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Show 'UTAH STATE NEWS One additional clerk and one letter-carrier letter-carrier have been added to the force , In the Provo postofflce. A heavy snowstorm struck lark City on the 9th, the snow being about J.3 Inches deep the following morning. The new postofflce building at Og-den Og-den has heen finished and the postofflce post-offlce Is being moved Into its new quarters. During a heavy windstorm In salt Ijake City, a small frame building was picked up and tossed onto an djoln Ing lot. In attempting to dismount from a horse at Uintah, Roy Russell, aged 8, fell Into a barb wire fence and was severely cut about the arms. Two masked highwaymen held up a street car in the suburbs of Salt Iake City, early Thursday morning, securing $24.50 from the conductor. The MIdvale city council has or dered that all the principal streets c that place be named and appropriate designs erected to designate the same. Directors of the Utah Oil Refining company, whose plant. In Salt Lake City was destroyed by fire recently, have appropriated money for the rebuilding re-building of the plant. Cannan Lewis, who came from Wales to Utah In pioneer days and who was a veteran of several fights with Indians. Is dead at Ephraim, at the age of 09 years. Being angered because a large dog kept them from hrealdnrr into a store In Ogden. robbers hurled bricks and stones through the two plate glass windows. The robbers got nothing. Salt Lake is now listed among the fifty largest postofflces of the country j0" and hereafter will be included in the monthly comparison of business. Sai Lake displaced Allegheny, Pa., in the list, i A Salt Lake man has purchased a dislillery in Tennessee, and will move It to 'Utah. It is said that the plant will be erected not far from Salt Lake and that it will be In operation before the first of January. The office of the Salt Lake Route ind Oregon Short Line at Murray has within the past few days been equipped with a telephone service for train dispatching. dis-patching. The new system completely complete-ly does away with telegraphing. Following simple but beautiful services, ser-vices, the body of Fisher Sanford Harris, Har-ris, one of the best known and best beloved be-loved men In the state of Utah, was laid to rest in the Mt. Olivet cemetery In Salt Lake City on Wednesday. .Utah will be represented at the Chicago Chi-cago farm land congress, beginning November ,16, by an exhibit of the largest atlM best apples grown in the state, grains grown on dry and irrigated irri-gated lands and various other products. pro-ducts. Work has been started in earnest by the boosters' committee of the Retail Re-tail Merchants' association, in the direction di-rection of furthering the interests of the Greater Salt Lake Food and Industrial In-dustrial exposition, to be held in Salt ake City from November 23 to December De-cember 4. The father of Emma Rogers, the for-(ner for-(ner Salt Lake girl who is said to nave attempted suicide at Los Angeles by ehooting herself, has demanded an investigation, in-vestigation, declaring the suicide story was hatched up to cover a crime, another an-other woman being blamed by him for the shooting. Every dairy cow in the state of Utah is to be put through a test lor tuberculosis germs by Dr. S. u. onm-hall. onm-hall. an expert of the agricultural department de-partment at Washington, working with Utah state, county and city officials. No charge will be made for examination examina-tion cf the cattle, the most of the expense ex-pense falling on the government. An Ogden railroad mau ueeiares that although the cost of double-tracking the Denver - Rio Grande between Ogden and Denver would be immense, im-mense, it is the opinion of many railroad rail-road men that this will be started within the next few years. With a half-dozen six-shooters In their possession and well-filled cartridge car-tridge belts, Fred Fremer and Ed. Stewart, two lads not yet IS years of age, have been arrested in Ogden on the charge of larceny, and it is believed be-lieved they are responsible for a number of petty burglaries. James N. Kimball, one of the oldest old-est members of the legal fraternity Df Ogden, ana regarded as the dean of the locai bar, was sentenced to sreve thirty days in the county jail for contempt of court by District Judge J. A. riowell. The order was later rescinded and Mr. Kimball released. re-leased. The Oak Creek Orchard company, which is to plant an Immense orchard In Millard county, believes that Millard Mil-lard county within the next few years will run a close second to the Brigham City and Cache county orchards in point of production. The news comes to Salt Lake that when David H. Moffat returned to Denver a few days ago from New York, he declared that he would continue con-tinue the construction of his road to Salt Lake, and he hojn.3 iu complete the line late next fall. Samuel H. Cave, who opened the first merchandise store at Terrace, Utah, and who later moved to Ogden. where he has been prominent in civil and political affairs, is dead fo! lowing an operation for an abdomina ailment. He was bailiff of the Sec ond district court when he died. |