Show aalt LAKE NEWS J D RICES SUDDEN DEATH J D rice a painter who had been in tle employ of salt lake railroads for 1 long time died suddenly yesterday afternoon at the home of W M Ris leyon east fourth south for many years it biad been the custom of mr rice to visit the risley family when in salt lake and yesterday as usual he called mrs risley had left him for a moment j in charge of lier baby arom alio back porch she heard a gurgle and thinking it was the baby she returned i to find sir rice lying upon alie floor dead sirs ehley hurriedly called dr benedict but a cursory examination showed he was past all human aid sir rice had been taking treatment for congestion of the lungs and it is thought that death was canned by bicart disease as he had been troubled for years that malady ASSESSORS MEETING pursuant to a call issued some days ago b y the state board of equalization eleven of the twenty seven assessors of the state met with the board in salt lako yesterday the assessors present were T C of county W W jones cache R thorne utah A K wall emery V candland A W gibson weber D C wal peter martin summit D P hurt box elder P II 11 mcguire wasatch n meldredge RE ldredge salt lake T F welch morgan deputies carbis brown and busby of salt lake were also present the board was represented by judge thomas D dec swen 0 nielson and J J thomaa and judge dee presided the meeting was called for the purpose of discussing the rate of taxation in the various counties with a view to making it as near uniform as possible and the field was gone over in a very thorough manner I 1 he representatives or rich thoele tooele cache and utah counties reported that their plats were not in good condition while the condition was exactly the reverse in davia wasatch morgan juab and weber counties in other counties the were either fair or new ones were being made following are the amounts in which the best farm lands are assessed in various counties to oele 50 per acre cache 40 to 50 utah ornery 50 davis wasatch 40 morgan 40 features of the meeting were addresses by assessor eldredge of salt lake county and swen sen thought the assessors should have 0 of the board in relation to assessment matters in general mr hicl sen thought the should havo more time in chich to do their work and that the transient herd law should remain unchanged for the present EXCITING RUNAWAY tack horn alio ia amplo ed by P J moran in hauling cement and other material figured in A runaway yesterday morning from which he fortunately cs with his life he was going west on temple between main and state when the hersca took fright and proceeded to dash through the street at the top of their speed on reaching the corner of main street the turned south and the king bolt broke letting the wagon down horn was caught on alie front end and took a wild ride for several rods when he succeeded in freeing himself just in time to escape being dashed into a telephone pole and probably killed horn had a companion 1 in the wagon who was bruised up considerably sider ably but neither of the men was seriously hurt the harness and wagon were demolished but the horses did not receive a scratch PRISONERS ESCAPE CREMATION there was a lively scene in police yesterday morning about and for a few minutes officers and prisoners expected to see the complete destruction of the old jail by fire fortunately or perhaps unfortunately the blaze was discovered in time and was quickly extinguished by the firemen the fire started in the roof and was caused by a drum and the stovepipe upstairs and running along the ceiling becoming overheated by alie burning of soot which had been accumulating for many weeks the fire was not discovered until smoke was noticed pouring out of the roof sergeant burbridge jailer kimball and several officers saw the smoke and an alarm was quickly ecat to the anre department in a few seconds ladders were raised to the top of the old bastile and a number of buckets of water and chemicals put out the blaze jailer kimball lost no time in removing the prisoners from the upper to the lower part of the jail all were perfectly willing to go except ed murtie ed was asleep and refused to get up when told that the place was on fire murtic said oh to h 1 with the fire better lemme alone with alie exception of tearing a small hole in alie roof no particular damage was done UTAH SOLDIER BOY HOME edgar E rich son of ex councilman rich of salt lake has returned from three years service of his country in the seventh united states infantry and has had enough of army life for a while mr rich enlisted three years ago in the seventh for service in the philippines but his regiment instead of being sent abroad was distributed about the country to care for and police the different army posts deserted by their garrisons which were sent over the ocean mr richs company was ordered to fort snelling and afterwards was sent post haste to fort mcpherson in georgia to help quell a negro riot thence the command was sent to tho klondike where the boys had hard treala and tribulations in the terrible cold and mr rich tells a gad story of soldier mail carriers leaving hands feet and noses frozen one man losing both hands which were amputated at the wrist and another soldier lost both feet while others would lose a foot or a hand finally mr richs company was ordered to vancouver barracks where he rejoiced in civilization once more and presently the seventh infantry was ordered to tho philippines jilt three years too late to satisfy mr richs yearnings for foreign experience he h glad to ie homo again and will remain at home for awhile CHINAMAN CURSES COURT ah sing the chinese vagrant was taken before judge dichl for preliminary li earing on the charge of assault with deadly weapon upon a chinaman named jim sam the complaining mongolian and two boya alio witnessed the affair and officer brown testified against the defendant jim sam told the court through interpreter mrs king that A sing tried to cut his with a meat axe taic chinaman had nothing to gay except that he struck sam with the knife and did not care how badly he hurt him on the testimony all was held to the district court and in default of bail ho was sent to the county jail As sing was leaving alie court room he turned to judge and showered a few chinese epithets upon him NEW IN CORPORATIONS the following companies filed certified copies of their articles of incorporation in the office of the secretary of state yesterday jex lumber company of spanish fork capital stock divided into shares of the par value of 10 each officers william jex president richard IL jex vice president C jex treasurer george if Jex secretary sinbad oil company of castle dale capital eatock divided into shares of the par value of 10 cents each officers george brandon president E E woods vice president A D dickson secretary and treasurer the company owns acres of oil ands in and north of block mountains in sinbad valley emery county IN COATES CASE the supreme court handed down an opinion yesterday reversing the judgment of the lower court in the case of edwin coates vs the union pacific railroad company waa run into and injured by an on the companas comp anys track at wasatch on december 0 1808 and upon a trial the jury rendered a verdict in his favor for the company appealed ind relied mainly upon errors alleged to have been made by the lower court in his instructions to the jury the supreme court holda that the instructions correctly stated the law but that mere was not sufficient evidence to base them on and the judgment is accordingly reversed and the case remanded with instructions to grant a new trial the opinion is written by justice buskin and chief justice miner and justice bartch concur |