Show rlr UTAH STATE NEWS lit fit t The Western Pacific railroad was opened for business on Monday from 4fE Bait Lake to tho Nevada state line q The Volunteers of America arc en t ilravorlng to raise sufficient funds to Viivt di 4 establish n hospital In Bait Lake tt City wAv Salt Inko City Is to have another election on December 2 when five L + 41 inombors of the school board will be elecled TH V Two hundred and eightyone prls oners are now confined In the Utah > 0 Btnto prison tho high water mak In l f the history of the institution to t4 With a very good attendance md I lots of enthusiasm tho minimi conference I confer-ence of tho Womans Missionary union I Vas held In Salt Lake City Inst week There will bo no coal famine In E Utah this winter In the opinion of State Coal Mine Inspector J FL Pet ju d lit and there will bo no serious short r It I age of curs 1 p Governor Cutler last week appoint 4 f l od ten dcelgates to the eleventh annual nual session of the American Mining S I f congress to be held at Plttsburg Pa 4 December 2 3 4 and E One of the freak election bets In I Salt Lake City was satisfied the day iilr + after election by ono man pulling a JJ cart through the streets on which waj coated his successful opponent iw A general walkout of 150 engineering engineer-ing students at tho University of Utah was barely averted last week t when ono of the students was tear tea-r porarily suspended for giving a fellow ttk student a 1 gratuitous hair cut While Buffering from a spell of melancholia i mel-ancholia to which she was frequently t subject Mrs Bertha Wall 21 years of age made an unsuccessful attempt at-tempt to commit suicide at Ogden by 1 swallowing six largo antiseptic tablets tab-lets letsThe y c The uso or drinking cups has been i abolished In all of tho Ogden schools instead upturned spigots have been Installed by which pupils may slake fi tYy 1 their thirst thereby preventing the di danger of spikmdlng Infectious diseases dis-eases Georgo M Peck who had been superintending f r su-perintending the tin roofing of a 1 building 3 r build-ing In Salt Lake City attempted tot to-t + reach tho street by sliding down a tt j rope when tho rope broke and ho s foil n distance of 45 feet being II r fatally Injured 4 + i s That tho people of Davis county are thoroughly alive to tho advantages of lof good roads Is apparent from the manner S 11 man-ner In which they are carrying out r the work pt Improvement on the highway high-way through that county between Ogden Og-den and Salt Lake City r Fire of unknown origin destroyed 1 tho Immense mill and warehouse of the Inland Crystal Salt company at Saltalr beach on October 5 resulting t t in a loss of 125000 to buildings machinery ma-chinery and contents The company carried 5500 Insurance elf y Great preparations are being made 1 + by the Utah State Poultry association i b i l for the poultry show to be held In Salt Lake City January 25 to 30 Tho vti r owners or fancy pigeons will unite init 1 i with tho poultry men to make an especially es-pecially flue showing In January James Horpolo who died recently t at Castle ton Grand county was born II i u y in Ohio November 1 1801 nnd lackey m but ono day of reaching the age of 107 years He was one of the pioneers and was widely known and beloved by ranchers farmers and miners Two fires which broke out In tho business section of Ogden in tho early hours of Friday morning November ti l t gd i C kept the fire laddies from both stations a 4 sta-tions busy for several hours nnd entailed gsi i I en-tailed an aggregate loss of 1COO t t most of which Is covered by Insurance Insur-ance i t i Tho descendants of tho lato John R + l tt m Taylor president of the Mormon church held a family reunion at theM l1 the-M Granite stake tabernacle last week f h the occasion being the centenary of lr 3 > lr Taylors birth John Taylor was tho thlftl president of the Mormon t church Mrs Emily Warford whose husband f Is engaged In th occhiont business In ri Salt LaKe and Ogden was run down by a passenger train at Philips burg r 11 i N J and killed Her 8year old mon + 4 escaped Injury having run ahead of t hs mother when the crossing was reached Final organization of tho Utah i t branch of the American Mining congress r con-gress was perfected at a meeting l i bold In Salt Lake City last week wlen officers for tho Utah branch including president three vicepresi I ° t s dents secretary and treasury were 1 selected Tho supreme court has held valid tho socalled stamp tax which the 7ka Hate through legislative act of last < joar Imposed on all corporations j rep other than charitable religious In yet niranco or irrigation companies a whore tho incorporators are tho sole + a beneficiaries John Moulton Hawkins well known i in Salt Lake City which had been Mt home for many years committed suicide sui-cide at Mill Creek by placing tho muzzle muz-zle of a shotgun In his mouth and 1 pushing tho trigger with a crutch Tho unfortunate mans lower jaw wa blown entirely off d i ij When tho veterans of tho civil war from all over tho country assemble In Salt Lake City next year In thcli v I annual encampment they will be pro s sealed by tho school children of tin r5 city with u magnificent token of rev i 1roncetho largest handmade Amir lean flog In the world his |