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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The; people of Castle Dale have voted vot-ed in favor of a modern waterworks system. There now remains little question but Utah granite will be used on the state eapitol now in course of erection. erec-tion. A number of boys at Uintah have been arrested on the charge of placing nailH, spikes and rocks on the tracks or the Union Pacific There will probably be no liquor election at Sinithlield thU year, as the city council has refused to call the election or to make any provision Tor It. Forty-one convicts have returned from the road camp In Washington county, and it is understood they will bo sent to Davis county to work on the roads. I'M ward Day, aged 9, son of Mr. and .Mrs. Keth Day of Bountiful, choked to death when a stone with which he Iliad intended to load a "flipper" stuck in his windpipe. Wesley Austin, assistant manager of the Hotel Utah and one of the best known hotel men in the United States, died June 4 as the result of a stoke of paralysis. Roy Rudolph, proprietor of a drug store at Logan, 'Who was convicted of selling liquor unlawfully, was sentenced sen-tenced to serve twenty-five days in jail and pay a fine of $225. A stroke of lightning in Pocatello valley, Box Elder county, killed Areil Christenson, a sheep herder employed by a Beaver City firm. Christensori's faithful dog was killed also. The seventh grazing association to be organized in Utah was formed last week in Tooele county. The new association as-sociation contains twenty-seven mem-bers mem-bers from St. Johns and Clover. Murray B. Allen, 'who has been blind since infancy, has been awarded the Bachelor of Arts degree by the University of Utah. He finished a ionr-year course at the university in three years. Fire completely destroyed the ranch house of William H. Ray on Provo bench. Fred Thurgood, the caretaker of the ranch, lost all his household furniture, 'bedding, clothing and about $50 in money. The baggage room of the Rio Grande depot at Price was broken into at an early hour and a pouch of registered mail which was being held at the depot de-pot until the mail carrier came od watch was stolen. Five years in prison was the sentence sent-ence imposed upon John Newman for criminal assault upon Mary Jane Faer-ber Faer-ber at Riverton last March 10. Newman New-man claims he was drunk at the time of the commission of the crime. Elaine McPhee Paulson, aged 10, was run down by Fire Chief Bywater's automobile in Salt Lake and instantly killed. The chief was slightly injured. The girl was crossing the street and the fire chief was on his way to a fire. The story comes from Salt Lake that 220 cans of opium, worth ?60' a can, were entrusted to a Chinese laun-dryman laun-dryman by a white man who had smuggled smug-gled it into Salt Lake. The Chinese is said to have disappeared taking with him the opium, that had been leff in his keeping. In order to give members of the Utah national guard a taste of real military life while at the annual encampment en-campment at Heber City in July, the Twentieth infantry may be sent from Fort Douglas to camp with the militia boys. The camp will last ten days, starting July 20. After having deliberated fifteen hours, the jury in the case of William Kay, at Nephi, found Kay not guiiry of murder. Kay was charged with the murder of Nick Witka on November 17. The trial began on May 17, the defense admitting the murder but claiming self-defense. Nine reasons why Caleb A. Inlow 6hould be given a new trial on the ' charge of murdering "Eddie" White are set out in a motion for a new trial filed in the district court at Salt Lake. Chief of these, it is alleged, are that new evidence favorable to the defend-unt defend-unt has been discovered. The seventeenth annual convention of the Association of American Dairy, Food and Drug Officials, which convenes con-venes at Mobile, Ala., June 16. for a four days' session, will be presided over by Willard Hansen, Utah state dairy and food inspector, according to present indications. The opening of sumemr school at ;ho Agricultural colle.Ee at Logan was characterized by the large number of students applying for registration. less than 120 were registered the first day and U0 are expected before the end of tile week. Despondency, which is believed to have 'been due to lack of employment and a period of misfortunes, resulted in the suicide at Ogden of Robert Mc-Chesncy, Mc-Chesncy, aged 47 years, a striking shopman formerly employed by the Southern Pacific company. The Salt Lake commission's discretionary discre-tionary power to refuse to grant a rooming house license in cases where the proprietor has violated the lav, j and the constitutional right of the com i mission to enact an ordinance governing govern-ing rooming houses, is upheld by a ruling of the district court |