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Show UTAH NEWS. Congressman B. II. Roberts will not return to I 'tali before the holidays, The trial of .lohn II. Benbroke, slayer slay-er of Burton C. Morris, will begin in Salt Baku December 1 1. A new wholesale grocery house, with a capital of S.'Vf ),i). will begin business about the first, of the year in Salt Lake. The slate board of pardons last week pardoned Edward II. Webb, Thomas Lacy and William Tcague from the penitentiary. The similarity of the names of Morse and Morris is likely to lead to a contest con-test of the result of the Salt Lake election on attorney. President George (). Connon returned to Salt Lake from New York last week where he suffered an attack of pneumonia, pneu-monia, He is quite feeble yet. Frank Woods and A I Mace were last week arrested charged with breaking Into the granary of Fred Palmer at West Jordan and stealing fifty bushels of wheat. The level of Great Salt Lake, as taken on the lTith inst., on the official scale at Garfield, was one foot and live inches above the zero mark the same reading as on the same day last year. David Newman and Emmet Bywatcr, the Salt Lake boys arrested at the instigation in-stigation of a Chinaman who alleged they had robbed him of $:i2. were discharged dis-charged at the preliminary bearing. Mary Ferguson of Little Cotton wood, Halt Lako county, is suing Isaac Fer-jfUHOU Fer-jfUHOU for divorce. They were married in Salt Lake in lstis, and have thirteen children ranging in age from 20 to 4. "Hisli" Cooper, who was with Dewey on tho Olympia at Manila, arrived in Salt Lake last week, and was accorded a great welcome. The newsboys, who slulm Bish as an ex-member gave him a banquet. An alleged plot of hoboes to murdor Detective Sheets of Salt Lake was jiven to the police by an excited man who overheard the hoboes talking. One of the gang was caught and jailed for vagrancy. Hugh J. Roper, a Salt Lake boy who ran away from homo a number of years ago and took to a life on the ocean, was on the United States cruiser Charleston when she was wrecked in the Philippines. An incandescent electric light globe, becoming loosened from its socket, iropped into a vat of benzine at the Salt Lake Dye Works last week, causing caus-ing au explosion and fire, which did considerable damage. Social Hall, Salt Lake's first theatre, around which cluster many pleasant memories of early pioneers, is to be torn down, to widen the alley between State and Second East, which is in an unsanitary condition. The remains of Elder Gottfried Alder, who died in Switzerland, while on a mission, arrived in Manti last week under the care of Elder Courad Keller, who left Manti with him, and were interred. Apostle Teasdale delivered the address. Elder Alder died on the 18th of last March. Mrs. William F. Nelson of Salt Lake, ou returning to her home from a three days' visit to Ogden last week, found her husband dead in bed. He died of arenie convulsions, and had been dead probably forty-eight hours when discovered. dis-covered. It was a great shock to Mrs. Nelson as be had kissed her good-bye on the depot platform in good health when she wont on her visit. C. T. Johnson, assistant to Prof. El-wood El-wood Mead of Wyoming, in charge of the irrigation investigations of the de-partmeat de-partmeat of agriculture, and Arthur P. Stover are completing the work of jetting up a bulletin on irrigation in Utah, the same haviug been commenced by Fred ,1. Mills, who is now under arrest, charged with the killing of James C. O'.Melveney of the Oregon Short Line railroad. Will Leetbam. a student, while working work-ing in the chemistry department of the B. Y. College at Provo. Wedeuesdav afternon. carelessly inhaled chlorine gas, which resulted in stopping heart action. Dr. Taylor was called and the young man was taken to the doctor's eftlce for treatment. It was a serious case, but the young man soon recovered. Aside from having a badly burned throat Leetham is all right. John Harveymore. an old pioneer of Payson, died last week at the age of 53. Ho went to Paysou in 15.V2. where he has lived forty-seven years, and raised a large family, most of whom are still living. A wife and nine children mourn his loss. Carlone Fougerausse. an aged Salt Lake woman, has beeu awarded damages dam-ages of S'-'50 against the Salt Lake Street Railway company. She was boarding a car last March which was suddenly started, throwing her violently vio-lently to the ground. Salt Lake City has brought suit against Allan G. Lamson and the Jordan Jor-dan Narrows Power company to establish estab-lish title to a one-sixth of the flow of water in the Jordan river above the narrows, and to prevent the latter from appropriating any of the flow. |