Show II UTAH STATE NEWS II It Is now practically certain that the national guard of Utah will hold thulr encampment In Mnntl Four cent fares Imvo been granted by the Salt Lake street car system to UIOBO who purchase books containing fifty fares The janitors of the Ogden school buildings will hereafter bo compelled to wear uniforms when In discharge of their duties Tho contract has been lot for the now school building at Mnntl The building Is to bo modern and will cost nbout 17000 Tho first work In the way of establishing estab-lishing tho Utah Independent Tele phono company In Park City was begun be-Gun last weok Percy J busier arrested at Ogden on tho charge of having murdered his wife at Outline Ky on July 29 has confessed tho crime David K Farley aged 38 proprietor of a saloon In Ogden suicided Saturday Satur-day night taking a dose of morphine largo enough to kill 1 ten men Tho nichnold Fair and Driving as eoclatlon has planned for races and t other sports to bo bold for two or three days beginning September 4 14 Colonel A II Swan who was ono of 1 tho most prominent cattlemen In Wyoming i Wyo-ming some years ugo but who of late years has resided In Ogden Is dead 4 A feature of Fridays exercises at tho meeting of tho Indian war voter ans at Mt Vloasant was a sham battle which was witnessed by COOO people t Tho tour yoarold daughter of Professor r t Pro-fessor Nelson of Moab fell backward Into a tub partly nilcd with boiling water and was badly burned but will recover A flro occurred at Santaquln last week by which Gabol Okander lost J hIs wheat barn and all his hay about fifteen tons all his sheds three sheep and ono calf Daughters of the Utah Pioneers havo Inaugurated a movement whereby where-by It Is believed they will secure apart a-part If not all of the old Lion house In Salt Lake City to be used us a hall ot relics 7 Fivo thousand people visited Lat La-t goon on the 9th It being South Sea Islanders day Tho crowds came from all over Utah Sanpeto and Savior I counties sending up about 2000 representatives rep-resentatives It The parade of tho Indian war veterans vet-erans at ML Pleasant on Wednesday of last week was witnessed by thousands L thou-sands of people who camo from all c4 a parts of the stato to attend the meeting meet-ing of the veterans In a quarrel that started over the use of n shoe brush C A Allen a no gro Pullman porter stabbed Archie Webb n white man employed by tho name company In Salt Lako Tho man was not seriously Injured A colored man was burned to death t in a carload of furniture which was burned on the track near Morgan Tho man was stealing a ride when the t car caught fire In some manner and ho was unable to get out I An Increase of only 62 In tho school population of Salt Lake City over last t 1 > ear Is the result of tho canvass Just t concluded Dy the census enumerators u The total for this year Is 16931 while last years total was 10849 At the old folks celebration in Ogden Og-den last week Mrs Lena Allen ol Huntsvllle though still under 80 won the prize for tho greatest number ot grandchildren proving up 130 descendants descen-dants In the second generation Tho total registration for Ulntah lands Is 37057 Over 2500 registered at Provo on the last day Tho number num-ber registered at the different ofllces was Provo 18858 Grand Junction 15387 Price 1530 Vernal 1S7G Charley Mltcharu brukcmau on the Nowhouse branch of the San Pedro railroad met with a serious accident at Nowhousc tho result of which was that both forearms were broken and ho was otherwise seriously Injured rite Utah Sugar company will erect a sugar plant In Sanpeto county be tweun Mt Pleasant and Moroni and will spend a quarter of a million dollars dol-lars In constructing tho factory San pots people are jubilant over Uio mutter mut-ter In Salt Lako Inst week Erwin Hens ley son of a prominent CalifornIan was sentenced to servo twenty years in the penitentiary for holding up J W Adams December 25 1905 and robbing him of 130 and u gold watch end chain t It is reported that tho Kcnneuck Construction company of Kansas City has secured tho contract for building the Western Paclllc railway The road is to be built by the Gould interests from Salt Lake City to San Francisco P at a cost of S1LOOOOOO |