Show UTAH STATE NEWS War ngalnst tho closed booths In saloons and restaurants Is being made In Ogden L W Shurtllff has been confirmed AS postmaster nt Ogden succeeding William Glasmann The citizens of Murray nro now ngltatlng tho city ownership of tho waterworks system Tho now bridge spanning the Sovlcr river between Richfield nnd Monroe has been completed Yung Now ono of the oldest residents t resi-dents of Salt Lakes Chinatown died t t last week from consumption Thoro were seventy more births registered reg-istered In Salt Lake City during 1908 than were reported tho previous year A cablegram received In Ogden brings tho news that Ogden residents l visiting In Southern Italy nt tho tlmo t of the earthquake escaped Injury A mountain lion was killed In tho north fork of Provo canyon last week which mensmed seven feet from Uio tip of the noao to the end of tho tall Judge Christiansen has rendered a declolon on ttiu demurrer In the Pluto county election cases wnlch virtually wins the cases for the Republican nominees Fifteen hundred Invllntons to the administration ball In honor of tho In nugurntlon of Governor Spry to bo hold In Salt Lnko City on January 25 have been sent out Alvin F Hcnlon the 17 yenr old rdervlllo boy Is lo bo placed on trial nt Richfield during tho week for the murder ot Mary Stevens near OrdorvlIIo On April 2L E P Ransom the locomotive fireman fire-man whoso legs were cut off as tho result of falling underneath a Salt Lake routo train In Salt Lake City has succumbed to his Injuries Arthur D Sprlngnll a former resident resi-dent of Utah who was seriously scalded scald-ed nt Call en tc Nevada on Christmas ovo by falling Into a pit of boiling water died fn n Salt Lake hospital last week Alexander Prlnglo a pioneer and who had resided In Salt Lake City for fort flvo years died last week During tho erection of tho Salt Lnko temple Mr Prlnglo was for fifteen years employed as a stonecutter on that building As a sequel to tho death of George J Ross on September 18r when ho was run down by nn nutomobllo In charge of Dr Harry N Mayo of Salt Lake City a suit was filed against Dr Mayo In the third district court for 25000 damages sIt s-It Is announced that < redistricting of tho Denver S Rio Grande between Ogden Og-den and Denvor Is proposed It being tho Intention to cut out Helper asa as-a division point making the divisions nt Ogdon Soldier Summit Green River Riv-er and Grand JuncUtm Superintendent of Public Instruction A C Nelsons biennial report shows that almost three times as much money wns expended In tho erection of now school houses In the hlennlum just ended as ngalnst the amount Jn tho preceding two years The secretary of the Interior has asked congress for a provisional appropriation ap-propriation of 200000 to bo used If needed to protect and preserve tho water rights of Indians on the former Ulntah reservation In water appropriated appropri-ated under tho laws of Utah Nell W Davidson a young man who had been acting as clerk In tho Og den office of tho Pacific Express company com-pany has mysteriously disappeared His accounts seem to bo In good shape and his friends are at a loss to account for his sudden disappearance The city council has decided that niter March 31 there shall bo no more drinking after midnight In Salt Lake Moreover the saloon man caught violating vio-lating this order will not only loso his license but will be forever debarred debar-red from the saloon business In the city There nro live candidates In tho field for tho offlco of fish nnd gamo warden of Utah with tho chances In favor of the selection of Brigham Mad son of Provo at present deputy for Utah county who has mode an enviable en-viable record for efficiency during his term of office It Is probable that Charles Price of Ogden will retain tho 2410 In bills Which ho received In a newspaper some tlmo ago tho officials of the Portland bank falling to Identify the bills It was thought tho money was a portion of tho sum stolen from the bank Owing to the efforts of Deputy Fish and Gamo Warden Brig Madscn of Utah county and others a lease has been secured of the Powell sloughs In fnko View to the state for a term of fifty years The sloughs are to bo used as n bass hatchery and Utah lake stocked with this game fish Theodore Charlokls a Greek was stabbed through tho right hand by Peter Hnvrels n countryman In a row which took place In a saloon at Garfleld Charlokls says that Havrels went to stab another man and when ho Intorferred tho weapon was turn < don d-on him Fortyeight new school houses wore built In Utah In tho last two years nt n cost of 70913295 Salt Lake county got seventeen or almost one third of those now buildings the cost of which was 38595290 Tho rest were pretty generally scattered over tho state |