Show UTAH STATE NEWS fruit gro growers ers of willard are plan ning the organization of a fruit grow era ers association A willard couple who last weel went to ogden to get married were quarantined for smallpox while hile in the junction city mrs nettie johnson one of the oldest residents of ephraim died on january 27 from a paralytic stroke at the age of 86 A benefit given by one of the salt lake theatres last week netted the fund for the sufferers from the earth quake in italy the sum of 2 pedro peatrie a mexican herder Is under tinder arrest charged with holding up the hagley saloon at granger shooting george campbell through the scalp and stealing the sunday closing law is to be rig idly enforced at scofield all of the sa loon men having been notified that they will be prosecuted for future in fractions of the law the kansas day club composed of residents of the sunflower state who have taken up their abode in ogden formed an organization last week jayhawkers being present charles coppe of mendon dropped dead from heart disease while stand ing in front of a hotel in ogden he was apparently in the best of health when he was suddenly stricken utah s portion of the receipts from the national forest fund at the end of the fiscal year june 30 1908 amounts to 32 49 which amount was re by the state treasurer last week ah ali sing an elderly chinaman whose home was in salt lake city was found dead in his bed in an og den hotel one day last week death I 1 abing been due to rheumatism of the heart congressman howell has received assurance that the rivers and harbors committee will authorize a survey ol 01 green river from uintah county tc to moab to determine the navigability 0 of that river wallace F fielding recently ar rested ja in 9 den on a charge ol 01 big e abny has been and taken bjick to oregon where he will be tried oa on a 4 charge of forgery and selling a mortgage A reduction of 50 per cent in the number timber li of deaths for the month of december 1808 1908 as compared wait rhth december 1907 is the bowing showing con talked in the bulletin issued by the state board of health mrs gertrude myers in an at tempt to escape the anger of her hus bus band jumped from a second story window of their home in salt lake city badly spraining both ankles and severely bruising her body harry davies 42 years old a ma whose home was in platts burg N Y committed suicide satur day night in a rooming house in salt lake city taking laudanum he was out of work and despondent delegates from nearly every county in utah met in salt lake city on january 26 and perfected a state ur tor for the protection of fish and game and adopted a suitable fish and game bill to be presented to the legislature three young boys aged seven eight and eleven years sons of prominent families of murray were arrested last week charged with committing a number of robberies which have tied the officers the boys have con hessed the crime the widows of spring city have formed an organization having elect ed officers at a banquet held at the home of one of the members last week are about forty widows in the town the organization Is purely a social one because tom connors a miner at the highland boy mine at bingham to give him a of tobacco ell eat Lug bugovitch an austrian miner bit off a large part of connor connors s left ear bugovitch Lug Is in jail and will vill face a charge of mayhem As a means of awaken ng interest among the union men of utah a call has been issued to labor of the state for the second an nual convention of the utah state fed aeration of labor to be held in salt lake city on monday march 8 the home of joseph Fr ansden ol 01 uintah was destroyed by fire one night last week the family being al most suffocated with smoke and barely escaping before the root roof colla collapsed peed it is thought the fire was started by a 4 spark from a passing engine entering from the rear robber in evaded the davis shoe company s store on main street in salt lake cit forced the lock in the door of a safety vault and escaped with nearly 1000 1 in cash and bank drafts negotiable valued it is said at 10 were not molested when a freight train was pissing passing through the ephraim yards some mis chievous levous ch boys uncoupled all the cars when the engine started but one car was following another ca was coupled and the remainder stood on the track the train was delayed nearly three hours landry A burns a former letter carrier at the salt lake postoffice post office committed su cide in san francico cico by cutting his throat with a cafor ra or the act was committed while he was in a demented condition brought in by long sickness and iove aik oik sums durns was 28 years old |