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Show UTAH NEWS. Excavating for the foundation foi the new University buildings was begun be-gun last week. George Pywater, an old Union Pacific Pa-cific car painter, and decorator of the Halt Palace, died last week. A receiver has been appointed foi the Salt Palace association of Salt Lake to untangle its financial affairs. With thrco exceptions, the precipitation precipi-tation for October, 2.x:, ineln-s, waj the greatest in twenty-five years. The October earnings of tfie Ric Grande Wosl.crn were more than for any month in the history of the road, being 8425,800. A five-year-old child of Mrs. Ida Nathan Na-than of Salt Lake, wan kicked in the face by a hor.se the first of the week, badly crushing- the jaw bone. Mrs. J. Fllen Foster, presidentof the Women's Republican association of the United States, a noted speaker and worker, was a Salt Lake visitor last week. A warrant was issued in Salt Lake county last Saturday for the arrest of II. II. Roberts on the charge of unlawful unlaw-ful cohabitation with Maggie Shipp Roberts. The Colorado Fuel and Ironjcompany has become interested in Utah's iron and coal fields, and at some future time may erect a plant in the southern part of the state. The success attending the late state fair has interested exhibitors who assure as-sure the society that more preparation for next year's exhibit will be made than in former years. The Lehi sugar factory is now working work-ing at its maximum. The plant will handle 50,000 tons of beets this year, which is a larger amount than ever before handled in one season. John Piercy, while working at St. Ann's Orphanage, Salt Lake, last week, fell from a banging scaffolding 40 feet to the ground. His kleft ;anklewas badly crushed, but he escaped without other injuries. John Post, a driver for the Elgin dairy of Salt Lake, was assaulted by two tramps whom lie refused lodging in the barn. Post was getting the better bet-ter of them, when one of them fired two shots at him, both without effect. The heirs of Daniel Frey, the Oregon Short Line brakeman who was killed by striking his head against an overhanging over-hanging Rio Grande bridge near Lehi Junction, while on duty on top of a freight car, have sued both roads for 825,000. Oscar Williams, a Salt Lake tinner while at work on a Brigham street residence, fell to the ground, a distance dis-tance of thirty feet, striking on his side. He was dazed by the fall but his only injuries proved to be a few slight bruises. Salt Lake City loses the 813,000 on deposit in the Bacon bank when it failed, the court holding that ordinary prudence had been exercised, testimony testi-mony having been produced to show that the bank was considered safe until un-til the day it failed. The Rio Grande Western has mapped out about 500 miles of extension in Utah, and 300 in Colorado. The improvements im-provements include a line from Farn-ham Farn-ham to Salina, a line to the La Sals, one to Uintah county, and one from Tintic west to Fish Springs. A timely discovery that several boards in the Moor of the Salt Lake City jail had been pried loose, prevented pre-vented a wholesale jail delivery last week. Several prisoners escaped about a year ago by the same method. Outside Out-side assistance is suspected. Hold-ups are re-appearing in Salt Lake with the winter season. V. D. Foster, stenographer, was held up on Brigham street, between A and B last Friday night by two young men, who secured nothing. The night previous pre-vious a liveryman was held no. The United States supreme court has ieclined to interefere in the ease of James H. Bacon, of Salt Lake, convicted convict-ed of making false returns to the comptroler of the treasury, and he will have to undergo his sentence of seven years. He is now in the east but his bondsmen say he will return. The S10.000 damage suit of James Kvans against the Utah Salt Palace association has been disposed of by defendant consenting to judgment being be-ing entered against it for 5500. Evans was employed as helper in the erection of the building, when a heavy piece of wood fell striking him on the head. In widening the guage of the Utah Central between Salt Lake aud Park City it will be necessary to drive a tunnel tun-nel through the crest of the ridge, in order to reduce the giade and curvature. curva-ture. The tunnel will be about 800 feet long. The home of Mrs. Joseph H. Hanson of Fillmore, together with everything in it, were destroyed by tire, which in some manner was started by her four-year-old girl while Mrs. Hanson was absent. A fund was immediately raised to build the woman a new home. |