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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The residents of Pleasant View, CJtab. county, have decided to have electric lights. The voters of Box Elder county :.Tav-e decided to bond for $200,000 for school purposes. Elopement stunts are becoming a vPtjKilar fad in Green River, two such capades having occurred within a creek. One of the features of the tentn annual meeting of the Utah State Dairymen's association, to be held in February, will be a competitive exhibit ex-hibit of dairy products. As the result of a merchant at Tucker mistaking gasoline for kerosene, kero-sene, a number of lamps exploded in that town one night last week, but fortunately no one was injured. The Salt Lake Route is distributing 300,000 1912 calendars. It is the first road this season to distribute this kind of advertising matter. Many of :the calendars are being sent east. -James E. Welch, reputed to be the .tieaviest locomotive engineer west of .the Mississippi river, weighing 320 .pounds, fell down a flight of stairs in Salt Lake, and is in a. serious condition. condi-tion. A call upon the state and private banks in Utah for a report . of the condition of their business at the close of business hours on ' December 3, :has been issued by the secretary of estate. August Gundval, who has been employed em-ployed by the Utah Construction -company on the double-tracking of the Oregon Short Line, was struck by a passenger train about half a mile south of Kaysville station and instantly in-stantly killed. j After coming to within four years ' of reaching the century mark, James II. Salder, aged ninety-six, died last week at the Salt Lake county infirmary. infirm-ary. He was born in Yorkshire, England, Eng-land, and came to the United States - nearly half a century ago. The Utah County Marshals' association asso-ciation met at Provo last week for the purpose of taking up the question of a detention home for Utah county. The matter was put up to the county commissioners, they being requested to provide a detention home. The Ogden federation of shop em--giloyes of the Harriman system, who are on strike, adopted, resolutions recommending that the McNamara &rothers get the extreme penalty of the law. This action was taken before be-fore the men were sentenced. Fifteen hundred corporations in iTJtah are delinquent in their corpora- - iftion fees which should be paid to t-e secretary of state each year. Unless ithey pay their fees bfore December 15 they will be subject to a penalty tof $10 each in addition to the regular fee. Idellus Monro Dye, under arrest in Salt Lake on the charge of having xtnurderd Joseph Rainbow on the t.night of November 26, claims to be . the son of a prominent attorney of 1 Pueblo, Colo., and says he has al--ways been the black sheep of the ;Jamily. The first conviction under the new "Jiquor law in Davis county was secured se-cured at Bountiful last week, when Josephine O. Day, proprietress of the Davis County Fraternal club of St. Joseph, was found guilty of violating the law. She was fined $299 and sentenced sen-tenced to five months in jail. While switching cars a short distance dis-tance east of Echo, John Milburn, a freight brakeman residing in Ogden, was instantly killed by a passenger train. Milburn did not see the approaching ap-proaching train. George Taylor, aged eighty-one, a pioneer of Utah, is dead at Goshen. General debility was responsible for liis demise. He came to Utah in 1862 and in the early days was a home guard in the Black Hawk war. Utah day was celebrated December rs at the big land show at Chicago. Lectures illustated with "moving pictures pic-tures and stereopticon slides . were delivered in the two beautiful lecture lec-ture halls of the Union and Southern South-ern Pacific companies on the farming farm-ing conditions in the state. Utah being entitled to two congressmen con-gressmen under the reapportionment act of the last congress, and there being be-ing no regular congressional election until the fall of 19iz, the question of the appointment of a second congressman con-gressman by the governor will be put :up to the state department. As a result of swallowing a quantity quan-tity of lye two months ago, Jamea Leroy Knowlden, two-and-oneVhalf-year-old son of William J. Knowlden, .of Salt Lake, died December 3. The .child while playing about secured a package of cencentrated lye and ewallowed a small portion of it. The entire plant, equipment and stock of the Riverdale Canning company com-pany of Riverdale, six miles from Ogden, were destroyed by fire which broke out in the canning factory Sunday night. The loss will bo at least $30,000. It is believed by the Salt Lake officers of-ficers that William McVey, alias "Baknrsfleld Slim," notorious cracksman, cracks-man, and Robert L. Burns, highwayman highway-man by occupation, both ex-convlcts from the Nevada state prison, murdered mur-dered William A. Sandorcock at Gar-i Gar-i field, November 21. |