The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-04-07
THE UTAH BUDGET

Three hundred men ana Teams Will
leave Springville this spring to work
on railroad and canal building.
Over 100 men are at work on the
Springvile waterworks system. 1t is
expected to have it completed in sixty
days.
Three hundred acres of fine fruit
land, about one mile south of Ameri-
can Fork, has been sold to Salt LAX
ers for 800 an acre.
Howard Spafford, aged 45, whose
home was in Springville, was almost
instantly killed by a cave-in a, the
Frisco tunnel of the Bingham-New
Haven mine at Bingham.
w. II. Brown, who escaped from the
Utah prison October s, 1897, has been
serving a prison sentence in Kansas
and will be brought back to serve the
remainder of his sentence.
The people OF Manti have voted
favorably on the proposition to bond
the city for $4,000 for an electric
lighting system and $4,000 for the
Improvement of the water system.
The Eagles of Salt Lake City have
decided to build their own home, and
plans are now being effected for the
erection of substantial building to
be used as a lodge room and club
room.
Work is to be started in few
days on the l.. d. S. high school at
vernal. Plans for the structure are
now being drawn by Salt Lake archi-
tects The new high school will cost
about $25 900
Three masked men entered gro
Gerry store in Ogden Saturday night
and at the point of revolvers relieved
the proprietor Of gold watch and
some small change and rifled the cash
register of $40.
Plans for the improvement of Pio-
neer park, Salt Lake City, at cost
of $4,000, for the purpose of fitting
up public playground, were ap-
proved by the board of park commits
sioners at a meeting held last week.
At the session of county school
superintendent held in Salt Lake
City, resolutions were adopted advo-
eating legislation in Utah to enforce
anti-cigarette laws and other meas
ures for the advancement of the
schools.
The Mosida Land & Irrigation com.
pany, which is building town on
the west shore of Utah lake, has
placed an order for the first of line
of steamboats, to make regular trips
across the lake with passengers and
freight.
Park H. Cook, travelling freight
agent of the Hartman lines has pre-
scented to the Weber club of Ogden a
handsome inlaid mahogany picture of
1.-THE First Inhabitant" on the line of
the Union Pacific, designated as a
buffalo.
The union clerks of Salt Lake
City have won out in their agitation
for a shorter workday on Saturdays,
the leading stores Of the capital city
at 8 p. m. on the last working day
in the week.
The Amalgamated Sugar company
has issued orders for the construction
of platforms at all beet loading points
In Weber county, and will shortly un'
dertake the Improvement of hauling
facilities from the various loading
points to its factory.
Percy Hallen has at last won his
fight against the state board of op.
tometry, and in an opinion handed
down by the supreme court it is Or
dered that the board issue permit
to Hailen to practice optometry in
Utah. Hallen was refused license
In 1907.
William j. Medley, a middle-aged
negro, was found dead In a deserted
hut on Hudson avenue in Ogden un-
der somewhat peculiar circumstances.
II was at first throught he had met
with foul play, but it is now believed
his death was the result of natural
causes.
Losing his balance while at work
on the new county bridge in Ogden
worker, fell forty feet to the river be-
low, his body being found an hour
later. horribly mangled. Glover was
% years Old and his home was in
Orangeburg, S. c.
George Mason, farmer Of Spring
Vile, died suddenly of heart failure.
He had been in poor health for some
time. but was able to walk around and
was out in his field watching his son
plow when he complained of a pain
In his chest and fell to the ground and
died almost instantly
The construction of another great
interstate railroad. extending from
Marysvile, Utah, TO San Bernardino,
Los Angeles and San Diego, Cal, is
reported to be contemplated by Geo,
j. Gould 1t is claimed the line will
parallel the Salt Lake route, and will
tap a rich agricultural district
w H. Farnsworth, secretary of the
state board of land commissioners,
has turned over to the state treasurer
the sum of $1O,531,55, being the