Show UTAH STATE NEWS the track of the leamington leavington Lea ent off Is now fifteen miles below stack ton work was commenced monday on the canal for the electric light plant tor for Spring springville ville the plant is being put in by the city john alexander a carpenter Is dead from injuries sustained by fall ing from a building on which he was working in salt lake city judah howells of salt lake city Is the owner of a freak calf born last week the calf has five legs and three toes on some of its feet there Is a strong probability that the national guard of utah will go 90 into camp this summer with the reg ulars at some point in wyoming president roosevelt will not par in tl the tle e proposed buffalo hunt on antelope island owing to the lim sted time be he will remain in salt lake chy at the close of last week twenty six cases of smallpox remained in tine in salt lake city sixteen new cases having developed during the week government experts will probably investigate the grasshopper pest in sanpete county with a view to find ing some means to exterminate the little pests diphtheria and membranous croup have been very prevalent in tropic and vicinity this spring claiming no less than twenty one victims all under 12 years of age A rigid quarantine ine Is in n force dr washington franklin anderson who died in salt lake city last week at the age of 80 was the first 4 flent dent of the utah medical society and attended president brigham young in me last illness clyde ellison who shot and killed undertaker A S watson swatson in salt lake city Is on trial for his life ellison will endeavor to prove that he was justified in killing watson on account of family troubles the loss of sheep in this state dur ing the past winter according to a report issued by the agricultural department part ment was 78 per cent through exposure and 21 per cent through disease or sheep in all As the result of a fall from a borse lorse the 13 year old son of mr and mrs don davis of brool drool lyn near elsinore Els lnore Is lying at deaths door As the boy was alone at the time of the accident it Is not known knon allow now it happened little alada ross aged 3 S of salt take lake city while playing in the yard at her home was struck by a stray bullet fired by small boys who were using a target gun the bullet enter ing the thigh inflicting a painful wound victor M clement the well known mining engineer of salt lake city died sunday morning in Sal daltillo tillo mex ico too as the result of an operation which he had undergone a few days previous mr clement had a world wide reputation as a mining engineer three accidents occurred in the fam lly ily of george barney of brooklyn with in a week A 7 year old daughter waa run over by a i and severely in lured another child f ml 11 from tho the ahna ehm and brol e iti ili 1 I 1 lono ono vwe a tf tell hito it anal 1 and was finned out just in time to prevent its death sheep inspector candland of san pete co anty after visiting the east and west deserts estimates the loss of sheep through the past winter and spring at 20 per cent the local flock masters assert their loss will not reach this figure charles christensen a 16 year old richfield lad has been convicted ol 01 breaking into the tabernacle in that city and stealing a purse which had been left on a seat by the janitor the lad has been sentenced to five years in the state industrial school the committee from the tural college of utah charged the selection of sites tor for the five dry land experiment farms in utah has definitely settled upon two tracts of land one of the farms will be in juab county and one in iron county the memorial adopted by the last legislature asking that a portion of utah a vast foiest reserve be opened to settlement will probably bear truit secretary hitchcock having stated that much of the land in question will be restored to the public domain at an early date the work on the lucin lucia cutoff has reached a point three miles beyond the promontory point and work Is being rushed the pile drivers ara ar being worked two shifts by the I 1 light ight furnished from the electric plants piles are arriving every day the wife of district attorney frank K nebel er of logan was sen ben bously burned last week mrs neb eker was out in the yard burning pa per when her clothing caught fire and before it could be put out she was badly burned on the back side and aoth both arms J |