Show UTAH STATE NEWS eva riddle has been appointed postmaster at escalante garfield county salt lake s new packing house with a dally capacity of cattle 1000 sheep and 1 hogs will be completed by october 1 A a section hand on the oregon short line railroad was in brantly killed in salt I 1 ake city being struck by a passenger train during 1905 the coal mines of utah produced 1 short tons valued at 1793 the production tor 1904 was 1493 tons valued at 1 the dedication of the new masonic temple in ogden which marks tha completion of the first masonic build ing in the state of utah was held sun day afternoon frank cevoy aged 31 is under ar rest in salt lake city charged with attempting to pass counterfeit money he attempted to pass a bogus 5 gold piece at a saloon emmett Ri chesen a laborer from logan shot himself in the breast with shotgun in a lodging house in salt lake and is dead as the result ot a quarrel with his wife I 1 N harper a colored man was held up in ogden by two men he started to run and one robber fired a him the bullet striking him in the arm the wound Is not serious the crystal springs trout corn pany organized at morgan city tor the artificial propagation of fish filed articles of incorporation with the sec detary of state last week the utah state federation ot la bor as an organization will not go into politics this fall this was decided upon at an all day session held in salt lake city last week robert naylor living in the suburbs of salt lake sustained serious injuries in a runaway bis skull being crushed he Is in the hospital with about even chances for recovery there were students present on the opening day of the brigham young university at prove for the year 1906 7 the largest number on opening day in the history of the school it Is now believed by the authorities that the man whose mangled body was found on the oregon short line track near layton thursday of last week was john L atkinson of kentucky charles 0 card who died at logan last week came to utah in 1856 he had served as president of the cache stake and superintended the erection of the logan tabernacle and the lo 10 gan temple following the example of the fed eral court judge morse of salt lake last week granted preliminary alons in three suits brought by rail roads to restrain local ticket brokers from doing business the sweepstakes silver cup which was awarded to utah for the best fruit exhibit at the balse irrigation congress arrived in salt lake last week and will be on exhibition at the commercial club for a time As the result of a saloon row in park city george coughlan ln received a slashing at the hands of J wll hams which will lay coughlan ln up for some time tor repairs and which re quiren nine stitches to close arrangements have been made for a salt lake day during the davis coun ty fair in october and on that day the manufacturers and merchants as will attend the exhibition in a body accompanied by a band A general shortage in labor Is alent in utah as well as throughout the country the local employment agencies have been able to fill only thirty per cent of their orders for men during the entire summer fhe crops of tomatoes cucumbers and sugar beets in davis county are in excellent condition and the yield will be ery heavy the canneries are busy now with tomatoes and the pack nill be large and of very high quality the denver rio grande railroad company is planning to shorten its line between denver and salt lake by tunneling marshall pass and cerro summit and broad guaring the narrow guage road between hallda and mont rose jacob mccurdy one of spring valles oldest citizens Is dead mr mccurdy was born in new jersey eighty eight years ago and cama to utah fifty two years ago he has re sided in most of that time N N norton was shot in the back by matt donn after the former had held up donns saloon securing 19 norton escaped but was later on arrested and will be charged with rob bery his wound Is not considered dangerous several carloads of peaches have been shipped from willard to the east ern market during the past week most of the consignments were to kee wis the peach crop Is very good the only trouble with fruit grow ers being the scarcity of labor andrew larson dropped dead at rods saloon in bingham he had been suffering from consumption for some time and the end came without a moments notice he was dunmar ried but left a brother mike larson who will take charge of the remains ji L |