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Show I UTAH STATE NEWS A new town 1b to bo started nt Cedar Ce-dar Ridge, about eight mllos north of Richfield, i John do France, colored, formerly a resident of Salt Lako City, committed suicide In Seattle last week. A BUprenio court decision rendered t last week holds that school property, whether porsonal or real, Is exempt from taxation. Freo lunches' fn saloons In Salt Lako City .are to bo dono away with, according ac-cording to an order Issued by tho chief of police. Tho Boosters' club of Logan Is taking tak-ing up tho question of tho building of a macadam road from Main street to tho mouth of Logan canyon, Tho scarlet fever epidemic, which has boon prevalent In Murray for tho past two months has now subsided and the quarantlfio has been raised. One of the' oldest rosldontB of Park City, John Wyckoff, died last wcok, after a short Illness. Ho had been a resident of Park City for over twenty years. Tho peoplo of Bingham Junction aro determined to Incorporate. Thero Is not known to bo a single voter In Bingham Junction against Its Incur- iorat!on. -Utah will spend more this year fof tho education of Its youth than In any other yenr since It becamo n ' , stato. Tho appropriation last year ; was $5.12 per capita; this year It will bo JS.75. An unknown man, about 3d years of age, suicided at Knyavillo, April 10, hanging himself, using a wire In- btoad of a rope. Everything points i to an unbalanced mind ub tho can so for tho doed. A strlko of 'tho palntors, decorators decora-tors nnd pnper hangors of Salt Lane City has been averted, tho men decld-i decld-i Ing to accept a verbal agrooment with their cmployors that tho now scalo of wages will be paid. A big conclavo of tho Knights Templar will bo hold in Salt Lako City , on May 12. Ono of tho features of tho ; conclave will bo several competitive drills between tennis from Salt Lake, Ogden, Reno and other commanderles. A sheephordor found tho body of Frank White, a laborer, about 30 years of age, in tho. foothills cast of Ogden, ono day Inst wcok. Whlto had suicided,' sui-cided,' taking carbolic acid, grief over the death of his mother being given ns tho ronson. ) At tho preliminary hearing in Og den, Nick Vacos, who shot and killed John Contos, a prosperous Greek mor-' mor-' chant of that city, declared ho shot in self defense, that Contos had reached for his Vockot ns if to draw a weapon when ho fired. !, Tho gold crowns valued at $100, ' which wero stolen from a display cbbo In front of a dental offlco In Ogden, ' j havo been recovered, a lad claiming to havo found tho proporty behind a ' bill board nnd was trying to dlsposo ofyit when ar rested. "William Bernard Dougnll, pioneer telegrapher of Utah, and tho organizer of the school which ultimately developed devel-oped into tho L. D. S. university, died at his homo in Salt Lako City, April 12. Ho camo to Utah In 1853, and learned telegraphy In 18CQ. Tho report comes from Ogden that n plot to kidnap ono of the children of Joseph Scowcroft, a leading citizen, was probably frustrated last week by a warning sent 'to tho Scowcroft family fam-ily by a nogress, who claimed that sho had overheard tho plot. Loren L. Dibble, aged 20, died In a Salt Lako hospital Sunday, tho csult of internal injuries sustained from a fall of eighty feet in tho Apox mlno above Bingham Canyon. Alva; P. Dlbblo, aged 23 years, was probably fatally injured nt tho snmo time. A strlko of gold assaying $17.50 to tho ton has been mado In Ogden can-yon, can-yon, nt tho edge of tho city, and a stampede has started of thoso who aro staking out claims. From a con-ii con-ii ,yi i. glomernto mass next to the vein mat K4' B . ter proper freo gold has been panned, n ;'! f, Tho frequent storms which occur K J . on tho Qrcat Salt Lake, and especial- J r' ly thoso of lato, have brought South- H ! . ern Pacific officials to tho belief that '" something must bo dono to protect Its trackage on tho cut-off. A breakwater will probably be built near the road-Barnoy road-Barnoy Foloy, who was so terribly Intijred by tho explosion of a 20-ton condenser In Salt Lalto City, died after nearly twenty hours of terrible suffering. His eyes wero so badly burned by ammonia that had ho lived ho would havo lost his sight completely com-pletely JobnV.R. Nelson, a shoomakor who caniO to' Utah In 1875, suicided at Kpfiralm, AprI' 14, hanging himself. MrTNelsbn had always been regarded asonp'of tho most respected citizens oi tho town, and no causo for tho deod 1b" known, unless it wua on account of poor health, Mistaking o bottlo df carbolic acid i for a bottlo of tonic which ho was taking, Dr. II. J. Powors, u prominent physician of Ogdon, and a member of tho city council, swallowed Hovornl spoonfuls of tho dnngerous drug last week, and had a narrow , escape from 'death. |