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Show FOUR-STATES. Utah. PP.OVO: -C. A. Wilson of Prove Cld at f Is home from the effects of laudanum. llKon. It in said, had ben drinking heavily heav-ily for some time and had lost hia Job on van Gundy's brick yard. This, together with despondency caused by drinking, caused him to take poison. LEHI: Mrs. Karren Anderson of Lehl, a widow 78 years old, was struck by a - Rio Grande engine, receiving injuries from which she died within two hours. As she never regained consciousness nothing is known as to the circumstances of the ac. cident. PROVO: A meeting of Prov cttisens was held in the courthouse last night. Mayor Taylor presiding, at which it was decided to hold a public celebration on July 4th. A committee of arrangements Consisting of five members from each ward, with Mayor Taylor as chairman. whs appointed. The committee will meet Monday night In the courhouse. CORINNE: Burglars gained access ear-" ear-" ly yesterday to the general merchandise store of Bancroft it Gatea and tha efficea rit the Bear River Irrigation and Ogden Waterworks company of Corlnne by prying pry-ing the front doors of the respective build- ! mgs open witn a neavy bar. Alter ransacking ran-sacking the store they drilled the combination combina-tion on the vault In the water company's office, fed in nitroglycerin and blew off the lock. About $20 in cash was obtained from each institution, and a quantity of merchandise mer-chandise from the store, the value of which has not yet been determined. No clue has as yet been obtained. SILVER CITY: Daniel Neff. a miner of the South Swansea company, was caught beneath the cage at the bottom of the shaft yesterday and seriously crushed. It is thought that he will recover. LOGAN: The Agricultural college alumni alum-ni association met Tuesday and elected the following officers for next year: William Wil-liam Peterson, president; Mattie Stover, first vice-president; Grace Fisher, second vice-president Lydta Holmgren, secre-. secre-. tary; Annie Beers Petty, treasurer. COALVILLE: The County Commissioners Commission-ers were In session yesterday and awarded tha contract to make the plans and specifications speci-fications for the new courthouse to F. C. Woods, an Ogden architect. The plans will be completed Just as soon as possible, when they wilt be accepted by the Commissioners Com-missioners and tha ad vert I Ring for bids commenced. The contract -will then be Vet and the work of erecting the new building pushed to completion. It is expected, that the structure can be completed and ready . for occupancy by the first of the new year. There is a good quality of fine white sandstone sand-stone near Coalville and this will, no doubt, be used in the new building. PROVO: In the Fourth District court yesterday Judge Booth made an order excusing ex-cusing the Jury which was summoned to appear on June 16th until the 22nd of June. Idaho. POCATELLO: The grand chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star of Idaho finished fin-ished Its session yesterday at Pocatelio. Officers elected were: Mrs. E. W. Waters of VVeiaer, grand matron; Charles F. Neal of Boise, grand patrol; Mrs. E. J. Doiber of Pocatello, associate grand matron; VV. L. Rider of Payette, associate grand patron; pa-tron; Miss Helen Coston of Boise, grand secretary; Mrs. Lester Wlldenthal of Lew- iston, grand treasurer; Mrs. Susan Need-ham Need-ham of Lewiston, grand conductress: Miss Charlotte Phinney of Wallace, associate grand conductress. POCATELLO: Howard, the ten-year-old son of Charles Gardner, car inspector of the Short Line at Pocatello, while playing play-ing under some freight cars in the lower yard yesterday, fell under some moving wheels with the result that one of his arms was so badly lacerated that amputation amputa-tion was necessary. ' BOISE: The strike in the Lucky Ridge mine at Pearl seems to have been quite important. A lour-foot vein of high-grade high-grade ore was found In the new shaft at a vertical depth of thirty-five feet. The ore is reported to assay better than flOO to Ui ton. Manager Buck bee was so well pleased with the discovery that he hastened to Salt Lake with samples of the ore to show the owners of the mine. ' Wyoming CHEYENNE: The salary of the post, master at Cheyenne -will, on July 1st, be increased from J25oe to $2600 per year, and the office at Green River is to be made fourth class. , - CHEYENNE: Word was received from Washington yesterday that the Secretary of the Interior has approved permits for grasing 10.000 horses and cattle in the Big Horn forest reserve during the present summer. Nevada. RENO: A gang of confidence. men that have been operating Reno for several weeks yesterday swindled J. C. Beade, a farmer from Grass Valley, out of J250. It is estimated that these men have secured W0u9 or OjO during their stay in Reno. |