f UTAH STATE NEWS r or It has been decided to hold the annual an- an an annual nual Welsh day outing at July 16 The state penitentiary now holds 25 convicts the largest number In tho the history of the state r l A A. Av crusade for tor cleanliness has been started by tho the health department anti ann the fire department of Ogden The federal grand Jury resumed its session last wee week and began further Investigation of the Utah National s bank ank robbery Improvements at Fort Douglas d' d made possible by the recent appropriation r of nearly by congress congress ss N will soon begin The records of the Third district I court show that from January 1 I 1908 J to June 15 1908 there have been i lF Jf Z d divorce vorce cases filed Taxpayers of Salt Lake will on July 29 next decide whether the bonded rj Indebtedness of the city shall be Increased In t creased by Miss May Sutton Sutton the champion lady tennis player of or the world is to visit t t r Salt Lake In August and will play a number of exhibition games Ralph Snowball a pioneer of Utah and ond a 0 veteran of the Black Dlack Hawk Indian In dian dlan war died at his home in Salt SaltI Lake last week at the age of 65 I 1 A special train is to be chartered to tot t carry Democratic delegates alternates alternates alter alter- J nates and Bryan Dryan rooters to Denver for forthe forthe forthe the Democratic national convention E Governor Cutler has appointed D. D R. R r Roberts of Logan a delegate delegato from Utah 1 1 to the National Good Roads congress which meets at Buffalo Duffalo N N. Y July 7 and 8 The parade of the United Commercial Commer 1 c cial a Travelers in Salt Lake City was one of the largest ever had in that city it taking over an hour to pass passa a a. given point 1 has appeared among horses at Park City The disease is an extremely ex ex- rare one Tho The state board ol of health has taken steps looking toward toward to to- 4 ward its suppression It was reported at a meeting of the tho fr Salt Lake County Horticultural asso asso- asso elation held last week that more than 1000 pear trees had been ruined by blight throughout the county t Th The six old year year old son of Isaac San San- strom of Park City attempted to climb on a moving ore wagon fell and was run over his foot being almost torn off and his leg broken in four places A bolt of lightning striking near the home of Mrs Peterson In Ogden produced produced produced pro pro- such a shock that the unfortunate nate Gate woman is partly partIr paralyzed The doctors believe that she may recover In timer time r Mayor Bransford of Salt Lake City has removed Charles T. T Vail Vall chief ol of the fire department for the good of the service and has appointed James Jamel Devine former chief of the tho department department depart depart- ment to fill the vacancy Rev Noble Strong Elderkin of Og den will head the work of the Christion Christion Chris Chris- tion for the next year ix iq 11 this state having been elected dent at the annual convention held in Salt Lake City last week Secretary of State has dl di the banks of the state to file filea a report with him showing their condition condition con con- at the close of business on June 16 There are five fifty state banks and three private banks in Utah That the state board of health Intends intends In in- tends to make a vigorous campaign on house flies files this summer is evidenced evidenced evi evl- by the notice sent out by Dr T. T B B. B Beatty secretary of the state l board of health to all health officers A gang of swindlers have been busy t in Salt Lake passing forged postal money orders made out on blanks 1 r t stolen from Schurz Nev postoffice recently Merchants have cashed f fV fV about worth of the fraudulent or or- V ders dors V t. t Utah's delegates to the national conn conr con- con n r of credit men at Denver JuneE Juno June Junor E r tJ 23 to 26 left Salt Lake on Sunday if r.-j. r. The he Utah delegation wore red badges ft with the Inscription Come to ZIon r f J Each also wore a small bottle filled C 1 t with Utah salt saltA i V r A Salt Lake man while digging a 1 I J. J f trench for plumbing connections un human skeleton n apparently r a t that hat that of an Indian woman who mus musi must i have been buried burled there a quarter of a century ago at a time when that pari particular par par- V i c titular cular neighborhood was unsettled it 1 William Howard year sixteen year old son of John G G. G Howard of Pleasant PleasantView R View is dead as the result of injuries X sustained by being thrown from a a. r horse He was riding with a bo boy I V r It about his own age A straight bit ol ot f road tempted the boys to have havo a race H y Y X it After a strike inaugurated May 21 J tr r 1907 the Bell Dell Telephone company and onel its union are now once r t r again on amicable terms The gen- gen general general r Wc eral terms of or the agreement are that tha r the the men will receive an advance of 2 25 J. J cents ss allay ay In Utah Wyoming and J. J v. v tda Idaho o. o 5 Mrs Elizabeth Townsend formerly y proprietress p of the pioneer hotel of V Salt Lake City the Townsend house was the leadIng lead lead- which in the early days Ing hotel of the capital city is dead at the age of 84 Mrs Irs Townsend was known far and wide to the traveling trav tray I i eling public Thomas J. J OBrien O'Brien a carpenter a committed suicide in Salt Lake City in private bath drowning himself a v Springs sanitarium pool at the Hot t. t if OBrien O'Brien had bad been out of or work for se several several sev sev- k caused despondency de dt- this fact 1 eral weeks and led him to bably which pr probably take his life ute o t