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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Allco Senman Ims boon nppolntcd postmaster nt Hnncli, Knno county. Senator Smoot's dry fnrmlnB bill hns received thn approval of tho senate. sen-ate. Horsemen of Wolior county nro planning for n horso fair In Ogden next summer. Tho Union Portland Cement company com-pany of Ogden hns resumed operations opera-tions nnd Is now turning out ubout 2,000 barrels of cement dnlly. Tlicro wore 115 deaths and 141' births In Salt Lnlio during tho month of February, according to tire monthly report of the board or health. There hns boon certified to Utnh lands selected by tho Htntu as Indemnity Indem-nity school lands aggregating 13,'ISO ncrcs In tho Salt l.uko City land district. dis-trict. Falrvlow Is sufforing from an epidemic epi-demic of diphtheria. All public gath orlngs hnvo censed and tho schools nro closed pending tho result of rigid quarantine. Tho pcoplo of Kphrnlm nro discus sing tho Installation of n wntcrworkr system, nnd n committee hns been bo lectcd to canvass the town In bchnl' ot tho proposition. Owing to the lncrenso from ?7G to ?100 for saloon licenses, lt Is reported that n number or saloon men of Ogden will not mnko nppllcntlon Tor a. renew al after their present licenses expire. Tho secretary of tho Interior has modified his ordors regarding the Ulntnh grazing lands In tho Uintah reservation to permit settlers to cut cedar fenco posts from tho grazing lands. Joo Sulllvnn, tho alleged slayer of Policeman C. S. Ford, of Salt Lake, fears ho will not got n fair trial In tho capital city, and has asked that his ca'so bo transferred to somo other court. Mrs. H. M. Caruthcra, ono of tho early rcsldonts of Salt Lakp, nnd tho mother of William D. Haywood, secretary-treasurer of tho Western Federation Fed-eration of Minors, died on March 8, nt the ago of D7. A now power plant to cost approximately approxi-mately lfiO.000, will noon bo erected near Wlllnrd canyon to compote- In rates with tho present lighting system furnished Ogden by tho Utah Light & Hallway company. Owjng to nt epidemic of scnrlct fever, measles and diphtheria, thero aro now 350 children out of tho public pub-lic schools of Ogden, many pnrents refusing to send their children, fenrlng tbo danger of Infection. About 70,000 hend of tohcop nro now being ranged noar Cisco, In Orand county, whero shearing will commenco Atprlt 1. It Is estimated thnt 100,000 hend will bo sheared at that point ttils year, and 1-10,000 nt Modonn. Ilccauso his tongue Is spotted, which Is said to bo somo ovldcnco ot pllopsy, Harry Schuboy, a Dutchman, Dutch-man, will probably bo oxcuscd for mnklng nn assault upon Mrs. Pnntone, of Ogden, with a knife somo time ago, Lehi Pratt, a carpontor, rushed Into a burning building In tho outskirts of Snlt Lake, thinking that n child had been left In the building, nnd was terribly ter-ribly 'burned. Tho child had been got ten out, and Pratt was tho only ono Injured. Frank E. Davcy, formerly a popular member of tho general passonger department de-partment of tho Oregon Short Lino, In Salt Lnko, shot and killed hlmsolt whllo despondent over his wlfo's Illness, Ill-ness, In the Piedmont district of Oak-land, Oak-land, Cal. Tho Juvcnllo court of Salt Lako is attempting to break up tho practlco of boys of tendor years frequenting pool rooms, nnd ns a result two proprietors pro-prietors of pool rooms woro last week nrreBted on a chargo of encouraging such practices, Mrs. Allco Emma Oliver, wlfo of Wlllnrd Oliver of Oolconda, Nov., died lit Sprlngvlllo, on tho Cth. Her death, which was oxtremely sudden, wns caused by ptomaine poisoning. Tho brotlror-ln-law Is nlso seriously 111, duo to tho samo cause W. H. Wattls, of tho Utah Construction Con-struction company, Is nuthorlty for tho statement thnt any day ordors aro expected from tho Western Pacific Itallroad compuny to rosumo Us construction con-struction work for which Mr. Wnttis' company has n contract. Tho Btato board of education Is soon to purchnso text-books for tho schools of tho Btato for tho next flvo years. On May C n text-book convention will bo held, which will bo atended by all county superintendents and by representatives rep-resentatives of all districts of tho first-class. Information from Cisco Is to tho effect ef-fect that sheep belonging to ranchers of Grand Junction, Colorado, but now being ranged in tho vicinity of Cisco, aro dying In great numbors. Owners of Hocks charge that tho grass on tho range- near Cisco has bcon poisoned by cattlemen. Ed Forro, arrested In Utah on tho chargo of horso stealing, alleged to liavo been committed In Grand Junction, Junc-tion, Colorado, hns been convicted and sontenccd to eight years In tho Colorado Colo-rado poultontinry. Forro wbb wanted In Wyoming for killing a ccllmato lu tho Wyoming penitentiary. Four hundred nnd twenty-flvo rabbits rab-bits wcro killed by tiro hunters of Ephralm ono day last weok. Much damago Is dono to tho crops on tho west' sldo of tho Snnpltch river and tho farmers nro offorlng a flvolcent bounty on thorn. Tho monoy was given to tho Qun club treasury. Tho secretary of tho atuto board of health has notified tho Ogden hoalth authorities to destroy all tho Ico cut from tho ponds which wero rocently found Infectious by the Btato chemist's examination. Tho Ico amounts to nov-oral nov-oral hundred tons, and Is stored la four of the largest Ico houuos. |
