Show UTAH STATE NEWS Thero Is moro building activity In Lehl this season than for several years past Tho Lehl city council has raised tho city tax rato from 7 to 10 mills fm city and street purposes Four hundred Black Hawk war vet trans attended tho encampment at Spanish Fork lost week Tho Salt Lake team of Eagles < won tho first prize 1000 cash In tho parade contest at Seattle last week Tho Wlllard cannery has now about tmplotcd Its run on beans and has commenced to can largo quantities of apricots Petitions are being circulated at Willard favoring a local option plank In tho platforms of all tho political parties this fall yy A piece of glazed pottery evidently A relic of prehistoric uges was found 180 feet from tho surface of the earth by well diggers In Ogden last week Lend will hold a special election September 14 to vote on 20500 water bonds The result of tho election will determine whether Lchl Is to have a water system or not Salt Lako City will make a strong effort to obtain tho new 1000000 plant which It Is understood tho liar rlman Interests will erect for the mun ufauturo of motor cars A young man of Mantua Box Fader county was last weelc fined 100 forgiving for-giving whisky to minors Ho succeeded m suc-ceeded in getting two girls aged 12 did 10 years Intoxicated In connection with tho movement which has been started for good roads y throughout the state Salt Lake county has started work and expects to show good results within a short time The amount duo the state of Utah from tho not receipts of forest reserves I I re-serves for the llscal year ending Juno 30 1908 is 32161 as compared with 9003 In 190C and 13557 In 1907 The Salt Lako Y M C A has re calved tho honor roll ot tho ten associations asso-ciations that lead In the 1908 International 1 Interna-tional educational work contest for boys and its namo appears at the head Imprisoned In a box car without food or water for tlireo long days Joseph Jo-seph Hartuuin was released when the car reached Ogden only to be Immediately ° I Imme-diately arrested on tho charge of trespass tres-pass Governor Cutler wlll appoint any 1 t 11 sportsman who wishes to attend tho gathering of the League of American Sportsmen at Lawton Oklahoma October Oc-tober 12 and 13 a delegate from the s state The outing of tho Utah National guard In Wyoming cost 962433 exclusive t V ex-clusive of transportation and subsist 1 cnco Of tho total amount the state paid 429899 and tho government 5 F 32534 Contracts havo been awarded for the completion of Springvillos now t I high school building Tho building when all tho floors arc completed which will bo next year will cost over 20000 C J Christensen penniless and Buffering from au incurable disease suicided in Salt Lako City by hanging himself rather than return to tho poorhouse poor-house where ho had been for several li months F Bussmyer an aged man of Salt Lake who shot Thomna Wallace at Salt Lako on July 31 will have toy to-y lace n charge of assault with Intent to murder Wallace Is recovering from his Injuries John A Nelson a resident of Ogden Og-den has Invented a butter holder lobo lo-bo used by merchants In tho delivery of tho product which will insuro It reaching tho hands of customers In tlrstclass condition during tho hot weather In a runaway on tho dugway near u r Morcur William Bates of Morcur received re-ceived ft fractured skull and collarbone collar-bone Mablo Groats of Lehl and a child were slightly Injured Tho neck n yoke broke tho team ran away and tho wagon was overturned Mildred Smith a resident of Salt Lake City tried to commit suicide by drinking carbolic acid last week A messenger boy prevented her getting get-ting the contents of the bottle past her lips but enough of tho acid was Bpllled on her taco to burn her badly A shocking death occurred about four miles north of Falrvlow when Frank Stewart of Milburn was run over by tho special train which was returning from Fort Russell with tho Utah National Guard Mr Stewart was about 50 years of age and leaves a largo family Property owners In Salt Lako county coun-ty will pay this year 95433255 toward to-ward education and 1262953 toward tho support of tho city county and Btato governments making a total of 222728f5CC This means that there Is a per capita tax of approximately TO for education A F Heckler a miner at tho Gemini mine at Eureka whllo coming off shift at 430 in the afternoon lost his balance on tho 700foot level and pitched to the 1000foot level a distance dis-tance of 900 feet and was Instantly killed Ills neck was broken and ho was badly I crushed by tho fall Tho trout in the ponds along tho Ogden river near Hooper are to bo caught by means of solus and placed back In the river tho work being under un-der tho supervision of game wardens Thousands of trout die every year as the result of getting Into thtso ponds duiAi tbo high water season t |