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Show UTAH STATE NEWS' I Tho city council of Provo has do-3ldcd do-3ldcd to erect an electric lighting sys-letn sys-letn nt a cost of $10,000. R. A. Ijwo ot Austin, Just north ot Monroe, will get over $1,450 from flf-:eeii flf-:eeii acres of beets this season. During the past week moro than (1,000,000 In taxes was collected by the treasurer of Salt Luke comity. fH A miniature hurricane which struck Ogdon on the Ifith did considerable-ilnmagu considerable-ilnmagu to roofs and outbuildings. Mis. J. Larson wns struck by a sign which fell from a building during tho recent windstorm lu Suit Luke, and tcrlously injured. ' J. II. Dolllus, q carpenter, fell from scaffold at the "sampling mill In Vnirso of construction at Gartleld, and tvas Instantly killed. ' Mrs. Ellen Mtllgnto of Ogdeu sev-fred sev-fred a part of her Index finger of tho left hand with n small' hand ax whllo chopping kindling wood. Ralph Coltett, of Salt Lake City, wa run down and trampled on by u hors while ho was walking on the strnot, sustaining serious Injuries. Work will be started on the pio-posed pio-posed new electric Intcriirbnn Una be-tween be-tween Salt I-alte, Snttulr, Bingham Junction and Garflold this week. About fifty students registered last week for the farmers' winter course and for (he midwinter semester in the Brlgham Young 'university at lleber J. Sheffield, wlio has been it member of tho city council of Knytv vlllu for two terms, has been appointed by that body us mayor of tho city to uueceed R. V. Barnes,, resigned. Extensive preparations are being; mude by thu executive committee of the Stnte Poultry association, for u big' poultry show to be given lu Salt Lake City, January 21 to 20, 1U07. Attorney ('. C. Richards ot Ogduii, hnH( filed u civil action for libel against William Glnsmunn, editor of the Standard und Ogden's postmaster, HH In which $10,000 damages tiro asked. Charles Gorman, n llremuii, was us-nulled us-nulled by George Plllsbury, a switch- x man, lu tho yards at Ogden, and sn badly beaten that he may, die. it la not known what started tho trouble.. The Utah County Poultry anj Pol Stock association will hohl u fair lu I'rbvo, December 22. It Is expected hat the exhibit will be much butter than that of last year, which wus very iutlsfactory. The homo of Sidney Lewis of Vernal .van destroyed by flro hist week, tho. !lre being started by kindling wood .eft on tho stove to dry. 'This Is tho third time Mr. Lewis has lost his ljome 'iy tiro lu two years. Within the past week every slot ,H -midline In Ogden has been put )ut or commission us a result of an order Issued by the police department. ind the Indications are that they will 'ie permanently closed. VuUIkou Tanner, who had his neck broken at his homo In Makiil Valley. Idaho, nnd who lay lu an Ogden bos-pltal bos-pltal for six weeks, after which hu left, apparently cured, died soon after leaching his homo Inst week. George Salmon wus stabbed In a su- LB loon brawl In Salt Luke City by Jamctt Gillespie. Both men were Intoxicated jnd the stabbing resulted from an ar-gument ar-gument over some trivial matter. Sal-uion Sal-uion Is not dangerously Injured. After twenty rounds of fighting-. during which time neither man shunned his work, "Fighting Dick" Hylund was given tho decision over "Cyclono" Thompson, In tho Grand opera house, at Ogden, on the IGth. Frank L. Epps, an eastern man now residing In Salt Lake City, who, It Ik understood, represents outside capital-sts, capital-sts, Is promoting u scheme for the de-t-olopment and use ot the natural guw dopo'slts that for years hnvo been known to exist lit Davis county. Erastus S. Footo, an expert nic -luinlc and who built tho first Hour mill in Tooele County, wns found dead In tho road on the 12th, death uvl-dently uvl-dently being due to natural cuiiseK. Mr. Footo was 89 years of ago nnd had lived In Utah about forty years. jH Joseph Clark of Chalk Creek lost El his house and nearly all his furniture. Lwj& by flro last week. No Insurance. Mr. SfivjlK Clark bus been a coal miner nil his SpvW llfo, and by tho strictest economy had bpSjSI becomo tho proud owner of n beautt- fn's-ful fn's-ful homo, it Is not known how tho flrtt started. Tho farmers or tho vlver bottom ll'Mr? :ountry between Provo and OlniRteauV bMKZt nro greatly Interested In having thr- S5?T,;w proposed boulevard from Provo tr wji' Olmstead und tho canyon resorts coim- v" through their section, and have of-. jH fered to secure u right of wav for thf ilff'1l boulovnrd. fc;'; Last week the various sugar fncto- t-ifi rles distributed among tho beet grow- I'Im? ers of XJtnh and Idaho about $I,3C0,- vJnyrr 000, In payment of tho beet crop afri which was hnrvosted and deliverer rf-Vf during the month of October, which in. about three-fourths ot tho boei crop ot tho season. Despondent over tho discovery that- HU she was not legally .married to tho man she loved, Emma Pearson mudoi n desperate attempt to end her own llfo by drinking u quantity of wood al cohol, n Salt Luko Oily, but was pro-vontciffiom pro-vontciffiom carrying nut her purpose by a policeman. " isl fl |