Show UTAH STATE NEWS at the close of last week there were only four easel of smallpox in sail lake city A special display of relics of pioneer days will be made at the elk s carnival in september an effort is being made to secure for salt I 1 ake the next session of the national educational convention the heat record for twelve years was broken at salt lake the when the mercury registered 3 A number of large cattle owners in the southern part of the state are sell ing their herds and retiring from busi ness great salt lake is said to be a toot lower now than a year ago at this time and a low water mark is expected the coming winter growing crops in many sections oj southern utah are suffering greatly on account of hot winds carrying ob moisture between apostle heber J grant with a tarn ily of ten daughters and no son haa adopted a nine months old baby boy the child of mrs grant s sister who died recently at the salt palace saucer track in salt lake friday night charlie tur ville of philadelphia broke the worlds record for a motor paced mile covering the distance in 1 31 2 5 the wednesday half holiday in salt lake is principally noticeable for its non observance many of the general stores refused to close which kept corn peti tors from closing who desired to do so marion boss pratt widow of apostle orsan pratt died at her home in salt lake last friday aged 71 years she came to utah from england in 1851 and the following year was married to mr pratt samuel spry who is charged with ug from salt lake with the pay of several employees of the water works department has been ampro bended at san francisco but is fight ing extradition A large hotel and extensive improve ments in the bathing resort at beach are promised for next year when it is stated the old resort will be made one of the most notable pleasure places in the west word has reached fish and game commissioner john sharp that consid erable dynamite is being used in the provo weber and other streams and that many fish are being unlawfully taken this way mr sharp will make an effort to put a stop to this method of capturing the finny tribe on the and of august the national society of the army of the philippines will meet in salt lake the gathering will be in the nature of a grand reunion and encampment the second to be held in tho united states since the withdrawal of the volunteer forces from the archipelago the charge against young frank shurtleff the boy who shot mrs jane wilson of holiday in the neck from the effects of which she died has been raised to murder in the second degier shurtleff and a number of companions were drinking one of the crowd firing a shot into mrs wilson s house properly in utah county is assessed at 10 of this amount a little less than halt is on real estate and a fourth on real estate improvements railroads and kindred enterprises are assessed at 92 live stock is placed it and mining claims are rated at 30 isaac riddle who recently made a trip to niobrara Nio brara nebraska to locate the graves of some mormon immigrants who died while en route to utah dur ing the exodus from nauvoo was sue in his mission there are six teen graves and a suitable monument will probably be erected to mark the spot an application for pardon haa been denied fred george who achieved notoriety through his con lection with patsy coughlan who was executed for the murder of marshall dawes of evanston and constable stagg of echo in a fight near there which occurred while an attempt was being made to arrest the boys the family of maj L alien of the sixteenth infantry who was formerly stationed at ft douglas has received a letter stating that the major was seriously wounded on may but was out of danger at the time the letter was written eastern salt is being marketed in territory heretofore s ippi ed by salt lake and san francisco and salt deal ers anticipate a lively war the pa coast bait combine threatens to salt to the eastern markets in retaliation nicholas paul an old time resident of has not been heard from since the of may and the fear is expressed that he has perished on the desert between blackrock and anake valley had about with him when last peen at moroni the a 5 year old son of mrs john kellett picked up a target rifle and shot his mother the ball entering near the heart the gun had been carelessly left where the child could get it mrs Ivel letts condition is serious in an abandoned mine near birchfield Bich field last week a skeleton was found in a position which points to foul play it was in a room off the main shaft a position which could not have been reached by anyone who might have fallen down the shaft |