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Show UTAH STATE NEWS A. new town is to.be started at Cedar Ce-dar Ridge, about eight miles north ol Rlchfifid. John de France, colored, formerly u ssident of Salt Lake City, committed suicide in Seattle last week. A supreme court decision rendered last week holds that, school property, whether personal or real, Is exempt from taxation. Free lunches in saloons in Salt Lake City are to be done away with, according ac-cording to an order Issued by the chief of police. The Boosters' club of Logan is taking tak-ing up the question of the building of a macadam road from Main street ta the mouth of Logan canyon. The scarlet fever epidemic, which has been prevalent In Murray for the past two months has now subsided and the quarantine has been raised. One of the oldest residents of Park City, John Wyckoff, died last week, after a short illness. He had been a resident of Park City for over twenty years. The people of Bingham Junction are determined to incorporate. There is not known to be a single voter in Bingham Junction against its incorporation. incor-poration. Utah will spend more this year for the education of its youth than in any other year since it became a . 6tate. The appropriation last year was $5.12 per capita; this year it will be $5.75. An unknown man, about 30- years of age, suicided at Kaysville, April 10, hanging himself, using a wire instead in-stead of a rope. Everything points to an unbalanced mind as the cause for the deed. A strike of the painters, decorators decora-tors and paper hangers of Salt Laite City has been averted, the men deciding decid-ing to accept a verbal agreement with their employers that the new scale of wages will be paid. A big conclave of the Knights Templar will be held in Salt Lake City on May 12. One of the features of the conclave will be several competitive drills between teams from Salt Lake, Ogden, Reno and other commanderies. A sheepherder found the body of Frank White, a laborer, about 30 years of age, in the foothills east of Ogden, one day last week. White had suicided, sui-cided, taking' carbolic acid, grief over the death of his mother being given as the reason. At the preliminary hearing in Ogden, Og-den, Nick Vacos, who shot and killed John Contos, a prosperous Greek merchant mer-chant of that city, declared he shot in self defense, that Contos had reached for his pocket as if to draw a weapon when he fired. The gold crowns valued at $100, which "were stolen from a display case In front of a dental office in Ogden, have 'been recovered, a lad claiming to have found the property behind a bill board and was trying to dispose of it when arrested. William Bernard Dougall, pioneer telegrapher of Utah, and the organizer of the school which ultimately developed devel-oped into the L. D. S. university, died at his home in Salt Lake City, April 12. He came to Utah in 1853, and learned telegraphy in 1S66. The report comes from Ogden that a plot to kidnap one of the children of Joseph Scowcroft, a leading citizen, was probably frustrated last week by a warning sent to the Scowcroft family fam-ily by a negress, who claimed that she had overheard the plot. Loren L. Dibble, aged 26, died in a Salt Lake hospital Sunday, the esult of internal injuries sustained from a fall of eighty feet in the Apex mine above Bingham Canyon. Alva) P. Dibble, aged 23 years, was probably fatally injured at the same time. A strike of gold assaying $17.50 to the ton has been made iu Ogden canyon, can-yon, at the edge of the city, and a stampede has started of those who are staking out claims. From a conglomerate con-glomerate mass next to the vein matter mat-ter proper free gold has been panned. The frequent storms which occur on the Great Salt Lake, and especially especial-ly those of late, have brought South-. South-. ern Pacific officials to the belief that something must be done to protect its trackage on the cut-off. A breakwater will probably be built near the roadway. road-way. : Barney Foley, who was so terribly inujred by the explosion of a 20-ton condenser in Salt Lake City, died after nearly twenty hours of terrible suffering. His eyes were so badly burned by ammonia that had he lived he would have lost his sight completely. com-pletely. John R. Nelson, a shoemaker who came to Utah in 1875, suicided at Kphraim, April 11, hanging himself Mr. Nelson had always been regarded as one of the most respected citizens of the town, and no cause for the deed is known, unless it was on account of poor health. .Mistaking a bottle of carbolic acid for a bottle of tonic which he was taking, Dr. H. J. Powers, a prominent physician of Ogden. and a member ol the city council, swallowed several spoonfuls of the dangerous drug last week, and had a narrow escape from death. While out hunting with a friend near West Weber, Cyril Knight, aged 11, accidentally fired a .22 caliber rifle, the bullet striking one of the toes of his right foot, practically destroying It. The. youngster was resting the barrel of the ride on his foo' ft'ben the cartridge exploded. |