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Show UTAH STATE NEWS A number of new residences and buildings are under construction in Green Itlver. Tho total assessed valuation of Summit county, Just reported by the county assessor, is $1,025,856. ' ' The track of the Western Pacific Is now 136 miles west of Salt Lake City, which brings It fourteen miles 'nto Nevada. A gang of hobos broko Into a box car at CoLon and while In tho act of looting the car were surprised nnd captured. After tho heavy rains of the first part of tho past week an excellent crop Ib assured throughout tho Paro-wan Paro-wan section. 'Dear river Is now higher than foi years. In many places It Is over the banks, and the tributary creeks aro also very high. ' Two non-union linemen were escorted escort-ed to the city limits of Park City by about 200 union men and warned to never return to tho city. Grain In the vicinity of Randolph Is looking very good and the hay crops also. The grass Is in good Bhape in the hills for the stock on tho range. James Ward, a miner of Bingham, was fatally Injured by a premature blast, htB eyes being torn out and both arms torn off by the terrific explosion. ex-plosion. . ' The report of the Salt Lako City board of health for the week endln May 31, 1907, shows 38 births, 22 malt's and 16 females; 20 deaths, 12 males and 8 femalos. Mary Cochran, a three-year-old tot, ate a quantity of laxative pills which sbo had found on a shelf In her homo In Salt Lako City, and died before medical aid pould be summoned. Horton Hammond of Providence, cut his knee cap very badly with u drawing knife. A physician was called and found it necessary to takt several stitches to close up tho wound. Sylvan Park, the only strictly temperance tem-perance resort In Weber county, was thrown open to tho public on Decoration Decora-tion day. The resort Is on the car lino and but six blocks from tho business center. It Is predicted that Prico will bo a city of 5000 population within live years. There Is much being' done and projected around thcro to Justify tho conclusion that this Is a conservative estimate. The report of tho assessor of Summit Sum-mit county on live stock shows that there is in that county 2152 head oi horses and fnulcs, 9933 cattle, 37,86? sheep and goats, and 26 swine, valued val-ued at $377,201. Lightning struck a barn owned by Mrs. Jacob Rensch, of Mt. Pleasant, and killed three cows and a horse. Tho hay In tho barn was not set on Arc, and scarcely any damage at all was done to tho barn. Tho Lehl city fathers havo purchased pur-chased a 200-foot sheet Iron llborty polo, and will set It In a cement foundation foun-dation on tho city square. Old Glory will float from Its topmast on holidays and state occasions, Tho district schools of Summit county have just completed a very successful year, and the class of graduates grad-uates Is tho largest for a number of years. Tho averago per cent received re-ceived by tho pupils Is higher that, for previous years. Tom Brown of Park City climbed n polo to disentangle his kite, which had becomo caught In tho wires, nnd grasped a live wire which burned his hands severely and caused him to fall twenty-five feet. He will recover. Edmund, tho 3-yenr-old son oi Lewis E. Wilhelm, of Greonvlllo, Cache county, mot with an acclden. tho other day by which ho may loso the sight of ono of his oyes. Tho little lit-tle follow was striking a bottlo with an nx and particles of glass Hew in his oyo. Ferret Noorda, a laboror, and Thomas Fredorlckson, an air Inspectoi, wero run down by a freight enr In tho Salt Lako yards. It Is likely that Fredorlckson will loso ono foot( amputation am-putation probably being necessary. Noorda received a severe scalp wound. David Morgan, n pioneer of Utah, who reached Ogdon from Swansea, Wales, in 1854, nnd engaged in tho freighting business from Salt Lako to Los Angeles and through Idaho, Montana Mon-tana nnd Nevada, died In Rock Creek, Ida., on May 28 of hemorrhage of tho brain, aged 77 yenrB. Tho frame houso of Georgo Searlcs, Jr., located threo miles southwest of Roosevelt, was totally destroyed b fire. All the contents of the houso, except ex-cept tho bedding, went up In smoke. Mrs, Senrles was alone with hor baho and only succeeded In getting tho bedding bed-ding out of the houso. John 8wan, ngen soven, son of Albert Al-bert 8wnn of Provo, Is dend, his death being caused from ilucklng n mouthpiece mouth-piece of a toy balloon Into his wind' plpo while nt play Frldny morning. Medical aid was summoned, nnd everything every-thing done Hint could bo to extract tho stick, but without result. |