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Show UTAH STATE NEWS' It is -estimated that the Otter creek reservoir will cost $100,000. Volney 'C. Gunnoll haB been appointed appoint-ed Judge 'of tho Juvenile court In Ogdcn. Governor 'Cutler lias Issued a proclamation proc-lamation designating April 15 as- Ar-'bor Ar-'bor day. Tho fighting game in Ephralm received re-ceived a knock-out blow at tho city council meeting last week. The merchants ot Ephralm aro agitating agi-tating the quostlon of having a wholo-solo wholo-solo houso erected In that city. Utah leads all tho states in this In-termountnln In-termountnln region In tho number of cigars manufactured each year. Lchi will probably havo ono of the largest clay working establishments In tho west within tho next few months. The rnngo herds of sheep in Utah havo been ordered Inspected at once for 'scab. About 2,500,000 sheep will be Inspected. A Japancso laborer named Naka-mero Naka-mero was struck by a train whllo crossing a bridge at Ogdcn and Instantly In-stantly killed. C. J. Llndcll, a switchman, was caught between two cars at Ogden and badly crushed, but thcro Is hopo of saving his life. Frosts havo done considerable dam-ago dam-ago to fruit nt Green River recently. Tho outlook, for a good crop of peaches and apples Is, however, excellent. excel-lent. Contracts havo been signed for an inter-stato dobato between tho University Uni-versity of Oregon aiid tho University of Utah, to bo hold at Salt Lake April 28. Rev. P. A. Slmpkln, recently appointed ap-pointed Judgq of tho Juvenile court, of Salt Lnko Cliy, has declined the appointment, owing to his numerous other duties. Jnmes Lcavltt, aged' 14, was stabbed n tho back by Roy Evans, a playmato sf about the samo age, during an altercation in Ogden. Tho wound Is not regarded ns dangerous. Mrs. William Ball, of Lehl, was knocked down by a 'cow which stepped in her urm and broke both bones Just ibove tho wrist. Owing to hor advanced ad-vanced ago the fracturo is a serious one. Tho records of the revenue collector collec-tor show that during tho past year 3,170,152 cigars wero manufactured In the stato of Utah, the revenue collected col-lected for tho samo amounting to 118,510. The first "Get Acquainted" excur-lion excur-lion to be conducted by tho Manufacturers Manufac-turers & Merchants' association of Salt Lnko City this year will bo made on April 24 to tho northern part of tho stato. Mrs. Thomas Green died at Kays-vlllo Kays-vlllo on tho 31st. nt tho ago of 77. Sho was ono of tho rapidly diminishing diminish-ing number who lu early llfo know and associated with tho Prophet Jo-soph Jo-soph Smith. William Fatherlngham, aged GO, a' well known citizen of Lehl, wns killed by an explosion of dynumlto near Stophenvllle, Mont. Ho was thawing dynamlto In a cook stovo when tho explosion occurred. "Teddy," tho big brown benr who for eight years has been In tho zoo at Glcnwood park, nnd who was believed be-lieved to bo tho best specimen In captivity cap-tivity In tho state, escaped Inst week nnd It was found necessary to kill him. Carl Barnes, a young man employed em-ployed In a furniture storo In Salt Lnko City, accidentally shot hlmselt whllo fooling with an nutomntlc revolver re-volver In tho pruKonco of his llnncc, his recovery being doubtful. Tho people of North Sunpelo aro determined de-termined to have a sugar factory, notwithstanding not-withstanding tho dissolution of tho Snnpeto nnd Sevier Sugnr compnny. A local company Is to bo organized nnd n factory built about midway between be-tween Moroni, Mount Plensnnt and Spring City. Tho Utah Construction company ol Ogden, has received tho contract for building tho romalnlng 321 miles of tho Western Pacific lino from Deoth, Novndn, to tho Novnda-Callfor-nla line, nt an approximate cost ot $0,000,000. John Dewey, the veteran chief engineer en-gineer of tho Lehl sugar factory and threo of his associates In tho machlno shop department havo recently perfected per-fected n smolto consumor which thoy clnim will consume any kind ot fumes fed Into It. J. H, Balloy, of Park City, Ib tho owner ot a cow that has calved twlco within seven wcokfl, Tho first call was born February 14, and on March 28 the cow gavo birth to tho second rulf, Old stockmen sny thcro Is no explanation for tho freak. Benjamin Bates, of American Fork, tins been granted n patent on n sage-briiBh sage-briiBh grubbnr, which has so far proved very successful In tho clearing clear-ing of now ground the machlno clenr-Ing clenr-Ing threo acres of ground an hour, In connection with a 25-hnisepower engine. |