Show I UTAh STATE NEWS c F i It has been decided to hold tho annual an-nual Welsh day outing at Saltalr I July 1C L The state penitentiary now holds 262 I I convicts the largest number In tho I history of tho state tt i A crusade for cleanliness has been 1 started by tho health department ann I1 tho fire department of Ogden U 1 Tho federal grand Jury resumed Its ill I i ucsslon last week and began further r t i investigation of the Utah National I f jf 1 n i bank robbery I Improvements at Fort Douglas n i I made possible by the recent appropriation q f appro-priation of nearly 170000 by congress I will noon begin j ru J The records of the Third district tr t I Illf I court show that from January 1 1908 4 t to Juno 1C 1908 there have been 49G 111 J I t1 divorce cases filed 1 f Taxpayers of Salt Lake will on July > 29 next decide whether tho bonded Indebtedness of tho city shall bo Increased I 1 In-creased hy JGOOOOO i E Miss May Sutton the champion lady i 4 tennis player of the world Is to visit I i Salt Lake fn August and will play a i number of exhibition games e Ralph Snowball a pioneer of Utah y nnd a veteran of tho Black Hawk Indian ri In-dian war died at his homo In Salt Lake last week at the age of G5 A special train Is to bo chartered to 4 carry Democratic delegates alternates alter-nates and Bryan rooters to Denver fort for-t tho Democratic national convention Governor Cutler has appointed D R q i Roberts of Logan a delegate from Utah re3 r to tho National flood Roads congress l which meets at Buffalo N Y July 7 t 1 MdL Tho parade of the United Commercial i4 Commer-cial Travelers In Salt Lake City was i t ono of tho largest over had In that city It taking over nn hour to pass ttL A given point I Dourlno has appeared among horses at Park City Tho disease is an ex I tromely rare ono Tho state board ol r health has taken stops looking toward I to-ward its suppression r It was reported at a meeting of tho Bait Lake County Horticultural association Ut > 1 i asso-ciation held last week that more than hl t J 1000 pear trees had been ruined by hlil blight throughout tho county il The sixyearold son of Isaac San t l l i strom of Park City attempted to climb H 1h on a moving oro wagon fell and was kt j run over his foot being almost torn v1 t w off and his leg broken In four places t 1 I I A bolt of lightning striking near tho TI t homo of Mrs Peterson in Ogdon produced JVI il pro-duced such a shock that the untortu t I < nato woman is partly paralyzed Tho doctors bollevo that eho may recover i I In time I t Mayor Bransford of Salt Lake City ij iW J has removed Charles T Vail chief of f1 nwit tho flro department for the good of td i tho service and has appointed James J 1 Pevlnc former chief of tho depart iii J ti tnent to fill tho vacancy J ftl I v > 1 Rev Noble Strong Elderkin of Ogi t don will head the work of the Chris t ci 11 tion Endeavorers for tho next year in tW4 this state having been elected prcsl i tl dent at Jho annual convention held in l i r1f Salt Lake City last week k Secretary1 of State Tlngey has dl 11 j reeled tho banks of tho state to file L9 1 f a report with him showing their con jil I f dltlon at the close of business on Jim I I i I 1C There nrq fiftyfive state bank > 4L t r4 and three private banks in Utah fktl ff That tho state board of hqujth intends i 8i In-tends to make a vigorous cdmpalgt F t on house files this summer is evl 10 i denccd by tho notice sout out by Dr J iii Ji r B Beatty secretary of tho state Y board of health to all health officers i > A gang of swindlers have been busy 441 1 in Salt Lalio passing forged postal few money orders mado out on blank fiJH I stolen from Schurz NOV postofllC sty f recently Merchants havo cashed t i about GOO worth of tho fraudulent orders ift or-ders fi Utahs delegates to tho national con r1 if vcntlon of credit men at Denver Juno t Z1 I 23 to 2G left Salt Lake on Sunday qU The Utah delegation woro red badges tic with tho Inscription Come to Zion c4 f i ti i Each also woro a small bottle filled f jJ n tj with Utah salt 1 A Salt Lake man whllo digging n IYJ t trench for plumbing connections unearthed J c un-earthed a human skeleton apparent j r I t that of an Indian woman who must i i 1 i i have been burled there a quarter of n I H t century ago at a time when that particular I oj In par-ticular neighborhood was unsettled 4 r I it William Howard slxteenyearol eon of John G Howard of Pleasant View Is dead as tho result of Injuries > sustained by being thrown from n j horse Ho was riding with a bo i about his own age A straight bit of road tempted the boys to have a 1 race After a strike inaugurated May 21 n I 1907 the Bell Telephone company nn 1 its union employes are now one r again on amicable terms Tho gent gen-t oral terms of tho agreement arc that i tho men will receive an advance of 25 tJP cents 1I11ay in Utah Wyoming and > f11 Idaho I Mrs Elizabeth Townsend formerly t M proprietress of tho pioneer hotel or O Salt Lake City the Townsend house 4 fl j1 1 which In the early days was the lending 4 j lend-ing hotel of tho capital city Is dead I l I I 1 at tho ago of 84 Mrs Townsend 1 4 i was known far and wide to the traYs traY-s cling public 1 i t Thomas J OBrien n carpenter committed suicide in Salt Lake City r J j drowning himself in a private bath i pool at the Hot Springs sanitarium 1 il OBrien had been out of work for several t sev-eral weeks and this fact caused despondency de-spondency which probably led kim to I aka his life 11 1 l fi t f d j nl1t |