Show UTAH VT AU STATE NEWS Utah has less than 2000 miles o of railroad within Its borders one of the smallest state totals The Commercial Commercial Boosters Boosters Booster's club o of Logan through the committee on ad advertising and promotion has bas Issued a n the advantages of folder setting forth Cache county count and Logan City uty According to the records kept by bythe bythe bythe the Southern Pacific nail Railroad road com corn of oC the rise and fall of the Great pang I ISalt Salt Lake there has been no percept percept- perceptible ible rise in the water lately Without recovering sufficiently to explain under tinder what circumstances his throat was cut at Kemmerer Wyo J J J. E E. E Smith died In a Salt Lake hospi tal tat The belief Is entertained that he met with foul play When a big machine drill cut Into I I an old charge of oC dynamite on th the Western Pacific fifteen miles beyond TImpIe half a dozen laborers were hurled In the air three or ot them sustaining sus tamping serious Injuries Decisive steps looking looking- to the completion com of the silver service to be contributed contributed con can by the thc state of Utah for the new Dew battleship Utah were taken at a meeting of the silver service committee committee com in Salt Lake City celebrate on Payson Pason Is preparing to October 20 and 21 the sixtieth anni anni- of the settlement of Pete Peteet t. t neet Creek on a scale perhaps never before attempted by the people of any city of Its size in the west Having failed to connect him with the Oregon Short Line train robbery of last last June the authorities have released released re reo leased Thomas Wilson from the county county coun coun- ty jail at Ogden where he has been beena a prisoner for two months The Utah State Retail Merchants' Merchants association held Its annual convention In Salt Lake City on Wednesday and Thursday One of the results of the convention It is expected will be the establishment of a state slate journal for forthe forthe forthe the retail trade After a two days' days session characterized characterized charac by leading phy physicians as one of the most instructive and InterestIng interestIng Interest Interest- Ing meetings held In years the Utah State Medical association concluded Its sixteenth annual meeting in Salt Lake City on Tuesday I IThe The city council of Provo has ha's granted grant grant- ed cd a year hundred-year franchise to Evans Chipman and others to build and operate operate op erate crate an electric line through that city The line must be completed complete ed and in running order through the city within three years Paul Gorske wealthy Russian cattle owner with acres of range in Nevada and Utah has left for a four months' months visit with relatives In Russia Mr Gorske is one of the largest indi individual individual vidual cattle owners of the west ranging rang rang- ing close to head That Sanford K Marsh who is sale said to have swindled the Windsor hote hate out of by me means ns of a bogui bogus check and was arrested at Grants Grant Pass Ore and brought back to Salt SaU Lake for trial has a long ca career eel as a bad check man is claimed by th the Pinkertons Catching a burglar in the act of robbing trunks and dressers in her apartments in Salt Lake City Mrs Ray Peterson dashed upon him and leveling a revolver at his head dis discharged discharged discharged charged two shots almost point blank Neither shot took effect and the burglar bur burr glar escaped After plying the heavy waters of Great Salt lake since 1901 the steamer Promontory the largest craft ever er launched on the inland sea hap bar been dismantled by the Southern P company company and now lies a barre hulk prey to the first storm to sweep the beach n near ar Lakeside To 0 satisfy a judgment of against the Ogden Northwestern railroad the property of the company operated under the name of the Og Og- Ogden Ogden den Rapid Transit company fr from m Ogden Og den City to the Utah Hot Springs has ha been sold at public auction Refusing to testify in police court courtin in Salt Lake City against her husband husband hus hus- husband band Melvin Melvln Karth who five months ago ago attempted her life by shooting Mrs Eva Karth was successful In se securing securing securing curing the release of the man but later la later later ter in the day she was granted 3 d divorce in the district court Colonel George B. B Squires commis commissioner commissioner stoner of f insurance for Utah prominent prominent prominent nent member of the Grand Army eithe ol ei the Republic and prominent in business bustness busi bust ness and politics died Friday Priday at at athis his home in Salt L Like ke City death being caused by a combination of several ailments alIments The farmers of Rich valley are happy hap py having c closed a successful year of farming Crops are better than expected expected ex ex- considering the dry season i Oats ar are as good quality weighing from thirty eight Jo to forty eight pounds to the bushel while the wheat goes is ts high as seventy seventy- pounds J. J W W. Sparks arrested at Ogden soon after aner the robbery of the Oregon Short Line passenger train June 15 on suspicion of having been connected with the holdup will be arr arraigned on forgery charges charpes the robbery charge having been dropped With his throat cut from ear to ear J. J E E. E Smith Is In a Salt Lake hospital a and d may die Smith was found In a but hut near Kemmerer Wyo in a pool of blood and has since been unable to explain whether he was attacked by some one or the wounds were self inflicted |