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Show UTAH STATE NEWS " Sandy Is to havo a stato bank, with a capitalization ot $10,000. Work on tho new Presbyterian church at Grcon river was begun last wc-dk. Salt Lake City has consumed 2G4,-533 2G4,-533 tons ot coal during tho year, while In 1905, thu consumption was 214,91)5 tons. Several new buildings are in courso ot construction at Green river, but work Is delayed by tho lack of building build-ing material. Last year the production of coal from Utah mines amounted to 1,002,-G28 1,002,-G28 ton and this year tho production was 1,839,219. John Plgnon, a brick mason, 71 years of age, was run over by a train whllo going to his work, in Ogdcn, and InBtantly killed. Tho Abram Canal company'a tract of 12,000 ucrcs of Irrigated land In Millard county Is to be put on tho market for settlement. . ' Policeman Logglo, ot Park City, was badly beaten up In a rough-houso mix-up with a drunken man whom he had attempted to arrest. The coal shortage which threatened Park City has apparently been overcome, over-come, as there Is enough belng shipped In to meet all demands. Reports from tho Weber county game wardens are to tho effect that deer are becoming plentiful In the' mountains throughout tho county. ( The number of employes In and around tho coal mines of the stato during tho past fiscal year was 1,895 and tho average number of days worked was 296. Tho work on rnlslng tho dam across tho Green river near Green river station, and constructing tho head-gates for tho Irrigating system has been started. Arthur Brown, tho former bank toller tol-ler of Salt Lake City, recently convicted con-victed of embezzlement, has been ad-Judged ad-Judged snnu by a Jury, and will sorvo his prison sentencu. That a determined effort will be made to break tho will of Arthur Drown seems UBsurcd. It will bo madeln tho Interest of tho two children chil-dren of Mrs. Anna Dradley, Brown's slayer. The Rio Grnndo has Instituted passenger pas-senger service between the works of the Utah Copper company and the smelters ut Garfield. A shuttle' service ser-vice has been established, tor thu' benefit of workmen. Tho Utah stato board of health buH letin for November, issued last week, showH the death rato tor tho entire' stato to bo 300, from all causes. In Salt Lako county alone, thero wero 110 deaths recorded. Samuel Newhouse, the Utah mining man, will furnish tho funds for a club building for tho boys and girls of Salt Lako City, In which will bo Installed In-stalled n gymnasium, swimming pool, reading and game rooms. Tho body of an unknown man was found Sunday afternoon on the south side of tho Webor river, in Ogden, by J. H. Druke, who lives close by. Sov-eral Sov-eral wounds on tho head of tho corpse leads to tho theory of murder. Tho Salt Lake Pressed Brick company, com-pany, one of tho largest brick manufactories man-ufactories In thu west, with a capa city of 100,000 bricks per day, la preparing pre-paring to double Its capacity, making It one of the largest In the world. Preparations for the Flno and Fat Sheep show to be held at the Statu fair groundB January 7-19, 1907, In connection con-nection with tho annual convention of the National Wool Growers' association, as-sociation, are Hearing completion. Superintendent ot Schools A. L. Larson has apportioned the county school funds of Sanpete county, amounting to $C,921.C0, among the various districts on a basis of $1.40 pur capita of persons of Bchool agu. Bishop Charles C. McCabo, of the Methodist chutch, who died In Now York last week, 1b well known In Utah, having been to a great degree Instrumental In tho upbuilding of thu First Methodist church of Salt Lake. The $11,000 hotul erected at Dovll's Slide, tho situ of the plant of tho Union Portland and Cement company's now factory, Is reported completed and placed In commission. Tlio hotel has been erected expressly for tho us'. of la borers. Tho production of coko In Utah dmlng the past year was 282,195 short tons, an Increase of 00,4811 short tons over tho previous year. Thero wob also produced In tho slate 11,531 short Ions of glluonlto, the value of which would bo $403,585. At Ogden a young Oreok named Tom Maslorakos, Bbot hlmsolf threo times through tno Btomach, using a 32-calllher revolver. Tho deed was done while Mustorakos waa In his room, and he gave as his reasons 111 health and lack of means. Traitors and grafters had moro to do with the Russian defeat In tho Japanese Jap-anese war than any other cause, ao cording to Admiral J. N. Dlnutrleff, of the Russian navy, who spent Sunday In Salt Lako City on Ills way back to Russia from Vladivostok. |