Show STATE NEWS wool shearing is in full blast at milford and faust 0 F lons postmaster of geoa peoa charged with having broken the postal laws was found not guilty fire insurance on nearly all classes of risks in salt lake city will within a short time be reduced greatly it Is regarded as possible that the provo woolen mills will be reopened or business in the near future fhe denver rio grande will spend in the neighborhood of 2 tor new equipment in the near future the state council of the knights of columbus comprising utah idaho and nevada will meet in session at ogden on mar A general strike of different trades in salt lake Is threatened this spring it some of the different trades persist ao 10 their demands for increased wages the senate has passed without ob the bill ceding the tract of land lying on the west side of fort douglas military reservation to the university ol 01 utah chome seekers are going into the green river valley of utah in large numbers this spring and land is said to be selling there at 50 to an acre senator smoot has secured from the pension committee a favorable report of his bill to grant service pensions to utah veterans of the blackhawk in dian war the 4 year old daughter of mr and mrs charles bridgford of salt lake city tell down the cellar stairs and fractured her skull the child is in a critical condition the special election at price for the binding of the town tor 10 for the bulther extension of the waterworks system resulted in a victory tor those in favor of the bonds will moore convicted of grand lar ceny at moab last week is the only man ever convicted of grand larceny in grand county moore was convict ed of stealing six burros eugene sadey 30 years of age and married was killed by a cave in at the overland mine near cedar fort a huge rock crushing his skull his three fellow workmen escaped injury A girl named pehrson was badly scalded at logan she was boiling some soup in a tight kettle and the beeam generated blew the lid off and threw soup into the face of the antor dunate girl mrs mary ann mcferson who has been a resident of raisville Kais ville since 1851 is dead at the age of 82 she was one of the oldest members of the mormon church and knew personally the prophet joseph smith mrs lizzie hackman who conducts a fruit stand in salt lake was bitten by a tarantula while she was cutting some bananas from a large bunch the tarantula had probably been concealed in the bunch when shipped albert rohn aged 40 a junk dealer of salt lake city in a saloon taking carbolic acid his dead body sat at a table tor some time before any one knew he was dead the bar tender supposing he was asleep when about to be arrested by of bleers S vickery of salt lake S Mur akama a jap slashed the officer across the back of the hand with a knife inflicting a wound that will probably render the hand crippled tor life E G porter W P crosler and M hart the advance guard for the corn pany of twenty five gentile families from northeastern utah 1 ave closed deal whereby they secure acres of land from the california irrigation t and company at gridley cal plans are laid by the board of gov erners of the commercial club for the holding of a get together dinner to be given during the early part of may invitations for the dinner will be ex tended to all the officers of the various organizations in the state harris local agent of the de forest wireless telegraph company Is authority for the statement that the salt lake station of the company will be completed and in operation by june 15 and the stations in other parts ot utah will be constructed immediately thereafter I 1 B murphy formerly of park city while forking on the weber river bridge at ogden tell from the ture his head striking on a rock and ng him so that he was to swim death being due to drowning his body was recovered an hour after the accident arc ident gro er the 12 year old son of daniel sommers of while assisting his brother in hauling ashes and other rubbish to the garbage part of the city tell fron the load under the wagon both of the wheels of one side of the wagon passing over his chest his in juries are serious corporal tanner commander in chief af the grand army of the republic will be tendered a reception in salt edke on the night of may 6 it is ex pecked that from a grand army point of view the reception will be one of the largest and most imposing ever held in salt lake robert A crosby a baiter 30 years t age in oad n hanging himself his body being faund by his mother who went out to the barn on bome errand health ind the fact that he had recently hal a misun du standing with woman are as the cluse for the deed |