Show UTAH STATE NEWS A new town Is to be started at ce dar hidge about eight miles north of richfield i john de france colored formerly a resident of salt lake city committed suicide in seattle last week A supreme court becis on rendered last week holds that school property whether personal or real is exempt from taxation free lunches in saloons in salt lake city are to be done away with ac cording to aa order issued by the chief ol 01 police the boosters cl ib of logan Is tak ing up the question of the building ol 01 a macadam road from main street to the mouth of logan canion the scarlet fever epidemic which has been prevalent in murray for the past two months has now subsided and the quarantine has been raised one of the oldest residents of park city john wyckoff died last week after a short illness he had been a resident of park ty for over twenty years the people of bingham junction are determined to incorporate there is not known to be a single voter in bingham junction against its inezi por atlon i utah will spend more this ear for the education of its south than in any other year since it became a detate the appropriation last year was 5 ia per capita this year it will be 5 75 an man about 30 years ot age at kaysville Kays ville april ac langing himself using a wire in stead of a rope everything points to an unbalanced mind as the cause tor the deed A strike of the painters decora tors and paper hangers of salt lase city has been averted the men decad ing to accept a verbal agreement with their employers that the new scale of wages will be paid A big conclave of the knights templar will ba held in salt lake city on may 12 one of tha features of the conclave will be several competitive drills between teams from salt lake ogden reno and other commander es A sheepherder found the body of frank wh te a laborer about 30 ears of age in the foothills east of ogden one day last week white had sul aided taking carbolic acid grief 01 er the death of his mother being given as the reason at the preliminary hearing in og den nick acos who shot and killed john contos a prosperous greek mer chant of that city declared he shot in belt defense that contos had reached tor hia pocket as it to draw a weapon when he fired the gold crowns valued at which were stolen from u display case in front of a dental office in ogden have been recovered a lad claiming to have found the property behind a 11 board and was trying to dispose of it when arrested william bernard dougall pioneer telegrapher of utah and the organizer of the school which ultimately devel aped into the L D S university died at his home in salt lake city april 12 he came to utah in 1853 and learned telegraphy in 1866 the report comes from ogden that a plot to kidnap one of the children chil dien of joseph a leading citizen was probably frustrated last week by a warning sent to the tarn lly by a who claimed that she had overheard the plot loren L dibble aged 26 died in a bait lake hospital sunday the esula of internal injuries sustained from a pall of eighty feet in the apex mine above bingham cannon alhaj P dibble aged 23 years was probably fatally injured at the same time A strike of gold assaying 17 50 to the ton has been made in ogden can ion at the edge of the city and a stampede has started of those who are staking out claims from a con mass next to the vein mat r proper free gold has been panned the frequent storms which occur on the great salt lake and especial ly those of late have brought south ern pacific officials to the belief that something must be done to protect its on the cut off A breakwater ft probably be built near the road way barney foley rho was so terribly by the explosion of a 20 ton condenser in salt lal e city died after nearly twenty hours of terrible buffering his eyes were so badly burned by ammonia that iad he lived he would have lost his bigit corn plemely john R nelson a shoemaker who came to utah in 1875 su aided at ephraem april 14 hanging himself mr nelson had always been regarded as one of the most respected citizens of the town and no cause for the deed Is known unless tt was on account of poor health mistaking a bottle of carbolic acid for a bottle of tonic which he was taking dr H J powers a prominent phys lan of ogden and a member the city council swallowed several of the dangerous drug last week and had a narrow escape amsi death while out hunting with a friend arar west weber cyril knight aged 11 accidentally fired a 22 caliber rifle the bullet striking one of the tos of his right toot practically destroying it the youngster was resting the barrel of the rifle on his foot whan the cartridge exploded nels paulson the salt lake man who was shot by james L malone formerly champion pool player of the barid Is recovering rapidly being now out of danger paulson believes malone was temporarily deranged at the time of the shooting and may re fuse to prosecute him attempting to jump from a moving passenger train in salt lal e city F burns an employed or ane bueton consolidated smelter at garfield slipped under the fneels of a bissenger pis coach which crushed the left foot and dragged him a distance of alty feet bruising him about the head |