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Show UTAH STATE NEWS 3 Frank Sweeney, thought to have tnjen one of the most trustworthy convicts at the state prison, escaped from the prison farm Thursday. The receipts of the office of secretary secre-tary of state for the quarter ending December 31 amounted to $67,316.50, according to a report made last week. Kenneth Lyon, 11 years old, and Ralph Lyon, 6 years, sons of Matthew Lyon of Salt Lake, were painfully injured in-jured in a coasting accident lasl week. The Cole Banking company of Tre monton has been reorganized undei the name of the State Bank of Tre-fronton, Tre-fronton, with an increased capital btock of $30,000. Fire broke out Thursday night in ft barn belonging to Henry Pett, Jr., fit Brigham City, and destroyed everything in the barn and burned two hor-jes valued at $300. The. fees collected by the state in- 7 6urance department during the year 1911 totaled $60,222.53, as against $54,-493.11 $54,-493.11 in 1910 and a corresponding increase in-crease is looked for in 1912. Daniel Baird Kane, aged 50 years, for thirty-five years a resident of Salt Lake, and well known in the west as a mining expert, died at Callao, Peru, as the result of a paralytic stroke. Reciprocal relations concerning tne granting of medical licenses between the Utah and Idaho state boards of medical examiners have been entered Into by the officers of each board. The approximate value of the hay, grain, potatoes, alfalfa seed and sugar beets produced by the farms of Utah for the year 1911 is $25,000,000, an increase in-crease of $5,000,000 over the year 1910. The ice crop at Ogden is exceeding all expectations, both in thickness and quality and the various dealers are harvesting it from their numerous numer-ous ponds at the rate of 1,000 tons a day. Nine young women teachers of Ogden Og-den have assured the board of educa tion that they do not propose to take advantage of leap year, and that they would be on the job until the end of the school year as usual. Somebody's blunder on the telephone tele-phone apepars to have been the cause of the disastrous wreck on the Den ver & Rio Grande near Salt Lake, in which two trainmen lost their lives and four others were painfully injured. in-jured. Sam Kirkpatrick, partner of Har-ley Har-ley Mewhinney, who was recently convicted of murder in the first degree de-gree for the killing of C. L. Erickson at Salt Lako last October, has been sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. imprison-ment. Leaving her room for a few minutes, min-utes, Mrs. Charles R. Hollingsworth, wife of a well known Ogden attorney, returned to find that a burglar had entered en-tered during her absence and had stolen diamonds and jewelry valued at $2,500. John H. Shields has pleaded guilty at Brigham City to the charge of bigamy. Shields was married at ' Brigham City recently to May E. Rowe, who, after living with him eight days, discovered that he had an undi-vorced undi-vorced wife living in Salt Lake. The movement to effect an organization organi-zation of the Native Sons of Utah assumed as-sumed concrete form last week at a mass meeting in Salt Lake. A committee com-mittee of fifteen was appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws and report at a similar meeting two weeks later. The bursting of a water jacket in a stove at the home of Prof. A. C. Lund at Provo, caused considerable damage to the kitchen. All of the windows In the room were broken, and one ol the stove lids was thrown with sufficient suf-ficient force to drive it through the ceiling. Although born in Floyd county, Virginia, Vir-ginia, Admiral Robley D. Evans, who died at Washington on Wednesday, was appointed from Utah in 1S00 by Captain Hooper, Utah's delegate to congress. For that reason Admiral "Bob" was considered generally to belong be-long to Utah. Wlith the announcement that bedrock bed-rock for the entire length of the dam site at Cobble creek in South Fork canyon, had been exposed, the success of the mammoth dam and reservoir project, by which Ogden city will more than double its present water supply and farmers be greatly benefited, is assured. J Clair Gleason, the youth who was given the $500 reward offered by Salt Lake City for the capture of the murderer mur-derer of Thomas B. Karrick, was rendered ren-dered fatherless by a bullet fired with murderous intent. His father, A. L. Gleason, a street car motorman, was ahot to death by James Shockley seven years ago. The Farmers' Industrial train, which Is to make a tour of southern Utah along the lines of the Salt Lake Route, tinder the direction of the extension ex-tension department of the state agricultural agri-cultural coll'-ge, left Salt Lake January Janu-ary 5, and will return January 28. The bee industry is the one industry indus-try of the stale which has shown a decrease de-crease in volume of business during 1911. In 1910 it reached 2,500,000 pounds,, an increase of 25 per cent. This year it is estimated that Lie prop of honey will be only about 1,-100,000 1,-100,000 pounds. |