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Show - - r , , , - .. wtMm , ... UTAH STATE NEWS Glrard Van B. Hale, a Utah artist, haa been honored by having a picture bung In the Purls salon. Sunday, May 12, has been designated desig-nated by Governor William Spry, in' a i proclamation, as "Mothers' day" In Utah. Charles D. Brown, a business man of Rrigham City, was kicked In the eide by a frisky horse, two of his ribs being broken. Despondency caused by ill health impelled im-pelled Daniel Albert Raleigh of Salt Lake to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. "Kid" Davis and "Chalky" Germain, both of Salt Lake, boxed fifteen fast TOundB to a draw at Price on May 1 for the bantamweight championship of Utah. Salt Lake is to have another electric elec-tric light and power company, a franchise fran-chise having been granted the Merchants Mer-chants Light and Power company of Ogden last week. High school work is to be eliminated eliminat-ed from the Utah Agricultural college, col-lege, in pursuance of action taken at the annual meeting of the board of trustees held last week. Hamilton uray Park, who died May 1 at his home in Salt Lake, at the age of 86, came to Utah in 1S54, and for several years was business manager man-ager for President Brigham Young. It required only one ballot at the Republican judicial convention in Salt' Lake to nominate the present judges to succeed themselves in the several divisions of the Third district court Four hundred and ten loaded freight cars, sufficient to compose a train five miles in length, were handled han-dled in and out of Ogden on April 29 over the Union Pacific. This is regarded re-garded as a record. Preliminary figures on the assessed valuation of property of all kinds in Salt Lake county, including cities and towns, for 1912, show a total of $71,-062,983, $71,-062,983, or an increase of $1,758,943 over the valuation of 1911. A gasoline explosion followed by fire wrecked a two-story building in Salt Lake, a man who was passing the building at the time of the explosion explo-sion being cut about the head by flying fly-ing glass and rendered unconscious. While at work In the Southern Pacific Pa-cific shops at Ogden. William Coutts met a tragic death, his head and neck being caught between a locomotive drive wheel and a hot tire, which was being shrunk on the wheel. Coutts lived half an hour after the accident. Josephine Stahr, 11 years of age, end her brother, Richard, 9 years, children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stahr, were fatally burned, and their mother and three other children were painfully painful-ly burned, as the result of a collision at Helper between four runaway oil cars and an engine. About 350 foreigners employed in the lead smelter of the American Smelting and Refining company, at Murray, went on strike May 1, when their demands for an increase in pay were denied by the company. The plant practically was closed down as a result of the strike. Albert E. Olsen, charged with violation vio-lation of the interstate commerce law by forging a pass on which he rode over the Southern Pacific lines from Cobre, Nev., to Ogden early last month, was found guilty at Ogden and sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and serve thirty days in jail. The body of Henry Pollicott, an aged prospector, has been found in his cabin near Stockton. Pollicott lived alone, and it is believed he had been dead at least two months before the body was found. The body, however, how-ever, had been frozen and was well preserved. Cluo 'women of Salt Lake have petitioned pe-titioned the city commission to appoint ap-point a municipal board of censorship censor-ship to pass upon motion pictur films before they are permitted to be exhibited. ex-hibited. I William Newberry, an iron-worker, I Is in the Salt Lake jail, while his I wife is in a hospital in a critical con-I con-I dition, it being charged that she was I beaten by Newberry while he was n-I n-I toxicated. I The crops on the Levan ridge are I cot. so far along this year as usual, I on account of the wet and cold spring, but all the farmers feel sure that with I a spell of warm weather, together I with the large amount of moisture I that has fallen of late, the crops I should be -bigger than ever. I The fruit crop at Nephi promises to 1 be an abundant one this year. The I apples, peaches, etc., have not been in-I in-I jured by frosts and show every indi-I indi-I cation of giving an excellent yield. I The apricots have been slightly in-I in-I jured by frost because in bloom dur-I dur-I lnj; a recent cold snap. I At the end of ten rounds of fast I milling, in which there was little I sparring or fighting at long range, I Fighting Dick Hyland of Salt Lake I was returned the winner over Matty I Baldwin of Boston at Salt Lake Mon-I Mon-I day night. I The legal department of Salt Lake I City is engaged in preparing a draft I of an ordinance granting Samuel New-I New-I bouse and his associates a franchise I for an Interurban railroad, which is I planned to run from Salt Lake City to I Spanish Fork and the coal fields of I Eouthern Utah. |