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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Thero are nwenty-ono cases of smallpox under quarantine in Salt Lake City at the present time. Peter Brocchtnl, an Italian, was killed as the result of an accidental explosion In a stone quarry in Weber canyon, near Ogden, "A barn, several tons of hay, fences etc, belonging to Hans Sorensen ot feedmond were completely destroyed by lire last week. Peter Bfehroeder, the oldest man fn Logan, If not in Cache county, died on November 23, on his' 97th birthday. birth-day. He was a native or Sweden. It develops that the stake fair held In Salt Lake City cleared the fair association $3,541, the receipts being $9,576 and the expenditures $20,035. P. C. Chrlstensen, who has been the mall carrier for May field for a namber of years, was run over by a passenger train last week' and killed. Willam Varley, who built the flrst lime kiln In tho state of Utah, died at his home In Salt Lake City on November 23, at the ago of 71 years. After being divorced for one week, a Salt Lake couple who had' aired their domestic differences in the divorce di-vorce court, were re-married laBt week. The forestry serlvce office lodated fn Salt Lake City Is being removed to Ogden, where tho .headquarters for the service in this district will henceforth hence-forth bo located. The annual session of the grand encampment en-campment Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Utah was held In Salt Lake City last week, about 40 delegates dele-gates being In attendance. A movement has been started at Mt. Pleasant' for the Installation of im Independent telephone system. A committee Is now canvassing the town to find oat how many people will Install .-hoiief. A. N. Terry v.'as acquitted of tin-charge tin-charge oT Siiaj liom in the district court at Ot,ileii last week. He was charged with biting off the ear of John Cullen In a saloon brawl in On den several months ago. The teachers who attend the mee: ing of tho State Teachers' assoclatlt to be he'd In Salt Luke City on De cembi-r "1 22 and 23, are to be my nllj" en ir 'lined by the teachers ll the Suit I.ako public schools. The "a-e ngalnst Andrew W. K.. ton, dmif.cO with the lobbery o" J1PG.25U fIOni tho reserve chest or t i Utah National bank, of Salt 1 .. t City, was dismissed last week, i". :: the motlun of the district attorney. The census office bulletin of statistics statis-tics on marriage nud divorce, made iMbllc last week, shows that six husbands hus-bands In Utah secured divorces from Uiclr wives between the years 18S7 and 1906 on the ground ot nonsupport. Minnie O. Parker has commenced an action against the city ot Ogden to recover $1,000 for injuries alleged to have been sustained Sept. 23 last. The plaintiff alleges that she fell and broke her ankle by reason of a dc fectlve culvert. W. H. Fitzgerald, arrested in Sail Lake City on a charge of forgery committed In Texas, escaped ftwr the officer who was taking him back lor trial, by Jumping from a car ..i dow, near Pueblo, Colo., while tlu train wns running thirty mllcj if hour. In tho year 1880 tho rato of divorces di-vorces granted In Utah averaged 114 tothe 100,000 population; In Wyoming, Wyom-ing, 111; In Nevada, 106; and In Idaho, Ida-ho, 58. In 4900 the ratios wore as follows: Utah, 92 in 100.000 population; popula-tion; Wyoming, 118; Nevada, 111; Idaho, Ida-ho, 120. Hotel men throughout he west art 1'lannhlg to organize the Transmlsshi clppl Hotel Men's association, and .-meeting .-meeting of the committee of hole? proprietors now working on lha-idea lha-idea will be held In Salt Lako next January, to report on tho succcsk n its efforts. Plans 'have been accepted by ll. Inland Crystal Salt company for Its new salt factory to bo erected at Salt air to replace the old salt factory v.hich went up In flames in the dl-i-natrons blaze there about one month ago. The building and machinery, will cost $100,000. Former Bishop Edward W. Wade, who had been a relldent of Weber county for fifty-l,wo years, and was one ot Ogdon's most prominent men, died at his home in Ogden on No- ember 25, from nn attack ot diabetes, from which he had suffered for the past eleven years. Placing the barrel of a .22 caliber Winchester rifle to his mouth, Walter Wal-ter Lucky, a gambler of Ogden, pulled the trigger with a cord which Ire had attached to It and sent u bullet crushing through his mouth, which lodged at the base ot the brain, death being Instnntaneous. J, K. Holcomb, on his way to Yakima, Ya-kima, Wash., was made tho victim ot a bunco game at tho union depot In Ogden. Holcomb was loser to the extent of $80. It was the same old gtima of cashing a draft for a fellow vjho represented himself to he n pas-sender pas-sender on tho same train. lly .reason of tho decision handed down last week by the supreme court, tho University of Utah becomes ono of tho most richly endowed educational Institutions In the United Stntes. At the least calculation, the derision rendered gives the university ballno lands valued ut $7,000,000 Tho report of tho state canvassing board shows that tho Democrutle nn-tionnl nn-tionnl ticket carried but ono county Washington. Tho results In some of Uio other counties, however, were tloBO, Taft's vote In nearly all of the counties was much" less than Ituoso velt's vote four years ago. |