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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The sugar beet crop about Wlllard has been damaged by blight. There will be more than 400 graduates gradu-ates this year from the eighth grade In the public schools of Utah county. Gust Johnson a Swedish laborer, was killed by a passenger train at Lakeside, his body being literally ground to pieces. Rudolph Kremer of Ogden is dead as the result of injuries received when he was thrown from a light wagon by the shying of his horse. Five gauging stat.ons to determine the annual How of the streams in Bm-ery Bm-ery county, have been established. Tlae work wMl cost $4,000. George Davis, found guilty of running run-ning a "blind pig" in Salt Lake City, lias been sentenced to 180 days imprisonment im-prisonment in the city jail. Promoters of th Utah & South- western Railway company have been r guaranteed a right of way over pri vate property in Cedar City. Edna Hansen and Veda Scott were severely injured at Logan in an elevator ele-vator accident, the elevator falling Willie they were taking a ridt. Joseph F. Fisner, a smelter worker, Is dead as the result of injuries sustained sus-tained at Garfield, when he was struck on the head by a falling gin pole. Residents of Ogden have launched a movement for the location of the state capitol In that city, offering to donate a quarter of a million dollars and a site for the building. Despondency, caused from excessive exces-sive drinking, is assigned as the motive mo-tive which prompted Gabriel Zweis-ler, Zweis-ler, an aged German carriage trimmer trim-mer of Ogden, lo take his lire. While attempting to cross the Cottonwood Cot-tonwood creek on a plank, le Roy Davis, the 3-year-old son of Mrs. Fred Davis of Murray, lost his balance, fell into the stream and was drowned. Resolutions were passed by the house last week authorizing the secretary secre-tary of war to loan cots and tents for the forty-third annual national encampment en-campment of the G. A. R. at Salt Lake City. A large plant will be erected in Salt Lake City in tlhe near future for the manufacturing of coal briquettes. It is said this plant will cost $50,000 ' and will have a daily capacity of about 600 Ions. The 9-year-old son of G. W. Phillips of Sipringville, while wading in Hobble Hob-ble creek, got beyond his depth and was drowned, the body being found the next day a mile below where the accident occurred. The brick work on Springvflle's I . new $2,000 opera house Is progress ing nicely, with a good force of masons. ma-sons. It is expected to have the building completed and ready for shows in November. While walking around the Southern Pacific railroad shops in Ogden at an early hour in the morning, Harry Armstrong; a transient, fell into a vat of boiling water and was severely burned about the legs and body. While driving .along Washington avenue, in Ogden, B. B. Wilkinson was run down by an automobile in which three young nvenj were ridling, 'hlis rig being demolished, while he was badly cut and bruised about the body. The University of Utah debaters, contending that the free trade system sys-tem is preferable to the present system sys-tem of protective tariff, won their debate de-bate with ' Colorado college orators, who argued for the negative of the question. While riding on a train of ballast cars in Salt Lake City, James Pappos, " a Greek laborer, employed by the Utah Light & Railway company, was thrown from the car, falling under .the wheels of the train and meeting instant death. .Charles A. Standrod, for the past fifteen years employed as an engineer on thi' Oregon Short Line, was run down by an engine in the Salt Lake yards while going on duty one nig.it last week, and so badly injured that death resulted a few hours later. A. H. Nash, formerly postmaster of Salt Lake City, has disappeared and his friends are worrying because he has railed to report his whereabouts. Nash left for a trip to Rochester, N. Y., in January, and since that time nothing has been heard from him. The heavy frosts have injured the beet crop of Sevier valley to an alarming alarm-ing extent. In the vicinity of Monroe I over 250 acres of beets were nipped ' by the frost and all of these have been replanted. The loss was proportionately propor-tionately large all over the valley. John H. Att, on trial at Logan for murder for the killing of Junius Neli-son Neli-son on December S, 1908, was ac quitted by the jury. Alt had mistaken mis-taken Junius Nelson for Ike Blwell, with whom he had been quarreling, fired through the door and killed Nelson. The sheep shearing season at Mo-dena Mo-dena has come to an end. There were shorn 175,300 head, yielding approximately approx-imately 1,075,000 pounds of wool, based on 4:', carloads shipped, averaging 2,-500 2,-500 pounds to the car. This places Alodena in the front ranks of Utah's shearing points. Clarence Ernst, the Ogden colored man who shot and killed Charles Staples, a colored race follower, will have to lace a charge of first degree k murder, the coroner's jury finding that Staples was unarmed at the time of the shooting. Frnst had declaro-l .16 Bhot in self-defense. |