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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Springvlile hunters killed a big black bear in HobMe Creek canyon last week. An active boosting campaign is being be-ing planned by tho Midvale Com mercial club. Robbers who gained entrance to th store by means of skeleton keys, stol thirty' suits of clothes from an Ogden etore. A reduction of grain rates has been Inaugurated by the Oregon Short Line, which will materially aid shippers from Cache valley points. Ogden's chief of police has mad known his . intention of rigidly enforcing enforc-ing the law against the sale of tobacco and cigarettes to minors. Hiram Clements of Lynn Junction, who was assaulted by thugs In Salt Lake City two weeks ago and badly beaten, has just been discharged from the hospital. An attempt to flood Salt Lake with $10 bills of the Merchants' & Planters1 bank of Georgia, issued before the Civil war and strikingly like modem bank notes, has been discovered. Children playing with matches ael fire to the Vanansdal home at Santa quin, practically destroying everything In the room. The children were gotten out of the building just in time. Attempting to board a moving street car in Salt Lake City, William D. Williams aged 70, fell underneath the wheels and was instantly killed, his neck being broken and his limbs crushed. . A few cases of-smallpox have recently re-cently developed at Cedar City, in a very light form, also one of diphtheria, ' all of which are under strict quarantine. quaran-tine. Public gatherings, except the schools, have been discontinued. The trial at American Fork oi George J. Sinclair, charged with selling sell-ing whisky to a "spotter"" hired foi the purpose of catching him in the act of illegally selling intoxicants, has resulted in the acquittal of the ac- . cused. Edward Gunter Rodeback, aged sev enty-seven years, one of the original Mormon pioneers of Utah, is dead at ibis home at Millton, whew for forty-two forty-two years he had lived. . Mr. Rode backe came to Utah in 1852 with one Of the ox-cart companies. That the killing of Oki Okono, thfl Salt Lake gambler, at Ogden, did not occur in the manner as described by George Kawshata, his countryman, who says he fired the shot in self-de-. fense, appears more certain since an investigation has begun. Julius Szirmay, the Hugarian youth --who is charged with murdering Tom Warrick in Salt Lake City on October 12, 1910, while in the act of robbing the Karriek home will not be tried until some time after Christmas, his case having been postponed. J. E. Moore, an employe of the Tell uride Power Company, was thrown from his horse, between Provo and Springville, where he lay unconscious for several hours, until found by searchers, who became alarmed when they discovered a riderless horse. Escaping from the city jail by rep resenting themselves to an unsuspecting unsus-pecting guard as "trusties," then robbing rob-bing a residence within one block of the city jail and afterwards carrying Clothing stolen from the house to the police station was the record established establish-ed by two Ogden prisoners last week After an illness lasting for a period of three years, Ellen M. Williams, one of. the pioneer residents of Weber county, died November 25, at her home in Ogden. Mrs. Williams came to Utah in 1853. The supreme court holds that Frank Connors, convicted on a charge of burglary bur-glary and also on one of murder, must serve his term for burglary and then be delivered to the sheriff of Utah county for trial. Connors killed William Wil-liam Strong, city marshal of Provo, in 1899. A . dispute arising over a wagei placed on a wrestling match resulted in a fatal shooting ' in Ogden, Oki Okana, a Japanese, being shot and killed by G. Kawshata, a fellow countryman, coun-tryman, who surrendered to the po lice, claiming the shooting was in self-defense. self-defense. The Murray Commercial club has decided to hold an auction day at Murray Mur-ray every week. This will be principally princi-pally farmers' day. The farmers and others who have cows, horses, chickens, chick-ens, vegetables, grains, or anything to dispose of, will bring it to the market ' place for auction. j Vaccine, with the recommendation' that it be used for vaccination pur-1 poses, is to be sent to the health au ' thorities in Washington and Beavei ! Dounties by the state board of health, as the first method of be employed in the prevention of the spread of smallpox small-pox In the southern part of the state Parley Pratt, aged 40, a carpenter was killed, and Cecil Matthews and W. M. Cole were slightly burned, while working on a new building in Salt Lake City, the men, through an ! accident, coming in contact with a wire highly charged with electricity. Henry C. Lee, convicted at Ogden of having persuaded Grace Muir, 18 years old, of Rock Springs. Wyo., to marry him, representing that he had obtained a divorce from his wife, liv ing in Ogden, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment. A fake marriage ceremony was entered into |