Show UTAH STATE NEWS the total output 0 the utah can es tor the past season will reach cases cherry trees in salt lake county are yielding 10 to 12 worth of fruit etch season the price of coal has been reduced by the salt lal e dealers and Is now selling at 5 75 a ton delivered war Is to be waged against ogden saloon men who have been in the habit of selling liquor to minors dorene perrine of green river utah has been selected to take charge of the green river state bank it Is announced that the green river bank which recently closed its doors aul wul pay every dollar of its obligations it Is now an assured tact that the government will be well represented at the national dry farming con gress which will be held in salt lake city january 23 to 26 ogden baseball fins are discuss ing a proposition to organize an all irate team for next reason to go on a barn storming tour of the country as an advertisement tor utah the announcement is made by fisher harris president of the trans missouri dry farming congress that but 4 per cent of the 8 00 acres of land in utah is under cultivation the ogden clearing u asso elation has decided to withdraw clear ing house scrip from circulation be ginning january 1 the certificates will be redeemed as rapidly as pos elble bred 0 walker the acquitted slayer of dr earl S beers has been granted a divorce from his alte jose phane walker walker was granted the custody of his seven ear old daughter slippery tracks caused a street car to collide with a freight train in salt lake city as a result arnold berger a broken leg and a num her of other passengers being badly shaken up the entire town 0 kimberly had a narrow escape from destruction by fire on december 27 when one build ing was destroyed and the others saved after a desperate battle against the flames thomas gallagher a switchman em p in salt lake city had one of ears bitten off while engaged in a f lit with another man the mem b sewed on again and it Is be lieveld will be saved john ockey who escaped from the state mental hospital last october has been located at washington county and the officers of that county report that he Is again dangerously insane in addition to falling off a porch and breaking his arm in a drunken carousal a day of so before christ mas a miner who was visiting in salt lake was fined 15 by the police court judge for drunkenness As a number of smelters in bait la county will be closed in accord ance with the mandates of the court an effort will be made by the weber club to interest the owners in sites tor their plants in weber county will clark a section foreman liv ing at the hot springs ten miles north of ogden while passing be tween a string of cars near anat place was shot in the leg by a small boy who was carelessly firing a 22 calibre rifle A debating league is to be formed among the high schools of the state under the auspices of the university of utah the schools will be classed into several groups and the cham will meet in salt I 1 ake city in a series of debates mrs mary maycock one of the pioneers of weber county died suddenly on december 22 at the home of her son john maycock of pleasant view the deceased was a native of england and crossed tae plains with the handcart brigade in 1856 at a meeting of the citizens club ct park city a committee was put to work to ascertain it there were adv needy people in town and it so to give them needed relief A diligent search revealed only about ten per sons who could really be called in need howard hunt a employed in salt lake city was instantly killed while at work corning in contact with a high tension wire as a result his foot slipping as he was climbing a telephone po e H mt was 21 years of ago and but recently cime to salt lake from kansas plans tor the erection of a new tabernacle at ogden jiahe been sub bitted to the presidency of weber stake the building will cost and will py the site of the present tabernacle it is expected th the work will be completed be fore the end of 1908 james grundy of salt lake had a narrow ecale from death in a pool loom in salt lake when william bailey placed a gun against his ach and pulled the trigger fortu bately the cartridge failed to explode ball is in jail charged with an at tempt to commit murder the utah construction company has just completed for the western pacific railroad which Is being built aiom san francisco to salt lake worl amounting to which Is only a part of the contract th company is also doing work in new mexico idaho and oregon the building permits issued from the city engineer s office in ogden are tor 1807 this number depre buildings already erected and under way of the total cost of 05 which Is a monthly average of 34 expended on residences and business houss hous s ot the city the chief of police of salt lal e cit has re established the system ot 1 ig every charged alth an offense above petit larceny the portraits to adorn the rogues callery with the picture a detailed of t e suspect Is obtained and placed on file for re ferene |