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Show Ir UTAH STATE NEWS ' Ephrnlrn has an epidemic of scar-lot scar-lot fever, though up to dnte only one ibi has proved fatal. Ogdon capitalists aro discussing , ; tho advisability of establishing -a I , woolen mill In that city. t, The roof of tho pool room of tho 4 Clark building, In Iark City, caved 1, 1,1 one .night last week from tho weight of snow. m It Is tho Intention to fill every avail- I nblo placo In Salt Lake City with fc flowers for tho G. A.- It. encampment, Bp to bo held next August. R Klght residents of Utah will bo Br pamcd as members of a stato dairy X ' nd puro food bureau if tho bill creat- W Ing Buch bureau bocomea a law. ki Tho ofneers of tho Fruitgrowers' as- I S " soclatlon formed Ut Wlllnrd aro bUBy fit work soiling stock, so as to got tho If - ueceBsary amount before they lncor- I . Word comes from Knnsas that a I I great number of tho 1C.00O old sol- k dlors now living In that stato will bo f in Salt Lako City to attend tho G. A. It. encampment next summer, k Tho preliminary hearing of John W. Att, on tho chargo of murder coni fer mltted at Logan, wns again post- J ' poned last week, nt tho request or tho attorney for the accused man. ' Tho river and harbor bill, reported to tho house, authorizes a survey of Grand river, Utah, from Its mouth to Moab; also a survey of Green river from Us mouth to Green river. , Tho Cache county poultry Bhow, held In Logan last week, wasjanj un- qualified success, between COO and ',v 700 birds, embracing, all tho Btandard I , varieties, being entered In corapotl- Jack Lox was stabbed by John Bweonoy during an altercation be-tween be-tween the two men In Salt Lake City. Lox was struck on tho top of tho head if with an open pocket knife, but was not dangorously Injured. Harvoy Sundrup, of Ephralm, was b chopping wood with an ax, which had 'I recently been sharpened, and, as ho raised It, ho slipped on tho Ice, the ' ax falling down on his foot, partially severing two of his toes. Adrian Woolloy, tho 12-ycnroId son , ? of Docket Clerk Woolley, of tho house of representatives, mot with an ac-jr ac-jr cident at his homo in Ogden, by ii which his left leg was broken be ll tween tho thigh and knee. I Tho National Wnrohouso & Storage company has completed its organlza-j organlza-j tlon In Chicago for the purposo of I storing tho clip of the western wool- f growers, which will bo cheering news to tho Utah wool growers. Joseph Stratford and his wife Elizabeth, Eliza-beth, both long time and highly re-rpectcd re-rpectcd residents of Wcbor county, were burled on tho samo day In Ogden Og-den last week. Mrs. Stratford died two days after tho death of her husband. hus-band. Virgil Anderson of Spring City was badly Injured whllo working In a saw mill last week. His leg was caught In somo way between a car- riago uu'd a pile of lumber, and as the horse took a step forward his leg was t badly broken. L President Josoph F. Smith of the Iv Mormon church and a party of twelve p. left 8alt Lako City on February 17 lA tor a trip to tho Sandwich Islands. Tho en tiro trip will require about six weeks, most of tho thno being con-Burned con-Burned In traveling. Wllllnm McAndrowB, 4G years old, a miner, recently employed at Grants- vllle, committed suicide in Salt Lake, February 20, taking a compound oi 5 chloral, bromldo and morphlno. De spondency nftor a protracted spree wns responsible for tho deed. In a shooting affray at Scofiold, Matt Lester, a Flnlandor, shot Aleck Wilson through tho hand and John L, Wilson was shot In tho leg. Doth of tho Injured mon wero attempting to prevent Lester from shooting a Slav, '; with whom ho had boon quarreling. , Lorenzo Stroobel, uged 3D, em- h ployed in a hotel la Ugdcn, committed r eulcldo Inst wok, cutting his throat f.' with a rnr, being dead' when ho was ' dlscovorcd. The cnuso of tho sulcldo is said to have been unrequited lovo lor a young woman employed at tun BERy, Dr. Honry Hopkins, of Eugone, Ore., Jffi' a veteran of tho civil war, died from jttfr heart dlscaso Just nftor coming out mm; of the pool In the Sanitarium In Salt jJISf hnko City. It is understood t,Vo doc S tor overtaxed his strength while in ; thp bath, death coming as ho was B' Charles Castlo, a horso trader, lmi MR been arrcstod in Salt Lako City, ac- Rfl cused of tying u rope to a balky III horse's tonguo,. fastening tho rope to jflj' another horse, and tearing off a por- Hip tlnn of tho tonguo of tho-balky horso. WW Castlo denies the charge and will yB It has developed that Mrs. May fin; Jledgo Wood, who died In Salt Lako Wk' City under ssuplcious circumstances, Hjrc committed suicide, taking morphine HHK (ablets. An investigation developed HIE tho fact that this was tho third at- flip' tempt tho young woman had mod to |