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Show UTAH STATE NEWS EllHha P. Young luifl been oppolnted fl, postmaster nt Milton, Tooelo county. Improvements costing $3,000,000 aro to bo made In Salt lake's street car system, It Is announced by E. II. liar-rlman, liar-rlman, tho new owner. Hl Niels Wlgron, a former resident of Salt Lako, was killed on tho Uintah reservation by. tho caving In of an old H dugout In which ho was living. Chris CloodmanBun, who pleaded guilty to setting flro to a saloon build-ing build-ing nt Spanish Fork, has been son-tenced son-tenced to one ycitr In the penitentiary. Ilohhcru entered tho l'"'iio of III-land III-land Wilcox of I.ehl, whl.. tho family wns away, rnd got away with $r0 which had been Raved up to pay It may not bo generally known, but It Is n fact, nevcrthclcHS, that Green River, Utah, furnishes winter wntor- 1 melons to tho tables of tho Waldorf- Astoria, Now York. ( Tho executive commlttco of tho Na- H tlonal Wool Growois' association has sot tho dates of January 17, 18 and H 19, 1907, when tho annual convention will bo held In Salt Lake Several Park City merchants havo been mado tho victims lately of worth- H less checks being passed upon them. Tho matter Is being looked aftor by tho authorities and somo nrrcsts will H Au ordlnanco was passed last week to tako tho placo of tho present drug ctoro ordlnanco of I'rovo. Under tho H now ordlnanco druggists will bo per-mlttcd per-mlttcd to sell druggists' oundrlcs, ex- K t ccpt liquor, on Sunday. Tho question of a stato Institution Hj for tho enro of tho feeble-minded of Hj Utah Is being agitated, and somo im- Hl portant stops looking toward tho pre-sentntlon pre-sentntlon of this mattor to tho noxt 1 legislature hns boon taken. H A llttlo girl named Hodges was ac- H cldcntally poisoned at Logan, tho H' mother giving hor a doso of crcollno H Instead of vormlfugo. After working over hor nil night tho doctors pro- M nounccd her out of danger. T. J. Thomas, a toamstor, of Salt v' Lako City, was sorlously, If not fatally, Injured, his wagon was crushed to H y fragmonts, and ono horso, valued nt 300, had its leg broken, being struck BJ by a rapidly moving street car. H. Tho work of tho contractors having 1 In chargo tho laying of track on tho H! lino of the Westorn Pacific out of Salt H; Lako Ib going on at a satisfactory H' pneo. Track hus been laid for soventy U miles out of Salt Lako to tho west. H Ernest C. Blood, ox-city marshal of K Kaysvlllo, was shot by a companion W whllo quail hunting, a chargo of shot Hj striking him In tho arm, ono shot H) striking him abovo tho eyo. Ills In- H; juries aro not thought to bo serious. H W. M. Wolf, a prominent young H railroad man of Ogdcn, foil beneath H a train and aB a result both legs havo H been amputated and tho fingers of H ono hand crushed. Dcsplto his ten rlblo Injuries, ho will probably ro- It Is estimated that at least 120 ( cars of fruit In carload lotB woro shlp- H ped from Weber county this year. K About soventy of this number enmo H from North Ogdon and Pleasant Vlow, Hi tho others being distributed through. Hl out tho county. Edward Flaherty, on his way from H tho coast to Now York, was taken off H a train at Ogden suffering from nn H attack of Insanity. It Is supposed that his mind was affected by tho altitude H ' and that ho will ho ablo to resume H his Journey In a day or so. H, Tho town board of Castlcdalo and Hl also tho boards of all tho principal H towns of tho county havo before them H a franchlso asking Jor a grant to cs- H tabllsh local telephono systems. The H petitions nro from C. O. Harris, ropro- H centlng a San Francisco company. H Coal dealers of Salt Lako are urg- H Ing their patrons to buy coal in ad- H vanco or tho heavy demand that will be Inaugurated by tho advent of tho H i first cold snap In ordor that they may H be fortified against a temporary short- H ago of fuol when It ! most needed. Tho grado lodgo A. O. U. W. of the H jurisdiction of Utah, Idaho and Wyom- Ing, has disbanded and In futuro all H members will bo. morged Into tho eu- 1 promo lodgo of tho United States. The H reason for the disbanding is tho heavy 1 death rato and tho losses consequent Tho fruit shipped out of Grand val-S val-S ley, principally to Eastorn markets, H l amounted to 2,200 carloads last year, B all of which was disposed of at very B , high prices. Ouo carload of peaches netted Its owner 12,100. The ship-H ship-H , ments this year will exceed that of j llllllllllllllllllllllllrttgL ??iryuixoatutf-J!j'i. |