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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The new folder of the Salt Lake Route devotefl two double pages to the advertising of Salt Lake. Harry Worm, a pioneer miner, whq was caught In a cave of bad ground at the Daly-Judge mine at Park City, U dead. The monthly salary of the chief o( the fire department of Salt Lake was) raised from $175 to $200 by an ordinance ordi-nance passed by the board of city commissioners last week. Four men were arrested at Ogden after engaging in a fight in which the missiles were cocoanuts, oranges, apples ap-ples and bananas, each of the combatants com-batants being badly bruised. A petition asking the Bountiful city, council to construct eight blocks of six-foot cement sidewalk in the busit ness district is being circulated among the business men of that city. The sheriff has destroyed the liquor that he confiscated from Thomas Ar-rowsmith Ar-rowsmith of Colton about two weeks ago. There were two barrels of beer and about three quarts of whiskey. There were 1,821 licensed automobiles automo-biles owned in the state of Utah up to January 23, 1912, according to the new automobile directory just issued by the secretary of state. There are 267 licensed chauffeurs. Governor William Spry was the principal speaker at the convention of the State Dairymen's association at Provo on Thursday. The governor entered exhaustively into the varied phases of the state's dairy industry. Don Wadsworth, the young man convicted at Lehi oil January 9 of selling whiskey and sentenced to serve fifteen days in the city jail at, Lehi and to pay a fine of $100, has appealed the case to the district court. The Salt Lake factory of the Bruns-vrlck-Balke-Collender company will be closed as soon as worK now on hand has been cleaned up. The reason given is the small demand for bar fixtures fix-tures since the "dry" agitation in this state started. The body of Ernest Walters, who was buried by a cave-in at the state Jam near the mouth of Logan canyon, has been recovered. The body was standing when found, and every bone had been crushed by the great mass of earth which had rolled down upon It. A Provo resident has asked the city commissioners of Provo to graat him. the privilege of building a street car line on Fourth South street from Academy avenue to the city limits east of town. He says he wants to build a line, using an invention of his own. Workmen at the mouth of the Provo river found a shoe containing the bones of a man's foot. The shoe is an exact mate of a shoe found with similar simi-lar contents a year ago and the authorities au-thorities are led to the belief that search will reveal the rest of the body. A contest involving the estate left by Thomas Cummings, who was killed by Leopold Berger, a tenant, during a quarrel in Salt Lake over rent, has been started. There are two sets ot claimants to the estate, one being Thomas Fogarty, a Philadelphia policeman. po-liceman. Fifteen notices warning dairymen to bring their dairies within the requirements re-quirements of the state sanitation laws were filed by J. C. Lambert, deputy dep-uty state food and dairy inspector, during a three weeks' inspection tr.p through Cache valley and Box Elder counties. Tabby W. White, the Indian who was convicted of murder in the first degree for killing Belden N. Reynolds Rey-nolds at Moffat, Utah, July 23, 1910, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary, must serve his time. This is the decision of the supreme su-preme court. Sidney Flewelling wandered into a mill at Ogden and was caught by the whirling belts of the machinery. His little body was found later by an employe em-ploye of the mill and when taken lo his home physicians found that his collar bone had been broken ana tie was otherwise injured. The Earle Power company, recently organized, will establish a power plant in American Fork canyon that will generate 2.000 horse power. 'The company was incorporated at $250,-000, $250,-000, the stock being now subscribed, and will expend $175,000 on the new plant which will be started in April. Charles Scyboldt or Bingham has Invented a device for feeding his horses. He has arranged an alarm clock in the second story so that at 5 o'clock in the morning when the alarm sounds it releases a wire which connects with the chute which carries car-ries the grain to the horses' troughs. The commissioners of Ogden placed a ban on boxing contests, pool rooms, bucket shops and slot machines by passing an ordinance Which repeals certain portions of other ordinances and changes the general state of civic affairs to a considerable extent. Jacob P. Peterson, found guilty at Logan of "bootlegging," was sentenced to twenty-five days in Jail and to pay a fine of $225. Ho appealed. This Is the first real case of illegal selling ol liquor that has come before the courts of Logan since prohibition was Instituted Insti-tuted there. |