Show UTAH STATE NEWS springville Spring ville will soon be lighted with electricity ephraim Is to have electric lights the city council being empowered to make all arrangements the commissioners of san pete county last week raised the tax levy from 7 6 mills to 8 1 mills the salt lake board of education has decided to abolish corporal pun ashment in the public schools there are 15 school children in salt lake city de according cording to the cen sua sus just completed 7 boys and 8 girls thirteen carloads of residents of butte and other montana towns came into salt lake on sunday on their annual excursion the town of huntsville became an incorporated city last week and at the election all the officials elected were republicans the date of the state teachers as so clation has been changed from sep SO 30 to october 6 to 8 the place of meeting being salt lake city A E wakeman a salt lal e clerk was arrested last week on the charge of embezzlement he was caught in the act through the agency of marked coins while following the circus parade in salt lake city robert howell got one toot foot under the wheels of one of the mounted cages the member being badly crushed salt lake officers are still hunting for an accomplice for mrs hodge not believing that she murdered ped her ryan without assistance although she declares she did edward anthony employed by the salt lake street car company met death on sunday being crushed between tween two cars while engaged in hia his duties as a car cleaner word was received from los an geles last week that the contracts had been awarded for the construction of the salt lake route between cal leates and aud daggett cal the board of directors of the rio grande western has authorized the extension of the marysvale Marys vale branch to i the theil iro ron deposits of iron county pre ly wor 0 was begun last weel ehfe three year old son of mr and mrs john K madsen of mt pleasant while play ng with matches set its clothing on fire and was so severely burned that death resulted in a few few hours bertha of mt pleasant was thrown from a buggy last week while driving along a rough road her collar and breast bones being broken while willie she sustained other severe in i juries there were a number of people in I 1 mt pleasant laet last week who cam camp from the southern counties in utah and even from arizona a distance of miles for ar the sole purpose of seeing the circus charles B markland manager of 4 the conklin sampling works was war jn found in his rooms in salt salt lake city one day last week covering hovering between life and death as the result of a dose of morphine taken wi wath 1 th suicidal in tent because 0 of III health and busi ness troubles he will recover the police are in search earch of a wo man who has been plying a be peculiar cullar avocation in salt lake city she would call upon a woman and tell her eho she could repair her switch at redic IL low prices she would se cure the victim victims s back hair and fall to return it A number of women were thus victimized philip cassidy a stranger in salt lake city was picked up by a po diceman and sentenced to ten days for drunkenness it now appears the man was delirious from illness and his chances of recovery are very small fred L thomas a pharmacist em aloyed la in a springville Spring villa ville drugstore vas as found dead in bed one morning last week it appears he bad had taken some medicine to relieve pain which had affected his heart and caused his death mrs gilbert mcclurg Is the win ner of the 50 prize for the best ade on irrigation offered by the board of control of the irrigation congress J T goodwin of salt lake and miss jean macmillan of ogden were close seconds A crook was arrested in salt lake city last week who had his pockets full of bogus bills but owing to 0 the denomination there s not man people la in this section that are likely to have been taken in by the coun ter felter A C ellis an artist of salt lake came near losing a leg last week when a bottle of nitric acid exploded in his pocket but for the tact fact that he was in a drug stoe and able to quickly apply remedies he bate haie been severely injured hia 4 |