Show UTAH STATE NEWS the members of the colored baptist church of sal lake will erect a hand some new edifice the trial la still dragging along only ten jurors having been secured saturday last park city is undergoing a siege ol 01 smallpox emall pox about a dozen new cases being reported last week the salt lake street railway corn puny has increased abe wages of it employees 3 cents per hour smallpox has broken and as a number have been exposed 1 la feared the disease will become gear eral the drivers of the sprinkling wagons in salt lake are on a strike demanding higher wages and shorted hours over 4 was raised in two days last week by the salt lake elks foi their big convention to be held in august two salt lake women one night last week captured a burglar who en their home and turned him over to the police wilson quarryman wa crushed to death beneath a ten ton rock in a land slide at the quarry near salt lake last week eden weber county is to have tle phone connections the people of that town having ra sed a bonus for extend ing the connecting line jacob kopp of salt lake aged while playing base ball collided with another player and received injuries which resulted in his death at provo 3 is to be expended the driveway to the lake it being the intention to make it ultimately one of the finest driveways in the west better mail service for the people 11 the southern part of cache valley will it is reported be established by the de apartment part ment about the first of july the 1903 meeting of the internal dional association of ticket agent will he held in salt lake when several hundred ticket agents will be in ab the unusually large supply of grown by utah farmers this year is leading the local canneries to can a great deal of it for next fall and winters trade it is now believed that a smelter will be established at basin grana county known as the la mining district A chicago company is inter ested in the project one of the greatest benefits of tan recent storm in sevier county will be the probable end of the threatened grasshopper plague the storm death to all the young hoppers A sheepherder named foutz acci dentally shot himself at the camp neat provo while attempting to scare away mountain lions from his herd the wound while painful is not serious giardie lynch a well known young man of salt lake has achieved un usual honors and success in the phila delphia medical college lie has won two gold medals and a cash prize ralph ariansen of corn milted suicide at the smith ranch near hawlins wyoming thursday of last week alansen left a note saying he was tired of life and did not care to live any longer the total amount of death claims paid by the life insurance companies to residents of salt lake city in 1901 was in utah outside of bait lake city 65 was paid making a total for the state of alexander wilkins a member of the city council of provo was stricken with apoplexy while hoeing in the garden and died in a few moments mr ikins came to utah in 1851 and for fifteen year was a member of the police and sheriffs force in tl e city of provo A mr moss of moroni narrowly missed serious accident last week lie was in a tent and reached out un der the flap to get his gun wh ch was lying near he pulled it toward him when of course it went off the charge shattered one finger which was afterward amputated james williams a young married man of took two thirds of an ounce of laudanum with suicidal intent sunday his rash act was die covered soon after he took it and medical assistance was at once summoned and prevented the fatal effect of the drug on account of money matters was the cause of his rash act quicksilver in commercial quantity has made its appeal ance in the prop arties of the sacramento mining corn and to put it into corn mercial form a furnace will be included in the new plant with which mines are now being equipped there were four cases of poisoning in price sunday tl e worst ease being that of miss clara cover of vernal tommy foote and two chil dren of landlord smith of tl e hotel price were also po all are now out of danger the county and city authority au thorit es at vernal are feeling much encouraged over the smallpox situation only two cases are now quarantined in town no new case aside from cami lies where the d bease had a To has been reported for over a week lorenzo faulkner a railroad man about 30 years of age his wife in cold blood then turned the pistol on himself and blew out h s brains at ogden sunday tie couple had separated and faulkner had often threatened to kill his former wife r |