Show I 1 STATE NEWS ground was broken last week tor for the new miners union building to be erected in park city A special election was held at mon alon roe on monday for the purpose of vot ing bonds for water works thousands of acres of timber in the mountains adjacent to ogden have been destroyed by forest fires utah pears this year promise to be the best ever offered for home use while the crop will be a heavy one the twenty third annual convention of the presbyterian teachers assoria as socia tion of utah was held in mt alt pleasant Pl easan last week the first consignment of material tor for the installation of the new tele phone line in park city arrived last week and work will beg n at once richfield was visited by a heavy rainstorm last week the first since may considerable hay and gram grail down in the fields was slightly damaged thomas the austrian who was shot in the mouth during a quarrel in a park city saloon will recover the man who did the shooting Is out on bond clarence lucas aged 16 fell under neath a in salt lake uty and was horribly mangled the boy attempted to get on the train while it was moving the ogden choir has made a distinct hit at portland at the conclusion of their rendition of the irr gation ode the entire audience arose and cheered at least five minutes on a hunting trip near aghen a young man named childs was acci dentally shot in the right arm and along the right side of his face but is not seriously injured wool buyers are on the ground al ready looking for utah a clip of next spring they are offering good prices and the prost acts of 24 and 20 cent wool looks bright to some sheep men the eighteen months old son of C 11 titus of salt lake met death in a tragic manner last week tall fall ng from the seat of a wagon on which he v was as riding with his father his skull being crushed the application of lauritz and peter larsen for wagon road right ot of way in connection with the develop ment of mines in the manti mantl forest reserve in utah has been granted by the forest service children of school age in salt lake county outside the city are about equal ly divided between 44 boys and girls I 1 according to the school census which has just been completed it shows 3 boys and 3 8 8 girls john D young a pioneer of utah aged somewhere near 70 rode up from new mexico in a pinto pony he arrived in salt lake thursday of last week having ridden all the way from fruitland froitland Fruit land to the capital cita cit the eastern utah telephone corn coin pany is being organized the purpose of got the company is to connect by tele phone the towns of carbon and emery counties by the construction ot of about miles ot of local line and a nd to atter ward deal with the independent or the bell company at salt lake city for a utah and other connections A joung son of sophus E jensen and john zabriskie of el haralm killed four bears in birch creek canyon a few days ago bruin had been play ing havoc with the sheep so the boys laid tor for bear and they got all that they wanted it Is now assured that the weber club will have at least tour special ex curtion trains to lakeside and prom antory on I 1 abor day to carry edcur ts from ogden to the scene 0 of the festivities prepared by the club on oil the shore of great salt lake fire marine steam boiler and plate glass insurance companies paid out 50 for claims in utah during 1904 while life accident casualty fidelity and surety companies paid fcc 04 a grand total of 54 for ill 11 classes of insurance A young man named blanchard em ein aloyed as i 1 lineman by the dent telephone company at I 1 ogan was knocked from a cable s suspended bus thirty five feet in the air by coming in contact with a live wire and is so seriously hui hint t that it is feared he will not live C N lund of mt pleasant sant was caught in a terrific storm between mt alt pleasant and freedom mr lund state that the hail tell fell as large as marbles and so terrific was the force of the ha I 1 that h s horse eairly writhed in pain he finally took re fuge in a stack of hay two of the to ir austrians charged with complicity in the shooting of lafayette chidester deputy sheriff at bingham last march were found guilty of ass ault with a deadly weapon while the two others were e acquitted in pur fuance of instructions from judge george G armstrong charles of benjamin lost the two front fingers 0 of hia his right hand sunday and came near losing nia nis life he was preparing to go hunting and carelessly put a repeating shot gun into the buggy it slipped down through a hole in the bottom of the buggy and was discharged thomas clatworthy a sheep owner of heber met with an accident at tucker which resulted in his death mr clatworthy attempted to step from a box car to the caboose when the train started and he was thrown between the two cais his left leg aai and aide mide ot of hia his body being crushed I 1 |