Show UTAH STATE NEWS the taxable property of salt lake city is 33 bait lake county outside the city is taxed at 6 judge at salt lake last week decided against mrs hilton in her suit for a part of dr R park a estate the water supply of salt lake ie at the present time 16 gallons per day 25 per cent gi eater than last year at th a time the new salt works near garfield beach on great salt lake ie bearing completion and will be ready in a few weeks to market salt the remains of private george N simpson who was killed at luzon P I 1 august 4 last arrived in salt lake sunday and were interred in the soldiers plat at bit olivet the contest for queen of the mer chants street fair resulted in the celeo hon of miss ethlyn may markham the postoffice post office employed by a margin of 1500 rotes over miss florence lewie the property holdings in utah of the late E cha abers have been appraise ed at 0 8 but recent advances in the price of some of his holding baa brought the value above a million charles la belle the salt lake man who discovered a solvent for the hy of utah claims to have sold his secret for 5 with royalties that may bring h m millions more the germana smelter nt murray claim that fumes from the plant injuriously effect growing crops and an appeal will be made to the smelter management to abate the cause for complaint the gross earnings of the rio grande western for the fiscal year ending june 30 were 4 an increase of near ly half alion over any previous year the month of june contributed to the total A special arrangement for the ex hibit of utah silk will be made at the state fair this year A room in the ex position building bijl be fitted up by the silk commission to give greater in to the display bobbers accompanying the epworth league through the state committed many robberies taking all the money the had in many cases A number of excursion ests were left stranded in salt lake A special agent of the state horticultural society has not found any san jose scale in salt lake county but d sc instances t in utah county at prove pleasant grove lehi and springville Spring ville A landslide caused by heavy rains occurred above altus tunnel on the rio grande between bait lake and park city thursday caused the tim bers in the tunnel to give way block ing traffic on the road for several days mrs june wilson who was shot in the neck june 30 at her home in iloh day by a crowd of drunken boys who fired at the house died at st mark s hospital salt lake friday frank wilson is accused of having fired the shot the little daughter of dr mayo of salt lake city was attacked by a lion in a fur store last week and but for the prompt act on of attendants would have been killed ohp lion wh ch was considered 1 armless was probably en raged by oppressive heat A box car contain ng twenty five tons of powder was set fire in the rio grande western yards at salt lake by a caboose which was de strayed alongside it one end of the powder car w as destroyed but the fire was extinguished before the powder wae reached proves streets are to be renamed using the same system as that in vogue in bait lake except that two base streets will be used instead of one center street extending nest from the asylum will be oue of the base streets and academy avenue now J street will be the other the coroners jury wh eh inquired into the death of ja nes L davis who died at salt lake last week from lood poisoning caused by an abrasion ay a stone thrown by young 14 years of age decided that the lad was not criminally 1 able and he will not be prosecuted R D miller a bait lake business man wh ie driving on fifth east last week was run into by a cargo ing north while trying to avoid one going in the opposite losing his buggy and ang serious personal injuries prime evans acy attorney of lehi died in a salt lake 1 last week from lockjaw lie recen tl i an a rusty nail in his foot but it was suppose all danger had passed when his jaws be gan to set and 1 e was taken to the city for treatment it develops tl at joseph er a resident of mill creek ho was picked up in a dazed condition by salt lake police was not in a runa vay accident as he stated but in a fight with some person sustaining injuries from wl ic 11 e d ed at an inquest held over the remains of jacob faldmo tl e salt lake boy who d ed of lockjaw as the result of being shot in the foot by a companion it was decided tl at b s death was the result of an accident and that the boy who fired the sl ot deserved censure the continued hot dry weather is destroying much grain in cache coun ty hundreds of wheat on dry farms has been burned up and will be ploughed un lei while crops on oth er tracts of dry land are withered and the grain shrunken |