| Show UTAH STATE NEWS the house has passed the bill mak ing salt lake city a port of delivery the salt lake route Is now extend ed to a point fifty two and a half miles south of Cal lentes in a debate at marysvale Marys vale the other night it was decided that cussia Is in the right again japan director gendral whitaker has gone to st louis to superintend the inseal of utah s exhibit at the fair the iron county farmers institute held at cedar city was well attend ed and much interest was manifested the city council of Co alville has been asked for a fifty year franchise to install in the city an electric light plant the japanese in utah will contris ute about 10 to the war fund each jap in the state is to ute 20 plans have been completed and ground will be brol en in a short time tor the Y M A building to be erected at helper A shipment of trees and shrubbery tor the southern utah experiment farm near st george was received last week from fresno cal the comes from sunny side that at present there are men em aloyed in the various branches of coal mining and the industry christopher Aad nesson who died at ogden last weel at the age of 90 came to utai in 1869 and had lived in ogden about a third of a century A movement Is on foot to install an immense electric light and power plant at richfield it being the anten alon to supply electricity tor all the towns of the valley an interstate track meet for high school athletes has been proposed and from present ind such a meet will be held in salt lake city some time in may the supreme court has denied the petition for rehearing in the case of the state vs charles botha under death sentence for murder in the first degree the town of lewiston in cache county Is to be incorporated the town will embrace what is now known as the lewiston school district and is about three by six miles in extent the salt lake road was opened to riverside cal on the with a caal excursion and a local celebration the salt lake route now has miles ot track in operation in california A wholesale drug corporation with a capital stock of or Is one of the new business tlona in immediate prospect for salt lake the commercial club of salt lake Is making an effort to get a permanent home tor the national mining con gress established in zion A commit tee is at work on the matter john jones of salt lake city who was recently severely injured while employed as a conductor on a street car has been awarded 6 damages in his suit against the street car corn pany information has lust reached salt lake friends of the death of captain james E brett USA retired tor beriy an officer ot the twenty fourth stationed at fort douglas and well known in utah the city officials of american fork made a visit to ogden one day last week in order to view the parka of that city for the purpose of securing pointers for perfecting plans tor the city park at american fork an unknown man about 65 years of age was killed by a rio grande pas train near on the night of the the body being found wedged on the cowcatcher when the train arrived at the ogden lucin cutoff ing miles of the main line of the southern pacific over promontory mountain and shortening the road by 43 miles was opened to regular braf alc on the ath the first train to cross the lake was composed of 35 cars of asiatic freight frank rose who on christmas day shot and killed his wife and left his 2 year old boya tor two days without food and alone in the room with his murdered mother has been sen fenced to be shot to death on april 22 ogden millers report a scarcity of wheat and as a result the output of the mills Is materially reduced it does not appear to be a shortage in the supply of wheat but the terrible condition of the roads leading into the city preventing the marketing of the grain there Is a strong probability that the uintah reservation will not be opened until october 1905 the land office has awarded eighteen contracts for surveying which it will be imps sahle to complete until ohp summer of 1905 at a meeting of the state board of corrections on the arthur pratt of salt lake city was chosen warden of the penitentiary the position pays per year and such profits emalu ments et cetera as may be derived from boarding the prisoners two cases of smallpox developed in ogden last week one of the pa was brought in from the og den lucin cut off the southern pa company has agreed to pay the expenses of the man s detention and he was sent to the detention hospital |
