Show UTAH STATE NEWS Tho legality of running trade slot machines is to bo tested In the Ogden courts Tho Rocky Mountain Boll Telephone company has tho Wlllard exchange nearly completed Karl Ashton of Lohl was struck by n snowball In which a rock was concealed con-cealed resulting in tho breaking ol his jawbone Thero are about 800 tons of beets still at Willard Tho sugar company had lost lots of the beets on account of the bad winter Tho proposition to teach telegraphy In tho Ogden High school In being opposed op-posed by Uio Commercial Telegraphers Telegraph-ers union in Ogden A strike Is reported in tho Midnight Dell mine above Alpine which goes urxtyetghl per cent load four ounces silver and some gold Tho Utah Kayolln company of Lo hl last week shipped 1400 pounds of Kayolln to different schools where It Is used for modeling purposes k Tho coal shortage has been keenly felt at Payson the mild weather making mak-ing the suffering much lighter than ordinarily would have been tho case A luncheon was given William Jennings Jen-nings Bryan at tho Alta Club in Salt Lake City on Saturday at which a number of prominent people wero present Minnie Dearing aged 4 of Salt Lake Is dead as tho result of eating tho hardened sugar from a can ot condensed milk causing ptomaine pol Boning Walter Cowley aged 9 died la Salt Lake last week from brain concussion con-cussion Uio result of a bump ho received re-ceived In falling from his sled while coasting By raising the saloon license to = 1200 a year tho city fathers of Ho r s bar City have compelled three of the five wet goods emporiums to close their doors William Chambers died at Smith t Cold last week at tho ago of 90 He h came to Utah with his family In 1853 engaging In his trade of blacksmith a to the day of his death An Italian convicted of shooting rabbits near Ogden was fined 10 under un-der tho statute that prohibits any alien from doing any shooting of wild WilnjalB wltljpnt first securing a per Wit 111ftC to Charles Hiss an allaround crook escaped from tho Salt Lake jail by liming through tho bars Rise was wanted in a number of places and had lust been sentenced to seven years Imprisonment for burglary City Attorney Ogdcn lilies of Salt Lako has advised Mayor Kara Thompson Thomp-son chairman of the juvenile court commission that tho commission is without power to remove Judge Willis Drovn of the juvenile court F H Hamilton lawyer and San Francisco earthquake refugee pleaded guilty to charges of forgery and uttering utter-ing a forged instrument in Salt Lake last week and was sentenced to nerve five years In tho state prison The Kaysvillo Brick company a corporation cor-poration of Salt Lako and Davis county coun-ty men expects to begin operations not later than May 1 The plant has a capacity of 100000 and tho company controls fortylive acres of excellent ° brick clay In Davis county Robert B Paine former councilman of the First ward Ogden who was ejected from ofllco for tho alleged appropriation ap-propriation of Illegal fees has filed notice no-tice of appeal to tho supreme court of Utah to have his case reversed and referred back for a new trial Oliver Carlson and John B Hopkins two youths of Logan went to the barn of John E Dahle and took a valuable mare therefrom They hitched the animal ani-mal up and drove her almost to death t being necessary to kill her when she I was found tho following morning Tho preliminary examination of William Hanley who is accused of robbing R M Edmunds at Stockton on January 17 was held at Tooelo At tho conclusion of the evidence for tho prosecution the defendant vas held to the district court under 1000 bond Wllllo Davis a 14yearold Salt Lake boy Is dead as the result of a practical prac-tical joke by some of his playmates Ho was pushed from a bench whllt resting at the Ice skating rink the bench striking him In tie back of the head causing concussion ot tho brain The city council of Green River last week granted to Mcrrlt Cook an electric franchise for tho purpose ot running a street car lino from the lopot to tho dam in the river a distance dis-tance of about seven miles also for he purpose of furnishing lights for he city John D Douglas who on May 23 1898 was sentenced to life Imprisonment Imprison-ment for killing his wife has made t application for a pardon Douglas in the fall of 1903 assisted the prison offlcera during a serious outbreak and his sentence was commuted tn twenty fre years t M x |