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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Rumors of an Impending shortage 9f coal in Salt Lake are denied by local dealers. Eighteen hundred residents of the Btate attended the fltfh annual inaugural inaug-ural ball at Salt Lake City, February 12. The Order of Owls was ushered into existence at Provo last week, when approximately ap-proximately 125 members were initiated. ini-tiated. Alarmed by an epidemic of smallpox, small-pox, authorities at Fountain Green have taken steps to close the schools 1 for three weeks. Municipal ownership of the waterworks water-works system netted Ogden city $51),-9SG.59 $51),-9SG.59 in 1912, according to the annual an-nual report of the superintendent. The Provo opera house has been sold to a company which will incorporate incor-porate in a few days. The consideration considera-tion was in the neighborhood ol $15,000. The construction work on the electric elec-tric line in Ogden canyon, from Hermitage Her-mitage to Huntsvillo, has been temporarily tempor-arily suspended due to the extreme cold weather. Cane Silverthorn, aged 19, was instantly in-stantly killed in the smelter at Murray Mur-ray when his body was caught in the hoisting drum and the cable wrapped around it. John W. Krause, a graduate of the Salt Lake High school, has 'been ap-' ap-' pointed principal to take examinations for the United States naval academy at Annapolis. Samuel Cornaby, one of the pioneers and oldest settlers of Spanish Fork, died at his home on February 12 from cancer of the stomach, after an illness of twelve days. ; "Eddie" Cox, who formerly lived in Salt Lake, is the quarry sought by an extensive police dragnet as the result of his suspected connection with the murder of Ethel Williams in Bingham December 10, 1912. Explosion of gasoline ignited by a lighted candle she carried caused painful pain-ful injury To Miss Sadie Holliday, at her home in Salt Lake. Flashing into her face, flames burnt her cheeks and scorched her hair. The "Utah Electric club, composed of prominent men of the electric industry indus-try in the state, is preparing for a great electric show in Salt Lake that will eclipse anything of its kind witnessed wit-nessed in the west. The Ogden Canyon Sanitarium, a health and bathing resort, was burned to the ground on the morning of February Feb-ruary 12. The loss is estimated at from $35,000 to $40,000, with insurance amounting to $21,000. The first biennial report of the Utah Conservative commission shows that the irrigated area of the state is about 1,000,000 acres, that there are 2,200 irrigated farms, and that these farms average 45.5 acres each. Grief over the arrest of her husband, who was sentenced to thirty days in the city prison for vagrancy, is thought to have caused Mrs. Dora Jones, 2S years of age, to commit suicide at a rooming house in Salt Lake. State road bonds to the sum of $360,-000 $360,-000 for construction of automobile roads through Utah on both the Mid-. Mid-. land trail and the Overland trail are provided for in a bill introduced in the house by Representative Crouch of Morgan. During a family quarrel. Harry William Wil-liam Brooks, teamster of Salt Lake, threw a pot of boiling water and potatoes po-tatoes over the head of his stepdaughter, stepdaugh-ter, Margaret, aged 19. The girl was terribly scalded about the scalp, face, shoulders and arms. For an average of $20 a month the Salt Lake public school system is maintaining a pony express service that has completely supplanted the telephone as a means of intercommunication intercommuni-cation between the schools and the office of the superintendent. While operating for appendicitis at a Salt Lake hospital, the attending surgeon found in the bladder of his patient, a woman, a hairpin which is believed to have ueen swallowed during dur-ing her girlhood and which had become be-come encysted in the organ. If a bill passed by the national senate sen-ate last week becomes a law, Utah will come into clear title to some hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of acres of school lands within its borders which heretofore hereto-fore have been held tentatively oi in dispute with the federal government. govern-ment. The Percheron Society of America which has its headquarters in the Union stock yards, Chicago, has of fered prizes for Percheron stallions and mares shown at the Uts.h state tail this seasors The prizes amount ic $130 in cash and ten gold rnedais. tuc champion trophies of sterling silvei and twelve silver medals Hazel Perkins, aged 19, of Sail Lake, swallowed several capsule; containing strychnine just as she was ;etiring at her .home, and died befori medical aid reached her. It is sai-i she had been despondent for sevcra days. The Campfire Girls associatioi which was organized in 0,'den sev eral weeks ago, reports a membershi: of more than fifty girl3 ranging in ag; from 12 to 20 years. Those in charg Eire arranging for a cottage to be oc cupied by the association a3 a per cnanent home. |