The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-08-04
THE UTAH BUDGET

will hold its annual meeting al Amer
lean Fork on August 24-2j.
The Ogden school census will show
an increase OF about 500, according
TO unofficial figures given uut ire N
school board headquarters.
The sprinkling system now being
Installed on the county road south
from Ogden city TO the Davis county
line will be completed during the
week.
Dresser Bird, city electrician and su.
perintendent of the Springyille power
pant, was killed Friday afternoon
while wiring barn at the home OF
Bruce Roylance.
Kenneth Cook Winter. aged A, was
run over in Salt Lake City by dray
loaded with three tons of stone, the
wheels passing over his abdomen
death resulting an hour later
During the past ninety days San.
pete county has paid sl,369.96 in
bounty on ground dogs. At the rate
Of 2 cents per dog, this means the de.
struction of 6S, 49S of the rodents.
OF the prisoners in the Utah state
penitentiary, there are ten who are
serving life sentences, two under
death sentence and one who was sen.
fenced to die but has been granted a
new trial
Miraculously escaping instant death
when he fell from the rods of a pas
senger coach running sixty miles an
hour, James Kelley, a professional
hobo, is at Coalville, Summit county
In serious condition.
Charles w. Robinson, well known
and highly respected citizen of Salt
Lake. died Thursday of hemorrhage
of the lungs. the hemorrhage being
the direct result of fall down the
cellar steps on July 81.
Suit for $4,000 damages has been
brought against the Ogden Rapid
Transit company by William Deloney,
a motorman, who was injured in col
iision August 1S, 1909. near the Her.
mitage in Ogden canyon
Roland eParson, Is years old, Is held
at the Ogden jail. charged wun the
grounds. Pearson has admitted his
guilt. and his only excuse is that he
had no car fare with which to return
TO town.
Plans for an S0-foot boulevard to
connect with the Ogden canyon boule
ward and thus supply main highway
from the center of the city to the can.
yon are being prepared by the city
engineer and the street department
at Ogden
John Kokas, the Greek leper whose
presence in Salt Lake has caused no
end OF trouble, will probably be de.
ported to Greece. Upon the discovery
that Kokas was afflicted with the
dread disease, he was isolated in
tent at the mouth of Emigration can.
von.
Michael Fitzpatrick, chief inspector
for the board of public works of Salt
Lake City died Friday from rheuma
tism, which reached his heart after
two days Illness. He was one of the
best known railroad builders in the
west, before settling down in Salt
Lake City.
The Provo city board of education
is considering the question of medi-
cal examination of the teachers and
medical supervision of the schools, |
and 1t is probable that such examina-
tion and supervision will be inaugural.
ed to take effect with the beginning
of next school year.
When DR. j. Prescott Dyos, who
died from heat prostration in Salt |
Lake three weeks ago. had been |
buried in Nevada, ii was found that |
lie had $4,000 in cash and consider |
able other property, and now an eff |
fort is being made TO locate his two |
children, a son and a daughter.
Farmer Price, of Green River, says
the Green River Dispatch. was a few
days ago showing branch cut from
one of his apple trees that contained |
seventeen large apples, the branch it
self being but that many inches in
length, Apple trees all over the val
ley are heavily laden with fruit
When a section of the balcony on
which number of dancers We're
standing, at Park City. suddenly col,
lapsed four young men were precipi.
tated to the ground below, a distance
of about twenty feet Edward Evans
aged 20 years, sustained injuries
which may result in death Two
others were painfully injured.
Three legs and four feet consti
tuted the scratching equipment of a
chicken that was hatched from an
ordinary egg belonging to Mrs. b. j
of Salt Lake last week. The
extra leg, to which are attached the
two extra feet, protrudes from be.
hind the two normal ones. and is ap
parently of no use to the chick.
Reports from the seventy state
banks and three private banks of the
state, as compiled by the secretary
Of state from reports Of condition AZ
The close of business July 9, show
gain in resources over the ,
report of March II, of this year. ,
Investigation of the clogged sewers
n Ogden revealed number OF dead