Show UTAH STATE NEWS the report of the state auditor shows that the bonded indebtedness of the state of utah Is the receipts at the provo postoffice post office tor the year were 15 20 and dur ing the year 1905 they were 14 49 a gain of 71 dudley W stone a contracting carpenter of ogden who fell from a third story window Is dead from the injuries sustained william hearst whose home was formerly in was billed at tonopah nevada on new year s day being struck by a steam shovel lars E eggersten Eg gerten superintendent of the utah county schools was elect ed president of the state teachers association at the annual session in ogden the utah state poultry assoria alon has completed for the annual poultry show to be held at the fair ground in salt lake city january 23 fred racks a dishwasher tell into a cauldron of boiling water in the allson hotel kitchen in salt lake city and is in a hospital in a precarious condition capitalists are contemplating the erection at lehl of plaster works and will utilize the immense deposits tot gypsum which have been known for years to exist on the west 0 utah lake utah s exhibit at the fourteenth na irrigation congress at balse idaho september 3 to 8 1906 cost the public spirited citizens of the state who contributed to the exhibit fund 3 96 the university of utah in its blen nial report filed with governor cutler last week asks for an appropriation of tor the maintenance of the in for the next two years and for additional buildings at a meeting of the commercial club of american fork last week it was decided to offer inducements to the smelter people of salt lake county who are planning to move to locate their smelters near american fork the little two year old gill of mr and mrs heber gledhill of american tork accidentally drank some lye fri day evening and as a result was bad ly burned around the mo ith and throat and Is in a critical condition utah Is to be well represented at tho national dry farming congress which will be held in denver january 24 and 25 and it Is quite probable an effort will be made by salt lake peo pie to bring the next congress to the capital city it Is said that of the men who pioneered the development of cache val ley but five now survive morgan S evans john R blanchard edward kelson ralph smith and john F wright these men went into the valley on april 30 1859 albert hackwell a moulder 31 years of age in salt lake city cutting his throat in the presence of his wife and children he had twice before attempted his life and had been tor more than a year as unbalanced lawrence iberg the man who was lynched at las animas colo for brutal murder was taken into custody in salt lake city in june last was adjudged insane and was committed to the state hospital at provo where he was detained until august 18 daniel W sommers a section hand met with a painful accident at coal valle he was engaged with other men cutting a rail when the rail sapped and tell against another rail the young man s left hand being caught between the two and mashed the table of salt lake bank clear ings tor 1906 shows a total of 88 against for 1905 the clearings for the month of december amounted to 32 53 as against 25 87 tor the same month of the year preceding mrs persis atherton farr wife of the late aaron F farr of ogden and a 47 pioneer passed away at 4 clock new year s morning at the home of her daughter mrs moses thatcher of logan with whom she had ted to some time mrs farr was 87 years of age because he refused to drop a lump of coal that he took from a car stand ing in the yards to build a fire tor himself and fellow workmen chafy emerson a union pacific railroad em poye at ogden was shot through the left arm by a gidek watchman named george deems H G cook and J 0 duke of heber have bought 2 feet of timber on the west fork of the duchesne river about twenty miles east ot heber on the uintah reserve at 5 53 per 1 feet on the stump this is the biggest price ever paid for timber on the stump in utah the montello salt company has been incorporated by ogden capit alises the incorporators claim to have an immense bed of salt covering an area of more than 2 acres and varying from three to eight feet in depth the raw material Is said to average 92 23 per cent pure E ihu warner of north ogden captured a large panther in a trap near his home a few days ago the ani mal was seen on se eral occasions prowling about the foothills it paid several visits to the various stock pens of that district and mr warner determined to trap the beast the citizens of and ma held a mass meeting last week to formulate a petition and resola lions asking congress to again in elude in the uintah forest reserve land lying adjacent to tn hobble creek canyon which was thrown out of the reserve in june |