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Show ' l k,Ua i 'sJii FOUH STATES. . Utah. PROVO: ilTtle, the twelve-year-olil daug-hter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Gray of Provo. di" Thursday evening from diphtheria. The intermervt took place yesterday afternoon. Mr. Gray, is suffering suffer-ing from smallpox, but is in a. fair way to recover. I PROVO: In the case of James J. Tal-mag-e vs. George JajfRprH in the Koorth district. In Provo, a motion for Judgment on pleadings for possession of the property proper-ty was granted yesterday and evidence on the-question of damages is now being taken. COALVILLE: The case of Kate Johnson John-son vs. Park City was given to the Jury Thursday evening. Yesterday morning when court opened the verdict was handed In. The plaintiff was awarded $15X. The suit grew out of Injuries sustained sus-tained by Mrs.-JohnBon about two years ago by reason of an alleged defective sidewalk In that town. , PRICE: In the Seventh Judicial District Dis-trict court today the Jury, after, being out twenty-two hours, returned a verdict of involuntary manslaughter against William Wil-liam Bondstal. who caused the death of Wallace Naylor by a blow on the head with a hammer, and from which Naylor died on the 6th of this month at the Holy Cross hospital in Bait Lake City.- Sentence Sen-tence was set for this afternoon at 3 o'clock. LEHI: Messrs. Heber and Parley Austin Aus-tin of the Utah Sugar company are in Utah county this week meeting with the company's local agents, getting them started on contracting for beets for the coming season. They are meeting with good success and have little fear but that the company will be abe to contract for upward- of 10,000 acres. The amount desired de-sired for the coming season. The prospects, pros-pects, also, for a heavy tonnage were never better, and as a result the local sugar people are preparing to break all ! previous records with an Increased output of probably 25 per cent. . EUREKA: The school trus'tees of Eureka Eu-reka are strongly opposed to the proposed pro-posed law to consolidate all the school districts in the counties outside of cities of the first and second-class, and pronounce pro-nounce It a vicious and dangerous measure. meas-ure. They .contend that under the present pres-ent law the district schools are attaining attain-ing a high standard and that the trustees elected in each district are much better posted on the needs and wishes of the-community the-community than a county school board could possibly be.. They argue that the adoption of the law will throw school elections into politics, a thing to be avoided at any cost. The schools in all three of the school districts on this side of the county are in splendid condition under the present law, and are conducted without friction and to the satisfaction of the patrons. VERNAL: The funeral of Dalilel Collier, Col-lier, the twenty-year-old son of Job Collier Col-lier of Napleeji was had in Vernal on Tuesday. The young man died Saturday afternoon as the result of a fall from a tree while working with his father on Green river below Jensen, where they were chopping timber on ground they had recently purrhasedi from the State. It seems the young man had climbed - the tree for the purnoss of cutting loose a tree that had lodged against it,, and lost his balance, falling a dlntancte of thirty-five thirty-five feet,- and receiving fatal injuries. LOGAN: A meeting. of the stockholders of the Logan irrigation district was held in the county courthouse yesterday afternoon af-ternoon and evening, at which the question ques-tion of dissolving the organisation was discussed? The people of Benson at first bitterly opposed the dissolution, but after af-ter much talk some of them agreed to It. A vote' was taken on the quentlon and It resulted: For dissolution,' 2491 acres; against dissolution. 638. for some time as a primary school under the direction of Mrs. H. B. Smith, and there were forty or forty-five pupils presv ent when the fire broke out. The teacher told them they were excused for the morning and the children filed out in good order.. The total loss will amount to about $2000. BOISE: The Senate yesterday passed the following House blllst Authorising cities and towns to construct sewer and disposal works; empowering the State board to pardon convicts under 18 years of age. without regard to the time they have served, a measure specially designed to authorise the pardon of a, 'young girl; making it a crime to obstruct or destroy lines or apparatus used for the transmission transmis-sion of electrical energy. The Senate bill making changes in the election law, by providing for party emblems and making registration continuous, was also . passed. BOISE: What is known as the "little red schoolhouse" bill, diverting a larger proportion of saloon, license money to country school funds, was defeated in the House yesterday after a hard fight, led by Representative FlUpatrlck of Custer. Its author. ..... Weiser: Indications are that the wool market In Idaho will be stiff this season. Already agents for the leading wool purchasers pur-chasers of the country are In Weiser negotiating ne-gotiating for the clip and high prices are being offered. BOISE: A Joint legislative committee left for Blackfoot last night, to investigate- -conditions at the insane asylum there. It is compowd of Senators Allen and Whltwell and Representative Jenkins, Jen-kins, Smith and Avery C. Moore. Nsvada. RENO: The will of the late D. B. Lyman Ly-man of Reno was admitted to probate this week. His estate, of which the bulk was left to two sons and three sisters is valued at $185,000. - BUFFALO MEADOWS: The recent storm has been the most severe ever known in the section of country around the Meadows. Between Snake creek denert and Pyramid lake the snow is two feet deep. Stockmen are feeding nearly all of their nocks on the range. CLIPPER GAP: William Jones of Clipper Gap was accidentally shot and kilted yesterday Ty his cousin, George Jones, as they were returning from a hunting trip. "Wyoming. RAWLINS: Mrs. P. L. Smith, wife of the postmaster at Rawlins, died yesterday yester-day morning. Mrs. Smith was one of the oldest renidents of this section, having come to Carbon county with her husband before the town of Rawlins .was started. In 1S68 the family settled at Benton, three miles west of Fort Steele, which was then the furthest shipping point west on the Union Pacific railroad. Mrs. Smith was hearly 68 years old. -Funeral services will be held Sunday atlertwion at 2 o'clock. Idaho. PAYETTE: Fire yesterday morning destroyed de-stroyed the old Baptist church of Payette Pay-ette and the two-story building adjoining that structure. . The church has been used |