Show UTAH STATE NEWS the city council of apiu iam has offered a bounty of 1 per bushel foi grasshoppers the assessment rolls show an in crease in utah county s valuation of 77 over 1901 mrs charles stevens was seriously injured in a runaway at ephriam her skull being slightly fractured while attempting to board a moving train at lagoon andrew burt of salt lake fell and had bis liht arm cut off the farmers of manti and vicinity are keeping up their fight against the grasshopper pest with a degree of success A building boom has struck adanti a number of expensive residences and business houses being under way or contracted for colonel pat donan widely known throughout utah as a writer of no mean ability is dead at his home in portland oregon A local company has asked for a franchise over the streets and highway of provo for an electric railway and a telephone system the lucern crop at kaysville Kays ville and vicinity will be very poor this year on account of an excessive amount of pep per grass and other weeds at the celebration of pres dent brig ham young s birthday held at saltair last week descendants of the former president were present william of kanab saturday last by cutt ng his throat with a razor incessant drinking in thought to have been the cause A fire was caused in a salt lake residence last week by a mouse chew ing on a box of parlor matches damage to the amount of afi ng done the secretary of the interior has re berred the petition for the aquarius forest reserve utah to the director of the geological survey for in tion john brogin a carpenter fell from the roof of a bu iding on which he was working in salt lake city last week and received injuries which resulted in death the body of an infant supposedly about a week old was found at laughter house in park city last week the case is being investigated by the authorities the report of the librarian of the salt lake public library shows thai during the past year boodt were used and that there were visitors to atje library the total production of the mines 0 the stile during the month of may amounted to not less than 48 tone of ore of this tonnage about 37 was treated at the smelters of the val ley last week william agers jr of union was kicked in the face by a vicious horse the cork of the shoe severely cutting his chin and cheek bone besides knocking out several teeth the tent caterpillar s committing terrible ravages in cache valley own ers of a number of orchards have neg lecter to spray and as a result whole groves of trees have been denuded ol 01 their foliage A young man from salt lake name unknown was killed near malta while riding on top of a pullman car he be ing struck by a cross beam of a bridge and instantly kil ed his body being badly crushed samuel bacon a painter and decora tor of su aided last week by taking morphine since the death of his wife a short time ago he had been drinking heavily and had been very despondent A movement is on foot looking to the establishment of an automobile lapid transit line between salt lake and ibapah a distance of miles the promoters claim they will be able to make the trip in twelve hours the union waiters in a number of restaurants in salt lake went out on strike last week because the pro prie tors pers sted in using non union made bread the proprietors declare they will have non union labor in he future milton jones and M ss myrtle wells while out driving were run into by a street car in bait lake misa wells re belving el injuries while jones will probably not recover it is claimed the car was coasting down hill and that the lights were out the interior department has acted favorably upon the petition to create a forest reserve to embrace the water ched of huntington creek the majon ty portion of the wasatch cl range has now been reserved pursuant to the va rious petitions arthur J van kuran formerly local treasurer of the oregon short line railway who was in october last con evicted of embezzlement and sentenced benten ced to two and one half years in the state prison has been granted anew trial on technical grounds tom dilley a cattleman shot and killed stive chipman a sheep raiser and seriously wounded arthur me clure a mexican herder at sunnyside Sunny side last friday the men had quarreled over range chi man s sl beep being grazed on land owned by D hey two hundred and e gaty thousand pounds of wool changed hands at price last week for the most part be agthe clips from the vernal country and em cry county with some from I 1 rice anu vicinity the lowest figure paid wa lai cents while some of it went as hibb M centa |