Show UTAH STATE NEWS alice seaman has been appointed postmaster at ranch kane county senator smoot s dry farming bill las received the approval of the sen atte horsemen of weber county are planning tor a horse fair in ogden next summer the union portland cement corn pany of ogden has resumed opera alons and is now turning out about 2 barrels of cement dally there deaths and births in salt labe during the month of february according to the monthly report of the board of health there has been certified to utah lands selected by the state as andem anity school lands aggregating 19 acres in the salt lake city land dis brict is suffering from an epi demic of diphtheria all public gath brings have ceased and the schools are closed pending the result of a rigid quarantine the people of ephraem are discus eing the installation of a 6 stem and a committee has been se lecter to canvass the town in behalf ot the proposition owing to the increase from 75 to for saloon licenses it Is reported that a number 0 saloon men of ogden will not make application for a renew a after their present licenses expire the secretary of the interior has modified his orders regarding the uintah grazing lands in the uintah reservation to permit settlers to cut cedar fence posts from the grazing lands joe sullivan the alleged slayer of policeman S ford of salt lake tears he will not get a fair trial in the capital city and has asked that his case be transferred to some other court mrs H M caruthers one of the early residents of salt lake and the mother of william D haywood sec detary treasurer of the western fed aeration of miners died on march 8 at the age of 57 A new power plant to cost will soon be erected near willard canyon to compete in rates with the present lighting system furnished ogden by the utah light railway company owing to an epidemic of scarlet fever measles and diphtheria there are now children out of the pub lc schools of ogden many parents refusing to send their children fearing the danger of infection about 70 head of sheep are now being ranged near cisco in grand county where shearing will commence aspril 1 it is estimated that head will be sheared at that point this vear and at modena because his tongue Is spotted which Is said to be soine evidence of epilepsy harr a dutch man will probably be excused for making an assault upon mrs pantone of ogden with a knife some time ago lehl pratt a carpenter rushed into a burning building in the outskirts of salt lake thinking that a child had been left in the building and was ter bibly burned the child had been got ten out and pratt was the only one injured frank E davey formerly a popular member of the general passenger de apartment part ment of the oregon short line in salt lake shot and killed himself while despondent over his wife s ness in the piedmont district of oak land cal the juvenile court of salt lake is attempting to break up the practice of boys of tender years frequenting pool rooms and as a result two proprietors prie tors of pool rooms were last week arrested on a charge of encouraging such practices mrs alice emma oliver wife of willard er of golconda nev died li on the ath her death which was extremely sudden was caused by ptomaine poisoning the brodber in law Is also seriously due to the same cause W H wattis of the utah con company Is authority tor the statement that any day orders are expected from the western pacific railroad company to resume its con st ruction work for which mr wattis company has a contract the state board of education is soon to purchase text books tor the schools of the state tor the next div years on may 6 a text book convention will be held which will be attended by all county superintendents and by rep of all districts of the first class information from cisco Is to the et feet that sheep belonging to ranchers of grand junction colorado but now being ranged in the vicinity of cisco are dying in great numbers owneta of flocks charge that the grass on the range near cisco has been poisoned by cattlemen ed forre arrested in utah on the charge of horse stealing alleged to have been committed in grand junction colorado has been convicted and sentenced to eight years in the colo rado penitentiary forre was wanted in wyoming for 1 tiling a cell mate in the wyoming penitentiary four hundred and five rab bits were killed by tha hunters of ephraim one day last week much damage Is done to the crops on tho west side of the San pitch ani the farmers are offering a five cent bounty on them the money was agven to the gun club treasury the of the stat of health ins notified the ogden health authorities to destroy all the ice cut from the ponds alch were recently found is by the aate chemist s examination the ice to sev bial hundred tons and is stored in tour of the kaipe t ice he aises only twenty ino cisi of diseases ici ortel in salt lake during ohp pit ck ind the recent epidemic au i at in end biti the excel tion it scarlet fever which seems to LI still i rei ilent of the caes leidt 1 IS we e fever five and il diphtheria |