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Show r UTAH STATE NEWS Wlnslow Fair, 76 years of age, one of Utah's early' settlers, died at Og-den Og-den last week of paralysis after an illness of seventeen days. The postoflice department has ordered or-dered the state star route service from Colton to Myton increased from six to seven times a week. Measles is said to be spreading with such rapidity at Ogdeq. that the health authorities are alarmed for fear that an, Epidemic may Tesult. R. K. McCarthy, a smelterman, was arrested at Garfield upon complaint of William Carroll, who alleges McCarthy Mc-Carthy threatened to kill him several days ago. As the result of a quarrel between Charles Clark and James Fowler at Tooele, Clark took a shot at Fowler, I but fortunately missed. -Clark was arrested. Charging that Lulu Dickson had stolen her husband's affections, Cap-itora Cap-itora Frohman shot and killed the Dickson woman at Ogden. Both women are. colored. The. Huntsville sehoolhouse was slightly damaged by fire last week, caused iby the burning of a flue. This is the second fire In the school build-ing build-ing within six months. According to some of the officials of the Amalgamated Sugar company, the sugar beet acreage in Weber county for this , year's campaign will be greater than last year. Reid Jewkes, 13, years of age, son of State Auditor Jesse ' D. Jewkes, . was badly burned about the face when he attempted to start a fire in the kitchen range with gasoline. Until after the recovery of Motor-man Motor-man W. D. Tribe, no official investiga-, investiga-, tion of the accident on the Salt Lake & Ogden railroad in which a score of persons were slightly injured, will be held. Additions to and alterations of the plans and specifications lor Utah's new capitol building will increase the cost of that structure $364,910, according accord-ing to the estimates of Richard Klet-ting, Klet-ting, the architect. There will be no -San Jose scale in the orchards of Box Elder county this year if it is possible for the horticultural horticul-tural inspector to prevent it by the enforcement of the horticultural laws governing that disease. Henry C. Hughes, a bridge carpenter carpen-ter of Salt Lake, died at Big Creek, Cal., of skull fracture received several sev-eral days previous, when he fell from a trestle near that settlement. He is survived by a widow and eight children. Clyde Barlow, 14 years old, met with a severe accident at Bountiful. Barlow was riding horseback, and when his horse fell it threw the boy on his head. . The horse rolled on him and a large gash was cut in his head. Three men - narrowly escaped either death or probably serious injury at Tooele when . the dust chamber an invention in use for about a week in one of the International Smelting ' & Refining company's centering plants exploded. Mrs. Jane Bvans, widow of William Wil-liam Evans, early pioneer of Spanish Span-ish Fork, who died about fourteen months ago, was found dead in the back yard of her home on the 18th. Heart failure was given as the 'cause of death. The steel work on the administration administra-tion building of the University of Utah is practically finished. A double crew of workmen have been at work on this ' part of the structure ever since the arrival of the steel, which was delayed nearly two months.'' James Collins, champion railroad spike driver of the world, familiarly known in Salt Lake police circles as "Slim Collins," . has passed away at Wadsworth, Xev., the result of acute alcoholism, according to information received from there. All hope of opening the baseball season in the Union association, of which -Salt Lake and Ogden are members, mem-bers, with eight teams practically has been abandoned and it is announced that the league will start the season with the' same team's as last year. An epidemic of measles is threatened threat-ened in Spanish Fork. In two weeks the disease has spread rapidly, principally prin-cipally among the families of the Iceland Ice-land settlement on the east bench, The disease, with complications of pneumonia, has been responsible for two deaths. Posing as the son of Milton H. Smith president of the Louisville & Nashville railroad, and making the Hotel Utah his headquarters, Chas. M. Dew; alias Smith, 19 years old, is alleged to have reaped a bounteous harvest of small loans from Salt Lai railroad men. Salt Lake is giveu recognition as one of the most attractive centers of the entire west in an article by Elbert El-bert Hubbard in the current issue o( the Fra. More than eight pages oi the magazine are devoted to praises of Salt Lake and her people. Alex Bostrum and Peter Dezel, miners employed at the Silver King Consolidated mine at Park City, were painfully injured by a dynamite explosion ex-plosion which occurred on the bottom of the shaft. Bostrum will lose the sight of an eye and the faces of both men will be scarred. |