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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Mount Plensnnt will very llltcly hnvo ft local Independent telephono nystem In tho nenr future. A number of nesroca of Salt lako City hnvo organized "Vho William Jennings Ilrynn Colored Club." Preparations nro bfiinfi nade by tho different labor tirgnulzatloils of Ogdcn for the blggeit celebration of Labor day over held In that city. lt Ih reported that pnraslteH which hnvo nttaclted the alfalfa fields In several Hcctlons of tho statu have done considerable damage. A movement has been Inaugurated In Salt Lalto City looking to tho Inauguration In-auguration of tho Dcs Moines plan of government In the capital city. Tho excavation for tho basement of Bprlngvlllo's new high school building la now completed, and work has commenced com-menced on tho cement foundation. There has been one divorce asked for to every nix iniirrlago licenses Issued Is-sued In Salt Lake county, If tho record from Juno 1 to dato may bo rolled apoii. On September 23 thero will bo thrown open for entry a. largo tract of land In tho regloti of which Morgan Is tho center. Coal lands In this area aro not subject to entry. Salt Uiko druggists, hacked by tho druggists throughout the state, aro making efforts to secure tho natlonnl convention of tho American Pharmaceutical Pharma-ceutical association of 1009 for Snlt Lake. Seized with a fit of coughing, llttlo Karl Stowoll, son of William Stowoll, of Ogden, coughed up a nail which tho two-year-old child had carried burled In tho muscles of his throat for twulvo days. A dispatch from Avnlon, Cntallna iBlnnd, Cnl., announces that tho world's record catch for black Bea bnss, n fish weighing 240 pounds, wns tnken last week by Phil H. O'Mara of Salt Lake City, Tho breaking of a pivot upon which a rapidly revolving extractor was turning In n laundry In Salt Lako City catiBcd an accident In which two of tho employes, Willis Onrdncr and Al. Ittibcr, wore qulto badly Injured. Unconscious from tho effects of a hypodermic Injection of morphine, Carl Shurtllff, 24 years old, was found In tho rear of an Ogden-saloon, nnd fled four hours later. It Is bcllovcd tho young man had Intended suicide. Tho thlrteen-ycnr-old daughter ot W. C. I). Orrock, ot nichflold, whllo standing on a picket fenco, lost her r.Rlanco and wns precipitated on to tho pickets, ono of which penetrated It required ten stitches to closo tho wound. Cleorgo II. Corse, a railroad man who had been stationed In Ogdeti for yenrs, and ono of the most popular ofllclals cvor Btntloned In that city, died last week after three years ot miflorlng from n complication of diseases. dis-eases. Despondent ovor tho death of his wlfo less than a month ago, rfJiuTD. Adams, a bookblndor In tho government govern-ment bureau, of graving nmi prnt. Ing at Washington, formerly of Snlt Lake, took his own llfo. Inhaling Illu minating gas. Laboring under tho delusion that by a process of transposing tho letters to any given word ho can tnlk Intelligibly to any raco of people regardless ot tho tonguo which Is spoken, Oeorjjo draco, a well known painter of Ogden, has been adjudged Insnno. L. O. Henlnger, nn Ogden restaur-nut restaur-nut man, was seriously Injured while "bumping tho bumps" nt Uigoon ono day last week. Since his Injury, typhoid ty-phoid fevor und other complications hnvo developed, which will Intorforo with his chances for recovory. Churches, hospltnls and charitable Institutions of nil kinds In Salt Lako City will no longor bo given abatements abate-ments of their wntor taxes. Tho city council comnilttco on waterworks, sitting sit-ting na a board of equalization ot water rates, haB inndo this ruling. Illds were opened nt tho treasury department on tho 21th for tho construction con-struction of a public building nt Logan. Lo-gan. Tho bidders were as follows: Northern Construction company of Wnpnton, N. V., $50,773; Qoorge Illnchliff company of Chicago, $17,-COO; $17,-COO; Campbell Untitling company ot Snlt Lake, $45,070. Success Is marking tho efforts ot tho state land commissioners In disposing dis-posing of tho romnlnder of tho Indemnity Indem-nity lands. Every day now applications applica-tions aro being received. Since August Aug-ust 3, tho first tiny of tho salo, applications applica-tions hnvo been received for 200,000 acres. Two now voting machines will nr-ilvo nr-ilvo from tho manufacturers in New York In a fow days and will bo Installed In-stalled at Ilitntsvlllo and Plain City, to bo used for tho first (lino In tho November election. This makes a to-! tal ot nineteen machines In Wobor county. Mr. and Mrs. A. Carr, of Salt Lako City aro evidently against rnco suicide, sui-cide, their seventeenth child being born last week, a girl wolghlng 11 Mi pounds. They hnvo thirteen sous living. liv-ing. Mr. Carr la a lineman In tho employ em-ploy of tho Western Union Tclograph company. Arrangements are in progress In Salt Lako City by tho Manufacturers and Morchnntrt association nnd In Logan Lo-gan by tho Commorclnl club for tho grand boosters' oxcurslon which It Is proposed to run from Snlt Lako to Cacho valloy on Labor day, Monday, Soptombor 7. Tho bollor of tho steam sawmill belonging be-longing to James, and II. A. Matson, Bltuatod la Indian crook, eaBt of Man-tl, Man-tl, exploded, completely wrecking tho mill. Tho mill was running nt tho tlmo tho explosion occui red. nnd that nono of tho 111011 emphfed waa Injured In-jured Is a mystery. |