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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. A projecting is on foot to In.stal electric elec-tric lights at Spring City by running a line to connect with the Mt. Pleasant plant. The jury in the H. H. Roberts case failed to agree upon a verdict, ktand-ug ktand-ug six for con viction and two for acquittal. ac-quittal. f'omtnissnry Sergeant Holton, who has been stationed at Fort Duchesne, is on his way to the Philippines to report for duty. A Colorado capitalist has expressed his intention of putting in a modern roller (louring plant of forty barrel rapacity at Vernal. Over 100 shearers began operations at ( )olton the latter part of the week, there being some 8,000 animals awaiting await-ing their turn to be shorn. Amos lloldaway, who had his leg crushed by a falling boulder while at work in his stone quarry at Clear Creek, has succumbed to his injuries. The state treasurer's report for the month of April shows receipts, $16,-820. $16,-820. 28, expenditures, $114,:i53.24, with a balance on hand April SO of 8152,282.52. C. E. Loose has purchased the Provo Lake resort and announces that he will make improvements which will place it in the front rank of Utah's pleasure resorts. A volunteer fire department is being organized at Vernal, the city council and a number of citizens agreeing to furnish the necessary equipment for the volunteers. A stranger came into Ametiean Fork the other day who by his actions fully demonstrated that he was iusane, anil was placed in jail pending an investigation investi-gation as to his sanity and identity. The city council of Ephraim will make an effort to secure artesian water on the city property on Main street. If the attempt of the city is successful, numerous private citizens will also sink wells. The Oregon Short Line and Rio Grande Western railroads have declined the franchise offered them for a new union depot in Salt Lake City, and the long talked of depot will still remain on paper. A municipal electric light plant is being talked of for Ephraim. The city already owns the power site in the mouth of the canyon, and a petition is being circulated asking the council to put in the plant. While Hon. Lester Taylor, representative represen-tative from Grand county, and his wife were driving, the horse shied, ver-turning ver-turning the carriage and threw the occupants to the ground, Mrs. Taylor sustaining a broken arm. At Spring City, 12-year-old Vernie King, in attempting to climb over the the fenced which enclosed. his brother's grave, caught his clothing on the pickets and fell heavily to the ground, receiving injuries which proved fatal. A dozen tramps attacked the night operator at Cache Junction Thursday night and gave him a severe beating, necessitating his removal to the hospital. hos-pital. The plucky operator put up a hard fight aud several of the Weary Willies were badly battered up. The 13-year-old boy of W. B. Hunt, of Richmond, while riding a horse, waa thrown to the ground through the animal an-imal stumbling, when the horse rolled over the boy, crushing his head in a fearful manner, breaking both jaws. He is not expected to recover. Mrs. ,lohn MoLeod, of Park City, waa seriously injured while cleaning a carpet, car-pet, using gasoline, the fluid exploding and setting fire to her clothing, burning burn-ing her arms aud face so badly that there is but little hope of her surving the shock. The Utah Sugar company has about 150 men working on the building and pipe line for the branch sugar factory at Biugham Junction. The work is being rushed and it is expected everything every-thing will be in working order by the first of August. The people of Spring Cily are looking into the project of constructing a large reservoir three miles east of town, where by constructing a dam nineteen feet high and 600 feet loug, enough water can be stored to irrigate 1,000 acres, after the high water season. The new wage scale which has been inaugurated at the Mingo and Germania tmelters approximates 12.'.j per cent more than the old schedule aud will increase the payroll somewhere between be-tween 53,000 and 4,000 per month, to be divided among 700 employes. Forest Superintendent May has given James GritHu, the Vernal lumberman, thirty day's notice to move his sawmill off the Uintah reservation, and says all mills will be given similar notice. This action will have a tendency to retard building in that section. Julias Jensen, of Salt Lake, recently discharged from the insane asylum, is again a candidate for that institution, he having developed a mania for hang-iug hang-iug himself, and after several unsuccessful unsuc-cessful attciupta was placed in a padded cell pending his examination.. |