OCR Text |
Show THE GUNNISON GAZEiTE By Nephi Gledhill & Son. GUNNISON .... UTAH UTAH STATE NEWS During an electrical storm at Nephi, Ne-phi, lightning struck the barn ol George E. Howard, burning It to the ground. Charles Shmall, under arrest In Salt Lake City, has confessed to fourteen four-teen burglaries In the capital city during the past four months. Incendiaries are causing considerable consider-able damage in the vicinity of Santa-quin, Santa-quin, several haystacks having been destroyed by Ore the past week. The Bamberger road will be double-tracked double-tracked in the immediate future, irom Farmlngton to Kaysville, and also for five miles out of Salt Lake and Og-den. Og-den. Clarence Morgan, a miner employed employ-ed at the Silver King Coalition mine, at Park City, fell down a chute fifty feet in length and escaped serious injuries. in-juries. With the largest representation in the history of the union on hand, the state convention of the W. C. T. U. opened in Provo on the 14th for a three days' session. The license to retail and wholesale liquor dealers of Park City was increased in-creased at a meeting of the city council coun-cil Thursday night, Mayor Frank Daly casting the deciding ballot. Joe Nehalephi, 29 years ol age, was killed at the Columbus Consolidated mine in Alta district, Tuesday afternoon, after-noon, by the caving in of a seven-foot winze in which he was shoveling. At the fourth annual convention of the Utah State Federation of Labor, held in Salt Lake City, a resolution was adopted opposing any change in the present liquor laws of the state. Losing his balance and falling from the wagon in which he was riding, as the team took a sharp turn, Jonu l. Ohlson, pioneer farmer of Hooper, Weber county, broke his neck, dying Instantly. W. J. Burns, a farmer of Beaver county, has raised probably the largest larg-est squash ever seen in the state. The squash, it is said, will weigh 250 pounds. It will be placed on exhibition exhibi-tion at the state fair. At a meeting of the members of the Utah Press association at Tremonton, on September 13, a resolution was adopted placing the members on record rec-ord as being against the creation of a railroad commission. Clement Strong, aged 9, was seriously seri-ously injured at Alpine when a cartridge cart-ridge which he had found was exploded, ex-ploded, the thumb and forefinger being be-ing torn from the left hand and the right hand badly lacerated. While hunting doves in a canyon can-yon about a mile south of Kaysville, C. W. Whitman of Salt Lake was accidentally ac-cidentally shot in the leg by a friend. About 200 small shot entered his right leg just above the knee. A most important move in the direction di-rection of good roads has been scart-N scart-N ed in Sevier county. Next week the county road commissioner win commence com-mence work at Salina on a section of the state road leading south. There will be a matter of $3,000 spent on this work. Another mysterious fire occurred at Tooele when the big barn belonging to Henry Dorimus, secretary or the Tooele waterworks, was burned. The barn contained a large quantity of farming machinery, which was destroyed. de-stroyed. A horse valued at $250 was also burned. The recruiting station of the marine ma-rine corps, established in Salt Lake City on June 25, has made an excellent excel-lent showing in enlistments for the service during that time. Seventy-three Seventy-three men have been enlisted, over 80 per cent of these being residents of Utah. The digging of beets has commenced com-menced in Cache valley. The crop is 6hort as compared with that of last year. In some of the big producing districts like Lewiston the estimate Is that there will be at least a 30 per cent reduction in the crop. Parasites which look like cantaloupe canta-loupe seeds are believed to be the cause of the death of the wild fowl in Utah, according to Dr. J. W. Treman, city vetemarian of Salt Lake, who has forwarded specimens of the parasites para-sites to the government health bureau bu-reau at Washington. The Socialists met in Salt Lake City and nominated a complete state and county ticket. The platform reaffirms re-affirms the principles embodied in the national platform of 190S, declaring declar-ing in favor of a complete overthrow of existing economic and political conditions. Nine of Salt Lake's greatest retail establishments have decided to return to the late closing Saturday nights and, beginning September 17 the old hours will be resumed. The big merchants mer-chants claim they have lost $130,000 this summer as a result of the early closing movement. A company which is composed largely of Salt Lake people, proposes to build a big amusement resort at Millville, Cache county, and construe? and operate an electric line through Logan between Millville aud Hyde Tark. Desperate to the point of suicide because be-cause his cravings for "hop" could not be satisfied, John Bell, a "dope fiend," attempted to take his own life liy hanging himself from the ceilinp of his cell in the city jail at Ogden but was discovered before life was extinct. |