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Show UTAH STATE NEWS There is a serious epidemic of typhoid fever at Monticello, due to bad sanitary conditions. A Provo man convicted of llshing In Utah lake with set lines has been lined $25 and sentenced to fifty days In Jail. Tin; schools at Hurricane, in Beaver Beav-er county, have beeu closed, because of the prevalence of smallpox in that section. Having become a public charge because be-cause of a sprained ankle, Olof Sanders San-ders of Ogden, a Swede, is to be taken Lack to his home in Sweden. Crazed by habitual drinking covering cover-ing a period or two years, O. W. Jen-Ben, Jen-Ben, a gardener of Brigham City, placed a .22-caliber rille to his forehead fore-head and killed himself. A meeting of beet growers is to be held in Ogden on December 1. The purpose of the meeting is to devise plans to secure a higher price for beets and also better . accommodations. accommoda-tions. A call has been Issued for a meeting meet-ing In Salt Lake City, December 10, 1910, of all the sheriffs in the state for the purpose of perfecting the organization or-ganization of the Sheriffs' association of the state of Utah. There is still a probability of Mid-vale Mid-vale getting a railroad station along the line of the Salt Lake Rout if plans being formulated by the Commercial Com-mercial club and city council of Mid-Tale Mid-Tale are carried out. A special train was run from Helper on Tuesday to convey a shipment ship-ment of pool and billiard tables to Bait Lako for the Commercial club. The shipment had been delayed and the tables were needed for the opening open-ing of the new club quarters on Wednesday. Wed-nesday. State Chemist Herman Harms and State Dairy and Food Commissioner Wlllard Hansen have departed for New Orleans, where they will represent repre-sent the state at the fourteenth annual an-nual convention of the Association ol State and National Food and Dairy departments. Plans lor two large Carey act Irrigation Irri-gation projects, for the reclamation of about 3S.000 acres of land in Utah are being completed. One project is near Moab, in Grand county, the other being south of the old Uintah Indian reservation, and southeast of south Myton bench. William Riley Cole, one of the earliest ear-liest Utah pioneers, a bodyguard of the Prophet Joseph Smith, a member of the' Nauvoo legion, and one of the niost active members of the church in the early days, died at the home of his daughter in Ogden on November E3, at the age of 93. The establishment of ft miners' rescue res-cue station under government charge at the University of Utah will be effected ef-fected within a year if negotiations cow on between the board of regents of the university and the . United States bureau of mines are carried ta a successful conclusion. Mrs. Eurithe K. La Barthe, one ot Utah's first women lawmakers, and a woman of note in many ways, died Tuesday of last week, after a. "orief illness, in Salt Lake City. Mrs. La Barthe was elected a member of the first state legislature. For several -ears past she has lived in Denver. Denver. Five men who desired to be undertakers under-takers were examined Tuesday by the secretary of the state board of health. The state law does not require re-quire an examination for undertakers who wish only to embalm bodies for local burial, but for undertakers who desire to ship bodies on the trains the examination is necessary. While gathering willows for kindling kind-ling near Corinne, George Rader grabbed a shotgun from the wagon in l hurry by the barrel and pulled it toward to-ward him, the gun being discharged, tis right arm being so badly mangled that amputation was necessary. Brigham Peterson and Dave Green-halgh, Green-halgh, the two young Santaquin men who are alleged to have shot and dangerously dan-gerously wounded Mosiah Gunderson, an aged man. at his home in Santaquin Santa-quin last July, have finally been discharged dis-charged from custody. Gunderson has recovered from his injuries. Construction has commenced near Uintah, in Weber canyon, on a hydroelectric hydro-electric plant embracing in its design all of the latest and most approved methods of developing electric power by water. The plant is being con-structi con-structi for the Davis and Weber Counties Canal company. One of the new government sea-Bonal sea-Bonal water gauges is to be placed in the mountains near Fort Douglas for experimental work. The gauge consists con-sists of a new arrangement indented by a government man for the measuring measur-ing of the precipitation in a district where there is no habitation. Because Zhon-ne, the Navajo Indian, In-dian, charged with the murder of Charles Fritz, a trading post keeper at Hefferon, Utah, is seriously sick, he will not be required to appear in court this term to answer to the charge of first degree murder. Thomas Vance, the Salt Lake man once sentenced to death for the murder mur-der of his wife, but granted a new trial, has again been sentenced,' this time to twenty years' imprisonment, the maximum penalty for the crime of assault with intent to commit mur-fluer, mur-fluer, for which he was convicted. ' |