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Show UTAH STATE NEWS California capitalists have boon in-., in-., terested in a plan to drain several thousand acres of the swamp land In the vicinity of Provo. More than 500 subscribers have been secured by the promoters of the Stock-growers Stock-growers & Farmers' bank, a new bank to bo established in Salt Lake, according accord-ing to reports. Cedar City wants interurban connections con-nections with Salt Lake. The Commercial Com-mercial club of the southern city Is making a strenuous effort to interest towns on the proposed route in the project. The city commissioners of Salt Lake ha3 determined to attack the validity of the state laws which give a title to real estate after a tax deed has been secured and the other necessary legal steps taken. . John H. Bartley shot and killed Louise Gelinas in a rooming house in Salt Lake and then suicided. Bartley had recently been indicted on a white slavery charge, Miss Gelina being the woman in the cas. With a large majority of the unions represented by delegates, the first business busi-ness session of the- twenty-second au-ual au-ual convention of the Woman's Christian; Chris-tian; Temperance Union was held at Ogden on October 9th. Frank Reese, aged '56 years, a well ' known mining man of Ogden, dropped dead at Saline, Box Elder county, Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon. He went there to inspect some mining properties, and was apparently in perfect health. Sevier valley was visited by a heavy snowstorm on the 9th. It began at 3 o'clock and. lasted until nearly noon. The fruit growers in the neighborhood Of Monroe and Elsinore will not be able to pick their apples in consequence. conse-quence. . The Rev. John Meeker of Mount Pleasant was elected moderator of the Presbyterian synod of Utah when the representatives of the churches of this denomination of the state held the first business session in Ogden Wednesday Wed-nesday night. Mrs. Kate M. Simpkin, wife of Rev. Peter A. Simpkin, pastor of the Phillips Phil-lips Congregational church of Salt Lake, and one of the best known women wo-men in the state, died October 8, in 'Ridgefield, Wjash. Mrs. Simpkin was born in Joliet, 111., February 28, 1866. Work on the roof of the eleven-story eleven-story Newhouse hotel in Salt Lake will begin next week, and the Interior Inter-ior work will be started in about three weeks. The delay caused by incomplete incom-plete plans and specifications has ended end-ed and constructed, will be resumed at once. , ,Eighty-five tracts of land were sold at Provo on Wednesday at the government govern-ment sale of Uintah lands. The low price, which is placed as the minimum, mini-mum, was 50 cents an acre, and the high price was $3.00. The total acreage acre-age disposed of was approximately 10,-000 10,-000 acre3. " G. M. De Calmoutier, sergeant-musician sergeant-musician of the Twentieth infantry, whose case is pending before the federal fed-eral courts for alleged improper use j of the mails, attempted suicide with a heavy service revolver in Salt Lake, but it is not believed his wounds will prove fatal. . To meet the heavy demand from farmers far-mers and others throughout the state, seeking the benefits to be derived from extension work, the extension division of the Utah Agricultural college is completing arrangement for twenty-four twenty-four "Farmers' Schools" of one week duration each. What is. believed among Bingham operators .to be the entering wedge for the ending of the strike at the big copper camp was the step taken October Oc-tober 9, by the Utah Consolidated Mining Min-ing company, when it put a numDer of non-union men to work at its Highland High-land Boy mine. . A new interurban company, which is not yet named, has secured franchises fran-chises from Pleasant Grove and Ahierican Fork. The line will extend from Salt Lake to Payson and follow the route of the Utah & Salt Lake Interurban company, which has also been given franchises. Fire Prevention day was observed in Ogden on Wednesday with special assemblies in many of the public schools. The assemblies were devoted to the open discussion of the common fire hazards, such as matches, ashes, fireworks, . gasoline, defective wiring and poorly attended stoves. The wife of Veruey Mack, clJef o( police of the. Uintah Indian rreerva tion, was frozen.- to dear. a near Ileber City. Mack says' that his sqn iw fell into a creek and he fishel her out. 6he rolled herself up in blanket? by the side of the creek and went to sleep, being found dead the next morning. Two special cars, and possibly three, will carry the Utah delegates to the International Dry Farming congress, which is to be held at Le'.hbridge, Albert, Al-bert, Canada. October 21 to 26, inclusive. inclu-sive. The Utah party will leave Salt Lake the afternoon of October 18. In order to prevent a recurrence of the great loss which has resulted this season from their inability to market advantageously the big crop of fruit, the orchardis'a of Weber county aie looking to the establishment of rd evaporating plant ass a means of solving solv-ing the serious problem. |