Show UTAH STATE NEWS the lake has fallen over three inches during the past week the drought still continue at st george not a drop ot rain having fallen this year vivian ford of salt lake was s verely injured in an elevator accident last week summit county now has an assessed valuation of 6 an increase of 1 in the past year oliver was elected superintendent ol 01 schools of juad county without opposition during tuesday and wednesday of last week twenty men at venice cap aured 1 bushels of grasshoppers john flint of kaysville Kays ville last week lost eight stacks of wheat supposed to contain about 1 bushels by fire A republican newspaper is being talked of for mt pleasant the paper to be in the hands of a local stock corn pany beatrice johnson aged 15 of fair view was thrown from a horse last week and received injuries which resulted in her death burglars entered the store of F smith at tucker one last week and secured a small amount of cash and some merchandise fire supposed to have been started by sparks from garette burned be tween 5 and 10 bushels of standing wheat near syracuse june tion last week nans of bandy fell in an epileptic fit on main street in salt lake city last week his skull being fractured by the fall and it is feared he cannot recover harry anderson night operator of the Rio Grande western at dropped his pistol on the floor and the weapon was discharged the ball entering the right knee inflicting a ser ions wound the utah baseball league is a thing of the past the men hiving received their releases it is probable a two club schedule will be played out teams representing ogden and salt lake taking part grasshoppers have been doing con eid erable damage to the lucerne crop in the vicinity of santaquin San the lit tie pests are so thick that single hunters have been able to catch from eight to ten bushels an hour cattle on the ranges south of st george at Pard antelope and other ranges are dy ng from thirst springs having dried up rains must come soon or practically no feed will be on the ranges at all for winter use james W mcgrath who was re bently tried at nephi for murder he having killed his wife and who was acquitted the evidence going to show that he was temporarily insane was examined last week and pronounced of sound mind A professor of palmistry who has been operating in salt lake city has disappeared with a number of 0 O gold pieces which he had taken from pat rons for the purpose of magnetising magne the owners could have the power to read the future forest fires are sweeping through the boulder mountains in barfield Oar field county it is said the fires haye been started by an old ind an named timi can who has an idea he is thus aaeng ing himself because his wife ran away with another man harry T duke and alexander rob ertson plead guilty to the charge embezzling funds from the wells fargo co bank and were each sen fenced to four years imprisonment in the penitentiary the shortage ie es t about 60 mrs elvira melvoy killed in a runaway accident in salt lake city last week while driving in company with her husband and son mrs me evoy jumped from she cle and her head struck the hard ground causing concussion of the brain ephraim madden a laborer of sala lake was stabbed by a stranger last week who made his escape a danger ous wound being inflicted madieu kicked a dog which had b i him when the man whipped out a knife and stab bed him in the left breast A search has been instituted for joseph and wilford brewart of benjamin who left mountain view wyo on july 3 in charge of a bunch of horses and bound for utah nothing has since been heard of them and foul play is feared by the r friends the gross earnings of the R grande western for the month of june amounted to an increase of 85 for the fiscal year ending june the gross reached the highest point in the history of the road 85 an increase of lehi was probably never shorter for water than the beason van ous schemes are being talked over with the view of increase ng the supply but the most probable seems the sinking of surface wells and the installation of pumps to be operated by electric ty utah sheep men are rejoicing over word received from washington that 30 head of sheep no v reported to be famish ng on the desert will be ad bitted rich pasture lands of the ustah reserve perm ss on having been received from washington last cougias phillips a twelve year old kaysville Kays ville boy attempted to climb up on a horse power used n well when his foot caught in the machinery and was badly crushed had the horses traveled a few steps farther the lad e leg would ave been taken oft |