Show UTAH STATE NEWS the first utah state convention ol 01 the royal neighbors of america was held in salt lake last week the state experiment well in the center of cedar valley Is now down feet and is making good progress the schools of west weber have been closed owing to the develop ment of a number of cases of smallpox in that vicinity tho dry banners ot cedar valley re port their wheat sown last fall as be ing up and looking promising and aney expect a good yield jerry shaw a negro jockey was shot and probably fatally wounded by buck staten another negro during a fight in a negro dive in salt lake city the body of an unknown man was found alongside the ralli oad track north of ogden on the in a hor bibly mutilated condition as the re suit of being struck by a train there seems to be very little hood of a strike of tile machinists boilermakers boller makers and car repairers in the employ of the rio grande as it Is believed that all differences may be am bably adjusted mrs dan whitbeck dropped dead while dancing at ephraim she had just made the remark to the gentleman with whom she was dancing that she had never felt better when she tell backward and expired lorenzo W cracroft aged 24 em aloyed as a driver tor a meat market in a barn at the rear of his home in salt lake shooting himself through the heart cracroft Crac rott was de over financial troubles in a drunken brawl at lehl david struck mosea jones over the head with a beer bottle tractor ng his skull jones condition Is con serious and mccandliss McCand lass Is be ing held pending further develop ments joseph E white a painter tell a distance of sixty feet from a smoke stack in salt lake city and escaped with a broken collar bone and a dia located hip he landed in mud sev eral inches deep which broke the force of the fall john eilts a german who had been en a protracted spree in his room in salt lake cit by hanging tries one enot a strap to a horse shoe above his door the other end around his neck and strangling him self to death mace cochran the watchman who ahot matt zoran while the latter was picking up coal in the railroad yards at bingham junction february 28 the wounds causing the death of zoran later has been charged with volun tary manslaughter the governor has announced the reappointment of drs wherry and S H clawson as members of the state board of dental examiners the governor also reappointed perley A hill a member of the board of ex of barbers the salt lake commercial club will raise 1000 by popular subscription with which to purchase an appropriate souvenir tor admiral robley D evans who was appointed to the naval academy from utah when the fleet arrives at san francisco A report issued by the weather bu reau says that the snowfall during february was slightly below the aver age of former years but prospective water supply will be ample the corn ing season and the residents of utah need have no fear of a water famine peter a greek 22 years old was struck and instantly killed by a passenger train near salt lake was walking down the track and when he heard the train coming behind him began running along in fiant of the engine until it struck him at the recent meeting of the dem socratic state central committee june 6 was selected as the date for the state convention for the election of delegates to the national convention at denver and frank of lo 10 gan was elected national committeeman the annual inspection of the utah national guard will be held during the third week in april and major wallis may of the fifteenth united states infantry stationed at fort douglas has been detailed by the war department to be the inspecting of fleer the constitutionality of the law passed by the last legislature imps ing a license tax on all corporations doing business in the state in proper alon to the amount of their capital stock has been upheld this means a revenue to the state of a year the owners of private fish ponds in utah may sell the fish from such ponds to the public the apar round and restaurants purchasing such may dispose of them to their patrons without taking out any special license Is the decision of attorney general breeden the united states land office has re calved word that a tract ot land on ahe monticello national forest just west of the town of monticello will be thrown open for settlement june 1 the date of entry will be july 1 the land Is said to be well watered and valuable ales yanko the partner of berce tace man who was killed in a saloon fracas some time ago at fold and for which murder louis 1 oger is now being held in the price jail pending trial has been seriously injured in a winter quarters mine a large rock falling on him two lans were arrested in salt lake city last week on the charge of having attempted to wreck a train in the oregon short line yards in the northern part of the city the act is said to have been plated be cause the men had been discharged from the company s employ A state federation of labor is to be organized in utah along lines follow ine as cl oely as possible the plan in effect in montana hereto tore while hae been some futi e attempts at state organization there has been n this state only the individual unions end the local central bodies |