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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. Nine young boys of Mantl were last week convicted of stealing flowers and lined $2 each. John Lee, Jr., found guilty of burglary bur-glary at Junction, has been sentenced to six years In the state penitentiary. Elaborate preparations are being made by the citizens of Sandy to celebrate cele-brate the Fourth of July on a grand scale. The storms of the past few weeks have undoubtedly destroyed the major portion of the grasshoppers in Sevier county. The Ephraim city council has appointed ap-pointed a committee to make arrangements arrange-ments for the celebration of Independence Independ-ence day. The attendance at the summer school being held in Ephraim this year is the largest in the history of the school. An Italian miner by the name of Angelo CIsterlo, was probably fatally injured in the mines a't Castle Gate, Saturday, by falling rock. Eleven thousand acres of beets In the vicinity of Lehl are up, and the prospects for a prosperous 'season for the beet raisers wore never better. Wallace Thurston, the 18-year-old boy of Kingston who borrowed a horse from a neighbor and forgot to return It, has boen convicted of embezzlement. embezzle-ment. '"' ' , ., The total assessment of Sevier county this year will be $2,343,458. Richfield Is the richest city in Sovier county, her share of the above valuation valua-tion being $46.CS0. Ellas Nowhaus of Mercur Is In a Salt Lake hospital suffering from a compound fracture of tho leg, caused by a cave-In In the Golden Gate mine, where he Is employed. Gwin Worthon, a 3-year-old child of Salt Lake, fell from a second-story window to a pile of gravel thirty feet below, one day last week, and escaped without serious injury. Mrs. Karrcu Androasoui, aged 78, was struck by a passenger train at Lahl last, week and killed. It Is not known how the accident occurred, as no cne was near at the time. Two patents have recently been Issued Is-sued to citlzpns of Salt Lake City, one being to Michael J. Fitzgerald, on a wrench, and the other to Charles J. Gustaveson on a bottle stopper. George Elliott suicided in Salt Lake City last week, taking laudanum. Elliott El-liott was a stranger In the city, a painter by trade, and despondency Is supposed to have been the motive for the deed. Last week E. 0. Palmer and Will R. Andorson of Mantl encountered a bear and two cubs on Twelve Mile creek, south of the city, and secured the two cubs, but failed to kill the bear. Mrs. Minnie Coursey suicided in Salt Lke on the 9Ui, taking a dose of strychnine. She left letters for relatives stating that she died of a broken heart. It is believed she was temporarily insane. E. 9. Lovesy, president of the Utah Beekeepers' association, is making a tour of the state, for the purpose of collecting an assortment of honey to be used as an exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase exposition. |