Show I UTAH STATE NEWS Senator Sutherland has Introduced n bill granting right ofwny for n r boulevard through Fort Douglas Military Mil-itary reservation Tho Issuance of not less than J250 000 worth of bonds to erect throe now t school buildings In Salt Inko was decided de-cided upon by the board of education last week Of tho old folks present at tho old folks celebration In ML Pleasant last week there were 18 over 80 years 13 over 76 years 28 over 70 years nnd 80 over CO years of age Some of tho farmers of Mount Pleasant aro already engaged In plowing plow-ing preparing for tho spring crop Winter seems to havo gone for good from present Indications Tho report of tho building Inspector of Salt Lake City for tho past year shows that there wero G21 permits for now buildings Issued tho estimated cost of which was 2315930 Tho Sweet Candy company of Salt Lake ono of tho largest manufacturing manufactur-ing concerns of Its kind In tho west will within tho coming year erect a modern llvostory factory In Salt Lake City CityTho The Utah Light Railway company of Salt Lako last week placed an order or-der with eastern factories for eighty < < miles of steel rails and an order with Oregon firms for 150000 ties Samuel Doxoy architect and builder build-er and for many years associated with I tho public school system of Salt Lako City as an Instructor In manual training train-ing dropped dead In an epileptic Ilion Ili-on Friday A groat deal of tho stock for the erection of tho now opera houso at Sprlngvlllo has been subscribed and the company will soon bo Incorporated Incorporat-ed Tho proposed building will cost j 20000 During tho year 190G a total of 237 fires brake out within tho limits of Salt Lako City involving property valued at 2223840 The actual loss however is shown to amount to only CO2t3CO Tho Commercial club of Salt Lake City through tho action of Its board t of governors at a special meeting hold last week has declared unequivocally against a railroad commission for tho Btato of Utah Allen Forshuo aged 75 attempted Bulcldo In Salt Lake City while In a fit of despondency taking a quantity of laudanum but was picked up on tho streets by a policeman and saved uy prompt medical attendance William F Rugby aged 45 of Rich mon Caoho county was struck by a switch engine at Cache Junction and Instantly killed Ho was standing on 1 tho track talking with other parties t when ho heard tho engine approachIng approach-Ing Ho stepped backward thinking it would pass In front of him when the engine < < struck him James w iroilalo 35 years old a motorman met Instant death in Salt Lake City by coming In contact with a live wire which was lying across tho track A spectator started to I sweep tho wire from tho track with a broom when Iredalo pushed him to one sldo and grasped tho wire in his hand being instantly killed t V rile experimenting In the chemistry chemis-try laboratory at tho University of Utah Geo Roberts a member of the fruohmau class was sovoroly burned on tho arm by a gas llame and on I tho left side of his face by concertI concert-I trated nitric acid I Governor Cutler has received letters l and telegrams from Japan which inn j I cato that the Japs who are wanted In Utah for tho embezzlement from their countrymen In Box Elder county of I their hardearned savings aro now in custody in Nippon i Oliver C Huntington ono of tho oldest citizens of Sprlngvlllo died at I his homo last week after an Illness of only a few hours Mr Huntlngton came to Utah in 1818 and settled In I Salt Lako City Ho was tho first male school teacher In Utah Retail lumber dealers In Salt Lake j aro making elaborate preparations for the annual convention of tho Western Retail Lumber Dealers association S and of tho Western Lumbermens Mutual Mu-tual society to bo hold In Salt Lako City Fob 14 15 and 1C I Authority has been granted the supervising I su-pervising engineer of tho Strawberry Valley Irrigation project Utah to obtain ob-tain proposal from us many linns as t may be practicable for tho machinery required for tho power plant to be used In excavating Strawberry tunnel A revision of tho northern tariff of tho Oregon Short Lino just completed makes a reduction on third and fourth class rates between Salt Lake Ogden Twin Falls and Boise of front 7 to i > I cents per hundred pounds Tho reduction V reduc-tion went Into effect the first or thin nonth t |