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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Tho Utah Postmasters' association held a two days' session In Salt Lnko last week. Tho health officers of the statu mot In stnte convention In Salt Lake City last week. Frank EgKlngtun, nged 18, of Og-don, Og-don, shot off ono of his lingers whllo duck hunting hist week. 3ohn W. Pardons has henn detailed to Invcstlgnto and rojiort on sites of. fcrcd tho government at Provo and Lagan. In a street car collision In Salt Lako City a number of passengers woro badly shaken up, hut no ono seriously injured. Between 200 and 300 people wcro present at tho first reunion of tho handcart veterans held In Salt Iiko City last week. Alfred Peterson and Hiram Paulson, two prisoners nt tho state Industrial Bchool at Ogdcn, escapod from that institution hist week. K. Possart, n Swiss, was struck by a passenger trnln while walking on tho track near Ilarrlsvlllo. Uu was badly hurt, but will probably recover. It Is proposed to organlzo a roller polo league, tho towns represented In ' tho lcaguo being Salt Lake, Ogdcn, Provo, Dol80, Ida., and probably Uutto, Mont. Tho Lutheran church conference was held In Salt Lako(Clty last week, prominent clergymen from Utah, Ida-bo, Ida-bo, Montana, Oregon and Maine bolng present Arthur Anderson, aged 1C, whllo walking on thu Union Pacific tracks In Ogden was struck by a switch on-glno on-glno and killed, tho body being badly mutilated. Douglas Wardrop met death whllo 1 duck shooting near Salt Lake. It Is . supposed ho fainted and was drowned, as ho was lying in a foot of water j when The Burvivora of tho handcart com-panics com-panics which crossed tho plulns to Utah between tho spring of 185G and tho fall of 1859 hold n rounlon in Salt Lako last week. George Skachiouroes, a Greek la-Hi la-Hi borer, fell from a new building on B which he was nt work at Garfield, sub- i talnlng injuries from which ho died V shortly afterward. I Tho Utah County Fair association track in Proo has been accepted by tho National Trotting association as an association track, and will bo con-ducted con-ducted under tho rulos of tho associa- 'i Nick Lunde, a blacksmith at the Highland Boy mine, at Bingham, was H shot at fivo times by Joo Heslsh, an Austrian. Two shots took effect, one in tho thigh and Che other In the Joseph E. Frlck, Republican nom- H ( inco for Justlco of tho supremo court, H Las been appointed by Governor Cut- H Icr to fill tho vacancy on tho supreme 1 bench caused by tho resignation of J Chief Justlco Bartch. H By mcanB of & bogus pollco raid on H a sure-thing poker game, Alexander H and William McWhlrtor, two recent H arrivals from Scotland, claim to havo 1 been robbed of J 10,000 in Salt Laku H City on SeptcmbcrlS. H Thrco duck hunters on Utah lako H camo near losing tholr lives when a H storm came up and their boat filled with water. They reached thu shoro H in an exhausted condition, after losing H tholr guns and provisions. K Mrs. Nolllo Elsbury attempted sul- B cldo in Salt 1-ako City, taking carbolic H) acid, but emutlcs wera administered H and Bho is now out of danger. The H belief that sho was being neglected b H tor hushand led to tho dcod. H Fred Prico, stnto statistician, who B ,was severely injured a month ago b H falling into a shaft at tho Mountain H Chief mine, is ablo to be out. When H ho fell down tho shaft ho struck a H twc-by-twelvo timber and broko it In H Sam Davis was Instantly killed by H falling down a shaft at Bingham. Da H ,vls was signaling to an upper love H when in somo manner ho lost his foot- H Ing and foil to tho. bottom of the J shuft, a distance of 82 foot, breaking JH his neck.( Altn Ilolllst, aged flvo years, of J Farmlngton, was burnod to death In HH the yard of her moth or 'a homo at H Farmlngton. Tho child had boon play- Ing near a largo bonflro together with K eomo other children, and in passing H near tho flro a flying ember caught in H tho child's dress. |