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Show UTAH STATE NEWS It is now planned to construct a subway for the entrance of the tracks Into the Union depot at Ogden. William (Jlasmann, formerly mayor and later postmaster of Ogdon, has been nominated by the Republicans i( Ogden for mayor. A reward of $500 has been offered by the governor for the arrest and conviction convic-tion of the highwayman who murdered Policeman Riley in Salt Lake City. Postmasters of Utah are granted leave by the department lo attend the convention of the State Ieague of Postmasters at Parowan on October 25. That tho honey raising Industry in Utah is nourishing is the roport of the Utah Bee Keepers' association, which met in annual session in Salt Lake City last week. A. A. Tanner of Oakley, Idaho, in at tempting to board a street car in Salt Jake City, fell under the wheels, one foot being so badly crushed that amputation am-putation was necessary. The fight against the common house fly, classed by the government experts as the typhoid fly, will be carried into the schools of the state, and through the schools back into the homes. Mllion Harrison, 9 years of nge, waa walking on the top of a board fence at Sprlngvllle when he fell. A ring he wore on his finger caught on a nail and his finger was torn from the hand. The State Federation of Women's clubs assembled in sixteenth annual convention in Salt Lake City on Thursday, about 200 delegates from all parts ot the state being present. The Rev. Elmer I. Goshen, nominated nominat-ed by the Republicans of the Fifth ward of Salt Lake City as their candi. date for the long term in the city council, has sent in his resignation trom the ticket. From all indications Park City will have a new light system and one which will, it is estimated, save the city and the consumers from 25 to 50 per cent on their light bills as compared with the present rates. Two distinct earthquake shocks, pre ceded by vigorous tremblings and seismic seis-mic waves, swept from northeast to the southwest over 150 miles of in-termountain in-termountain territory, from Preston, Idaho, to Salt Lake City, on October 5 Hugh M. Darling, whose body was found in the doorway of a drug store In Salt Ijike City at an early hour In the morning, died of epilepsy, according ac-cording to the coroner's report. It was at first thought he had been murdered. Richard Soloman. 50 years of age, fell In front of a street car in Salt Lake City, his head being severed from his body. It is supposed he either slipped or fainted, as he had crossed the track out of danger and fhen fell backward. The state conservation commission has decided to get out els soon as possible a preliminary report giving an abstract of the state's re Bources and then to dttermine the exact ex-act status and area of each of the resources separately. By a cave-in at the Ben Hut tunnel of the Boston Consolidated mine at Bingham, George Perry and Stojan Btoianoff were buried under many feet of dirt and debris. Stoianoff was dead when found, but Perry, who had been sheltered by an overhead beam was alive. The report of the oity health department depart-ment of Salt Lake for September shews a total of 101 deaths, compared with 9S deaths for September a year ago. Estimating the population at S5,000, the death rate was 14.27 per cent as against 13. 84 per cent for September Sep-tember of 1H0S. C. C. Andrews, for two years manager man-ager of the Salt Lake branch of the Klein Fruit company, has been brought back from Los Angeles on the charge of having embezzled $50.80. Members of the firm say his speculations specula-tions amount to almost $4,000. About three and one-half miles of the new state road which passes through Weber county has been completed. com-pleted. The road is being built between Salt Lake City and Ogden. passing through Davis county. Each of the throe counties which will be benefited Will pay its proportion. Some fine samples of the fruit raised near Panguitch and the Hatchtown reservoir site of the state land board lu Garfield county are on exhibit in Salt Lake. Apples weighing more than three pounds were shown, besides onions, on-ions, corn, turnips, potatoes weighing three pounds and more, and cereals. The State Organization of Handcart Veterans met in Salt Lake City on Sunday and at a business session following fol-lowing an interesting reminiscence-telling reminiscence-telling session, decided on keeping the present state-wide organization intact. Instead of forming a number of organisations organi-sations in the various stakes of Zion. While duck hunting with compan ions, near Taylorsville, Farrel Gal-'acher Gal-'acher of Salt Lake Oity was painfully Injured by the discharge of a gun in the hands of a companion, the shot entering the fleshy portion of his left Ihigh. John Miller, aged 39, a pressman, fell unconscious upon a street car track in Salt Lake City, was run down by a car and instantly killed. Two men who saw him but a moment before be-fore the car was upon him were ur able to attract the atention of the mo torman or get to him in time |