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Show i UTAH STATE NEWS Files are blamed for the typhoid fever epidemic in Salt Ijake, accord-In accord-In to a report by Dr. T. B. Beatty, secretary of the state board of health. James Bowman, who fell from the second floor of a new building in Salt Luko City, Is dead. Bowman stepped on a loose plank and fell to the flrxir below. Rev. Francln Bnrgette Short, pastor of the First Methodist church of Salt Lake City, who was nominated for city councilman from the Fourth municipal ward on the Republican ticket, has withdrawn his name. On the Buckskin mountains, which are embraced In the Kaibab forest, about 1-1,0110 head of cattle are being crazed annually, 10,000 of the stock belonging to one company and 4,000 belonging to the farmers. Mayors of all towns In the state are invited to attend the convention October 7 at the University or Utah, Salt Lake City, of the state library and gymnasium commission. Mayors May-ors are authorized to appoint as many delegates as they see lit. The Republicans and Americans have placed municipal tickets in the field In Salt Lake City. The Americans Ameri-cans have selected J. S. Bransford, the present incumbent, for mayor, while James D. Murdoch is the choloo of the Republicans. Orders to commence beet digging have been received from the Lehi factory fac-tory by the farmers in Monroe. Superintendent Su-perintendent F. Gould estimates the beet crop for Sevier county at about 25,000 tons, bringing in over $100,000 for beet growers. After an Inspection of the canning factories in Cache county, the state dairy and food commission reports they, without exception, show ideal Banitary conditions and have adopted stringent rules in regard to the to-iratoes to-iratoes used In their output. Mike Simunic, aged 32, single, an Austrian miner, was caught in a cave-in cave-in In the Boston Consolidated company's com-pany's property at Bingham and completely 'buried. Almost every . Done in ma ooay was broken and ne died soon after being released. Dr. Harry D. Niles, one of the most noted physicans and surgeons of the west, died at his home in Salt Lake City on September 28, death being due to apoplexy. Dr. Niles ranked high in his profession, being regarded regard-ed as an authority in surgical cases. In the annual report made to the secretary of war by Brigadier General Gen-eral Earl D. Thomas of the United States army, commanding the department depart-ment of the Colorado, suggestions are made that improvements are needed at Fort Douglas and Fort Duchesne, Utah. Salvadore Palidro, an Italian, stole $500 in gold from his landlady in Salt Lake City and when a chambermaid attempted to wrest the coin from him, she was attacked by the thief with a stilleto and terribly slashed about the face and neck. The thief escaped. While owrkmen were digging a cellar cel-lar at Springville they dug too close to the foundation of the Miner & Miller Mil-ler meat and grocery store, and the entire wall toppled over, causing damage of $2,500. The workmen had a narrow escape from being crushed to death. A special from Cincinnati ti the Salt Lake Herald-Republican states that Casimer Werke. a retired soap and candle manufacturer, now in Salt Lake on a visit, gave his wife, to whom he has been married' for about thirty years, $50,000 to go to Germany Ger-many and never return. A. Milton Musser, assistant historian of the Mormon church and one of the early pioneers of Utah, died in a hospital hos-pital in Salt Lake City following an operation for intestinal trouble. Mr. Musser participated actively in the up-ouilding up-ouilding of Utah's industries. A plaster mill to cost $30,000, and with a capacity of 300 tons, and a brick plant to cost $'10,000. will be erected at Nephi next month, near the mouth of Salt Creek canyon by an Incorporated In-corporated stock company. One hundred and sixty-four voters and taxpayers of the little city of Huntsville, situated a few miles east of Ogden, have petitioned the district court for an order of disincorpora-tion. disincorpora-tion. Mrs. Amanda Gilmore. of Roscoe. Pa., committed suicide at the home of her s'-ster in Ogden, cutting her throat with a cake knife. Despondency as the result of ill health led to the deed. A lightning bolt struck the home of William Hibbard at Logan, and Miss Helen Young, daughter of August Young, was rendered unconscious and partially paralyzed. Later she recovered. recov-ered. The Pleasant Grove city council, which has had up for discussion for some time past the question of passing pass-ing a prohibition ordinance, has finally decided to allow the matter to be settled set-tled by the voters at the coming election. elec-tion. The one-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Francom me with a terrible; death at I.evan. The little fellow reached from his high chair and pulled a kettle of scalded fruit toward him. The kettle tipped oer, scalding the child's body and causing his death several sev-eral hours later. |