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Show I UTAH STATE NEWS I Two families In Monroe havo been placed under quarantine Tor smallpox. Tho packing plant at Bonneville, I destroyed by fire recently, will be rebuilt. re-built. Flro which Is thought to have originated or-iginated from a defective flue destroyed de-stroyed tho homo of Dr. 0." O. Dixon of Kaysvllle. Frank McDonald, nrrestcd In Salt LaJjA) for drunkenness, was found dead In his cell, death being duo to ncuto alcoholism. W S. McCornlck, tho Suit Lake banker, has purchased a controlling Interest in the Utah National bank, of Salt Lake City. I Samuel Ostler, who camo to Utah in 1867 and settled at Sprlngvlllo, where be had resided ever slnco, If ' dead at the ago of 69. ; Mllford Is rapidly coming to tho' front as an Important business center, and, it Is predicted, will soon becomo a city of no mean proportions. C. P. Held, an express messenger of Salt Lake City, Is dead as the result of being caught between a heavily laden truck and a car, and crushed. The ward bouso at West Bountiful, recently erected by the peoplo of the ward at a cost of $13,000, Is a mass of mlns as a result of tho recent heavy windstorm. Peter Charland and II. H. Hawley, convicted of breaking Into a Salt Lake bakery and stealing $90, havo been sentenced to three years In tho state pdSlt'entlary. Edward H. Williams, ono of the early settlers of Salt Lake City and also of Nephl City, and a pioneer, ( of Pnrewan, Iron county, Utah, died at Nephl on tho 25th. Miss Nannlo Tout of Ogdon has signed a contract with John Cort, tho thoatrlcal manager, for a sorlos of concerts next ' year, for which Miss Tout Is to receive $20,000. An option has been taken on tho Sanpete. Valley railroad by tho Salt Lako & Garlleld railway conipany, and this Is taken to indicate tho promoters' pro-moters' desire to onter tho coal Holds beyond Sterling. Beet digging Ib going on nt Monroo in full blast. Tho yield Is hotter than had boon estimated, somo places going go-ing as high as twenty-ilvo tons to tho aero, whore lost year It was three acrs to the ton. Tho roof and north end of tho-Industrial school nt Ogdon was blown down by tho recent Btorm, causing damage of tweh extent to tho building that it will! bo necessary to rebuild it from i tho second story. General Manager W. H. Bancroft of tho Oregon Short Lino, who personally inspected tho damngo dono to rallrond property at Ogdon by tho recont storm, estimates the loss at between $8,000 nmt $10,000. Tho body of John Gardner, who was phot and killed by Oscar Kllmoro on October 13, was burled Inst .week In tho potter's fluid. Gardner's death resulted from his attempt to rob Ell-more's Ell-more's grocery store. Arthur Livingston was severely Injured In-jured whllo climbing tho mountains north of Ogdon In company with Goorgo Fnrr and Jphn E. Salmon, when ho missed his footing and fell a dlstauco of sovonty-Ilvo feet. Mrs. Amelia Dudloy, who has been in tho Salt Lako City Jail for nisnrly a month on suspicion of having caused tho death of James Itellly, who dloJ Soptcmbcr 2C under somewhat rayBte-irlous rayBte-irlous clrcumstancos, lias been discharged dis-charged from custody. ""ho city attorney bus boon lnstmc ten" to commence proceedings against express companies doing business In Provo for tho collection of a llcenso fco Imposed by an ordinance enacted about a year ago and which the companies com-panies havo failed to pay. Tho scarcity existing In tho local labor mnrkut has forced tho Amalgamated Amalga-mated Sugar company to employ a number of young women In tho sugar factory nt Ogden. This is tho flrst t!mo In the history of tho plant that women havo been employed. Eighteen locomotive ilromen vvero discharged by tho Union Pacific last week for falluro to report for duty when called during the recont wind storm. On Sunday this numbor ru-fusod ru-fusod to go out of Ogden on tho Limited, Lim-ited, saying that It was too dangerous. Workmon digging a trench In Salt Lake City unearthed two skeletons, which aro bolleved to bo thoao of a cowboy and a man whom ho murdered mur-dered about thirty-eight years ago. It is said tho cowboy was hanged, and both bodies burled In tho same plot. . .Vony Hanuno, an Italian peddler, Myj shot and seriously Injured by Miss AIlco Roach at her homo In Blngi hum, who claims tho peddler had Insulted In-sulted her becnuso Bho infused to purchase pur-chase his wares. Miss Itoach Is n 'highly respected young woman mid greatly regrets tho tragedy. When the roof of Hcbcr C. Galley's bouso In West Koysvlllo wont off, during tho recent storm, It was carried omo dlstunco away to tho westward and laid gently down on tho ground. A whllo lator a counter current caught tho itiof and whirled It back to tho homo In a convnnloil position. |