Show UTAH STATE NEWS the Y A gymnasium at was formally dedicated last week rio grande conductors and trainmen have been granted a slight increase in wages foreign insurance companies did a business of 1 in utah last year and paid the state 7 in fees patrick morgan a miner employed at the quincy at park city lost a hand last week by the on of three giant cap which he was holding F an idaho mining en gincer last week brought to salt lake from salmon city idaho in a band satchel and deposited it safely in a hank A party of short line surveyors is in the field surveying a route for the leavington leamington Lea cut the survey uses the present narrow gauge route to nu and runs via stockton i work on the andge memorial home or miners at salt lake will begin toon A site embracing about ten acres near the university has been se lecter and purchased for 15 the utah county commissioners are taking steps to defeat tax dodging by resident sheep men who it is alleged remove their sheep before assessment and do not make returns on them senator dark of montana in an in in bt louis last week stated that construction work on the salt lake end of the los angeles road would probably begin this summer the ball I 1 ake ministerial association ha finally decided to urge the adap tion of polygamy amendment to the constitution upon the judiciary corn brittee of the bouse of representatives president roosevelt has pardoned lieutenant J P bowell of the sixth artillery who is at fort douglas under sentence een tence of dismissal from the army he will soon be assigned to regular duty A large corps of surveyors and engi are quai about eight miles east of oasis station in millard county in the interest of the bait lake and los angeles road they are running south towards pioche mils lucy gates was given fan ovation in boston last week where ebe appeared before a critical audience she was called the utah nightingale by critic who declared she has the greatest voice in america advertising as a physician or brae teeing medicine without first having obtained a license Is a misdemeanor according to attorney general breeden who has rendered an opinion on that subject in answer to a from secretary R W fisher of the state board of medical examiners jesse M smith president of the utah Sheep men association was last week elected president of the northwestern wool growers association embracing the states of utah wyoming idaho montana washington and oregon the next meeting will be held in salt lake in a lecture delivered before the salt lake city teachers associate on last week professor milton bennion of the university of utah presented statistics and the results of investigations by eminent scientists which it is held demonstrate that childrens eyes are being overtaxed and injured by school work the special election vote on the proposition of levying a 5 mill tax to erect a central schoolhouse school bouse in the southern part of springville Spring ville was held wednesday the tax carried by a vote of 99 for the tax to 30 against A caal election will decide the site for the proposed building wayne brown 11 year old son of hal brown of salt lake died last friday from injuries received by coasting down D street and colliding with a birst street car two other boys on the sled escaped with only slight bruises but wayne was caught underneath the car and badly crushed one carload of wheat and two of flour have been imported from washington to ephraim the local dealers having a large supply on hand refuse to dis poe of it at any figure hence the im por tation from outs de points was nee cessare G whitlock united states revenue agent says some of the rottenest work in the country has been done by salt lake stock brokers in evading payment of internal revenue taxes criminal prosecutions may follow his investigations ora dykeman a 19 year old ogden boy while working in a mattress fac tory last week caught his arm in the machinery and had it jerked off at the shoulder ills condition is but hope for his recovery is held out by his physicians two cars of broke horses were shipped from deseret on the 3rd by arthur henry to be used by the british gov eminent in bouth africa horse buy ers are active in other parts of tl e state buying war mounts for british cavalry it is said that as soon as spring opens william capwell a well known newspaper man of dallas pa will come to utah with a colony of settlers who will locate north of ogden on lands belonging to the bear river land water company jacob M lauritzen is intending to tunnel into the mountains northwest of richfield for water the tunnel site will be three fourths of a mile from the city spring it is believed that a subterranean stream similar to the richfield city spring exists there |