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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Special rates will be given by the railroads for the laud opening at Lynn on April 11. The secretary of state has sent out notices and blanks to all of the state and private banks In Utah for reports on the banks at the close of business on March 14. A. reward of $200 has been posted for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who robbed the postoffice at ' Manti, securing $30 in cash and ?1,000 in postage stamps. Despondency. believed to have een caused by ill health, prompted M. B. Knowles. a young railroad clerk, to take his own life by swallowing swal-lowing an overdose of morphine at Ogden. The sixty-eighth anniversary of the organization of the Relief society of, the Mormon church was appropriately celebrated on Thursday by the 0 branches of the organization thrjugh-out thrjugh-out the country. Another power plant is premised for Sevier valley. J. H. jvianson, Hugh a Usonbee and Milaa Packard have ITo?D'au ideal site Jn what Is known as DanlelVcanyop, which opens into the upper part of GVass valley, near Plateau. Antitoxin administered to the prisoners pris-oners in the Ogden jail now under quarantine for smallpox, caused the breaking out of a rash on the faces' of several of the prisoners and incidentally inci-dentally gave the police officials another an-other bad scare. Salt Lake Uty stands fifth in line in the percentage of gains in the postal pos-tal business during the last year among the fifty largest cities of the 'United States. Salt Lake's percentage of gain last year over the preceding one was 25.84 per cent. , Through the efforts of the Ogden Betterment league the city ordinance regulating the sale of intoxicating libuors has been so amended that instead in-stead of the saloons closing at 1 o'clock that hereafter will be required to close their doors at the stroke of midnight. prominent business men of Utah, including the governor and representatives represen-tatives of the Commercial club, inspected in-spected the Sevier River Laud and Water company's tract at Lynndyl, a few days ago. and pronounced the project pro-ject one of the best ever undertaken in the west. A mammoth heating plant for the heating and lighting of the various buildings owned by the Mormon church in the north end of . the business busi-ness district of the city and involving m' cxTeadire of from $150,000 to $200,000 is the latest improvement planned for Salt- Lake. Shooting Private Paul P. Shaunty, her husband, through the heart as he was leaving the. kitchen of Captain Uline's quarters at Fort Douglas, Laura Shauiity, hysterically scobbed, "I guess that ends it, but he drove me to It by his incessant ill-treatment." ill-treatment." The woman is under ax-rest. ax-rest. Utah ranks second in the Union as the habitat of the stork for the year 1909. Government figures .just out bear out the claims of this state that babies are -"Utah's best crop." The . percentage of babies who came to . Utah, computed upon every 1,000 pop-' ulatlon, was 35.2. Dakota got first place. Salt Lake City is to haye a string of restaurants which will dispense good food at popular prices and which will be conducted on the successful plan of eastern restaurants, if the project pro-ject started last week by a restau-ranr, restau-ranr, tnan is carried out. It is proposed pro-posed to serve meals at a nominal profit. Neighbors found Robert Shirle of Stockton dead in hi3 chair in his cottage. cot-tage. The day before he had summoned sum-moned a physician from Tooele, but he wa3 not thought to be seriously ill. He lived alone and had never married. mar-ried. He was 77 years of age. The board of directors of the Lund detention home at Murray has rented a large tract of land near the home' for the purpose of maturing a large crop of farm products. The directors are seriously considering the advisability advisa-bility of purchasing additional land near the school. The Federation of Woman's clubs is considering .the feasibility of making public the names of the grocers of Salt Lake City who have refused to respond to the circular letters sent out several weeks ago by the civic committee of the organization asking compliance with the clean food ordinance. ordi-nance. The young son of Robert Walker, of Union, as the result of an accident, will probably be deprived of his sight. Wliile playing with a companion, young Walker, found a can coutainiug black powder. Having seen older boys blow up a can, he proceeded to do the- same with the result that he may become blind. Overturning a kettle of boiling water that had been placed by her mother on a bench outside the home al. CaiT Fork. Bingham Canyon, Hil-rua, Hil-rua, 2 years of age, daughter of Mrs. L311 Perttunen, was .-so terribly scalded scald-ed that she died six hours later. Resenting being called a "nigger," L. M. Duncan, colored, watchman for a construction company in. Salt Lake City, shot and probably fatally wounded wound-ed ATchle Fane, a blacksmith's helper, employed in the Rio Grande shops. Fane is In the hospital and Duncan is la Jail. |