The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-03-10
THE UTAH BUDGET

The Sugar House district, consist.
ing of 9O3 acres, has been annexed to
Salt Lake City.
Three deer hunters, convicted at
Marysvale of illegally killing deer,
have been fined 800 each.
During the week just closed there
were forty births in Salt Lake, of
twenty-eight girls
During 1908 there was nearly 5O,-
100000 pounds of crude salt harvested
in Utah and 22,l12,000 pounds of re.
fined salt manufactured.
Robert Atkinson was caught under
mass of earth which fell in the But
ler-Liberal mine at Bingham. but was
rescued alive and will recover.
A successful institute was held at
Midvale on Friday by the teachers of
the Jordan district. 1t was estimated
that there were more than IT'S pub
lie school instructors in attendance
during the day.
Theodore Kennedy, a negro, who
shot Wallace Lyon, a young man of
Ogden, during quarrel, has been sen
fenced to fifteen years Imprisonment
Young Lyon has never fully recovered
from his injuries.
A gang of quarrymen commenced
last week to get out the rock for the
foundation of the new Alpine stake
tabernacle The stone is a black
limestone and is located about seven
miles west of Lehi.
The sub-staton at Springville OF
the Utah Sugar company's large plant
has completed It's seasons run, outdo.
ing all previous years. The mill has
had steady run of five months, and
has put through 42,300 tons of beets.
The first conviction since prohibi-
tion went into effect in Logan was
held last week, when one of the own.
ers of a saloon which is operated just
outside the city pleaded guilty to sell
Ing liquor on Sunday and was fined
800.
The salt industry in the state in
1908 was not as flourishing as it was
before, but 1t is believed by State
Statistician II. r. Haines that the
business along that line for 1909 will
show an increase of at least 90 per
cent
While working In a sewerage
trench under a sidewalk in Salt Lake
City, Joseph Murrell, aged 80, was
buried under several tons of earth
and suffocated before his fellow
workmen knew that there had been
an accident.
The Denver, Northwestern e. Pa.
cific railroad is not to be extended
westward from Steamboat Springs,
Colo, to Salt Lake the coming sum
mer. Neither is the company, ac-
cording to Denver advices, preparing
to build any branch lines.
The body of man named Gus An
derson was found on the railroad
track near New Tooele at daylight
Monday morning with the head
late Saturday and it is supposed he
went to sleep on the track.
With 400 delegates in attendance, |
the first laymen convention ever
held in Utah convened in Salt Lake |
City, Monday night, banquet being |
The opening feature of the meeting,
representatives from all religious de.
nominations being present.
The beet growers of Weber county
are Standing pat on their demand
rom the Amalgamated Sugar com
pany for an increase in price on their
beet crops, and it looks like the com
)any must come to their terms or
lose down the Ogden factory.
Albert Stevens, one of the pioneer
esidents of Holden. died at that
,lace March 8, after an illness of two
weeks. Death resulted from old age
nd general debility Mr.. Stevens
vas born in Mt. Pleasant, Canada, SO
ears ago, and came to Utah when a
oung man.
Park City's high school again won
rom the Salt Lake City high school
a the debate between teams from
he two schools. The vote was unan.
nous in favor of the Park City team. I
his makes the third consecutive de.
sat the Salt Lake City team has met I
the nands of rark City. {
In the near future Lehi will hold a {
Ond election, to determine whether
r not to erect new public school q
uilding. 1t has been but five years q
nee Lehi erected a $4,000 primary T
Hiding, but today every one of the +
venty-one school rooms now in use [
e crowded to overlowing. q
Turning TO shoot at rabbit on the II
othills east of Ogden, Carl Morri. fl
N, 10 years of age. caught the trig-
r of his gun on his coat and shot :,
mself through the fleshy part of u
q leg near the knee, iuhicting a q
inful though not serious injury. He =,
rs compelled to crawl half mile :,
the nearest residence,
A counterfeit So gold piece has .,
rned up at the Ogden post office, ~
d the postal authorities are now ~
,king an investigation The coin Is -
almost perfect representation of a n
lid gold piece, ana was doubtless Cd
Lde by experienced counterfeiters. n
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