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Show UTAH STATE NEAVS. The Oregon Short Line expects a heavier summer travel than ever in its history. Beet planting was finished In the Mt. Pleasant district last week. Fifty-two Fifty-two acres were planted this year, as against 10S last year. It Is expected that not less than 500 cowboys will participate in the parade in Salt Lake City when President Roosevelt visits the capital city. Prof. J. J. McClellan, who presides at the big organ in the tabernacle in Salt Lake City, is to compose a comic opera, entitled "A Romance of Japan." M. Howe, a pioneer of American Fork, is dead at the age of 83. He came to Utah in the early days and passed through all the early trials of the Saints. The merchants of American Fork, Lehi, Pleasant Grove and Alpine have decided to give their clerks a half holiday each week during the summer months. The grading firm of Straw & Storrs, of Springville, has been awarded the contract for all the grading repair work on the line of the Rio Grande Western this year. The body of an infant was found In the Jordan river at Salt Lake City .last week and a coroner's jury has decided de-cided that it was murdered, but discovered dis-covered no clue to its parents. Clyde Ellison, on trial in Salt Lake ,Clty for the murder of Undertaker A. 'S. Watson, was found not guilty by a jury. Ellison accused Watson of being be-ing unduly intimate with his wife and ehot him. C. Scott, of Kimberley, employed at the Annie Laurie mill, was caught in the belting last week and sustained two broken ribs and a number of bruises, his escape from death being a narrow one. Miss Matilda Lund of Ephraim was injured in an accident last week. While riding in a buggy with throe ) others, the reach pole broke and Mise Jund fell face downward upon the dashboard, cutting her face badly. Captain Andrew J. Burt, who went to the Philippines with the Utah boys and remained to take a position in the Manila police department, is back in Salt Lake and reports that Utahns In the islands generally are doing well. Wilford Miller, aged 12, was dragged to death by a horse at Paro-wan Paro-wan on the 9th. He was preparing to stake the horse out for the night when it started to run and the boy's feet got fastened in the rope and he was dragged over two miles before the horse was caught. Mrs. Clyde Ellison, wife of the man acquitted of the charge of the murder mur-der of Undertaker Watson of Salt Lake, declares she will begin suit for divorce, claiming non-support and cruelty. She professes surprise at tne outcome of the trial and calls it a case of attempted blackmail and murder. mur-der. Sam Newton, a blacksmith of American Amer-ican Fork, tried to kill his wife Sunday Sun-day last while in a druuken rage, and would have succeeded had it not been for the nerve of the woman, wao knocked his shotgun out of his hand after he had struck her with it once, and made her escape. Newton is now In jail. |