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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Tho Blnk Hawk lndlnn war voter-nns' voter-nns' camp flro will bo held in Provo, August 20-23. Tho strecet railway company of Salt Lake City has ordorcd stool rails to construct ovor 100 mites of track. Tho annual convention of tho lntor-mountaln lntor-mountaln Photographers' association wns held in Snlt Lnko City last week. Tho shearing. of sheep begins at Mc-dena Mc-dena April 14. Ono hundred nnd twon-ty-flvo thousand head aro listed thus far. Tho town of Loa, In Wnyno county, is thoroughly nlarmed over whnt Is believed to bo nn epidemic of spinal meningitis. Peter Etzel, n minor working nt tho Little Bell mine, Park City, was ser-ioiWiy ser-ioiWiy injured by falling down a chuto a distanco of thirty feet. A caso of smnllpox was reported In Salt Lako city last week, tho first case of tho disease to bo reported in tho capital city slnco August 8. During tho coming summer tho city of Nephl will lay sower blocks of street and sidewalk pavement, constructed con-structed of concrete and cement. Thrco clover pickpockets robbed Clarence Johnson, n young farmer from Glonwood, Sevier county, Utah, of $410 In Salt Lako City Inst week. Tho contract Tor tho now dally mall service from St. Georgo to Modena, via Enterprise, Utah, has been awarded award-ed to Charles J. Bastlan, of St. George. Wnltor Green, a resident of Hooper, was thrown from his horso nt that place and killed Instantly. Green was 26 years old and leaves n wlfo and one child. Henry DcIIuff, ono of tho oldest citizens of Park City, was run down by a freight train nnd killed. DoIIuff wns doaf And did not notice tho approaching ap-proaching train. Tho range sheep of Utah aro to bo inspected this year before they aro dipped, and the inspection will start at tho regular dipping points in tho state enrly in April. Chief of Police George A. Sheets 'of Salt Lako City, has been bound over to tho district court on a chargo of conspiracy, In connection with tho McWhirter robbery. Tho dog show held in Salt Lake City last week proved a grand success, suc-cess, a number of tine dogs being exhibited ex-hibited and the attendance and interest inter-est of the public being most gratifying. Laurn Cox, a seamstress employed at a bedding manufacturing establishment establish-ment in Salt Lako City, was caught by tho hair in a sewing mnchlno and almost scalped, her head being badly cut. Desplto the protests of tho Sioux Indians In-dians agaliiBt hnvlng tho Whito rWer Utes share their reservation, the president presi-dent has decided to quarter Utes with tho Cheyenne Sioux Indians for tho present. Teachers In the Salt Lnko schools aro assured of more pay, tho senato having passed houso bill No. 217, raising tho limit which Snlt Lnko may Jovy for school purposes from 6V4 to CV4 mills. Fred Bcntson, of Evanston, Wyo., aged 21, a brakeman employed by tho Union Pacific, was killed near Emory, Utah. Ho wns riding on top of n freight train, when his back was broken by a pipe from n water tnnk, Judgo Thomas Maloney, candidate on tho American party ticket for tho supremo court or tho stato nt the last election, died at Ogden on tho 15th, nftor nn Illness of four weeks, tho cause of his death being .an nbscess of tho liver. Tho wholo section of central Utah Ib greatly enthused over dry farming, nnd thoro Is n section of country about ten by fifteen miles in area lying west and south of Nephl which Is shortly to bo tho center of a great grain producing pro-ducing country. Mlko McCabo and Wllllnm J. O'Leary, two of tho six soldiers who were arrested on February 28 on tho charge of having assaulted and robbed Harold Berrum In Salt Lako City, havo been bound over to tho district court for trinl. W. H. Pnrrent, a self-confessed criminal crim-inal and the stnr witness for tho prosecution prose-cution in tho conspiracy case .against Chief of Pollco Georgo A. Sheets, ol Salt Lako City, has been released on his own recognlzanco, by request of the county attorney. Whllo driving ncross the tracks in Ogden, a wagon In which Frank Skano was seated, wbb struck by a passenger train and Skano thrown under the cars. Bcforo tho wheels reached hlB body tho horso succeeded In kicking him from tho track out of danger. A heavy snowslido came down In Napoleon canyon, near Ogden, and did Bomu damage to tho buildings of tho Napoleon & Maghora Copper Mining company, earning away tho black smitl) shop and damaging tho kitchen end of the bote) nnd dining-room. An egg within nn egg Is tho latest freak in Ogden. The freak was dls-discovered dls-discovered by Mrs. John Gray. Mrs. uray had boiled eggs for supper Frl day evening. When ono of the ejrgs was opened n second egg, about tho size of a pigeon egg, rolled out of tho larger one. |