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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Fifteen Chinamen were arrested et Ogden when a raid was made upon a gambling resort. That new gas company proposed fnr Provo and vicinity will be in operation op-eration August 1, is the news that comes from that city. Arrangements are being made by which the government of tho United States will assist in protecting the lives of boaters and bathers on the Great Salt Lake. After his pathetic plea for clemency, clem-ency, A. B. Edler, alias Floyd Scott, formerly of Salt Lake, was sntencod to five months in the county jail at Los Angeles for misuse of the mails. John L. Reynolds, aged 63, a building build-ing contractor of Lehi, died at a Salt Lake hospital last week of a fracture of tho left leg, sustained at Xewhause nix days previous while constructing a mill. Sparks leaping from a wood fire In an open grate, set fire to a mattress, on which a babe four weeks old was sleeping, at the home of M. Ferrara, In Salt Lake, and burned the child so severely that it may die. D. E. Pinkham, an express wagon driver of Ogden, was painfully injured in-jured when his horse ran away and threw the driver to the pavement. Ho sustained lacerations about the head and was severely bruised. Offended by the attitude of the city commission, in disregarding a legal opinion rendered by him several days ago, C. S. Varian, corporation counsel of tho city of Salt Lake, has tendered his resignation to the commission. Much interest is being taken by the dairymen of Utah county in getting get-ting the finest dairy stock that can be purchased in the country, and a number of farmers and dairymen are sending east ftr thoroughbred stock. The Utah company, a $5,000,000 concern, is the corporate name of the company formed to take over Utah coal properties and operate an lnter-urban lnter-urban railroad connecting the mines with the Salt Lake Route at Spanish Fork. Suddenly stricken while in Salt Lake to attend "nvfam, uou , Sr., a prominent merchant of Holden, Millard county, died on the 9th. Mr. Wood was eighty-seven years old. The cause of death was general debility. While writing a letter to his mother, moth-er, Joseph Sellers, employed as a clerk in Salt Lake .City, toppled from his chair at the writing table and fell across the bed, dying from a severe hemorrhage of the lungs before medical med-ical aid could be summoned. . Charles Wise, aged 20 years, and Wallace Shown, aged 30 years, who have been held in the Salt Lake City Jail, under suspicion of being the murderers of James O'Connor, the druggist who was killed by robbers, have been reelased form custody. The date for the holding of the Democratic convention for the selection selec-tion of delegates to the national convention con-vention was changed from May 11 to Mtiy 14 at a meeting of the executive committee of the Democratic state committee, held in Salt Lake last week. Edward Burby, a young man who was shot by a special officer in Salt Lake, when the young man and a companion were apprehended stealing steal-ing food from a box car they had broken into, is reported to be out of danger. It was at first thought he would die. Mrs. Jennie Colton of Woods Cross is suffering from lock jaw. About two weeks ago she was vaccinated and a day or so later had a tooth extracted, ex-tracted, but the attending physicians are unable to determine whether either of these was the direct cause of the attack. The low temperature which prevailed pre-vailed at Ogden and vicinity on the 10th is declared by fruit growers to have been a great benefit to the orchards or-chards in that it will retard the development de-velopment of the buds, which have been swelling very rapidly during 'the past few days. Headed by Abel John Evans a delegation of residents of Provo and Heber City called on Governor William Wil-liam Spry last week and urged that the board of examiners permit a deficit de-ficit in the engineering fund sufficient suffi-cient to pay for a hydrographic survey sur-vey of the Provo river. At a -meeting of the board of regents re-gents of the University of Utah last week it was decided to give a three-year three-year course in law, which, together with one year of other work, will lead j to the degree of bachelor of laws. This is the outcome of a controversy lasting over three years. j Charles Green, aged 43, and a resident resi-dent of Pleasant Grove" since childhood, child-hood, dropped dead on the 10th. He was currying a horse when he fell backward and called for help. Two of his young sons ran to their father's side and found him dead. Machine and stope men to the number of 370 employed at .the Boston Bos-ton Consolidated mine at Bingham went on strike Wednesday night. They djsnind ?-r'0 a day instead ol whiji' they have been receiving The st'Sking"" VeTkmen are composed of Aus'Jnn!jrfr)dRyif"ifear,ians |