Show UTAH NEWS fire destroyed the E N X piano factory at salt lake city last week entailing a loss of 2000 As the result of a fall from a 13 10 foot ladder on december bringing bring ingon on brain fever john km bliton toil janitor of the salt bait lake herald is dead the western union telegraph company will establish a ines messenger service in salt lake city aty and may establish a telephone system later carbon county s sheriff sherife and county attorney fired a dozen shots at each other at celoso range without deflect an old grudge is responsible for it A jury lias has awarded mrs mr stevens of sandy 2000 for the death of her husband who was killed hy by an oregon short line engine three years ago ago the ogden electric Klec street railway company has presented a bid to the city of oden to light tile the streets of thit that city at S alno per lamp per month senator stewart of nevada while in salt lake last week stated that bi metal lists in the senate li had ad no hope that anything for silver will be done by the ad administration mill ration governor wells has appointed maurice fall king izing parsons parson s a dele delegate ate from tile the state of utah to the national stock growers convention to be held in denver on january 23 2 at 1898 there are prospects prospect is of a I 1 very large yield of wheat this season in davis county the is perhaps greater than ever before and farmers generally are anticipating a prosperous season beason in ia ibos william lewis the ex deputy sheriff who shot and killed hilled james A gier at sandy in 1892 has been acquitted on a plea of insanity lie ile has been an inmate of the state asylum almost ever since the hilling was done mayor glendenning of salt lake and mayor spencer of ogden were formally presented to mayor layor van wyck of greater I 1 new yolk on new year s day on which ocoa occasion sion they were afforded opportunities of seeing and hearing everything manager cutler of the lehi sugar ar factory david eccles of ogden and other utah capitalists have decided to erect a sugar factory at lo la grande oregon mr cutler has secured an option on a piece of land there and may take some experienced beet growers along with him an operation was successfully performed at the holy cross hospital nt at salt Lake Dec 29 of removing a ladys steel hair pin from the stomach ol 01 little ida wilcox who resides at r nv ardale near preston ida the operation consisted in ill tile the opening of the stomach the pin had been in tho the stomach for some time as shown by the fact that the steel was corroded and was as broken in three pieces some months since the announcement was as published that petroleum springs had been found in great salt I 1 lake near promontory several locations were made and assessment work has been done on some of them george payne of syracuse was the discoverer and has some of the best claims aich chich he be intends to develop next ecat spring the state stale historical soc society bety of utah has been organized and its first officers elected as follows franklin D richards president isabel cameron camaron brown vice president jerrold it let aher recording secretary james T Ila II ammond corresponding secretary lewis S hills treasurer antoinette B kinney librarian geo III joseph lewis IV shurtliff joseph T kingbury Kingsb nry electa bullock john T caine robert C lund charles C goodwin and henry IV W lawrence executive committee while claude gulick Gulic lc tile the 10 year old son eon of IV D gulick of the provo steam launcie laundry y and frankie the 8 year old sort son of dr mccurtain were playing at the batters home on dec 30 a winches ter rifle which had stood in a corner of tile the room was mias io ill some manner discharged tile the bullet entering ent erinc tile the breast of claude killing him almost instantly frankle frankie McCurt mccurtain aln says tile the gun fell f from rom the ivash washstand stand and went off though tile the position of tile the wound ind and range of the bullet make it alir difficult acut to see how boxy the weapon was as discharged from the floor A 3 year old brother of frankie who was iu in the room said rrankie frankie shot claude clande the vaz verdict diet of the inquest st was accidental death the parents of both boys are nearly distracted with grief 4 the jordan river electric company has changed its name to salt lake city water and electric power coin company and increased it its capital stock to this Is the company that proposes to transmit power to bingham and mercur george powell of salt lake a lad of 13 while playing on the rio grande western railway track on the last day of 1807 was run into by a engine which ran over his arm grinding the member completely oil off between I 1 tho shoulder bh hb and elbow |