The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-11-03
THE UTAH BUDGET

street car in Salt Lake City, sustain.
ing injuries which will probably prove
fatal.
Kelly and Murphy, the alleged as.
sailants OF the Japanese who was shot
at Pennington, have been bound over
to the district court.
Grover Coyle was badly injured by
falling from scaffold at a new build
ing in Salt Lake, 1t being feared that
his injureies may prove fatal.
Steve Barderlls, Greek miner EN-
ployed in the coal mines at Sunnyside,
was killed Saturday by fall of rock
from a pothole in the roof of the mine
Children playing with matches start.
ed a fire which destroyed a barn, cor
rails and twenty-five tons of straw and
hay belonging to Samuel Mortinsen,
near Parowan.
Possessed of a mania for stopping
women on the street and attempting
half-witted Japanese, is to the deport
ed from Ogden.
The farmers in the neighborhood of
Ephriam have been busy harvesting
their potatoes, and around the city
the crop is very good, considering the
long, dry summer
An organization to be known as the
Ladies' Prohibition League of Beaver
City has been formed at Beaver. The
chief object of the league is the fur
therance of statewide prohibition.
A large force OF men and teams Is
rushing work on a canal in the noun
tains east of Ephram, which, when
finished, will almost double the vol
ume OF water in the new power canal
The one hundred and second ami
versary of the birth of the late Presi.
dent John Taylor of the Mormon
church was fittingly celebrated by his
descendants at the Granite stake
house Tuesday.
Verne Workman, aged s, while play.
ing at his home In Park City, was
struck in the head by a bullet acci'
dentally fired by another boy, the bul
let lodging in the boys brain and
there being no hope for his recovery.
Ben Williams, the bartender who
shot and badly injured Donald Work
man, laborer, in rooming house at
Milford on September 27, has been
bound over to the district court on
charge of assault with intent to com
init murder.
Preparations are already under way
by the DEVILS Slide club for big
celebration in the Cement city," on
Thanksgiving day A big banquet and
turkey shoot are on the programme.
Over 100 of the festive birds will be
used as targets.
Wool growers of Mount Pleasant
and Fairview are taking steps to pur.
chase the shearing corrals, hotel,
store, water and other property of
Walter James at Black Rock, the idea
being to organize company to take
over the holdings.
Attempting to smuggle to three in
mates of the state prison enough OPT
um and morphine to kill hundred
persons, Fred Brown, who had Just
completed a years sentence for bur.
glary, was caught in the act, and is
now in the custody of the sheriff
The district supervisor of the bur
eau of animal industry of the depart
ment of agriculture, with headquarters
in Mt. Pleasant, states that there are
fewer sheep feeding in the southern
part of the state this fall because OF
the scarcity of forage on the range.
A switchman named r. b. Lindsay
was found on one of the levels of the
surface workings of the Boston Con
solidated mine, at Bingham, IN seri'
Gus condition. lie had evidently been
walking on the level above and acci'
dentally walked off the embankment.
While employees of the city water
works department were digging
trench in Pennington, the skeleton OF
a man was found, 1t is believed that
the skeleton is that of a man mur
dered in the olden days and buried
there in what was then sparselly set
tied country.
A meeting of the principals of the
schools throughout Sewer county was
held recently at Richfield, at which
il was decided to hold but two insti'
tutes this year, the first to be held at
Salina on November Is and 10, the
second to be held at Richheld on Feb
ruary and 3.
A jury has been secured in the
Vance murder trial at Salt Lake. and
the trial begins on Monday. Vance is
charged with the murder of his wife.
John eileen, real estate operator
and wife from Vernal in crossing the
Duchesne below Randalell, lost the
team and narrowly escaped drowning.
Thomas Dove, the Providence man
who cut his throat about month
ago in an endeavor to commit suicide,
was ordered committed to the State
Mental hospital on Thursday He
had become violent again and had
threatened TO kill his wife.
Although Utah failed to capture the
coveted recognition ~ the first place |
in the National Dairy show now being |
held in Chicago under the auspices OF