The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-05-05
THE UTAH BUDGET


spectors.
The attendance at the Box Elder
high school for the 1910-l91l school
year will practically be double the
attendance of the present year.
Weber county will begin the install.
alton of a pipe line for sprinkling pur-
poses along the state road from south
Ogden limits to the Davis county line,
at once, at cost of $1,000.
A total of $6S,OO0 will be needed for
the maintenance of the Weber county
schools, according to the estimate
submitted to the county commission
ers by the clerk of the board.
Arrangements have been made to
hold the fourth annual musical festi-
val in Salt Lake City, probably the
week of July IS, although the date
has not been definitely settled.
Wayne county is the third smallest
county in population in the state, con
tanning 1000 people, Kane and Rich
being the next. Wayne county in
area contains 2,413 square miles, and
in acres 1,529.000.
There Is noticeable activity at Wei.
by, the town site between Midvale
and Bingham, Already many sub
stantial dwellings have been erected,
while real estate in that vicinity is
going at good prices.
Two people killed and two others In
the hospital, their recovery being
probematical with half a dozen 9th.
ers injured, is the record of auto
mobile casualties In the streets Of
Salt Lake City during the month of
April.
Miss Millie Smith, aged 80, whose
home was in Lehi, was drowned in
Utah lake on Friday, the circum-
stances leading to the belief that she
had committed suicide. For the past
dozen years she had suffered from
melancholia.
Dan II. Harrigan, 81 years OF age.
and section foreman, died in a Salt
Lake hospital on Sunday as the result
OF n peculiar accident. He had, while
In q tool house, overturned a can of
gasoline, and breathing the fumes OF
the gasoline was responsible for his
death.
Falling head first over the railing OF
the stairway on the third floor to the
second floor. Gus Miller, 45 years Of
age and employed as shoemaker,
was instantly killed in rooming
house in Salt Lake City. Miller was
intoxicated when the accident oc
Cured.
A number of new buggies belong
ing to the Studebaker company, stand.
ing on the street In Pleasant Grove,
were almost ruined by some envious
person throwing solution of sui
phuric acid over them, destroying the
tops and seats and otherwise BADLY
damaging them.
The good roads convention which
was to have been held in Ephraim
May 7 has been postponed uutil May
IA. An excellent Ngramne has been
arranged for the occasion and large
crowd is expected Delegates will be
present from Sappete. Sewer and
Juab counties.
Investigation by a deputy dairy and
food inspector of the quality of the
milk being distributed in Bingham
and vicinity showed that of eight
samples taken from shipments, five
contained from one-quarter to one-half
water. Prosecution of offending ship
pers is likely to follow.
George Martin aged so, a well
known brewery worker of Salt Lake
City, suicided on the streets Monday
night, in the presence of large num-
ber of people shoting himself in the
head. Dependency due to the fact
that he had been out of work for
some time was the cause.
Governor Spry has issued procla-
nation setting aside Sunday, May l5,
as Peace day The purpose is to have
this day celebrated throughout the
state, in churches and other meeting
places, and to encourage the idea that
wars are terrible things and should
be frowned upon.
The mayor of Murray has served
notice on all the merchants of the city
that an ordinance will be drawn up
HItulpiNlHS lht ohlN VI hNhti :
and other explosives for the celebra
tion of Ju'y 4, The ordinance will
also provide punishment for anyone
caught discharging firearms.
Louis d. Zenet. an Italian, while en-
gagged in his work as timberman in
the Binghan-New Haven mine at
Bingham accidentally lost his footing
on one of the Slopes in the tunnel, and
fell a distance of forty feet, striking
on his head. His skull was fractured
and he died almost instantly.
The strike of the journeymen horse
shoers in Salt Lake, which has been
in progress for about two years pas t.
has been amicably settled. Sa.isflc.
tory concessions have been made by
both sides and the prospect is that
henceforth there will be no hitch be-
tween master shoers and journeymen
A love letter promising all of ones
earthly possessions to the woman soon
TO be taken as bride Is not a will
decides the supreme court in an opin.
ion in affirming the lower court in
the contest of the will of John Jen.
sen. who died at Dragon last year.
Henry Smith, now held at Reno.