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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1903
Page
9
A series of fires in Ottawa Ontario on May 12 1900 destroyed hundreds of houses and vasta lumber stocks. John White recently released from prison was seized near the origin and may face arson charges. The blaze rekindled memories of the Hull fire of April 26 1900.
A Utah Agricultural College committee selects two sites for five dry land experiment farms. Juab county will host a forty acre tract three and a half miles south of Nephi, between Levan and Juab roads, near the Oregon Short Line. The soil is heavy clay on a gentle slope, sage brush covered, deemed suitable for statewide extrapolations.
May 10. Willard Milter, 12, was dragged to death by a rope while helping to harness a horse for threshing. The boy fell under the horse run and was dragged more than two miles before the horse stopped. His father, Keified Whout, aged about ten years, had previously worked with a threshing machine. The community expressed sympathy.
The state department received an affidavit by C. M. Owen charging Joseph F. Smith with polygamy. Accompanying papers include a protest dated January 26, 1903, from Salt Lake City opposing Reed Smoot’s admission to the United States Senate and a protest filed with the Senate committee on elections.
Prominent Millville citizens Ola and Niels Olson visited Logan yesterday. The Short Line iron trestles in Bear River canyon are described as solid. New laws without emergency clauses went into effect yesterday. Thomas Smart will shear his sheep this week amid winter losses. Cache Valley Farmer's Union executive discussed securing adequate wool for the Ford family and addressing past delays. A First district court case, George Sorenson v Jasper Lemon, proceeding with testimony on a spring claim in Menden. Scandinavian reunion plans set two days of festivities on June 1 and 15 with appointed committees for Benson and Hyrum stakes. Patriarch Henry Hughes, aged veteran, reports improved health after prayer and limited medicine. Mrs. N. W. Haws recovering from typhoid fever after croton oil mishap. friends express wish for her long life.
Review of a recent Macbeth performance notes its darkness and depth. John Chiffith shows potential though the company is uneven. Miss Ripley shines as Lady Macbeth, with strong support from others. The Thatcher stock company offered The Violin Maker of Cremona and David Gerrick with polished staging and harmony. Numerous actors get praise for their roles and singing, while future engagements are hinted at before Wellsville tonight.
Notes show the B. C. and Agricultural college baseball game halted after two innings due to damp conditions. Eastern Hill boys led 2 0 when the match was stopped. The contest will be replayed next Saturday at Bly campus in the evening with a Boy team and a picked Logan nine expected to participate.
New York correspondent notes Utah residents moving east in numbers. Mrs George W Thatcher and daughters Mrs Nettie Sloan and Miss Phillis Thatcher, Mr Guy Thatcher and wife, Miss Gladys Spencer stay at the Navarre. Thatcher family plans Harlem residence two years. Sloan and Spencer to study piano and violin. Mr W B Dongall Jr arrives, staying at the Imperial, may stay six weeks or two months.
The tax valuation of Cache County is outlined from the assessment rolls. The document lists values for properties and property-related figures used to determine county tax responsibilities.
A party of seventy Mormon converts arrived aboard the steamship New England in Boston en route to Salt Lake. Thirty five are Germans with the rest Hollander and English. Elders Harald A Lafount Frederick Zaugg Ralph T Merrill and Edwin F Tout declined to comment on German expulsion of Mormon missionaries.
Local brief lists several names among advertised letters awaiting pickup including Graybeal Dr J M7 Menderson Mr Matson Miss Edith Smith Mr Thos R South Mr Si Robert Murdock P M.
Workers of the Vache stake gathered at Logan tabernacle on May 10 for a Sunday School conference. Elder J E Carlisle presided, with speakers including J A Tan per Richards and D C Jensen. Addresses urged zeal, duty, and obedience, urging parents to take interest, and concluding with benediction by W W Maughan.
In Casper Wyoming on May 19 Walter Fork exhibited a 50 pound Oliver rifle base when a charging bear injured two men. A hunter fired at the animal as it lunged, hitting the bear and fatally wounding it. the shooter then killed the bear with a brain shot.
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