Show UTAH STATE NEWS ten thousand volumes a month are loaned by the salt lake public library the international brotherhood of electrical workers will hold its convention next year in salt lake the taxes of fealt lake conaty foot up to the snug sum of 1 this year and the taxpayers number 40 on the lehi farmers will re ceide for beets grown this year the company paid out SO for labor the first of the week up to last saturday night the lehi sugar factory had produced more than 10 pounds of sugar with 42 tons of beets yet to be disposed of the salt lake tabernacle choir has been signed for a tour of the pacific coast where e abt concerts will be given in california s principal cities the short L ne and san pedro have agreed to settle the grade contest by parallel rout s using one track where canyons are too narrow for two roads billy bing of salt lake and W E samuelson of provo have entered the day bicycle race at mad son square garden new york which will be run next month the consol da ed railway and power company of salt lake will build a new electric p ant on the jordan river at a cost of it will develop 3 horsepower professor mcclellan salt lake tab organist is home from an eastern trip lie states that he did not see the equal of the rebuilt tabernacle organ while he was away ahe state land board is interested in the possible extension of the big canal from grand river colorado into utah which would reclaim a vast area of splendid agricultural land san francisco cap have pur chased 40 acres of land near wood side in the green river d strict and will prospect for oil it is the largest real estate transfer ever recorded in utah attorney general breeden has ren dered an op n on that anyone who holds a physicians certificate that ha is physically incapable of doing man ual labor can not be required to work poll tax the average water consumption per capita in salt lake city is gallons dally which is more than double that of any of the large eastern cities water meters may be installed to check the waste more than salt lake children are out of school ow ng to contagious diseases the board of health and phy charge gross violation of antine rules by parents as the cause of so much sickness beddo delvecci Del an itoman youth convicted of making a criminal assault upon miss bertha westlund a domestic employed at tha cannon farm salt lake has been sentenced to six years in the penitentiary percy bloch an employed of the tele phone company at provo tuesday came in contact with a live wire and fell aiom a pole a distance of thirty feet to the ground he was badly shocked and rendered unconscious by the fall but will recover the state land board is urging upon utah s representatives in congress the advisability of to the state the and lands within her bounds if the state owned the lands tho disands of acres of fertile lands would be reclaimed by means of reservoirs fire destroyed the payson roller mills last week causing a loss of about 10 there were 14 pounds of flour and 4 bushels of wheat stored in the mill for res dents of payson and many families lost their year a supply of flour the m 11 will probably be rebuilt by a stock company the utah press association is pre paring for an extended junket to the coast intending to leare dimmed abely after the annual meet ng on monday january soth the itinerary itene will likely embrace a visit to boise thence seattle aiom there take the ocean liner to san francisco with a bide trip to los angeles and perhaps other short trips and then disband the bulk however returning within ten days via S P to ogden the white star oil company s well in spanish fork canyon has ered an oil strata at feet which yields a 1 colored 1 equal in ity to the best valve oil sinking will continue until or 1000 feet is reached if necessary A revised edition of the school law of utah for free d has just been issued by state superintendent of schools nelson which will prove in valuable to teachers trustees and everybody else connected with the public schools it contains pages bids are to be called for for a sa city hall a T gan it is claimed the money tt b id the structure is at hand tl a le will be on main street near the court house and with the amount specified a handsome and corn iodious structure may be erected A 13 year old son of U S hyatt oi carowan parowan was thrown from a horse sunday morning a week ago and lay unconscious for seve al days II 11 s condition is cons dered precarious bu it is believed he is on the road to re covery the woods cross canning factory has put up cans of tomatoes this season and the output of the factory has bract cally all been sold it was feared at one time that late frosts had damaged the tomato crop sc much as to cripple the factory but this happily proved to be |