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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Work on the new Rio Grande depot de-pot In Salt Lake City Is now progressing pro-gressing rapidly. August 2G has been set apart as Utah day at the AlaskaYukon-l'ucific exposition at Seattle. The tabernacle ohrjrli- is expected' to be present at that time. An Italian succeeded in passing a Confederate $100 bill at Helper one day last week, but the man who took the bill soon noticed his mistake and had the Italian arrested. The secretary of state received . in lees for the quarter ending June 30, the total of $29,088.94, which Is three times as much as the office receipts of the corresponding quarter last year. From almost, every agricultural district dis-trict in Iftah there comes a call for help In garnering this year's crop, the general cry being that it Is almost al-most Impossible to secure farm laborers. la-borers. The people of Sandy are discussing the proposition of buying the waterworks water-works system, the control of which is owned by Salt Lake people. It is proposed pro-posed to bond the city in order to raise the money. Three men caught shooting fish in Silver lake have been fined $100 each, while four boys who were arrested on suspicion of having been watchers for the law-breakers were released for lack of evidence. A mah whos name Is supposed to bo Riley, was picked up on the streets of Salt Lake while suffering from acute alcoholism and taken to the police station where he died a few hours later. Morris BecUstead, a former resident resi-dent of South Jordan, was crushed by a tram car in the gilsonite mine at Dragon, last week, succumbing to bis Injuries after being taken to the hospital at Grand Junction. The business men of Ephraim are advocating a half holiday each week, when all places of business will be closed and employes given a rest, band concerts and ball games to be provided for their amusement. The war against Salt Lake's stockade stock-ade seems to have resulted in a victory vic-tory for the west-siders, and the buildings intended for use of women of the underworld are to be torn down and a hotel erected on the site. Former United States Senator Frank J. Cannon, who is now employed em-ployed as an editorial writer on a Denver newspaper, was married in Denver on June 29, the bride being Miss May Anderson Brown of Ogden. Parley Giles, the holder of five worlds bicycling records, died at his home in Salt Lake City, June 28, from heart trouble caused, the doctor be lieved, by the strain of h,'s track work. Giles was but 22 years of age. As the result of a fight between two colored men in Salt Lake City, Harry Weaver had his nose slashed half in two and his lip almost severed sev-ered and came near dying from loss of blood, his assailant using a pocket pock-et knife. Wallace Johnson, aged 10, and his brother Douglas, aged 8, were drowned while bathing near Salt Lake in a pool by the side of the Jordan river. The older boy was drowned while endeavoring en-deavoring to save the life of his brother. The plumbers of Salt Lake City have gone on a strike, demanding an increase in wages from $5.20 to $6 a day. The employers declare the wage asked is entirely too high and will resist the demands of the men to their utmost. Jack Haywood and George Sprat-lng Sprat-lng of Murray came near being killed In Bjg Cottonwood canyon while driving, driv-ing, the horse becoming frightened and crashing into a boulder, the rig being demolished, both men injured, and the horse killed. The Ogden sugar factory has completed com-pleted the work of transforming 6,000,000 pounds of jnolasses int brown sugar, and has closed down for the season. The brown sugar will be refined into white sugar during the regular beet season. A grass fire in the hills back of Fort Douglas came near causing a serious conflagration at the fort one day last week, 200 soldiers being en. gaged in fighting the flames for several sev-eral hours before they succeeded in getting the fire under control, r Selma Murphy, the eighteen-months-old daughter of William Murphy, a prominent merchant of Green River, while playing beside the gravity canal fell into the canal unnoticed and was drowned. The mother rescued her babe's body half an hour later. The resolution authorizing the secretary of war to loan to the citizens' citi-zens' committee having the G. A. R. encampmeut at Salt Lake in charge, sueh cots, tents and appliances as may be required, has passed the house and will undoubtedly be approved by N the senate. A small child of O. A. Follett of Greenville. Cache county, was found In an irrigation ditch, apparently dead, having fallen into the water some time before. For fifteen minutes the father worked with the child, when it began to show signs of life and finally recovered. Gwyneth Evans, the 12-year-old-daughter of Councilman William Evans Ev-ans of Logan, was accidentally shot while at the power plant in Logan canyon. Her brother -,vas frold:'fig the gun when it was discharged. The bullet lodged in her left g, ,1utit above the shoo top. |