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Show UTAH SM NEWS John II. Dewey, a pioneer of 1847, filed at his home in Salt Lake City, iiflor an extended illness. He was 83 years of age. On Novomber 17 the state land board will sell 750,000 foet of timber at Parowan, Iron county. A minimum price of $2.50 a thousand feet has been fixed. The price of nut sundaes have advanced ad-vanced from 10 to 15 cents at all soda fountains In Salt Lake. High cost of nuts, cream and sugar are reported to be responsible. Utah is again attracting nation-wide attention in educational circles, this time through the medium of the motn-er-craft work glvan by the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college. John Smith, tne man who was wounded by A. S. Atwood in Spanish Fork canyon for demanding $50,000 from Atwood has been sent to the state mental hospital. Dogs and livestock at Reed, twelve miles north of Mllford, have been bitten bit-ten by coyotes supposed to be rabid. Milch cows belonging to Dan Smith-son Smith-son were bitten a few night ago. Four dogs have been shot. Mystery shrouds the death of William Wil-liam G. Reaugh, .believed to he a miner min-er of Bear Lake, Idaho, and about 45 ysars of age, whose lifeless form was found lying on a bed in a rooming house in Salt Lake City. Pneumonia, believed to have been contracted by sleeping out doors, resulted re-sulted in the death at the county hospital hos-pital at Salt Lake of John Scott, 35 years of age. He was arrested for vagrancy a few days previous. Major Wesley E. King of Salt Lake, now acting as judge advocate with the troops at Nogales, has been ordered order-ed back to Salt Lake for duty in mustering out the members of the First squadron of Utah cavalry. The secretary of the state land board last week deposited with the state treasurer $22,179.50, which represents rep-resents the return investment on several sev-eral land grants with tha interest collected col-lected during the month of October. Divorces following almost immediately immedi-ately upon marriage are not to be granted in Salt Lake county. Announcement An-nouncement to that effect was made from the bench last week by Judge M. L. Ritchie of the Third district court. Henry Coulam, who served as a. captain in the Black Hawk Indian war, and he was one of the "minute men" of the early history of Salt Lake and noted as one of the first volunteer firemen, died at Salt Lake last week. Negotiations have been completed whereby the Cudahy Packing company will establish a packing plant in Salt Lake City which will entail the immediate im-mediate investment of more than $100,000 and give employment to about 350 men. The sentiment for enactment of a city ordinance making it unlawful for any business house to exchange merchandise mer-chandise after once delivered to a customer is receiving the support of some of the principal business institu-tons institu-tons of Salt Lake City. Soren Thompson of Levan, who was twenty-five days more than one hundred years old died at the home ot his granddaughter, at Levan last week. Mr. Thompson was born in Denmark, October 8, 1816. He came to Utah in the early fifties. In the belief that the asphalt well it Rozel, Boxelder county, has penetrated pene-trated into a deposit of material containing con-taining icthyol, a substance used in medicine, the directors of the Rozel company plan to send samples of the output of the well to chemists to be analyzed. A club has been formed at Eureka, the membership limited to fifty, each member to pay into the club one dollar dol-lar per month. When the amount totals to-tals $500 a drawing will be held and the two lucky members will divide the coin, to be used to attend the next world's baseball series. 4 When Sheriff Henry of Carbon county coun-ty appeared at the state prison last week with a negTo prisoner, who gave his name as Buck Fox, it was discovered discov-ered by the officials that the man In custody was John Pheelinger, who escaped es-caped from the road gang in Davis county two months ago. The postmaster at Brigham City has received from the postoffice department de-partment at Washington blue-prints and plans for beautifying the grounds around the federal building in that city, and next spring the work of planting trees and shrubbery on the grounds will be undertaken. JThe one hundred and eighth anniversary anni-versary of the birth of the late President Presi-dent John Taylor was celebrated November No-vember 1 by his 300 descendants at a reunion in the Granite stake hall. Joseph Wells of Bingham, charged with taking orders in wet territory for liquor to be delivered in dry portions of the county, forfeited $1,000 bond when his case was called for trial dt Salt Lake. Seventeen dealers who are affected by the new Ogden city ordinance requiring re-quiring that a license fee of $75 a year shall be paid by all who sell gasoline dispensed through a pump have sent a petition to the commission asking that the ordinance be repealed. Twelve miles north of Milford, numerous nu-merous rabid coyotes and three rabid dogs have been running wild, according accord-ing to a report received by the state board of health. Officers have orders to kill all animals suspected of having the disease or which may have been bitten. |