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Show IVTAH STATE NEWS Wool shearing Is In full blast nt Mllfonl and Faust. O. F. Lyons, postmaster of 1'coa, chnrKcd with having broken the postal laws, was -found not guilty. Flro insurance on nearly all classes of risks In Salt Lako City wilt within a short time bu reduced greatly. It Is regarded as possible that tho Provo woolen mills will ho reopened for business In tho near future. Tho Denver & Illo Ornndo will spend In the nelghhorhood of $2,500,000 for now equipment In tho near future. Tho Btnto council of tho Knights of Columbus, comprising Utah, Idaho nnd Nevada, will meet In session at Ogden on Mny 1. A general strike of different trades in Salt l.nko Is threatened this spring If Bomo of tho different trades persist In their demands for Increased wagos. Thn senate has passed without objection ob-jection tho bill ceding tho tract of land lying on tho west sldo of Fort Douglas Military reservation to the University of Utnh. Homo seekers nro going Into tho ' Green river valley of Utah In largo numbers this spring, nnd land Is said to bo Belling thero nt from $50 to $500 " nn ncro. Scnntor Smoot has secured from tho penBlon commlttco n fnvoroblo report ot his hill to grunt service pensions to ' Utnh veterans of the lllackhawk Indian In-dian war. Tho l-ycar-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chnrles Hrldgford of Salt Lako City fell down tho collar stairs and ' i fractured her Bkull. Tho child Is in a critical condition. Tho special election nt I'rlco for tho bonding of tho town for $10,000 for the further extension of tho waterworks system resulted In n victory for those In favor of tho bonds. Will Moore, convicted of grand lnr-ceny lnr-ceny at Monb Inst week, Is tho only mnn over convicted of grand larceny in Grand county. Mooro was convict- Ied of stealing six burros. Eugcno Sndey, 30 years of ago and married, was killed by a cave-In nt the f" ' Overland mine, near Ccdnr Fort, n ' hugo rock crushing his skull. Ills thrco fellow workmen escaped Injury. A girl named I'ehrson wns badly scalded at Logan. She was boiling sorno soup In n tight kettle and tho Bteam generated, blow tho lid off nnd throw soup Into tho faco of tho unfortunate unfor-tunate girl. Mrs. Mnry Ann Ncns McFerson, who hns been n resident of Knysvllle slnco 1851, Is dead nt tho ago of 82. She wns ono of tho oldest members of tho Mormon church nnd knew personally tho Prophet Joseph Smith. Mrs. Llzzlo Hickman, who conducts n fruit stand In Salt I.nke, was bitten by a tarantula while sho wns cutting boiuo bnnnnas from a largo bunch. Tho tarantula had probably been concealed' in tho bunch when shipped. Albert Holm, aged 10, n junk denier H) of Salt Lako City, suicided in a saloon, taking carbolic acid. His dead body 1 sat at n tnblo far soiuo time beforo nnyono ljnow ho wns dead, tho bar- ' ' tender supposing ho was nskjop. When about to bo arrested by Of- fleers S. T. VIckcry, of Salt Lako, S. Murnkamn, a Jap, slashed tho olllcer across tho back of tho hand with n ' knlfo, Inflicting n wound that will probably render tho hand crippled for 12. G. Porter, W. P. Crozler nnd M. B. Hart, (ho advance guard for the com-pnny com-pnny ot twenty-flvo gentllo families H from northeastern Utah, havo closed a deal whereby they secured 240 acres of land from tho California Irrigation H Land company at Grltlloy, Cnl. H Plans aro laid by tho board of gov- H 'ernors of tho Commercial emu for tho H holding' of n "Got Together" dinner to ' bo given during tho early part ot May. Invitations for tho dinner will be ex-tended ex-tended to all tho officers of tho various H comracrlcnl organizations In tho state, 1 C. O. .Harris, local agent of tho Do- foreet Wlrciess Telegraph company, is authority for tho statement that the Salt Lake station of tho company will he completod and in operation by Juno IE. and tho stations in other parts ot IJtah will bo constructed immediately k |