OCR Text |
Show UTAH SIATE NEWS! Thirty cars of horses for European army use were shipped east from Og-den Og-den during the past week. There is prospect of early activities on the construction of five miles of additional line for the Union Pacific east of Ogden. Damage estimated at not less than $25,000 was done to the plant ot the Nephi Plasters company plant by fire of unknown origin. Tom Cachindes. a Greek, charged with shooting Bruce Mackay at Murray, Mur-ray, became temporarily deranged last week, and may be sent to the asylum. Edward D. Swan, St years of age, a pioneer immigrant to I'tah and a large real estate owner in Salt Lake, died last week at Long Beach, Cal., from old age and general debility. The first carload of exhibit material from Utah for the San Francisco exposition expo-sition was forwarded last week. The car contains materials for the Utah state building, as well as for the main exposition palaces. That Utah is enjoying marked prosperity, pros-perity, relatively, is the impression gained by a prominent Utah business man during four months' travel throughout the east, from which he but recently returned. Ogden Taxpayers fear they have lost $3o,2S6.95 The sum was Ogden'B share of the expense to date of work on the damsite at South fork. The site may be abandoned in spite of the money already spent. IF. M. Bishop, for many years justice of the peace in Salt Lake, and reelected re-elected at the November election on the Republican ticket, has been ousted from office by a decision of the trial judge in contest proceedings. According to an announcement by Charles J. Ross, manager of the organization, or-ganization, it has been definitely decided de-cided that the Ogden tabernacle choir will make the proposed trip to the California exposition next July. Life imprisonment was the sentence pronounced by Judge Ritchie in the district court at Salt Lake on Joe Bush, convicted of Vobbery. Bush was convicted of holding up the occupants of a saloon at the point of a gun. John Cahassi, an Italian, has been bound over to the district court at Salt Lake on a charge of murder in the first degree for the alleged killing of Joseph Mancuso, another Italian. Mancuso was shot the night of December Decem-ber 10. James Jensen, former bishop of Forest Dale ward, died January 15 of general debility. Born in Sjelland, Denmark, June 7, 1S41, Mr. Jensen joined the Mormon church there in 1855 and came to Utah two years later. The county horticulturist has prepared pre-pared his annual report for 1914, which shows an estimated total value of commercial shipments of fruit out of Utah county to be 311,050. and the estimated value of the total fruit crop to be $614,950. J. A. Sorenson, aged 1, and Genevieve Gene-vieve Ellsworth, aged 19, both residents resi-dents of Rigby, Idaho, were found dead in a rooming house in Ogden, having ber accidentally asphyxiated. It is clai.d the young couple had been secretly married. With conditions becoming better, Utah canners anticipate no great difficulty dif-ficulty in selling their surplus canned goods, I N. Pierce, president of the Utah. Canners' association, told the committee from the State Retail Merchants' Mer-chants' association at Ogden. The establishment of public game preserves, the r;ghts of fishermen along public streams and the elimination elimina-tion of politics from the state fish and game department were discussed from every angle at a mass meeting of the hutners and fishermen held at Salt Lake last week. Articles of incorporation of the Amalgamated Sugar company and agreement of consolidation whereby the Amalgamated and the Lewyiton Sugar companies are consolidated, has been filed with the secretary of state The consolidated compauy is capitalized for $6,000,000. Joseph Henry Martin, convicted in Ogden a year ago in connection with the blackmail outrages, and now serving serv-ing a term of five years in the state prison, is not only one of the best behaved be-haved prisoners at that institution, but also one of the foremost students in the prison, it Is asserted. J. F. Byers, arrested at Salt Lake, according to his own admission, cashed cash-ed some thirty odd checks at local business houses during the past month by ordering various articles of merchandise mer-chandise and receiving the difference, in real money, the checks in every in. stance having been returned as for geries. The problem of disposing of t'laii':: canned products, not only the surplus of the 1914 pack, but the factory output out-put of future years, was discussed at the fifth annual meeting of tiio I 'tali Canners' association held at Og'li n. The question of whether inmates of the county infirmary are legal and permanent residents of the voting district dis-trict in which the infirmary is situate,! has been raised in the district court in Salt Lake in a suit to oust a justice jus-tice of the peace elected at the recent re-cent election. A new company has teen oranlze, at iirihani City and Hie arties of in corporatien will lie fiied tiiis u.tIv The new c(imjii:ny wiil be called tii,. Ca.sh lluyrrs' union, incorporat ef fur j0,('UO shares of the par value of , per share. - For the V'J5 elns f:iilMT '.!. 1'14. there were' 1 dairies born in Lehi anrl .'III death-. ''"I';b is the run t prosperous year for l,a 1,1' s since life;, j when th-'-re were K8 births. From ''-,"'i the birth ia:e gradually decreased de-creased until last year, when t wa; hut 120. 1 ' 'Tor the first time in the history of i the Ogden wat'-r department ass.eis oi ; more than a million cl'illars are shown in the annual report. The exact figures fig-ures are $l,u:i0.313.h2. The report shows net earnings for the year 1514 ' of $78,352.13. |