Show UTAH STATE NEWS r f There wore 182 cases of smallpox In Sail Jake City during 1008 and no deaths from tho disease AlvIn Honton has boon placed on trial at Illclillold for tho murder ot Mary Slovens near Ordervlllo The annual convention of the Stnta Horticultural society Is to ho hold In Salt Lake City on Tanunry 2G and 27 Michael M Siilllvan 48 yearn ot nge died In Salt Lake City from nmallpox lant week after being 111 hut a week About 200 former residents of Kansas Kan-sas now living In Ogden have formed fI society for mutual linpiovcmont and entertainment Tho cash receipts for tho Utah relief re-lief fund that Is being raised for tho earthquake sufferers of southern Italy has passed the 3000 mark A house to house canvas Is being rondo In Kphralm for tho signatures of men and women who aro In favor of closing tho saloons In that town A Salt Iiko market man who last week sold a rabbit that Willi neither frosh nor wholcdomo was fined 100 for violation of the city pure food Inw InwT vJ J1 Dunham a well known resident resi-dent of Salt Lake dropped lend from heart failure while assisting a friend In loading I n trunk upon an express wagon Tho secretary of the Interior has approved to the state of Utah under grant for public buildings selections aggregating 1879 acres In Salt Lakti district The Salt Lake Ministerial association associa-tion has adopted a resolution favorIng favor-Ing legislation looking toward tho abolition of tho liquor traffic In the state of UtahAn Utah-An attempt was made to reopen tho gambling houses In Park City Inst week but tho mayor had all tho atnblors arrested and fined and tho jld Is on again There were 1167 deaths In Salt Jake City during 1008 according to j the report of tho city board of health This I an Increase of only seven t over 1907 with an increase of at least 5000 In population Nell W Davidson tho absconding clerk from the Ogden ofllco of tho PacIfic Pa-cific Expr ss company has been formally for-mally charged with tho theft of R package containing 200 and a warrant I war-rant Issued for his arrest I P L Ray an engineer on tho Denver Den-ver RIo Grando Is In a Salt Lake hospital suffering from a broken jaw the Injury being received by being struck by tho arm of a mall crane while In the discharge of his duty Tho Mullett Clothing company ono of tho oldest clothing houses In Salt Lake City voluntarily wont Into tho I liands of a receiver last week Tho debts of tho concern aggregate 7Gr 000 but It Is hoped to pay all llabllU ties It has been definitely decided by tho directors that tho railroad running run-ning from Salt Lako City to Saltalr will bo electrified but It Is not thought that tho work will bo completed com-pleted before the opening of the next season Three special trains will run over the Salt Lake route for the Elks excursion ex-cursion from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles February 0 It Is said that applications for reservations sufficient suffi-cient to fill twenty sleepers have already al-ready been made Mrs Jeanette Park ono of Mar rays oldest residents died on January Janu-ary 12 at tho ago of C4 having spent nil her life In Utah Her death was duo to cancer of the face tho result of au apple falling and striking heron her-on the cheek five years ago Henry Grimm 34 years of age was Instantly killed when he fell underneath under-neath a street car In Salt Lako City Grimm who was a bricklayer slipped on tho Icy street and plunged headfirst head-first beneath tho car his head being terribly crushed and his neck broken Utahs presidential electors henry Cohn Lafayette Holbrook and Thomas Sevey met In Salt Lako City on January 11 and cast Utahs tote for William Howard Taft for preal dent and James Schoolcraft Sherman for vicepresident of tho United States Construction work on the now Denver Den-ver Rio Grande passenger station In Salt Lake City will begin at onco Tho building will occupy the bettor part of two city blocks It will be nb solutely of fireproof construction tho floors of concrete and tho walls of fireproof fire-proof tile A dispatch from Washington an pounces that President Taft will r probably name tho next marshal for Utah H has been decided that no t recommendation will bo made untl the term of court ends which It Is understood will carry the matter over until March While Mrs Charles Hltesman of to Lehl was away from homo her two 9 yearold boy drank some carbolic acid Y 7 and died In great agony an hour later Tho little fellows sixyear old brother got the bottle out of the pantry not knowing Its contents and gavo It to tho unfortunate child i kH The lumber dealers of the state t s are taking a great deal of Interest litho a li-tho coining convention of Western Retail Lumber Dealers W be held In Spokane February 2 to 5 and a epe cial train wIll be run from Salt Lake City to accommodate tho Utah delegates dele-gates and their friends r |