Show STATE NEWS the ephraim electric light plant 1 completed and the town Is now lighted by electricity about residents of outside points came to salt lake to attend the bern ahardt performance t insurance companies paid out during 1905 to salt lake city policy bold tors the sum of H ingham who came to utah in 1866 and had resided in salt lake city ever since died on the at the age of 70 the track committee of the utah county fair association has arranged the pro gramme tor the two days racing on july 4 and 5 the six year old son of jacob Schweizer 1 of logan fell from a tree onto a fence while at play sustaining injuries which proved fatal private oscar smith who was shot a guard while attempting to escape from the guard house at fort douglas has died from his injuries A company has been organized tor the purpose of constructing a telephone line in garfield county with headquarters and offices in Pan gultch governor cutler has decided to appoint delegates to the uniform di vorce law congress the next session of which Is to be held in minneapolis la august several persons were slightly in aured by a wreck at sandy caused by a freight train breaking in two and the rear portion colliding with a pas benger train A passenger and freight train col aided at american fork both engines being badly damaged but no one hurt the accident was caused by careless ness of the freight crew an attempted escape of prisoners in the salt lake county jail was trus grated last week one of the prisoners being caught in the act of sawing through the bars of his cell the warm weather is causing great quantities of snow in the mountains to melt and the people of sevier county tear floods that may do con eid erable damage to property the teachers and students of the provo district school 1 in number marched through the streets of pro vo on the to the campus where fie d sports were indulged in all afternoon dr jamea edwards a former san francisco physician has been placed under restraint in salt lake city he having become crazed from grief over the loss of his wife and three children at the time of the fire an enthusiastic joint meeting of the bountiful farmington and commercial clubs was held last week in bountiful and action was taken looking to the installation of an elec trie lighting system for davis county following the movement started in indianapolis ind recently the utah veterans of the spanish american war and the philippine insurrection met last week and organized a camp of united spanish war veterans thia society will be patterned after the encampments formed by the GA R Is to have a street fair and carnival beginning may 28 and to june 2 the affair is to be under the auspices of the commercial club and the attractions are to be fur dished by the dixey carnival corn pany several slight earthquake shocks were felt at west weber on the they caused much excitement the first shocks are said to have been felt about 2 10 clock in the afternoon A second and third shock were felt soon ait erward the tremendous amount of snow in the mountains this season was wel corned by all and especially thosa owning farms in southern utah as they are fully assured that no crops will burn up this season tor the want of water elijah farr a member of the ogden bar was accidentally killed sunday afternoon by the elevator in the first national bank building caught between the elevator floor and the first floor of the building thus breaking his neck work has commenced on the new ditch at green river under the diorec alon of mr E J cook formerly of piano but now of green river the ditch which will be about seven miles long will cover an area of about 5 acres of the finest soil in utah another forest reserve has been created in in south central utah un der the name of fellmore forest reserve embracing watersheds formed by the mountains and canyon and range in millard sevier and juab counties the reserve contains acres austin brothers sheep men of salt lake who applied for a grazing per mit tor the summer tor 6 head of sheep on the uintah forest reserve have been assessed damages by forest reserve supervisor benedict for permitting their sheep to trespass upon the reserve work ot double tracking the salt lake ogden road will be started within a few days four cars of arol ley wire poles have reached farming ton where they will be piled for die along the line the order or poles calls tor 2 these will be shipped as rapidly as possible |