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Show I UTAH STATE NEWS Hoot sugar produced In Utnh nnd Idnho In 1H08 will approximate 180,-000,000 180,-000,000 pounds. Tleglnnln with tho now yenr, Ogden enjoys tho dlstlnrtlon of owning lior own waterworks system. The Italians - throughout the stnto nre raising funds to aid their Htrlchon oimtrymcn In southern Italy. Jhirlng 1008 tho slate hoard or education edu-cation granted nearly 200 stnto cor-tlllcntrs cor-tlllcntrs nnd diplomas to teachers. The Stnto I,cnguo of Municipalities of Utah, In convention at Provo, ndoptod resolutions favoring local op-Tho op-Tho date for the next annual O. A. II. encampment, which will ho hold in Salt Lake City, hns been sot for August 9 to HI Inclusive. There seems to ho much Interest mnnlfestod In tho good roads convention con-vention which Is to ho hold In Salt Lake City on Jnnuary 11. Oscnr (lunilerson, ngod 17, died nt Snntnnuln Inst week as tho result of Injuries received Inst Juno, when ho vna engaged In playing baseball. Tho first beet sugar made In Utah was nt I.ohl In 1801. In tlmt Ilrst year there was produced at I.ohl 11,-000 11,-000 hags of sugar, or 1,100.000 pounds. In the output of tomatoes, Utnh this year occupies seventh place, despite the fact that onrly frosts hilled hair tho crop, with an output of G 11,000 cases. George C. lluckle, a well known nttornoy of Salt Ijike City, has boon Bolccted by Attorney (lenernl Harnes ns assistant nttorney-general for the Btnte of Utah. Tho engineer In charge of tho Strawberry valley Irrigation project reports thnt good progress Is being made, although tho work Is occaslon-nlly occaslon-nlly delayed by n heavy snowfall. Secretary of State Tlngoy, In his nnnunl report to tho governor, recommends recom-mends tho establishment of a stnto In-fiirnnco In-fiirnnco commissioner, which now exists ex-ists In most of tho other states of tho 11111011. : In his annual report to tho govern- g?, cr, Adjiitnnt-Ooncrnl Wedgwood of T ' the Natlonnl Ouanl or tho state of SeV i Utah, recommends thnt nn nrmory I. bo built nt n cost of-npproxlmntcly t ssn.ooo. V William ' Harrington, n blacksmith, """ IC was found dead in his room nt a hotel i in Salt l.nko City. Harrington hnd L f. been drinking heavily, and It Is bo- Ij. lleved his denth was tho result of alia al-ia K oohollsm. X. It Is rumored that In n short time tho llnrrlman roads will revert to tho ab.K eld system of placing train nironts on B&j3K each of Its passenger trains. Tho train lttR agents woro taken off soino tlnio ago ptSM to reduce expenses, ft' Mrs. Frank Yonori, tho whlto wlfo t," HL; of a Japanese who ran nmuck on tho itreeta of Ogden nnd threatened to & WL 1:111 an onicer. nourishing n revolver, E- will have to face a charge ot nssauti wi Salt Lake's bond Issuo of last Jnuo i l as been declared legal by tho courts, - i lind tho issue of $47G,000 water and ". j 12.r,000 sower bonds will now bo sold i nnd the proceeds used In th Improve- t; ' r.ients tho money was Intended for. ?" Itobort Holmes, who died at Wil- 4' lard last week, was tho oldest per- bon In tho county nt tho tlnio of his -. death, being 03 years of ngo. Ho ramo to Utnh In 1817, and had ro-,V ro-,V v sided In Wlllnrd for the past fifty i, years. Miss Hazel Tout, youngest of three accomplished dnughtors of Edwin Tout of Ogden, received second prizo ' t in a recent beauty contest In London, (, In which normally, France, Scotland, Australia, England and Austria wcro ff"" , ropre8ented. i C. A. HurBeriuan. aged 38, n brake- I ninii employed by the Denver & Mo' .' Grande, Is dead as the result of lmv- j , lug caught his foot In n frog, whllo nt work in Salt Lake City, ono of his legs and arms being cut off as ho wns struck down. 4 It hnB boon' decided that Charles Fclnsoth, tho Salt Uiko boy who wns f found dead In tho suburbs of tho city r.nd who was nt first supposed to have $ been murdorcd, came to his death as ? tho result of poisoning, nnd that ho r jmd committed suicide. IHoscoo Heeso, 9 years of age, an I orphan, proved himself a hero whllo i; ukatlug with n number of other chll- ', dren on tho Ogden river at Ogden i last weok. Ho saved, nt tho risk of P 1:1s own life, Leonora Murdoch, 13 K?; years of ago, who had broken through P the ice. mJK To removo tho pack from the Utah bE' canneries during tho past year, 952 fHI cats woro necessary. Approximately 'ipff ' 150 cars of coal, thirty cars of sugar pfifeJir- nnd soventy-llvo cars of box material kVd'raL waa ut,ed In shipping the fruit raised w.Wr' ln 1,1,8 Btn'0, Aml t,llB WBB otr ijjffiXs. year for fruit, Pafj" Although two months havo olnimed MM$W Binco the niutder of Doputy Sheriff Rk$ i Seymour Clurk of Wober county at 'TV, rUlntnh, no cluo lias yot be'on dlscov MtmUcA, lured as to tho Identity of his mur- K? dercr, tho man. who did the shooting W liavlng (llsappoared 'wlthqilt leaving u trace behind liini. |