Show UTAH STATE NEWS the office of the rio grande western will be moved from salt lake city to denver october let president snow has been chosen president of the L D S university succeeding angus M cannon re signed salt lake city has captured the bession of the elks convention the attendance at these meets is about 30 and the sessions last a week the annual expense of governing salt lake cita is than estimated at 2 0 for 1902 bequir fag a levy ol 01 7 mills on an assessed valuation of 34 grasshoppers are swarming into manti and devouring everything green water for irr gallon is also scarce and this with the hot weather is working great hardships on the farmers george A barry for twenty seven years a resident of park city and con the best informed man in that camp concerning its geology died last week from inflammation of the bowels the was utah day at the pan american exposition and residents of utah were present in goodly numbers all day long informal receptions were held at the utah exhibits in the van ous buildings the number of bath houses at salt air will be doubled before the next bathing eason begins there are bath house now but they do not ac commodity comm odite the thronia of bathers that have thronged the beach this sea eon the sho t line will run a spec al excursion to the yellowstone park on august 14 the rate for the round trip which will require ten days and includes stage transportation and ho tel expenses in the park will be descendents of edward ball of bradford connecticut who are blood relations of george washington will hold a reunion at I 1 ark N M august ath and wash ington was of the virginia branch of the family A new firebox designed to burn coal dust is being tried on the short line ahe invention draws the coal dust from the tender by suction and blows it into the fire box if success ful the invention will reduce the cost of making steam one half F M ellzie for beating his wife a frail crippled woman whom he had forced to beg for him was given a jail sentence of one hundred days and fined 80 in police court at bait lake last week in passing sentence the judge mercilessly scored the prisoner beddo del vecchio an italian 19 years of age is detained at salt lake charged with making a criminal as bault on miss sophia westlund a do bestic employed at the cannon farm ue is identified as the assailant by bliss Wet lund and a companion apostle bieber J grant elders hor ace S ensign louis a kelsch atad al taylor left the ath for japan to establish a mission of the mormon church they expect to be absent about three years but much will de pend upon the success they have the earnings of the R grande western for the third week in july were 99 an increase of 5 over the corresponding week last byear the increase was in the eger department the week getting the tall end of the epworth league busi ness A 16 month s old child of mr and mrs william johnson who reside at L street salt lake was drowned in a ditch in front of their house thursday evening swiftly annn ng water carried the little one into a flume where it expired before it could be rescued new potatoes in carload lots are be ig shipped from davis county to eastern markets and contracts are be ing made for future shipments the price f 0 b cars is 55 cents per bushel the partial failure of the po tato crop east will furnish a market ff all utah can spare mayor bohnson of coledo 0 has added to hie unpopularity among tain of his cleveland townsmen by in the assessors to raise the val nation of his euclid avenue property from to per foot 11 en be demanded that other res dents on that swell thoroughfare be similarly treat ed an attempt was made to rob the county clerk s office at coalville Co alville on thursday night the blowing up of the safe was not a success the doors being sprung but a 1 atle no arrests have been made tramps are sus pecked work on bait lake s new public building has been delayed because of a failure to secure more ground for a site and new plans will be made cut ting twenty fire feet off the main estreet site and add ng it to the market street front the people of hinckley have a new grasshopper ex eim by fasten ing a wagon cover at the ends to two bows tl us form og a large opan mouthed bag and dragging it around fields by gallop ng horses hoppers by the bushel are aas ly caught the six year old daughter of will iam francis of morgan cita while handling her father s un last thurs day was shot through the head and almost instantly killed mr francis had been hunting coyotes and beg lecter to remove the shell from hia pun on returning home |