Show UTAH STATE NEWS the utah elks are going after the grand lodge convention of elks for salt lake in the summer of the government lake reached the mark on sunday while many street thermometers went tolof frank limes who served it bat tery as sergeant and second lieuten ant has been appointed a second lieu tenant in the regular army the millers of the state are forming a corporation to handle the entire out put of flour of the utah mills with a view to maintaining prices As a business center salt lake city reached cheh nt in her history during the past week the total clear ings for the week being 8 15 96 during june marriage licenses were issued in salt lake which broke all previous records S aty three of the coup es were bained in the tern pie the 1 atle daughter of thalia ed wards of lehi escaped from death by drowning di owning at saratoga on the ath she being rescued just in the nick jot time while senator A J evans of lehi was in the hay field assisting to bind a load of hay the binding pole broke and let him suddenly to the ground he tailing upon h s shoulder which was severely wrenched it is estimated that residents of salt lake expended not less than 15 on firework this year in the celebia tion of the birth of the nation chis as an average expenditure of 25 cents for every man woman and child in the community mrs J geggel wife of a salt lake laborer who is said to have left her be cause of recent domestic infelicity an unsuccessful attempt to end her life thursday evening by s ng the contents of a half ounce bottle of laudanum much alarm is felt a nong the farmers of spring city beca ise of the preva lence of grasshoppers farmers are busy mowing what wheat ard oats are left as they know that by leaving it the entire crop will be destroyed by the little pests the state board of hort culture be alieves the extension of railroads into the southwestern part of the state would mean eventually the production of wine in utah on an extensive scale in com petit on with the california and foreign wines acting governor ll ammond has re calved a telegram from deputy sheriff hechtman stating that he had didenti fled the in jail at prescott anz as halbert mcclube the half breed mexican wanted in san juan county for grand larceny conrad griffin aged 10 of vernal was the victim of a serious accident from which he is now in a precarious condition A companion po anted a sup posed unloaded pistol at him send ng a bullet through his mouth and neck cutting an artery miss adelaide M supervisor of the primary department of the bait lake city schools has been elected supervisor 0 the primary schools of Minne apol s at a salary of 81 a year she is regarded as one of the best educators in the land grasshoppers are playing havoc with the vegetation just across the jordan river from salt lake city eating every thing in the way of garden vegetables except the tomatoes while the grape vines are stripped as bare as though they had gone through a fire II 11 L southworth ap onee dent of provo died last friday from monia aggravated by an ace dent he recently sustained he came to L tah in 1847 a member of the hand cart company he was one of tl e first to move to provo where 1 a 1 as since re sided joseph fisher a resident of mill creek was picked up by salt lake police last friday after having wan dered about in the eastern part of town all day in a dazed condition residents saw him staggering about but supposing him to be drunk extend ed no aid the fee earnings of the secretary of states office for the first six months of the year amounted to 51 25 corn pared with 45 last vear the increase is due in great part to the payments made by the un on pacific company for the increase of POO in its capital stock and to tl e in corporal on of the san pedro road jacob faldmo of salt lake is dead from lockjaw resulting from an acci dental shooting about ten days ago when he and another boy were shoot ing at one another with what they supposed were blank cartr adges young faldmo being shot in the foot month for three succeed ng quarters the receipts of the richfield post office have exceeded the amount required to place it on a salaried basis the postmaster has presented the mat ter to the department and it is believed it will be made a salaried office bait lakers aie del gated with the order of the war department stat on ing the headquarters field staff and band of the eighteenth infantry and the battery at fort douglas the officers and tl air fam 1 es and the soldier swill number about 1000 J wilcox the proprietor of the apex saloon at salt lake who was arrested thursday night on a charge of beating his wife was found guilty by judge timmony and sentenced to 10 days in the city jail and a cash fine |