Show UTAH STATE NEWS utah hns has less than 2000 miles of railroad within its borders one oneat of the smallest state totals the commercial boasters boosters club ol of log logan an through the committee on advertising ver and promotion has issued a folder setting forth the advantages of cache county and logan city according to the records kept by the southern pacific railroad company of the rise and fall of the great salt lake there has been no perceptible rise in the water 1 lately without recovering sufficiently to explain under what circumstances his throat was cut at kemmerer wyo J I 1 B smith died in a salt lake hospital the belief Is entertained th that it ho he met with foul play when a big machine drill drift cut into an old charge of dynamite on the western Paci pacific fifteen miles beyond limpic halt half a dozen laborers were hurled in the air three ot them sustaining serious injuries decisive steps looking to the completion of tho the silver service to bo be contributed tri buted by tho the state of utah forthe now new battleship utah were taken at i a meeting of the stiver silver service coin cent matteo in salt lake city payson la Is preparing to celebrate on october 20 and 21 the sixtieth anniversary of the settlement of Pet pot neet creek on it scale perhaps never before attempted by the people of any city of its size in the west having failed to connect him with the oregon short line train robbery of last june the authorities have released thomas wilson from the county jail at ogden where ho he has been a prisoner for two months the utah state retail Aler merchants chants association held its annual convention in salt lake city on wednesday and thursday one of the results of the convention it Is expected will bo be the establishment of a state journal for the retail trade after a two days session characterized by leading physicians as one of the roost instructive and interesting meetings held in years the utah state medical association concluded conc concu eded ded its ita sixteenth annual meeting in salt lake city on tuesday the city council of provo proto has grant od a hundred year franchise to evans chipman and others to build and operate an electric balway line through that city the line must be completed and in running order through the city within three years paul gorske wealthy russian cattle owner with 35 acres of range in nevada and utah has left for a four months visit with relatives in russia mr gorsko Is one of the largest individual cattle owners of the west ranging close to head that sanford K marsh who is said to have swindled the windsor hotel out of by means of a bogus check and was arrested at grants pass ore and brought back to salt lake for trial has a long career as a bad check man Is claimed by the catching a burglar in the act of robbing trunks and dressers in her aparto apartments i ants in salt lake city mrs ray peterson dashed upon him and leveling a revolver at his head discharged two shots almost po point int blana blank neither shot took effect and the burglar escaped after plying the heavy waters of great salt lake since 1901 the steamer promontory the largest craft I 1 ever launched on the inland sea has been dismantled by the southern pacific company and now lies a barren hulk prey to the first storm to sweep the beach near lakeside to satisfy a judgment of against the ogden northwestern railroad the property of the com company liany operated under tinder the name of the 01 ogden rapid transit company from ogden city to the utah hot springs has boon been sold at public auction refusing to testify in police court in salt lake city against her husband Il melvln lelvin karth who alve months ago attempted her life by shooting mrs eva karth was successful in se curing the release of the man but later in the day she was granted a divorce in the district court colonel george D B squires commissioner of insurance for utah prominent member of the grand army of the republic and prominent in bit business st and politics died friday at his fits home in salt lake city death being caused by a combination of several ailments the farmers of rich valley aro are happy having closed a successful year of farming crops are better than expected considering the dry season oats are as good quality weighing from thirty eight to forty eight pounds to the bushel w while hile the wheat goes goe 9 15 high as seventy pounds 4 |