jail. h
The Dener & Rio Grande railroad n
making unusual preparations for a q
ard winter So far this summer the h
Dmpany has more than 100000 tons v
lump coal from company mines a
ored at the various junction points ID
atween Grand Junction and Ogden. L
After an illness of only twenty-four II
ours, Joseph Clark, one OF Ogden's
business men, is dead
ON an attack OF pneumonia Mr..
ark built the first steam Touring "
i'll west of the Missouri river, at "
5den, and was rated as a millionaire ~