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Show ilj UTAH STATE NEWS m iFrUi .srowora of -willard are plan-nlng plan-nlng Iho organization ot "a fruit, grow- y rs' association. A Wiliard couple who last wook went to Ogden to get married, were U -Quarantined for smallpox whllo iii tho -. , Junction City. ,1 Mra. Nettle Johnson, ono of the A -oldest residents' of Ephrafni, died on & January 27, from a paralytic stroke, M i at the age of 86. w A benefit given by one" of tha Salt To theatres last week netted tho l 1 fund for the sufferers from tho earth- L J Hke In Italy tho sum of 2,000. , Pedro Peltrle, a Mexican herder, Is if ! under arrest charged with holding up Si'- the Hagley saloon at Granger shooting l George Campbell through tho scalp, jb and Bteallng 350. ' The Sunday closing law Is t6 ,bo rig- jX Idly enforced at Scoflold, all of tho sa- 12. loon men having been notified that m& they will be prosecuted for future In- m fractions of tho la. 13 The Kansas Day club, composed of residents of tho Sunflowor state who H hare taken up their abode In Ogden, m formed ah organization last week, 150 W "Jftyhawkcra" being present, jpl Charles Coppo of Mendon dropped 9j -dead' from heart dlseaso whllo stand- mi Ing In front of a hotel In Ogden. Ho ft, -was apparently In tho best of health ft.' "when he was Buddonly stricken. E Utah's portion of tho receipts from the national forest fund at tho end of f the fiscal year Juno 30, 1908, amounts ' w to $32,081.49, which amount was re- ( celved by tho Btato treasurer lost week., , Ah Sing, an elderly Chinaman, whoso home was in Salt Lako City, I -was found dead In bis bed in an Og- ii I. den hotel 'one day last week, death v having been duo to rheumatism of the I heart. I Congressman Howell has received assuranuo that the rivers and harbors committee will authorize a survey of j Green river from Uintah county to Moab, to determlno tho navigability of I that river, f Wallace P. 'Fielding, recently ar- 4. ' rested in Ogden on a charge, of big- I amy, has been extradited and taken I. hack to Oregon, where he will be tried ML on a charge of forgery and selling a m mortgage. M (, A reduction, of 50 ,per cent in tho ' fi ...number of deaths for tho month ot m December, 1908, as compared wflth B December, 1907,. is tho showing con- H talncd in the bulletin issued by tho V state board of health. m Mrs. Gertrude Myers, In an at- -J E tempt to escape, tho anger of her hus- f I 'band, jumped from a second-story -, window of their homo in Salt Lako ft City; .badly spraining both ankles and M severely bruising her body. jm ' Harry Davles, 42 years old, a ma- m chlrilat, whoso home was In Platts- w burg N. Y., committed suicide Sntur- i day -night In a rooming hpusa In Salt 1 Lak"c'(Clty, taking laudanum. He was s out -of; work and despondent. ' Delegates from nearly ovory county Ui ..InVytah met in Salt Lako City on X January 20 and perfected a state or- M pnnlzatlon for tho protection of fish H . and game, and adopted a sultnblo fish j IB . and' 'game bill to be presented to the 1 U legislature. m Throe young boys, aged seven, eight S and eleven years, sons of prominent m , families of Murray, woro arrested last -week charged with committing a l M , number of robborios which liavo puz- i zled the ofllccrs. Tho boys hdve con- j V fessed tho crlmo. I y The widows of Spring City havo t formed an organization, having elect I "M"cirbnicors at a banquet held at tho ' i Iff homo of ono of tho membors last l K 'week. Thoro are about forty widows f we in the town. Tho organization is ' I F purely a social one. j " j) necaubo Tom Connors, u miner at t. the Highland Boy mine at Bingham, . I refsued to glvo lilm a pipeful pt to- 11 -bacco, Ell Lugovltch, an . Austrian fi j9 jnlnor, bit oft a largo part of Connor's U left ear. Lugovltch Is In Jail, and Tf, will faco a charge of mayhem. Is? - Ab a means of awakening interest u among the union men of Utah, a call b has been Issued to labor organlza- , tlons of tho stato for tho second an- J nual convention of the Utah Stato Fed- f oration ot Labor to be held In .Salt h Lake City on Mpnday, March 8. I Tho homo of Joseph PranBdon of i' Uintah was destroyed by flro ono i$ night last weok, tho family being nl- I most suffocated with stnoko and bare- ly escaping beforo tho roof collapsed. I It Is thought tho flro was started by hi a spark from a passing engine. W Entering from the rear, robbers in- vnded the Davis Shoo company's atoro on Main street, In Salt Lako City, i ft forced the lock in tho door, of a safety iff vault and escaped with nearly 1,000' m in ca3h and bank drafts. Negotiable m securities valued, It is said, at ?10,000, Kb woro not molostcd, , WEtt "When a freight' train was passing BJ thrpugh tho Ephralni yards, sonio nils- jt'C- chlovouH boys uncoupled all tho cars. Bf Whpn tho engine atartod but onp car Hr wna following. Another car was' w coupled, and the remainder stood on H tho track. Tho train wus dnlaycd Hi, nearly three hours. |