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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The residence of Daniel Buttars o'. Clarkston was destroyed by fire last week. The annual slate encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was held in Salt Lake City last week. J. H. Barker of Logan had his collar col-lar bone broken and was badly bruised bruis-ed in a runaway accident last week. It Is probable that a kindergarten depart menP,'wUl be added to each of the grammar schools of Ogden next year. Two masked men entered a saloon in Mm ray one night last week, and held up the occupants, securing about $200. Thomas Moore, one of the oldest residents of Park City, died last week from a com pfi eat ion of diseases after a long illness. Assurance having been given that Logan Is to put In a sewer system, work is to begin on the federal building build-ing in thai city at once. It is estimated that It will cost $87,000 more to run the schools of Salt Lake the coming school year than during the present year. The Ogden and Weber rivers are swollen to high water marks. Old timers predict a repetition of the floods of 40 years ago, when much damage was done. That the time for appeal begins to run from the time a motion for a new trial is. disposed of is reiterated in an opinion handed down by. tho supreme , court of Utah last weeek. Preston Sclierer, a machinist employed em-ployed in the Southern Pacific shops at Ogden, was seriously burned by an explosion of molten lead, which was thrown over his hands, arms, neck and face. The assessed valuation of Davis county, exclusive of the railways and transmission lines, which are assessed by the stato board, amounts to $4,053,-290. $4,053,-290. This Is an increase of $116,490 over last year. A babe was born to Mrs. G. U. Eng-strom. Eng-strom. while crossing the Great Salt Lake ou the Southern Pacific railroad one day last week. Mrs. Engstrom was in hep way to her home near Idaho Falls, Idaho. C. C. Slade, for twenty years, a trusted employe of the Salt Lake post-office, post-office, convicted of extracting money from letters, has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Ogden is to have a new theatre, to be under the management of John Cort and to present the Klaw & Er-langer Er-langer attractions and others that have been under the control of Cort in the west heretofore. The news comes from Berlin that Emma Lucy Gates, a Utah girl, has made her debut in grand opera and scored a big triumph, she having secured se-cured a five year contract with the Royal Opera company of Berlin. W. E. Lucas, a soldier stationed at Fort Douglas, will face a charge ol assault with intent to kill, he having fired several shots at a young woman who had refused to marry him, none of the shots taking effect, however. J. L Malone, ex-champion pool player of the world, who shot and wounded Nels Paulson in Salt Lake City, April S, is to be tried on a charge of assault with intent to murder. Paulson Paul-son is out of danger and will recover. Gus Travis, colored, a waiter employed em-ployed by the Harriman dining car system and well known in Ogden, was accidentally killed by an officer of Po-catello. Po-catello. Idaho, who was endeavoring to stop a fight between several negroes. ne-groes. Wade Ellis, assistant attorney general gen-eral of the United States, has advised Utah's representatives in congress that the fullest possible construction would be given to the memorial of Utah shippers filed by way of protest against railroads. Claude Moyes. the young man who fell from the Ogden viaduct some time ago, as the result of carelessness of fellow workmen, suffered the amputation am-putation of one of his legs last week the operation being necessary in order or-der to save his life. H. Higa. a Japanese laborer, was struck by a passenger train near the Beck Hot Springs and killed. Higa was thrown against the side of the cut and rolled back under the wheels of the coaches, where his body was literally cut to pieces. Several thousand young fish were left high and dry one day last week by the turning out of the water from the Logan, Hyde Park and Smith-field Smith-field canal. The fish and game warden war-den was only notified in time to save about 1,000, the rest perishing. H. T. Haines, deputy state statistician, statisti-cian, is endeavoring to obtain the names of the live irrigation and reservoir res-ervoir companies throughout the state, for the purpose of sending out blanks to these concerns, on which will be recorded re-corded facts which are desired by the department. It is rumored that within a short time local capitalists will begin the erection of a modern grain elevator, to cost $100,000, in Ogden. The elevator ele-vator will have a capacity of several hundred thousand bushels of grain, it is said, and will be located in the wholesale district. The state food and dairy commission commis-sion authorized by the last legislature legisla-ture met in Salt Lake last week and completed Its organization. J. S. Carver Car-ver of Ogden was chosen chairman of the commission and T. A. Williams Wil-liams of Salt Lake was elected sec-tarv sec-tarv and treasurer. Ik. fa |