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Show UTAH STATE NEWS ' Alma Hughes, the :i-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hughes of OKden, was struck by a Barnburner electric car and unstained Injuries from which lie, died three hours later. i'Fffe from an unknown source destroyed de-stroyed a portion of the trestle work over which the dump cars pass at the Garfield smelter. The loss is estimated estimat-ed at several thousands of dollars. The Weber club of Oxden ha3 asked ask-ed the board of education to take up chicken culture in the public schools of Weber county, offering prizes for the scholars most prolicicnt in raising rais-ing chickens. The city commission of Salt Lake has voted the sum of $5,000 to decorate decor-ate the city and aid in the entertainment entertain-ment of delegates to the coming irrigation irri-gation and Transmisaissippl congresses con-gresses in Salt Lake. !.. Purchase of about twenty-one acre3 of land on the Jordan river in northwest north-west Salt Lake for a west side park and playground has been practically 'decided upon by the city commission. The land is to cost $8,400. i The Commercial club telephone committee com-mittee has petitioned the council for the Installation of a telephone system In Ephraim. to be of the latest "central "cen-tral energy" type and to be owned and operated by the municipality. Benjamin Salkield of East Mill Creek narrowly escaped death by drowning, when the horse he was driving backed wagon and all over au eighteen-foot embankment into the turbulent waters of Mill Creek. The faculty of the Utah Agricultural college announces that fifty-one men and women have been accepted as candidates can-didates for the degree of bachelor of science and will be graduated upon the completion of their work. May 28. "Jack" Porter, who was arrested at Pocat.ello on advices sent out by the Salt Lake police, was identified by Charles A. Anderson, an Idaho farmer, as one of the men who fleeced him of more than $5,000 in a horse race swindle swin-dle in Salt Lake. After June 1, proprietors of restaurants restau-rants in Salt Lake City must remove all booths or private rooms from their places or business ; must not serve intoxicating in-toxicating liquor on Sunday or after midnight, and must not display food In exposed positions. That the forest ranges in the Uintah Uin-tah reserve are deep in snow and will not be available for grazing sheep until June 1 is the statement made by W. I. Pack, superintendent, of the reserve, who has just returned from a trip through that country. According to Field Manager Pln-gree Pln-gree of the Amalgaamted Sugar company, com-pany, over 6,000 acres of beets are now in the ground for the Ogden factory, fac-tory, the last few days having afforded af-forded the beet raisers opportunity to plant the remainder of their crops. Sing Sun, prominent in Chinese lodge circles in Salt Lake, is missing, and it is charged by some of the Chinese Chi-nese that he has absconded with about $6,000 intrusted to him by his countrymen, while his friends declare they fear he has met with foul play. After a ten days' shut-down on account ac-count of a strike of employes, the management of the Murray lead smelting works of the American Smelting' & Refining company has resumed operations. A large number of strike breakers have . been imported. im-ported. , William T. Reed, a bookkeeper, died suddenly in the office of a Salt Lake doctor, where he had gone in search of medical attention. Death was due to heart failure. Mr. Reed had been ailing for a little over a week and called at the office seeking relief. The leading merchants of Brigham City have a movement on foot to establish es-tablish an earlier closing hour. A movement is on foot to establish a 6 o'clock closing hour for all classes ol business except refreshment stores, drug stores and such other small stores as depend upon evening trade. May 15 was clean-up day in Park City and local residents availed themselves of the opportunity of hav ing the waste matter and rubbish which has accumulated during the winter months carted off without anj extra expense, as the city counci: hired several teams and wagons tc haul the rubbish from the city. George Burke, a Salt Lake barber has been sentenced to thirty days Impilsonment for stealing a loaf o: bread and a pound of ham from s -residence. Burke claims he was starving. Giovanni Arrigoni, a miner, value! the great toe on his left foot at $1, 800. He filed suit in the district cour at Salt Lake to collect this amoun from the South Utah Mines anc Smelters company. Utah now has two lawyers from th lanks of the fair sex, Miss Agnes Swan having successfully passed th examination at Salt Lake last week The only other woman attorney prac titioner in Utah is Miss Margaret B Connell. Idellus M. Dye was found guilty b; a jury at Salt Lake of murder in tin first degree for the killing of Josepl Rainbow in Salt Lake on Novembe 26, 1911. There was no recommenda lion for mercy, and under the stat utes Dye must be sentenced to deatl tor the crime, |