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Show H UTAH STATE NEWS H The report of tho stnto auditor H shows that tho bonded Indebtedness 1 of the stato of Utah Is $900,000 H Tho receipts at tho Provo postofflca H for the year wore $16,038.20, and dur- H lng the year 1905 thoy woro $14,891.49, 1 a gain of $141.71. H Dudley W. Stor.o, a contracting H carpontcr of Ogdcn, who fell from a H third story window, Is dead from tho H Injuries sustained. B- William Hearst, whoso homo was H formerly in Coalville, wns killed at M'' Tonopah, Nevada, on Nuw Year's day, T being struclc by a Btcara shovel. H Lars 13. Eggcrtscn, superintendent H of tho Utah county schools, was elect- H d president of tho Stato Teachers' H Association at tho annual session In H Ogdon. H Tho Utah Stato Poultry assocla H Uon has completed nrraugements for H (ho annual poultry show to bo hold B at tho Fair ground In Salt Lako City, H January 23. H Fred Hacks, a dishwasher, foil into H a cauldron of boiling water In the M Wilson hotol kltchon In Salt Lake H City, and Is In a hospital In a pro- H carious condition. H Capitalists nro contemplating the H traction nt Lehl of plaster works and H will utilize tho Immcnso deposits Of H gypsum which havo been known for K' years to exist on tho wost of Utah H Utah'B exhibit at tho fourteenth na- H tlonal Irrigation congress at Dolso, H Idaho, September 3 to 8, 190G, cost tho H public spirited citizens of tho stato H who contributed to tho exhibit fund H 3,153.9G. B Tho University of Utah, in ltn bUn- Dial ropclrt filed with Qovernor Cutler iaBt week, nsks for an appropriation of H $377,554 for tho malntonanco of tho In- M Btltutlon for tho noxt two years and H (or additional buildings H At a meeting of tho Commercial H club of American Fork last week It H was decided to otter Inducements to H tho smelter pcoplo of Salt Lako county H who nro planning to movo, to locato H their smollors near American Fork. B Tho llttla two-year-old girl of Mr. M and Mrs. Hcbcr Qlodhtll, of American m Fork, accidentally drank some, lye Frl- H day evening, and as a result was ball H ly burned around, tho mouth aMfr H Utah Is to bo woll represented nt H tho National Dry Farming congress M which will bo hold In Donvor, January H 24 and 25, and It Is qulio probablo an H effort will bo mado by Salt Lako poo- H plo to bring' tho noxt congress to tho H capital city. fl It Is said that of tho mon who plo H ncerod tho dovoTopmout of Cacho val H Icy but flvo now Htirvlyo: Morgan 1 B. Evans, John IL Illanchard, Edward m Nelson, Italph Smith and John F. H Wright Thoso men wont Into tho 1 valley on April 30, 1859. 1 Albert Uackwcll, a moulder 31 years H of ago, suicided In Salt Lako City, M cutting his throat In tho prosenco M of his wlfo and children. Ho had twice m boforo attompted his II to, and had H boon regarded for more than a year H as montally unbalanced. B Lawronco Leborg, tho man who was BHl' lynched at Las Animas, Colo., for a ., brutal murdor, was taken into custody M tn Salt Lako City in Juno last, was H adjudged lnsano and was commlttod ' to tho stato hospital at Provo, whuro B to was detained until August 18. HBJ Daniel W. Sommora, n section hand, H tnot with a painful accident at Coal H vlllo. Ho was engaged with othor H mon cutting a rulf, when tho rail ' dipped and fell ugulnst another rail, H the young mun's loft hand being H caught between tho two and mashed. M Tho tablo of Salt Lako bank clear H Ings for 190Q Hhows a total of $i88,- H 175,012.88, ns against $211,597,739.59 M for 1905. Tho clearings for the month H of Docombcr amounted to $32,840,- H C28.53, aH against $25,310,769.87 for m ibi samo month of tho year procodlng. "f" Mrs. Persia Athorton Farr, wlfo of M tho lato Aaron F. Farr of Ogdon, and H a '47 pioneer, passed away at 4 o'clock H New Year's morning at tho homo of H nor daughter, Mrs. Mosos Thatcher, H of Logan, with whom she had rosld M ed for some time. Mrs. Farr was 87 H years of ago. H Docauso ho refusod to drop a lump H ef coal that ho took from a cur stand H Ing tn tho yards to build a tiro for H himself and fellow workmon. Harry H Emerson, a Union Pacific ralroad em H poye at Ogdun, was shot through tho H left arm by a Greek watchman uuraod H Ocorgo Deems. H H. Q. Cook and J. O. Duko, of Hcbcr, H havo bought 2,300,000 feet of tlmbor H on tho west fork of tho Duchesne H river, about twenty mile oast of H iloher, on the Uintah reserve, at $5.63 per 1,000 feet on tho stump. This Is B tho biggest price over paid for timber H ou tho stump in Utah. H Tho Montclln Salt company has H oeen incorporated by Ogdon caplt- H allsts. Tlio incorporators claim to H have au iiamonso bed of salt covering H n area of more than 2,000 acres and H varying from thrte to eight feet la H depth. Tho raw material Is uld to H. uveraco 92.23 per cent pure. |