UTAH STATE NEWS
    The metal production of Juab county for the year 1902 is placed at 5,977,694.
    A lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was instituted at Springville last week.
    Charles Schlicht, the circus employee who was shot and seriously injured in Pocatello last week, was formerly a resident of Salt Lake City.
    The floods of the east have caused a serious shortage in the tobacco market of Salt Lake. Especially is this so in regard to the supply of plug tobacco.
    Santa Talarico, an Italian, fell under a switch engine at the coke ovens at Castle Gate, on Saturday, both of his feet and one arm being severed. He cannot survive.
    At the Fourth of July celebration in Santaquin, Cuba, will be represented by the most beautiful young lady of the town. Porto Rico and the Philippines will also be represented.
    The management of the Saltair resort has reduced the fare from 50 cents to 25 cents, the same as it has been in years past. The public would not stand for the increase in rates.
    Florence Roper, a 15-year-old boy, while stealing a ride on a street car in Salt Lake City, was struck by a pole and knocked under the wheels, his body being badly crushed, death being almost instantaneous.
    An unsuccessful attempt was made t burglarize the Oregon Short Line depot at Eureka, one night ast week. After gaining an entrance to the office however, the burglars were frightened away, without securing any plunder.
    Seven new cases of smallpox were quarantined in Salt Lake during the week, and 19 were discharged as cured, leaving 30 cases now in detention, as against 42 for the previous week, when 10 new cases developed.
    The year book of the department of agriculture estimates that on January 1st last Utah had 3,570,070 head of sheep, worth an average of $2.40 each, or a total of $8,561,386. These sheep produced in the previous year 16,900,000 pounds of wool.
    The state of Utah has added $27,882, 153.59 to the value of the visible supply of precious metals produced in the United States during the year 1902. The quantity of gold, silver, copper and lead mined during the year being the largest in the history of the state.
    The International League of Press clubs, in session at Atlanta City, N.J., decided on Salt Lake City as the place for holding the convention in 1904. The convention will bring to Salt Lake City the largest and most influential body of newspaper writers it has ever known.
    A coroners jury has decided that the death of George H. Littlefield, the soldier whose body was found in Salt Lake City, was due to poisoning, and theat the poison used was carbolic acid thus proving it a case of suicide. It was first thought the man was murdered.
    Theodore D. Boal, a prominent contractor of Denver, was probably fatally injured in a runaway accident in Salt Lake City, Sunday. He was thrown from the vehicle after making a game fight to stop the team, his leg being broken and his head cut up badly.
    Alfred Pink of Salt Lake was set upon by five footpads near the Warm Springs and beat into insensibility, the robbers securing all his cash and a gold watch. The men are believed to have been hangers-on of a circus which was passing through.
    Max Blank and Edward Roy, of Salt Lake, quarreled one morning last week, when Ray shot Blank, the bullet striking him in the shoulder, inflicting a slight wound. The men were neighbors and the shooting was the result of a standing quarrel.
    Thomas Fitzgerald, a section foreman at Mounds, was brought to Price, Saturday, suffering from a severe beating with clubs at the hands of ten Jap section men, half of whom were his gang. Fitzgerald had refused to get ice for the Japs after 6 p.m.
    The osmoses plant at Lehi closed down last week. During its 100-day run it converted the left-over syrup into about two and a quarter million pounds of brown sugar, which, when the regular campaign commences this fall, will be refined into white sugar.
    Two Provoites had an exciting experience at Soldier Summit, Saturday, when five hobos attempted to rob them. The men put up a game fight, but were beaten into insensibility and robbed, one of the men having his arm broken in two places.
    John Wilkins, an employee of Sells & Downs circus, died at Ogden from injuries received in an encounter with an elephant on the circus train between Ogden and Evanston. Wilkins walked in his sleep, and the animal attacked him.

Source: The Iron County Record -  July 3, 1903
Submitted and transcribed by Kathie Scott

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