Show UTAH STATE NEWS r J Fred Corker a Salt Lake attorney attor-ney sustained fatal Injuries as tho result ot falling down a stairway Park City schools will close on tho BOth for tho Christmas holidays 1 and will not reopen until January Cth JameB Thurston a pioneer ol Cache valley and well known throughout through-out tho Mute died at Hyde Park on tho 12th at the ago ot 75 Tho president hag signed a proclamation procla-mation creating additions to tho Men tlcollo national forest In southeastern Utah aggregating 101398 acres For tho first tlmo In two years tho supply of commercial coal In tho retail re-tail yards ot Bait Lake and throughout through-out Utah is ahead ot the demand Of tho 121 patients committed to tho state mental hospital at Provo during tho year ending November 30 slxtytwo came from Salt Lake county Slkl Togo a Japanese student In tho Salt Lake High school won the title of best Individual driller In the battalion of cadets during a contest last week Tho statement of tho state treasurer for tho fiscal year ending November 80 1907 shows balances In tho various vari-ous funds amounting In tho total to 1058399 MJko Musga an Austrian Is In a Salt Lake hospital In a precarious condition as a result of being assaulted assault-ed by three of his countrymen who contemplated robbery Plans aro under way for a game ot football to bo played In Portland Oregon Ore-gon on Now Years day between tho Multnomah Athletic club of that city and an allfttar team from Utah Walter Spicer aged 63 a well known farmer ot Granger died suddenly sud-denly last week while caring for his stock death being duo to the breaking break-ing of a blood vessel In his head At Bachelor Basin about eight miles from Castloton In Grand county Alex Newton a minor In tho employ of tho Rio Dolores Copper company was smothered to death in n snow ell do Albert T Day tho negro sentenced to be executed on December 13 for the murder of H II Voso colored had his sentence commuted to life Imprisonment Impris-onment on the 11th by tho board of pardons Mrs Anna Bradley will not leave Washington for Salt Lako until after the holidays She is still too weak to mako the journey and is at the home of Arthur Hays solicitor of Internal In-ternal revenue Tlllio R Beers tho widow of Dr Earl 8 Beers for whose murder In Ogden a short tlmo ago Fred Walker is now on trial was married last week to William Hughes a former Ogden newspaper man I Isaac Smith president of the Cache stake had n narrow escape from death by poisoning last week getting hold of a bottle containing poison Instead I In-stead ot a preparation he wan using i for kidney trouble Members of Baptist churches in I Salt Lake and throughout tho state nro taking steps to have the annual Baptist convention ot 1909 held at Salt Lake The conference this year nrlll be held in tho east John A Anderson who was severely severe-ly mangled in a runaway at Grants vllle is on tho way to recovery The I wagon on which ho was riding was carrying a heavy load of lumber and two wheels ran over his body E II Clarke supervisor of tho Salt Lake forestry reserve has received word from Washington that the department de-partment baa made a rate of 25 cents a head for cattle and 40 cents for horses between May and November Utahs representatives In congress have been deluged with tolegramS from Utah for and against the bills to relieve mining entrymen who have been unable to meet tho tax for 1907 The bills have no chance of becoming laws The final payroll of the Amalgamated Amalgamat-ed Sugar company has been completed com-pleted Ono hundred and fortyfive thousand dollars will be paid out in tho Ogden factory district The combined com-bined payroll at Logan and Lowiston will bo 204000 Sam Pearce a wellknown trapper ot Colorado and Utah holds the record rec-ord for bear during 1907 On tho Weber We-ber river a day or two ago he caught his eighth bear for the season all falling fall-Ing victims to his trap within a small area along tho Weber Charloy Song who runs a Chinese Chi-nese gambling houso on Plum alley Salt Lake will have to faco a murder charge for killing Chung Chun Do a Korean Tho mon quarreled while gambling and Song struck Bo over the head with a piece of lead pipe Thomas Vance the Suit Lalco blacksmith black-smith charged with the murder of his wife In a conference with tho county attorney declared that Mrs Vance must have committed suicide Ho denied de-nied that ho had beaten Mrs Vance or tha he had given her poison August Sludar who cam to Salt Lake City about three weeks ago from Minnesota suicided last week taking carbolic acid domestic troubles being tho cause assigned for the deed Sin dar was 29 years old and was a veteran vet-eran of the SpanishAmerican war Dr William A MoEncry filed his answer last week to the 50000 breach of promise suit brought against him by Margaret Edith Evans and In it denies all the allegations made by the young woman who is now employed as a nurse In the Murray general bos 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