| Show UTAH STATE NEWS senator reams has introduced a bill in the senate to appropriate for improvements at fort douglas the clearings of the salt lake banks for february aggregated S 2 11 which is a gain of 1 over the same month of last year the salt lake ministerial assoria tion attended in a body an opossum dinner given by the colored baptist church one day last week there is now talk of a state base 11 league for the corn ng season in which clubs from ogden salt lake provo logon and lagoon will take part A committee composed of prominent gunn son men has been appointed tj solicit subscriptions towards a bonus for the installation of a sugar factory snow to the depth of twelve inches tell in cache county on the farmers are happy since it insures a plentiful supply of water for next a mer at the salt lake athletic club fri day night of last week jim flynn put george condie out of the fight in the second round of what was to have been a twenty round go isaac russell of salt lake a member of the utah batteries that fought in the philipp nes has been chosen as editor of the college paper published at stanford university M anderson of salt lal e came near losing his life one day last week by eating stale canned corned beef he is now suffering from the effects of a severe case of ptomaine po boning two sons of dr bowers of bait lake aged 11 and 8 years quarreled one day last week when the younger lad threw a pair of scissors at his brother inflicting a slight wound in the left side the maps of the milford beaver railroad company have been filed in the united states land office the route runs from milford to beaver and thence a short distance beyond up the canyon the town of ly nan in wayne county has after several years at the task finished a pipe line of between five and six miles which furnishes the town with good spring water for its waterworks frank buckwalter aged 18 was thrown from a street car in salt lake by tho sudden turning of a curve and seriously injured he was stand ing on the rear platform when the ac aident A number of salt lake women belonging to select society circles declare they are tired of trying to solve the servant girl problem and will imbor japanese servants eer to take the place of the irresponsible girls the news is current in salt lake that the colorado northwestern rail road will start on the extension of the road westward to make a new connect tion between denver and salt lake within the next few months the postmaster general has ordered a quadrennial re weighing of united states mails carried on all railroad routes in what is known as the fourth contract section include ng utah idaho wyoming and nevada mrs joseph chamberlin of salt lake died last week as the result oi ptomaine poisoning mrs chamberlin took dinner at the home of a friend and ate some pork sausage at mid night she was taken ill and died the next morning with a reasonable amount of rain fall this spring rabbit villey in wayne county is promised water chent for its crops the johnson valley reservoir is full of water as is the fish lake reservoir which will water until late in the summer the endeavor to obtain 1 from the national treasury for the pur pose of converting utah lake into a great reservoir has been brought to an end because of a rupture among the canal companies that were to be ben of the project the secretary of the interior has withdrawn from entry nearly square miles of land in the wasatch range of mountains in utah taking in nearly all of the important watersheds of the entire range the aggregate number of acres withdrawn is over 3 prof soloman aaeree of the ity of utah has been appointed cheffi for the san pedro los angeles salt lake railroad co the company in its construction and future invest lations will have considerable work for ft chemist the contract for fourteen and one half miles of gradin ff work on the og den lucin cut off of the southern pa cafio has been let to the utah con st ruction company of ogden the corn pany being notified that work is to begin at once the maps of the leavington leamington Lea cut off of the oregon short line have been filed at the land office the princ pal departure from the route already known is that the road will pass through thoele tooele which is without di connection with a railroad since the death of sl op thema ritchie of harriott last robert Mc of the belond waid ogden is the only surviving bishop in the mormon church in weber stake who was appo anted by president bangham in 1877 here organized the stake utah heads the list in the sugar beet contest conducted by the orange judd farmer christian A madsen of gun nison is awarded the prize for the richest beets mr madsen s crop av enraged 18 per cent sugar with tha very high coefficient of purity of 84 4 per cent |