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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Ogdon's street car service is to be improved anil six new cars have been ordered. Plana to celebrate the completion of strawberry tunnel are being made. The celebration will take place July 2 In Spa iiIkIi Fork. While trying to steal a ride on a freight train near Colton, Henri I)e-Yonge's I)e-Yonge's foot was caught between tho darwheads of the car and mashed. Flourishing conditions among the Davis county orchards and vineyards are shown In the annual report of the horticultural inspector of Davis county. Five hundred former students of the University of Utah attended tho annual banquet of the alumni association asso-ciation at the Hotel Utah, Salt Lake, Wednesday night. The body of Walter Legg, aged 50, a miner, was found in a basement in frialt Lake. It is thought ho fell down The stairway while intoxicated, and liad died from heart failure. Tho Interior department now has 4,000,000 yellow pine plants at the nursery near Kamas, which will be taken out and planted in different parts of the state as quickly as possible. pos-sible. Seventy-eight delegates to the twenty-third annual convention of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress, con-gress, which will meet in Salt Lake August 27 to 30, have been selected by Governor Spry. Delegates to the tri-state convention conven-tion of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, which meets in Salt Lake June 18, 19 and 20, have just been selected. Eagles from all over Utah, Idaho and Nevada will attend. F. W. Chambers, state fish and game commissioner, has ordered that 3 00.000 rainbow trout fry be planted in jfiil creek and streams tributary to Bearjt'er, ami '40,000 in the sTreanii tjli.'i! to tie Little Cottonwood. I Wesley J. Davis of Salt Lake was elected president of the Utah State Dental sociey at the convention in Ogden. The next meeting of the society so-ciety will be held in Salt Lake next June. G. G. Sawyer, owner of a meat market mar-ket and grocery store in Ogden, was painfully injured in a runaway accident, acci-dent, being thrown from the heavily loaded wagon, the wheels passing over his body. As she leaned over her baby's trundle bed to kiss the child goodnight, good-night, Mrs. C. W. Burton of Salt Lake knocked a revolver from a nearby near-by table and was shot through the right hand, wrist and knee. A windstorm approaching the velocity ve-locity of a tornado and lasting for half an hour, tore up small trees anS shrubbery at Sandy by their roots and did considerable damage to other property. No one was injured. The mayor and city council have decided to make use of the hobos who are passing through Hrighani City. A chain gang has been at work on the streets for several days. The streets are fust being rid of rocks and ot.her debris. 'Juhe 26 is the date set for Old Folks day at Salt Lake City, when andamere park will be thrown open to the visitors. The old folks of Jordan Jor-dan and Granite stakes will probably be guests of the Salt Lake contingent. The age limit is fixed at seventy. 1 Workmen employed in driving the tunnel iu Emigration canyon to tap an underground flow of water have discovered a large body of asbestos, which, while of a comparatively poor quality, may be handled by the city of Salt Lake on a commercial basis. A large piece of ore was dropped, accidentally, into a pot of melting gold at the Murray smelter, splashing about $3,000 worth of the metal on Willard Hansen, state weight inspector, inspec-tor, and W. E. Farr, city weight inspector. in-spector. Both men were burned, but not seriously. The state engineer's office has passed favorably on the irrigation possibilities pos-sibilities of the 5.000 acres of land taken up in this state by the Nepon-6et Nepon-6et Land and Livestock company under the Carey act, and the report of the 'engineer has been referred to the state land office. Grieved by marital uncertainties and fear of lost love, Mrs. Josephine Pike Smith, aged 2S, wife of William M. Smith, night yardmaster of the D. & R. G. at Cuprum, committed suicide at her home in Bingham Wednesday, shooting herself as she lay in bed beside be-side her husband. Between 5.000 and 6,000 delegates will be appointed from the states of Utah. Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada. Col orado and Montana to the Good Roads convention at Logan June 12. 13 and 14. according to a statement just Issued Is-sued by J. A. Hendrickson. chairman of the executive committee. The Colorado state road commission lias promised the Utah state road commissioners that the automobile road in Uintah between Salt Lake City and the Colorado line will be connected with Denver via Meeker, Steamboat Springs and Middle Park. In emulating the deeds of "Alias Jimmy Valentine." in a Salt Lake store, Dick Merrill, aged 27, was captured cap-tured by the watchman after he had opened the safe by working the combination. com-bination. Merrill is believed to be the man who has engineered a number of robberies in the capital city. |