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Show THE SPANISH PRESS FORK ANDREW JENSEN, Publisher - SPANISH FORK UTAH WJh UTAH STATU NEWS The tenth annuul exhibit of the Utah Art Institute wan held at Rich-- f eld last week. The little son of A, D. Dlmmlek of hud hit leg broken the (llenwood other day while trying to stop a runaway horse. Mrs. John Duns more, who had II In Park City for (he past twenty-fiv- e years, died lunt week from a complication of diseases. While coasting at Murray, Clement boy, ran Panders, an Into a poBt on the side of the road end unstained a broken leg. With an Increased population, Salt Lake's death rate for November of this year was lower than for the corresponding month last year. Sixty-fivcomplaints have been Issued against parents and guardians In Salt Lake- City who have failed to Knd children In their care to school. A number of tire citizens of Salt lake have signified their intention ' (t waging a vigorous battle agatnst the proposed Increase In the water rates. As soon os the weather will per fiilt, the Oregon Short Line will, it Is said, commence the work of duu Its line between Suit Lake and Ogden. Will Dlckerson broke his right arm at Murray by falling upon a slippery Ills right hand was also fldewalk. badly cut by coming in contact with the rough edges of the sidewalk. The body of Johan Hot he was found on his cabin floor the other day He had been Hear Annabella. in the fish culture business rnd lived in a cabin near the ponds. Fred Ifalverson, a young man emt mine at ployed in the Park City, met with a painful acci dent In "the mine last week, when one of his feet was badly criihlied by a fj.ll of rock. It Is announced that freight and c passenger traffic on the Western will be opened up as far as the week, Wells, Nevada, during completing 205 miles of the line west of Salt Lake City. Sun The office of the Richfield was nearly destroyed last week by fire. The fire originated Ira the basement among the paper stock, caused ty the careless laying of a cigarette vr pipe among the paper. William Davis is In jail at Ogden, charged with horsestealing, it being charged that while Intoxicated he stole a horse from his employer, Peter Getsler. of Five Points and tradid It to an Ogden liveryman. While sitting at his post of duty, early Friday morning of last week, Porter McCIannahan Jones, a linotype operator on the Morning Examiner of Ogden, passed away from a sudden attack of heart failure. While going through some old papers In hla desk, the county clerk ot Weber county discovered a check for $100 which had been lodged In a cor-re- r of the desk for several years, And had long since been given up as lost. Matt Pavalie was lowering a heavy mortar board from one of the upper stories of a new building to Salt Lake City when the board slipped from the rope and struck him squarely on the IT-r- r TrCr- - -- CTT TTT A T Tt. twin v-- eight-year-ol- e - g d Daly-Wes- Pa-rlfl- - head, crushing his skull and fracturing his left arm. After lying In an undertaking shop for two weeks while the officers were endeavoring to locate his friends, the man believed to be W. H. body ot Robo of Denver, Colo., who bad sui- cided by taking carbolic acid, was burled In the potter's field. Owing to the enormous Increase in sugar beet production In Weber and counties the past season tr two the directors of the Ogden have decided they must foctory lther limit the production next year cr Increase the capacity of the fac- tory. A new trial has been asked for by the defendants In the celebrated coal case. In which it was charged that the defendants, the Union Pacific Coal company, the Union Pacific railroad and others, had conspired to put a Salt Lake coal dealer out of busi- ness. While a party of young people were coasting In Park City, their sled collided with a horse and Miss Jennie Wilson was kicked In the face by the animal, receiving a bad cut ever the eye. None of the others were Injured, beyond a severe shaking up. David D. Davis, a former resident ct Salt Lake City, who had been convicted in connection with the bounty frands of a few years ago, fell from a freight train near Imlay, Nevada, about November 30, according to advices just received, and was ground to death. A Russian boy living ih Salt taU City made a plea to a dally paper last week to help him secure employment, stating that he had learned that he had fallen heir to a fortune of a million and n half dollars, but to earn his In the meantime had dally bread. Gertrude Reeves, the colored woman of Salt Lake City who was recently arrested on the charge ot having murdered her baby, and who was out on ball, died last week as the result of an overdose of drugs, but It Is not believed that she intended suicide. J I'ST come for a trip to Toyland and I take a peep at the many aengnuui I presents which Santa ClauB pre-j tiA 1 vrtiithflll His enchanted castle, brilliantly HgMed, Is filled with an endless variety of toys; and as the visitor passes through the main avenues in this wonderful world the spectacle becomes more and Christmas. more entrancing. Numberless fairy-lamp- s lead the way to where the mechanical and electrical toys are stored; and what an Imposing array they make! The place seems full of motor cars, motor omnibuses and motor boats, darting here, there and everywhere, at the bidding of their miniature drivers. The wireless telegraph is busy sending messages, and the Wlms-hurmachine with its glssler tube Is producing the most beautiful colors as though by lightning. Close at hand ate scores of different kinds of steam engines models of perfection together with railway carriages, stations, tunnels, signals, and all the rest of it, just like a real railway. Over there we catch a glimpse of the a complete plating machine, and hundreds of electrical toys which are going to be all the rage this season among those who can be Some of the favored with costly playthings. engines come to as much as ten guineas; but the smaller models can be had for a very trifling sura. An adjoining room wears quite a military aspect, with Its thousands of leaden soldiers In full dress, looking very fierce and brave. No doubt they will be pleased to receive marching orders, and show what they can do with their rifles, swords, and real cannon. You can tell they are like real soldiers, because they don't seem to mind a bit being placed in the midst of all sorts of animals, such as elephants, Hons, tigers, bears, leopards and monkeys. The elephants trumpet, the lions and tigers roar, the bears growl, the horses neigh, the donkeys bray, the dogs bark, the cats meow, and all the rest do their full share towards swelling the uproar, but It makes no difference to the soldiers. A little further on taxlcabs dodge In and out of miniature garages, and skillfully steer their way between London county council electric trams. All the drivers are really very clever in Toyland. A long line of spliited rocking-horseand marxs the way to the dolls' prancing palaces. This Is essentially the girls' domain. It Is scarcely possible to conceive anything which Is not here represented. Some of the houses are large enough to be called mansions. They are provided with a complete staff of servants, an ample larder, a thousand and one st gee-gee- s little com forts, and, to round off the luxury of It all, a Bmart motor car stands at the front entrance, awaiting the appearance of my lord and lady. Was there ever such a show of dolls seen before? They seem to be everywhere, displaying their finery. The undress doll is away on a top shelf, because the popular doll must be In the fashion in the way of dress. The adult doll, with hair done In the latest style, Is one of the features of the place. Raby dolls are apt to be tiresome, but the grown-up- s are always on their best behavior. Of course, the universal ambition to soar in the air is represented in Toyland, otherwise the place would be Incomplete; tops which fly up to the celling, tops which sing In the air. plums, apples, pears, and other fruit dance about most gayly. Swimming men, dancing Scotchmen, snowballs stuffed with small toys, and humpty-dumptcircuses come In view as you wander along; while games galore call aloud for inspection. Toyland certainly never was so full of splendid things for those who can spend dollars and cents. Take another turn, however, and we come to Tiny Town, where the purchasing power of the Sets of kitchen penny is best represented. utensils, traction engines, gunboats, cruisers, motor omnibuses, railway engines, blacksmiths, sawyers, county council trams, lighthouses, dancing ballet girls, dolls' furniture, sewing sets, gold fishes in globes, minus the elaborate mechanism of the more expensive type, but all made to work. Comical figures, magnetic divers, shooting galleries, skin animals, and hundreds of musical contrivances are priced at a few cents. In the course of a short ramble through Toy-lan- d It is Impossible for us to tee all that Is to be seen, but It Is clear that Santa Claus has never had such a busy time in making arrangements for his Christmas eve visit The season according to the great toy emporiums whose wonderful stocks are reviewed above will probably make a record from the business standpoint. Each succeeding year brings a growth In the demand for better class toys; and It Is a ha'ppy circumstance that the English maker Is awakening to the possibility of big business In this direction. The German snatched the soldier trade from the French, and for years maintained a practical monopoly; but In turn the German has been completely ousted by the Englishman. In some of the largest toy places In London this Christmas not a single foreign made soldier will be told. The same success Is apparently awaiting English enterprise In regard to dolls' houses. Germany still holds the field as regards dolls, y but in the course of time even this phase of Toyland undergo may a change. Games bid fair to become extremely popular. Dlabolo, or "the devil on two sticks," has already captured Paris, and the demand In London suggests the likelihood of its becoming a great craze there. At a moment when the toy industry In France is on the wane, the famous caricaturist Caran d'Ache comes to the rescue. Being medically forbidden to follow his art, he turned, as a hobby, to making wooden animals. Unable to repress the humorous strain in his soul, he imcharparted to lils creations a acter which has already made them the rage of Paris; and to judge from the Rurllngton Arcade they will ere long become quite a craze In London. From the cheap mechanical toy which Impedes our progress through the streets, as displayed on the pavement by the enterprising camelot. to the wonderful creations which the Nain Bku, that paradise of French children for nearly a century, has provided for the pampered darlings of the wealthy, the predominatIs ing element in the French toy of mechanical lngeunlty. Never has this been more noticeable than in the novelties which the manufacturers are preparing for the coming holidays. The average French maker of toys scorns to offer the little ones such simple things as our childhood knew; and the wooden doll and woolly baa lamb are to be found only In the poorer districts. Dolls made of wood there are, but the wood is only a casing for wonder, ful works, and the lamb must be and able at least to frisk. Among the more expensive toys, and one which' will give the small boy with a gun an opportunity to prove himself a crack shot, is the pigeon shooting device, which is an attractive novelty. Upon a pole about eight feet in Is affixed, much after the height a cross-ba- r fashion of a parrot's perch, except that the cross-piecis mobile, and Is made to swing In a circular direction by means of a simple arrangement of weights like those of a cuckoo clock. At each end of the cross-baIs a colored cardboard pigeon, with outspread wings. The machinery Is set in motion, and a shot from a toy gun knocks the bird down. Miniature automobiles there are In plenty, but the latest thing in the toy motor-ca- r line Is run by electricity, and has, If you please, a powerful electric headlight and movable hood. It Is doubtful, however, If even so magnificent a plaything as this can have the attraction for the youngster which was provided by the little tin "automobile a catastrophe' which was the great novelty of last Christmas, and promises to be popular mirth-provokin- to-da- y life-size- r well-directe- This diminutive car held two doll passengers, the chauffeur and his lady. You wound It up, and It sped along the floor right merrily for a few yards, wiien suddenly again this year. there was a terrible shock the catastrophe! The car came to pieces, and the unfortunate occupants were hurled Into the air and fell in. pitiful heaps beside the machine. Sometimes the realism was so intense that "the luckless motorists fell under the shattered machine, and then their fate was too horrible to dwell upon. You picked up the pieces, and put them together, and revived the doll corpses, and set the car going again, and so o:.. You could have the most exciting accidents all day long. But automobiles are vleux Jeti now, and even steering balloons of the Santos Dumont type no longer find favor with the toy manufacturers. This Christmas, the Petit Noel who is the French child's Santa Claus will scatter toy aeroplanes along his path. To be sure, they have to be suspended by a string from the chandelier, but if the string is a black thread It Is hardly visible, and the Illusion quite successful. Apropos of flying things, the top of that denomination which figures among the novelties Is a most fascinating affair, though why "top" Is not clear. A light metal disc made to repreupon sent a bird or a butterfly, with wing-tipa ring, Is placed upon the floor. What appeart to be a wand, finished with a rubber cup. i pressed against the center of the disc and The disc whirls rapidly briskly withdrawn. and rises In the air, flying off In various directions. Since the French caricaturists' exhibition this spring, when Caran d'Ache's wooden toys created a furore, and all the world of fashion flocked to see the show and admire his "regiment of General Boum," the celebrated artist e toys have become a craze with grown folk and children alike. The playthings which Caran d'Ache has fah ioned In wood for the season of gifts are in the form of groups representing hunting parties in which European rulers are the principal figures. Thus we see his majesty, King Edward, arrayed In kilts, accompanied by a brawny Highlander, shooting over the moors. Wondering pheasants, like barnyard fowl, are grouped at the hunter's feet, and gaze In astonishment at the alert dogs, which point In most thorough fashion. The tzar In pursuit of native game, and the president of France at Ramboulllet, have aho inspired Monsieur d'Ache. While children of all nationalities still cling fondly to Teddy bears, their elders In France are Indulging youthful fancies In the purchase of Caran d'Ache'a dogs; and many are the Frenchmen' desks which thla Jour de I'An will see adorned with one of these delightful pups. ' s |