Show 7 1 UTAH STAPLEs NEWS STAPLE-s There nre fifteen more oil rigs nt work In the Virgin River oil Holds 4 limn when tho year 1907 closed Mt Pleasant Is considering tho question ot establishing a cannery which will cun both fruits and vegetables vege-tables Mrs Kcrstn Mortonsen a pioneer w of Ephrnlm and who came to Utah In 18CG la dead old ago being the cause j t Sg of death A As tho result of an order of tho board of education all tho pupils of tho Salt lake schools arc to have I their eyes tested A swlno plague has been reported at Elslnorc Sovlor county and tho 1 state board of health has taken tho matter under Investigation I l Tho commissioner of Hid Inn affairs i tl has decided to send a special agent I I to southern Utah to Investigate tho alleged troubles between tho Indians and cattlemen a Two hundred men employod as machinists ma-chinists blacksmiths boilermakers helpers and assistant In tho It to Grande shops In Salt Lake havo been laid off until March 2 I In lino with tho recent retrenchments retrench-ments mado by tho Harriman system tho olllco of assistant superintendent for tho Utah division out of Ogden has been ordered abolished Wool growers of SevIer county havo formed an association the purpose I 1 pur-pose of which Is to advance tho Interests l In-terests of the wool producing and t eticop growing Industry i 1 Miss Florence Miller a young woman I + 1 l wo-man about 19 years of age died suddenly J sud-denly at Parownn last week being t 4 stricken In the night and death ret i re-t suiting before morning I 1 Park City Is to havo a charity ball n on tho evening of February 27 In order i + or-der to raise money for tho benefit J yt thoso who arc In temporary need 1 because of tho mining conditions I I I II E RobIson a Salt Lake Insurance 1 J Insur-ance man has sued tho street railway l r i company for 20000 damages charging t 1 that ho was permanently Injured as 1 tho result of being thrown from a car f last December t o t John T Lynch an old resident ol t J sRI tho city and ono of the bestknown I Masons In Utah died at his homo In t t t4 Bait LakoClty last weol his death being k J be-ing duo to a fall on the Ice when his p f hip was broken aJM It Is announced that employment f will be furnished to about flvo hundred ilJ t men on tho Strawberry valley project c i us soon as weather will permit Work f I r 1 tl will bo prosecuted on tho tract during i1 tfj < dur-Ing the summer and fall J Tim student team from the Colorado Colora-do State University supporting tho t t I negative in the Intercollegiate debate 1t t de-bate at Salt Lako City was awarded r tho decision over tho representatives lt3 of tho University of Utah 11 Tho family of Ole Larsen ol Eph rl i Palm was poisoned from eating canned n I beans Serious results might have followed had not medical aid been 1J j close at hand Mrs Larsen has been confined to her bed ever slnco i l Three hundred and fifty men and J I 200 teams are now working on the s 1 big canal of tho Irrigated Lands company v r com-pany near Price The canal IB to bo nine feet at the bottom live feet fJ deep and nineteen feet at tho top t i As tho result of school children petitioning pe-titioning Governor Cutler to Issue a 14 proclamation declaring Lincolns + birthday a holiday tho chief executive 1 l JIJ execu-tive nunquncctt that ho Is In favor ol Ij a 11 that day being made a holiday In I t = tj II t I Utah s1 v I Sonpeto county ts threatened with t I r lot n plaguo of field mice or moles that t li y4r promlsss If not checked to bo more t jf tlr disastrous to the farmers than the rj grasshopper pest In all parts of the S t f a county the fields are overrun with f < tbese mice it 1 i Feeling that the prevalence of contagious ° jr con-tagious diseases In Ogden Is more I than tho health officers can cope with it the state board of health has decided to take MP the matter and endeavor I o to ascertain Just what Is the cause ol m so much contagion Horticultural Inspector Itasmusscn of Weber Bounty Is authority for tho i statement that winter spraying ot r it I fruit trees with n solution which ho fir will furnish to any ono desiring It Is tho only method to destroy the pestiferous l pest-iferous San Jose scale I t Organisations have been formed nil over Weber county by tho fruit r gimvera for tho purpose of lighting t and effectually oradlactlug the San m Jose sonic which has wrought much havoc with fruit trees In that county 1 for the past several seasons I r P Attorney General Hreeden has rendered ren-dered an opinion In answer to a query from tho county attorney of Sovler county that a man over 11 years of 1 ago may hunt and kill coyotes lynx wild cuts and rabbits without a license li-cense and not be liable to punishment Mrs Anna lloull who died In Salt Lake last week came to Utah In 1848 and has lived In Utah over since living In tho same house whlc sho help build and In which wooden pegs wore used Instead of nails us nails were not to be had when tho house was built I Mr and Mrs George F Brooks role orated their golden wedding last week after fifty yours of married life spent In Salt Lake City Mr Brooks and his wife then Miss Hannah Bow thorpe camo to Salt Lake with tho J t second years pioneers arriving from England In l > no a r + |