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Show NEWS FROM I FOUR STATES, i Utah. THI8TLE: Twenty-seven freight cars loaded with coal broke away from a Rio Grande train at Red Narrows yesterday yester-day and ran. back to the Thistle yards, where they jumped the track and were completely wrecked. No one was injured. PROVO: Organisation of the Utah County Postmasters' association waa perfected per-fected In Provo yesterday. The officers elected were:. President. James Clove, Provo; vice-president. Grant Lemons, I Payson: secretary und treasurer, S. W. Ross, Lehi. The executive committee, j which has the power to transact all business busi-ness necessary between the meetings of the association, is composed of these officers. of-ficers. CASTLE GATE: While taking a hoisting hoist-ing motor out of a flat car yesterday afternoon af-ternoon Ed Edwards of Castle Gate received re-ceived injuries which will lay. him off work for several days. The first finger of his left hand got badly mashed and the left leg above the knee was bruised severely. se-verely. LOGAN: The case of Alex H. Moyes against the Logan Sugar company, in which the plaintiff sues for &!1,0Q0 damages dam-ages for- alleged personal injuries, was c&Md in the District court last evening, but after some discussion a motion for a continuance until the April term waa granted, upon the condition that the defense de-fense pay $40 to defray the cost of bringing bring-ing the plaintiffs witnesses into court. chlse over highways fof electric power companies; by Evans, a concurrent resolution reso-lution for the Senate and House Finance and Appropriation committees to draft a general appropriation bill. Wyoming. ; CHEYENNE: A plot for the liberation of Tom Horne, the condemned murderer of Willie Nickell, was exposed last night. It 1 is charged that Horn had arranged with' a fellow prisoner whose term was about to expire to blow- up the Jail with dynamite. CHEYENNE: The Rocky Mountain club, composed of wealthy men of the East, Bled articles of incorporation in Cheyenne yesterday. The club owns 350 acres of land In the Centennial section of the Medicine Bow mountains,, forty miles 1 south of the Union Pacific, in Albany j county, Wyo..5Uia will there build commodious com-modious clubhotgee, -establish - polo i grounds, lawn tennis courts, golf links I and other features for recreation. The opening will occur on June 15, 1903. Nevada. CARSON:' Ex-Senator George. Ernst commenced yesterday a contest in the Senate for the seat of Warren Williams, Republican Senator from Churchill county, coun-ty, on the grounds of a violation of Aus- I trallan ballots in the election. . RENO : John Edwards Bray of Reno is going to squarely contest the election I of Prof. Ring. Republican,' for Superintendent Superin-tendent of Public Instruction, for beating him only 11 votes. It is authoritatively reported that Joe Josephs, superintendent of the State Orphans' home the last four I years. Is sure of re-election. PROVO ! Lewis Mecham of Provo, a young man 20 years of age, died yesterday yester-day at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Mecham of the First ward, from a stomach affliction with which he has suffered for about two - weeks. Funeral Fu-neral services will be held from the First ward meeting-house at U o'clock Friday. MT. PLEASANT: A meeting for the -Instruction of young mothers in the care and training of children, was held in Mt. Pleasant last - Monday afternoon, under the auspices of the Relief society. PROVO: Funeral services over the remains re-mains of Charles H. Nelson were held from the Sixth ward meeting-house yesterday, yes-terday, and notwithstanding the rainy weather there was a large attendance-Bishop attendance-Bishop Hugh Clayton presided. The speakers were N. P. Nelson, S. P. Eg-gertsen, Eg-gertsen, Evan Wrider Andrew Knudsen and Bishop Clayton. The deceased had many friends in Provo, where he had followed the trade of blacksmith for many years? Idaho. NAMPA: Two Oregon Short Line passenger pas-senger trains collided at 4:30 o'clock yesterday yes-terday morning at Nampa. The damage was confined to the engines and tenders and to two mall cars. - Thomas-Glenn, fl-eman on the branch train, was cut in the head. FRANKLIN: Joseph Moser, Jr., and Albert Moser, two young men of Whitney, Whit-ney, Ida., were killed in a snowsllde yesterday yes-terday in Cub River canyon, near Franklin, Frank-lin, Ida. The two men, with their brother broth-er Alma, and two boys named Wlnward, were getting out firewood. The slide came down and buried the two victims, the other oth-er three having a narrow escape, having been partly covered by the snow. ! BOISE: The following bills were Introduced In-troduced in the State Senate yesterday: ' By Brlgham, to give towns authority to try assault cases and to remove blinds and screens from saloons and for a minimum min-imum dox tag of Jl; by Day, for local option; op-tion; , by Caton, granting general fran- |