Show STATE NEWS 11 P wool shearing is in full blast at milford and faust 0 F P lyons postmaster of peoa geoa charged with having broken the postal laws was fluid tou id not guilty fire insurance on nearly all classes of risks in salt lake city will within a short time be reduce I 1 greatly it is reg regarded aided as possible that the provo woolen nills n ills will be reopened tor for business in the near furuie fhe rhe denver rio grande will spend in the neighborhood of 2 for new equipment in the near future the state council of the knights ot of columbus comprising utah idaho and nevada will meet in session at ogden on may 1 A general st strike rile of 0 different trades in salt lake is threatened this spring it if some of the different trades persist in their demands tor for increased wages the senate has passed without ob ejection the bill ceding the tract of 0 land lying on the west side of fort douglas military reservation to the university ol 01 utah home seekers are going into the green river valley of utah in large numbers this spring and land Is said to be selling there at from 50 to an acre senator smoot has secured from the pension committee a favorable report of his bill to grant service pensions to utah veterans of the blackhawk in dian than war the 4 year old daughter of mr air and mrs charles bridgford of salt lake city fell down the cellar stairs and fractured her sl ull the child is in a critical condition the special election at price tor for the of the to for 10 tor for the faither extension of the waterworks system 6 stem resulted in a victory tor for those in favor of the bonds will moore convicted of grand lar ceny at moab last week Is the only man ever convicted of grand larceny in grand county moore was convict ed of stealing six burros E igena sadey 30 i 3 ears of age and married was killed by a cave in at the overland mine near cedar fort a huge rock crushing his skull his three tello fello v workmen escaped in ury A girl named pehrson was badly scalded at logan she was boiling some soup in a tight kettle and the steam generated blew the 1 d oft off and threw soup into the face of the anfor dunate girl mrs airs mary ann mcferson who has been a resident of kaysville Kays ville since 1851 is dead at the age of 82 she was one of the oldest members of the mormon church and knew personally the het joseph smith mrs airs lizzie hickman who conducts a fruit stand in salt lake was bitten by a tarantula while she was cutting some bananas from a large bunch the tarantula had probably been concealed in the bunch when shipped albert rohn aged 40 a juni dealer of salt like L ike city in a biloon taking carbolic acid his dead body sat at a table for some time before any one knew he was dead the bar tender supposing he was asleep when about to be arrested by of beers S T vickery vicker of salt lake S Mur akama a jap the officer across the back of the hand with a knife inflicting a wound that will probably render the band hand crippled for life tife E G porter W P crozier and M B hart the advance g giard lard for the corn any pany of twenty five gent lc 6 famil es from northeastern northeast erp utah I 1 ave closed deal whereby they secure acres of land from the cal forma fornia irrigation I 1 and company at gridley cal plans are laid by the board of gov erners of the commercial club for the holding of a get together dinner to L given during the girly part of may invitations for the dinner will be ex tended to all the officers of the various com merical organizations in the state C 0 harris local agent of the de forest wireless telegraph company is authority for the statement that the salt lake station of the company will be completed and in operation by june 15 and the stations in other parts ot 01 utah will be constructed immediately thereafter I 1 D murphy formerly of park C t chile v on the weber river I 1 bridge at ogden fell from the ture his head striking on a rock and stunning him so that he was unable to swim death being due to drowning his body was recoN recovered ered an hour after the arc accident ident gro grower er the 19 1 year old son of daniel sommers sommer of coalville Co alville while assisting his brother in hauling ashes and other rubbish to the garbage part of the city tell fron from tha th load under the wagon both of the wheels of one side of the wagon i assin glover his che chest st his in juries ae serious corr oral ocal tanner commander in chief jt of the grand army of the republic Be public will be tendered a reception in salt edke on the night of ot itani it is ex pecked that from a grand army point of view the reception will be one of the large largest t and most imposing ever held in salt lake robert A crosb a bai bailer I 1 er 30 years ears of ft age in ogdan hanging himself his body being fund by his mother who went out to the barn on bome errand III health and the tact fact tuat I 1 ie e bad had recently bad a mi sunder Etani Etan ing cing with a aou ou woman 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