Show STATE NEWS A bait lake sportsman was last wort aaen for killing a elipe work baj been resumed on the new tabernacle at leh and it is expected the roof will be on by december IS brick and the lumber baring been contracted for mr mary jane ghompson taylor a pioneer of 1847 d ed in salt lake last week her father robert thomp on was the first private secretary of the prophet doseph smith through the efforts of the county commissioners of utah county a fine display will be made by that county at the fair plans for the exhibit having ben outlined at a recent meeting labor day monday september 2 is to be appropriately celebrated at salt lake city when it is expected that twenty of the unions of the city will be represented in the parade with floats the contention between provo city and utah county over the division of the rooms of the county and city build ing has been settled by the city agree lag to ell its one sixth interest to the county tom carver arrested in arizona for the murder of two deputies in grand county this state will be returned to utah for trial officers followed carver all over texas and new mexico before capturing him the order of the superintendent of foredt reserves excluding sheep from the shaded ranges has been modified it being considered impossible to enforce compliance unless sheep were entirely excluded from the reserves bicycle thieves have been making the latea of lehl wheelmen a burden re bently two wheels having been pur one night last week one being discovered hidden in the grass outside of town the following morning while sinking a well at the weir salt plant west of garfield beach a strong flow of natural gas was recently en countered and the well will be capped with the expectation of getting af focient gas to operate the plant vernie parker aged 6 of salt lake met a shocking death beneath the wheel of a heavily loaded wagon last week no one saw the child go be neath the wheel but it is believed that he was climbing off the wagon when he fell the state land board reappraised acres of salt lands in davis county last week reducing the former appraise biant by half the decrease being due to the fact that the fall of the lake has rendered the land less valuable for salt purposes during an electrical storm near salt lake last week a horse attached to a mowing machine was struck by lightning and fell to the ground a if dead but reviving in two hours beveral men standing near the animal were lightly stunned tul an of the united state fish commission will spend the next month in utah and idaho hinves gating the condition of the species of alth introduced into this country from the east several years ago to see how they are doing A clever theft was made in salt lake last week when a man drove up to the residence of policeman kirkman told mrs kirkman he bad purchased a stove which was sitting on the poarch from her husband placed it in his wagon and drove away A letter from hon A W mccune announces that he has reached panama bately and will start for peru in a few days his ship ran into a storm off cape hatteras and all hope was aban boned for several hours but the vessel finally reached port safely patrolman ed davies of salt lake was arrested at idaho falls recently as an escaped burglar the arrest being the result of a practical joke played on him by a number of companions dav es being released when the situation was explained when all hands smiled the executive committee of the state fair association met last week and awarded all the space in the main build ing for the fair this fall there never was such a demand for space in the history of the association the increased prizes adding much interest L huber of salt lake city met his death by falling from a moving train near lehi all the limbs being severed from the trunk and the head carried a leaea feet from the mangled mass he was riding on the brake beam when the accident occurred state fish and game commissioner sharp has demanded the removal of county warden crookston of cache county claiming that the warden fails to properly attend his duties and rec commends A J merrill of smithfield for the place harry diffenbaugh Diffen bangh had a narrow escape from death by an attack from a mountain lion near liberty last week the lion jumped at him fearfully lacerating his shoulder and arm but fortunately did not cretu rn to the attack thus sparing his life A number of ogden men have been locating ground on promontory Pio montory in the belief that it was oil land returns from samples sent to the standard oil company recently received showed that the substance was 85 per cent the best kind known in order to protect their crops from the sage hens the farmers in grass valley sevier county have commenced killing the birds although sportsmen or others not residents of the valley are not permitted by the game comila to lay the birds |