Show UTAH STATE NEWS the independent telephone corn pany will open its exchange in salt lake city about july 1 kanosh has been invaded by an army of crickets which are doing a great deal of damage to grain and lu cern linemen employed by the bell tel ephone company in salt lake city are on a strike demanding shorter hours the estates of a number of the greeks who were killed in the elpio slon at jackson siding feb 19 last are now in court no new cases of smallpox having appeared at mt pleasant recent the beard of health has decided to raise the quarantine lionel jones aged 11 of salt lake city Is dead as the result of fal ing from a tree while looking for birds eggs his skull being fractured james lynch the man who alleged that he had been thrown from a train near hoy by a bral eman both his legs being crushed has succumbed to his injuries parties who have been traveling throughout the state declare that never before in the history of the stats has utah had such crops as she will have this year A rise of 1 inches in salt lake within the past ten days Is reported to the weather bureau the surface 1 15 feet above zero and some S inches higher than at any time last year drillers for water on a quarter sec ion of land about three miles north west cf fillmore mallard county have struck oil while oni a small quan city of oil has been found the quality Is good john rice tried in salt lake city for the murder of fred beutler on february 25 1897 was discharged last week by a jury the evidence ev dence against rice being considered insufficient tor conviction salt lake grocery men say that for this time of the year the farmers are bringing in less produce to the city than for almost a decade the deal ers are unable to account for this scarcity of fruits and vegetables the lehi public school alumni as will hold its reunion this year on june 23 at the forks of the american fork canyon the ladies will prepare luncheon and the gentle men will furnish the conveyances john ernest rees 15 years old em aloyed as an extra elevator boy in the mccornick building in salt lake city was instantly killed sunday morning by falling down the elevator shaft from the sixth floor of the building the ball game in salt lake city on sunday last ended in a row the spec gators surging upon the grounds mob bing the umpire who promptly called the game while the umpire was jostled around he was not injured utah railroads expect to carry more beets and beet sugar this year than ever before from the present out look utah will ship nearly one fourth as much sugar as the largest beet raising state in the union michigan As the mesut of a fight in ogden canyon william F stone Is dead and harry moss is in jail stone died from a knife wound said to have been in flirted by moss the men bad been drinking and fought with the above result john barter a lineman was struck by a thain near hooper and knocked over an embankment sustaining a broken leg and being compelled to lie on the ambani ment tor twenty four hours before being discovered by passers by the trades and labor assembly ol 01 ogden has passed resolutions deflor ing the disaster at cripple creek and asking the public to suspend judgment pending investigation they accuse the mine owners association of the dynamite outrage christian peterson who stabbed john coffin with a pocket knife at huntsville on november 7 has en a plea of guilty to the charge 0 assault with a deadly weapon coffin has recovered although he had a nar row escape from death prospects look a little brighter for the north end of iron county than for some time the colorado fuel iron company now has twelve men work ing on its iron claims on little creek canyon and expects to put more on in a short time albert doxey aged 19 attempted suicide near wallard sunday evening shooting himself in the temple young doxey Is said to have remarked some hours before the deed was committed that he intended to end his life but it was believed he was only joking joseph robinson of kanosh suffered the loss of a valuable horse last week as the result of trusting the animal to a stranger whom he had employed to work on his farm he sent the man to the field with the horse and the fellow kept on going heading for nevada A young book agent left modena one day last week taking a fine horse belonging to J lund co in place of the one he drove into town of fleets followed the young man and captured him he claims he took the horse by mistake and intended to return it allford alien of picked up a 32 calibre cartridge shell full oi powder but without bullet he laid it on a rail and hit it with a rock an explosion followed and pieces of the shell struck the boy in the face cut ting a gash that required eight sti tche to close |