Show UTAH STATE NEWS A H son of james ballard of tucker was accidentally killed by e powder explosion the new knitting factory at lebl la sow in full operation and turning out goods tor the trade utah has been 5 by the government for arms and equipment the state militia for the first halt of the year 1904 the fees of the secretary of states office amounted to 27 90 ephraim Is putting on metropolitan airs the city council having installed a latest improved street sprinkler prank jenne at ogden taking carbolic acid he left no word that would cast any light upon tho cause for the act on july 17 and 18 at manti will be held the scandinavian conference of the mormon church which promises to be largely attended kleth barnes of whose eyo was injured by a firecracker on the fourth will not lose the sight ot his eye aa was feared george M kerr who died at ogden last week as the result of an opera alon had served for a third of a cen tury aa depot master at the ogden depot nelson hallett a young pleasant view man tried to commit suicide sunday morning by taking morphine nut was saved by the use of a stomach pump love the fifteen cearold son of state senator stephen love was thrown from his horse in salt lake city last week receiving injuries which proved fatal the first crop of lucerne at santa quin was a big one and is all hallel in some think the second crop won t amount to much because the grass hoppers are very numerous the little son of J 0 decker of was thrown from a horse and severely cut on the head and bis jaw nearly broken as the result ol 01 the explosion of firecrackers J brown and lawrence pratt were injured while painting a build ing in salt lake city the scaffold on which they were at work falling brown being seriously injured prank hopper aged 11 had hand cut off at the wrist while hang lag on to a moving train in salt lake city the little fellow fell beneath the wheels with the result stated word has been received in ogden of the accidental drowning in arkan as city of leroy moffat son of R P moffat engineer of the stationary en at the southern pacific shops the company of the national guard which was ordered to be organized at american fork has not yet met with any decided success only about halt the required number being recruited the ore and bullion settlements in the salt lake market tor the halt year ending with june 30 attained a total or 11 compared with tor the corresponding period last year ralph green a bollen s helper attempted suicide in salt lake city taking strychnine but Is now out of danger green bad an unfortunate love affair took to drink and becaro despondent sanpete county officers have received and paid for twenty two tona ot grasshoppers captured by sanpete farmers it Is believed at least thirty tona will be captured and destroyed before the pests are exterminated the sugar beet outlook tor utah and idaho Is excellent according to dun s latest review acreage in idaho has been trebled and in utah has been in creased sa per cent the water supply is ample and thinning Is about completed Tsa koulas a laborer on the section tor the grande was kallel near murray while working on the section Tsa koulas attempted to cross the track just as the train came along and was struck by the engine and al most instant killed alfred merritt of kewaskum WIs while en route home from the coast dropped dead on the platform of a southern pacific passenger train at terrace he had burled his wife just two weeks previous and it Is believed grief brought on heart trouble mrs alice mitchell who was shot three times by her lover in balse idaho was a sister of charles odd of haysville hays ville once before mrs mitchell has been shot her husband did the deed and seriously injured her in the face afterwards killing himself jonathan riley and his 14 year old of salt lake city were drowned in the jordan river the boy was hath ing got beyond his depth and shout ed to his father tor help despite the fact that he could not swim the father plunged in after bis son and both were drowned charles W penrose hag been anant chosen as successor suc cesor to the late abraham owen woodrie as a mem her of the quorum of twelve apostles the new apostle was born in cam berwell london england february 4 1832 and has been editor of the deseret news for many years horace bourne of salt lake filled the inside of his vest with firecrackers and was firing them off one by one when a spark fell inside his clothes and he wag only saed by the pres enca of mind of a boy who was with him who tore the clothes off the boy teho escaped with elight burns |