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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS ANDREW JENSEN, SPANISH FORK UTAH - Publisher - - UTAH STATE NEWS There Is more building activity In Lehl this season than for several years past. The Lehl city council has raised the city tax rate from 7 to 10 mills for tlty and street purposes. Four hundred Black Ilawk war vet rans attended the encampment at Spanish Fork last week. The Salt Lake team of Eagles won the first prize, $1,000 cash. In- the parade contest at Seattle last week. The Willard cannery has now about tmpleted Its run on beans and has commenced to can large quantities of apricots. Petitions are being circulated at Willard favoring a local option plank in the platforms of all the political parties this full. A piece of glazed pottery, evidently a relic of prehistoric ages, was found 180 feet from the surface of the earth by well diggers In Ogden last week. Lehl will hold a special election September 14 to vote on $26,600 water bonds. The result of the election will determine whether Lehl Is to have a water system or not. Salt Lake City will make a strong effort to obtain the new $1,000,000 plant which It Is understood the Hat rlman Interests will erect for the manufacture of motor cars. ' A young man of Mantua Box Elder county, was lust week fined $100 for lie sucgiving whisky to minors, ceeded in getting two girls, aged 12 ahd 16 years, Intoxicated. In connection with the movement which boa been started for good roads throughout the state, Salt Lake county has started work and expects to show ; good results within a short time. The amount due the state of Utah from the net receipts of forest re serves for the fiscal year ending June SO, 1908, Is $32,151, as compared with $9,003 In 1906, and $13,657 in 1907. The Salt Lake Y. M. C. A. has received the honor roll of the ten associations that lead In the 1908 International educational work contest for boys, and its name appears at tho head. Imprisoned In a box car without food or water for three long days, Joseph Hartman was released when the car reached Ogden, only to be Immediately arrested on tho charge of trespass. Governor Cutler will appoint any sportsman who wishes to attend the gathering of the League of American Sportsmen at Lawton, Oklahoma, Oo tober 12 and 13, a delegate from the - ' , state. The outing of the Utah National guard In Wyoming cost $9,624.33, exclusive of transportation and subsistence. Of the total amount, the state paid $4,298.99 and the government 4. Contracts have been awarded for the completion of Sprlngvllle's new high school building. The building, when all the floors are completed, which will be next year, will cost over $20,000. C. J. Christensen, penniless and suffering from an Incurable disease, suicided In Salt Lake City by hanging himself, rather than return to the poor house, where he had been for several 1 months. ; F. BuBsmyer, an aged man of Salt Lake, who shot Thomas Wallace at Salt Lake on July 31, will have to face a charge of assault with Intent to murder. Wallace Is recovering from his Injuries. John A. Nelson, a resident of Ogden, has Invented, a butter holder to be used by merchants In the delivery of the product which will insure It reaching the hands of customers in first-clascondition during the hot weather. In a runaway on the dugway near Mercur, William Bates of Mercur received a fractured Bkull and collar bone, Mable Groats of Lehl and a child were slightly Injured. The neck-yok- e broke, the team ran away, and the wagon was overturned. Mildred Smith, a resident of Salt Lake City, tried to commit suicide by drinking carbolic acid last week. A messenger boy prevented her get Ung the contents of the bottle past 'her lips, but enough of the acid was spilled on her face to burn her badly. A shocking death occurred about four miles north of Falrvlew when Frank Stewart of Mllbum was run over by the special train which was returning from Fort Russell with the Utah National Guard. Mr. 8tewart was about 60 years of age and leaves a large family. Froperty owners in Salt Lake county will pay this year $954,332.55 toward education, and $1,262,953 toward the support of the city, county and state governments, making a total of This means that' there $2,227,285.66. Is a per capita tax of approximately $6 for education. A. F. Heckler, a miner at the Gemini mine at Eureka, while coming off shift at 4:30 in the afternoon, lost his t level and balance on the level, a dispitched to the 1,600-foo- t tance of 900 feet, and was Instantly killed. His neck was broken and he was badly crushed by the fall. The trout In the ponds along the Ogden river near Hooper are to be caught by means of selns and placed back In the river, the work being under the supervision of game wardens. Thousands of trout die every year as the result of getting Into three ponds dulxg the high water season. s 700-foo- to tb They were all taken station. street seventh Forty "You cant stop a rooster by law, thundered the magistrate. "If It crows that Is not a crime. The arrest wail ridiculous." Then the charge code changed to violating the sanitary in keeping chlckena In a tenement In house, and Uluuienstein was held "Where $100 ball for special sessions. were the chickens kept last night? asked the magistrate. "In a cell with. llarrl-ganfour colored men," answered to chickens the over turn "Well, them If they are alive, said the court. The noise question Is still uppermost In Harlem, aud the police have their troubles In consequence. Inspector from Thompson received a letter woman who signed herself Mrs. Dai ling, objecting to certain dlaturblng sounds which she declared emanated Hun-drefrom the House of St. Regis, One Rivand street and Thirty-ninterside drive. "Bella are clanging at all hours, she wrote, "and the roosters In a chicken run in the rear of the house wake us up by crowing at midnight. We moved up here to get away from the noise down-towand now can't sleep for the racket these bells and roosters make." Two policemen were dispatched to the House of St Regis to listen to the roosters and the bells. It is a Roman The pushcart Catholic institution. men have been the chief concern of in Harlem. Several the fruit peddlers and old Junkmen, clotbesmen have been arraigned dally In the Harlem police court, and as a result these bawling nuisances have quieted down somewhat It was remarked that the pushcart men had taken revenge by decking out their carts with the loudest colors obtainable. The most brilliant color Waldos rswostt. Oo7rtf(ht by discords were used for the most part Lieutenant Colonel T. W. 8ymona, recently appointed chief of engineers and many of the carts, fluttering with of the United 8tates army, hat directed the building of tome of the greatest colored ribbons, looked like yachts at engineering works under the eupervielon of the war department; he built a regatta. The Idea seemed to be to the largest breakwater In the world at Buffalo. He graduated from West hit the eye of the public as hard as Point In 1874. possible, now that the means of reaching their ears was denied them. CHIEF Of NORTHWEST stein. West ARMY ENGINEERS d noise-buster- FOR A QUIET TOWN LIVELY CAMPAIGN GOING ON IN Eugene Blumensteln was arraigned before him charged with maintaining a NEW YORK. noise nuisance. Police Commissioner Bingham had received a number of since his noise crusade started letters from Can a Rooster Be Restrained declaring that Blumensteln, who runs His Natural Instinct of Crowlngf a saloon, kept a rooster and four Complications In the Cru- chickens on his roof, and that the aade Against Noise. chlckena awakened all the people In the neighborhood mornings 'and no New York. "No court In the world sleep was possible In West Fifty-thirSo Officer Harrl-gacan restrain a chicken from exercising street after sun-up- . went up there and arrested the bis natural Instincts," said Magistrate Breen In the West aide court, when rooster, his lady friends and Blumen- d n s Singer Diet in Poverty. San Francisco. In extreme poverty Helen Dlngon, a former comic opera singer, died here. Twenty years ago she was a star at the old Tivoli opera house in such operas as "The Masked Ball," and "The Little Duke." After ward she went east and repeated her success. She sang here until about 15 years ago, when she mdrrled a man named Steiglltz and retired from the stage. She lost her husband and her fortune. and her father, the founder of old Malson Doree restaurant, lost his for tune. In her old age she had to support an Invalid mother. HON. J. C. M'GREW OF W. VA 18 OLDE8T At Ago of 95 Ho lo Living In Peaceful Retirement In Hie Native Stats Elected to Houeo In Year 1868. Washington. Jamea C. McGrew cl Klngwood, W. Va., Is the oldest living of congress, and on Sep14 he will be 93 year old. next tember months ago the veteran a few Only Carrollton, O., of R. Gen. E. Eckley the passed away, leaving Col. McGrewr counentire of the veteran try. Is The Jamea C. McGrew of y wonderfully vigorous for his years and keeps actively in touch with matters political and business affairs. He was born In Brandonvllle, In what Is now Preston county, W. Va., and grew up the typical farmers boy, keeping to the country Bchool and the farm until 19, when a commercial life apIn pealed to him and he took up work a general store at Klngwood. Ills first political move was as a delegate to the famous secession convention of Virginia, held at Richmond In February. 1861. He took part in the discussions of this convention, but opposed accession, and. with 54 other delegates, voted nay on the proposition of leaving the union, and then held a secret session, voting to go home and to arouse not only opposition to the secession ordinance, but to excite a demand for the partition of the state of old Virginia. This was another sort of secession and out of the movement planned and aided by McGrew there arose the present wonderful state of West Virginia. Of the 152 members of the famous Richmond secession convention, Col. McGrew Is the only survivor. In the new state of West Virginia he has ever been active and conspicuous. He was chosen a member of the first and second legislatures and Is proud at this time to relate that he worked hard to establish the school system and the state college at Morgantown. He was elected to congress In 1868 and in 1870, and declined to take a third term. He served In the to-da- James Boner, aged -- the oldest resident i01( w11 dead of asthma, at Vlrl,. In a wreck on the be 2? TV near Glendive, Mont were killed and haf aa j. r. mm stantly killed at Northern Pacific eng'n.ML Hi. was horribly mangled SZJLES?. , In a cident at Douglas, Wy0 um crippled as at first The Colorado Federation ln convention at Denver of re1" u - !, 2 cJ. njj The loss as the in the Bitter Root tana will be great, J mounSfe feet of fine timber hgvtagw?1 stroyed. As a result of a washout M Tonopah & Tidewater rallrwJ Shoshone, Cal., a paswn plunged into a chasm and L. J were killed. . J Governor Norris has teen delegates to reprenent at the sixteenth national congress, to be held at Albud September 30. Teddy Stanton, not three yew a son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomu Si ton, of Plains. Mont, wa. ted ly shot through tho head by 4 J mate, Ralph Stevens, aged I ' d id mfi-later- j The State Bank of Wheatlaaj j the First National bank of WlwJ Wyoming, have merged under oame of the former, which tin b after conduct the banking buslnd that section. State Senator P. L. Flanlga a be Indorsed at the Goldfield ew tlon August 22 for Repuhllcaa i against Senator Newlands. Cmi able of a boom for Senator Flap has been raised. Pueblo has been chosen u the Ing place for the annual conreci of the Western Federation of As for the district embracing Colcn Utah, Wyoming and New Meito.i the date set for September L Benjamin Thompson of Pleas Ridge, Wyo., was thrown MILANS GOLDEN Emblem of Submission to Austria Bergamo Robbed of Colleonls Will. Rome. Milan and Bergamo have Just discovered the loss of certain artistic treasures. From the great Sforza Castle, sacred to the memory of the Sforza, dukes of Milan, the famous and historical golden keys of Milan are mlBsIng. They had always been kept In a glass case in the Renaissance museum of the castle, reposing on an antique brocade cushion, whose warm red tint served to throw Into relief the huge golden keys. To the Milanese these keys have a great. If painful. Interest, as they were specially made for the symbolical ceremony of the submission of Milan to Austrian domination, and so until lately served to keep patriotism awake In the hearts of the Milanese, who bate Austria much worse than they do the devil. No trace of the thieves has yet been found. The theft Is Incomprehensible, as the Intrinsic value of the keys Is small. Bergamo's loss Is heavier, both sentimentally and financially. Bergamo was the birthplace of the great mediaeval warrior, Bartholomeo who made the name of Venice ring throughout the world, and who had, as Rusktn said, the most beautiful monument In the world raised to him by a grateful republic, but his last testament remained to bis birthplace, and It Is this which has been stolen from the town archives when and by whom nobody knows. It bad been cared for Jealously for 500 or 600 years by proud It la now probably reposing In some foreign collector's cabinet , A , ' A" ef-.Tr- z; 1 door-jam- b ft 1 to o if C Cm ' r Z t, e ; - ' .4 ilrf rC BIG PIKE LIKES VEAL. Fteh Invades Flooded Field and tures a Calf. Cap- Worthing, S. D. During the last high water, large pike and carp made thetr way up a drainage canal In Grant township, this county, with the result that Henry Hanson, a farmer, lost a young calf, carried off by a giant pike. Melvin E. Sundvold tells the story as reported by Hanson. The farmer heard a noise among his cattle one night, and rushed out toward the trouble, which he found was near the canal. He found several calves standing belly deep In water, and noticed one little calf making a desperate effort to pull Its tall free from something. The farmer, with his bare legs, was afraid of barbed wire, but be waded cautiously toward the calf, and. Just as he caught It, a monster pike lashed the water all over him, and for a moment he was blinded. Wiping the water from his eyes, he found the calf was being dragged toward deep water. Hanson made a desperate effort to reach the animal before It was dragged into the canal, but he failed, and the calf struggled until It finally drowned. But-le- -- Copyright by Waldoa Fawcrtt. Residence of the Ohio Stateiman at Cincinnati. Col-leon- l, fellow-townsmen- from horse and received injuries that cause his death. Thompson hu h unconscious since the accident, 1 fears are entertained for hi. rear EL IL Stagg, 17 years of killed at the Montlcello mi house In Helena. He was running the elevator at. the plae n4 caught between the floor ol the and ere! vator and the to death. Reports were received it the patchers office at Sparks, Ner.,t Mina, Nev., that the residents of t little desert town were greatly turbed over what they thought a volcanic eruption close by, w gust 14. In a quarrel following a poker o' at Seven Troughs, Nevada, T. I kj acre, better known as 'Snort shot and killed D. C. McLaoglLt miner, formerly of Virginia Longacre has been held on 1 cli of murder. . cca Judge John Y. Batterton, W house during the days of giants men Deer at died like Horace Maynard, Garfield, Bing- commissioner, J Mont., on August 13, aged 82. ham, Banks, W. D. Kelley, Ben r Missouri from came and the present Senator Hale of Batterton 1877. Prior to moving west he Maine, who with Congressman Mcbeen probate and county Judge k Grew, Is one of the few survivors of the famous congresses that met after native state. hundred Eight million, eight the civil war. Since leaving congress dollar. Bi sixteen thousand nine Col. McGrew haB led a quiet life, but of has not at any time relaxed his vigi- ty cents is the amountPacific Southern the lance for the party. A Methodist since made by his early manhood he has ever taken pany ln the state of CaliforniaH Aral luterest In church affairs and In 1881 the year ending on the he was sent a delegate to the ecu- In March last Chief Justice Talbot, about menical council held In London, and, to while abroad, made the grand toar of candidacy for Nevadi of bench Europe and the Holy Land, going also preme court to India. has been a great deal of P tW will zeek He Is fond of relating that he has has decided that he bathed In the river Jordan and the (nation from the Democratic Dead sea, that he has stood on the lion at Tonopah. back of the sphinx and climbed the Five men are dead and in of Pyramid of Ghlzeh. probably die as the resultthe He Is proud, too, of hlg Scotch-Irisslon that occurred at ancestry, and he has been described quarries, about forty mlIc . by a friend as combining the caution Great Falls, Mont., where of the Highlander with the rock for the B. & M. smelter j Impetuosity and boldness of the Irishman. Mr. Falls Is quarried. 1 HOME OF SENATOR FORAKER KEYS LOST. , voice vote,- Indorsed the ru ln party In the national Omaha, Neb., was city ln which the 1909 fll Eagles will be held, at tire grand, aerie held In Seam,! . George Evans and son 17. and daughter, Bes drowned ln Snake river below Huntington, Ore., Leaves $200, OOP to Fight Tax Womans Bequest to County Is Provo Illegal $3,000 Assessment. Bridgeport, Conn. to of the citizens and the life of the founded by our fathers. God save the republic." Mrs. Cornelia H. to Fairfield county, Connecticut, on condition that the Income shall be used to press litigation against the borough of Brooklyn, N. Y., for the purpose of proving that the tax arrears act, passed on March 15, 1883, as a result of which she lost less than $3,000, Is Illegal. In the will Mrs. Rogers wrote that she regarded herself bound by a sacred duty to prosecute the case to a legitimate conclusion, and In an accompanying letter she said: "My great desire Is to provide for and procure the prosecution of this litigation, for I regard the Brooklyn arrears act and the legislation growing out of and connected therewith as most unfortunate and a great and abiding wrong to the citizens of Brooklyn, and as the tax state certificates which I have held and those which are now In my possession have been and are affected by this action, I consider It a high public duty and necessary to make all possible use of them In righting this wrong, If It may be done." Originally the $200,000 bequest was left to Yale university and Vaasar college, with similar Instructions, and a proviso that $1,000 annually should be paid from the Income to Monroe and New Fairfield, small towns In the vicinity of this city, but the change to Fairfield county Is contained In a codicil, which says: "I earnestly urge the citizens of Fairfield county carefully to examine and consider a situation which, I am fully persuaded, threatens the safety B. Rogers leaves $200,000 Deer Hunt In New York City. York. A deer chase in the downtown district gave the buslnesi center a novel entertainment. The animal was caged In a crate tagged for the game preserves of W. Seward Webb, of the New York Central railroad, in the Adirondack. The crate had been placed In aa ex press wagon, which started uptown. The deer forced the top bars of Its temporary prison and leaped into the street. While the driver shouted to pedestrians to head off the game the deer fled In other directions. A policeman and a citizen who at tempted to catch the frightened anl mal were easily bowled over, and the deer fled for several blocks until he reached the Hudson river, plunged In. and was heading for Governors Island he ew a tugboat lasaoe him and returned him to his crate. New f Lost Teeth While Bathing. Atlantic City, N. J.- -A wave that banged Mrs. D. II Turm of Reading Fa., against other bather! and filled her mouth with salt watei also knocked out her false teeth whits she was enjoying a surf bath Th woman screamed and life gunrds whe supposed she was drowning, rushed tc her assistance only to discover that she merely wished for tho return o the missing molars. Gallant guard, dived for several minutes, but fulled and the unfortunate tJJnd has tPeth' cut her vacation return home after a new set. short ta B"1 v -- ) McGrew married Persia Hagans In and their married life wag one long romance. They trod the path together for 64 years and since her death In 1893, he has lived with a married daughter, Mrs. Martha Heer-man- s of Klngwood. It Is the sweet sentiment of Mr. McGrew when he speaks of his dear wife to credit her with whatever of success he has had In life because of her wise counsels and womanly Intuitions. His son, Maj. VUlliam C. McGrew, la a business man ?! Morgantown w. Va., and George I. McGrew. D. D., served ten ndla as a missionary. He Is yearsrec-to-In now r of a church near Washington. grand old man of West ,.J'day :,hl8 ves ln Peaceful retirement iJ the home which he built years ago for his bride. He Is many serene with' hiWh,iior th0 Bummon. happy and with the memories f We BIPnt and "hen he talks vi " ,m.8t. and the even,s In which he one regret -t- hntTA0 epre88ea done no roo tor the happiness and comfort of bis fellow 1841 J bt J of) Mrs. David Miller, wifenorth In the Frog Pond basin, weex Missoula, Mont., last was that monster bear attenj, break Into her cabin. W8 ( one of the largest ever ktu part of the! country camP , Rlpetown, a mining nine miles from Ely, Nevada j population of about 300, by completely destroyed In week. The fixe started the explosion of a lamp with great rapidity. 4 WlnBton Brothers, contract Ing the big SL Faul Pw rout p Taft, Mont, on the extension ... Ml ciflo coast railroad, broke all when rd.snI June boring In America 5S3V6 pushed the bore into the mountain. Frank E. Stotts, ".T 0f V"1 sloner for northern dlstnc Ins Ing, died at Sheridan brni J hemorrhage of the at beat and jt,; between lawyers and doc Professor Stotts partlc.l with the lawyers. - over-exertio- |