Show UTAH STATE NEWS the total output of the utah can aeries for the past season will reach cases cherry trees in salt lake county coun ty are yielding 10 to 12 worth of fruit eich each season the price of coal has been reduced by the salt lake dealers and Is now selling at 5 75 a ton delivered war Is to be waged against ogden saloon men who have been in the habit of selling liquor to minors dorene fernne of green river utah has been selected to take charge of the green river state bank it Is announced that the green river bank which recently closed its doors will pay every dollar of its obligations it Is now an assured fact that the government will be well represented at the national dry farming con gress kress which will be held in salt lake city january 23 to 26 ogden baseball fans are discuss ing a proposition to organize an all state team tor for next season to go on a barn barnstorming storming tour of the country as an advertisement tor for utah the announcement is made by fisher harris president of the trans missouri dry farming congress that lut but 4 per cent ot of the 52 acres of land in utah Is under cultivation the ogden clearing house association has decided to withdraw clear ing house scrip from circulations be ginning january I 1 the certificates will be redeemed as rapidly as pos elble sible fred C walker the acquitted slayer of dr earl S beers has been granted a divorce from his wife jose phine walker walker was granted the custody of his seven year old daughter slippery tracks caused a street car to collide with a freight train in salt lake city as a result arnold berger sustaining a broken leg and a num her ber of other passengers being badly shaken up the entire town of kimberly had a narrow escape from destruction by fire on december 27 when one build ing was destroyed and the others saved after a desperate battle against the flames thomas gallagher a switchman cm em aloyed in salt lake city had one of bl hl ears bitten off while engaged in a figl figi t with another man the mem bir ber was web sewed on again and it Is be lieveld will be saved john ockey who escaped from the state mental hospital last october has been located at toquerville washington county and the officers of that county report that he is again dangerously insane in addition to falling off a porch and breaking his arm in a drunken carousal a day of so before christ mas a miner who was visiting in salt lake was fined 15 by the police court judge for drunkenness As a number of smelters in salt lake county will be closed in accord ance with the mandates of the court an effort will be made by the weber club to interest the owners in sites for their plants in weber county will clark a section foreman liv ing at the hot springs ten miles north of ogden while passing be tween a string of cars near that place fras vas shot in the leg by a small boy who was carelessly firing a 22 calibre eifle A debating league is to be formed imong the high schools of the state under the auspices of df the university ct df utah the schools will be classed into several groups and the cham chain will meet in salt lake city in it series of debates mrs mary maycock one ot of the pioneers of weber county died suddenly on december 22 at the home of her son john maycock of pleasant view the deceased was a native of england and crossed the plains with the hand handcart eart brigade in 1856 at a meeting of the citizens club of park city a committee was put to 0 work to ascertain it if there were any needy people in town and it if so to give them needed relief A diligent search revealed only about ten per sons eons who could really be called in need howard hunt a lineman employed in salt lake city was instantly killed while at work coming in contact with a high tension wire as a result his foot slipping as be he was climbing a telephone pole hunt was 21 years ot of age and but recently came to salt lake from kansas plans for the erection ot of a new tabernacle at ogden have been sub bitted to the presidency of weber stake the building will cost and will occupy the site of the present tabernacle it Is expected that the work will be completed be fore the end of 1908 james grundy of salt lake had a narrow escape from death in a pool room in salt lake jake when william bailey placed a gun against his ach and pulled the trigger fortu bately the cartridge failed to explode bailey is in jail charged with an at tempt to commit murder the utah construction company has just completed for the western pacific railroad which Is being built from san francisco to salt lake work amounting to which Is only a part of the contract the company is also doing work in new mexico idaho and oregon |