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Show UTAH STATE NEWS A Inrgo ncrcngo In dry farming will bo planted In tho vicinity of Monti-collo Monti-collo this your. Of tho ntato hcIiooI fund, tho clly of Ogdon will roculvo 1G,480.GO this year, and Weber county will got $f.-202. $f.-202. Twenty-five nicmbcrn nttonilod the ntinunl Busnlon 0' tlio Ututi HooNeop-cru' HooNeop-cru' iiRRnclutlon held In Salt l.ako City luHt week. A farmer living nenr UlnKlmm Junction, who la 82 years of ago. was married recently, tho brldo giving her ngo as 70. Tho town or Mnyflold Is BiitTeilnR from an epidemic or diphtheria, and It mny bo necessary to close tho schools for n time. It Is estimated that about forty thoireand sheep will be shorn at Thompson's, and twenty-llvo thousand nt Ilowey, this year. Ogden's tabornnclo choir has entered en-tered tho contoBt for the $1,000 prize offered nt tho eisteddfod In Salt Inko City next October. Tho county cominlKHlonors of Summit Sum-mit county hnvo nwnrded n contract to tiro Denver Ilrldgo company to oroct a steel bridge nt Iloytsvlllc. A'lbort Earl, tho 18-year-old Salt Jjtko boy who was Injured by an Oregon Short I.lno cnglno nt I'ocn-tello, I'ocn-tello, Idaho, died from his Injuries. In tho futuro any 0110 having a slot niachlno In bis plnce ot business In Salt Lake must pay 11 license ot $10 per month for tho operation of tho Bnmo. A proposition to consolldnto tho Bcbool districts In each county under un-der ono control Is being supported by A. C. Nelson, superintendent of public pub-lic Instruction. A I'nrk City man, convicted of securing se-curing refreshments In a restaurant and reriiBlng to pay for them, was lined $25 nnd hns iippenlcd tho case, to a higher court. At nn old folks dinner In Richmond, Rich-mond, COO porsons fenBtcd. There woro iv number of old peoplo present. Thoro was ono over DO, four over 80, 31 over 70, and 118 over 00. Uortha Hhodes nttemptcd Mulcldo In n rooming liouso In Ogden, ono day Inst week, taking chloroform, but was discovered In time by occupants of tho houso to save her life. AVhllo trying to pound a shell Into a gun, Harry Heed, nn elght-ycnr-olii Fremont boy, was Injured, tho shell exploding, tearing tho end oft or ono finger nnd Injuring tho others badly. Tiro three-year-old child or II. 0. Hess, of Ogden, wns attacked by n dog ono day last week und so badly bitten about tho faco tbnt thoro Is hut little hopo for tho child's recovery. recov-ery. Mrs. Mary A. Pugmlre, who has boon a resident of Snlt Lnko for n number of yenrs, was ovorcomo by bcart failure while- walking nlong the streot, death resulting 11 fow moments mo-ments later. Tito Westorn Association of tho Hllnd Is tho tltlo or nn organization lormed In Salt Lako City last weok-whlch weok-whlch has for Its purposo tho promotion promo-tion of tiro woUaro or tho blind In tho western stntos, Stnto Treasurer Christiansen 1ms nied his roport ror Mnrch with tho stnto auditor. I1T0 roport shows a balance on hand March 1 or $5CC,-180.01, $5CC,-180.01, which, with tho month's receipts, re-ceipts, makes a total or $810,777.39. Airred Howes, aged 12 years, tho son ot John Howes or Maryavnle, was seriously Injured by falling over nn embankment. He, with two other boys, was hauling a lond or hay from a farm near Marysvnlo. His skull wns rructured In two places. A train was held up west or Ogdon. no day last week, by a gang or lio-joes, lio-joes, and 11 rorrlgorutor enr broken Into, n large quantity of ham, bacon nud cansldernblo fresh meat appropriated. appro-priated. Tho leader of tho bond warned tho train crew not to attempt to Interfcro. Harry Hoddira and Tom DavlB were severely Injured ns tho result cr an oxplo-slon in tho Ontario drnln tunnel nt I'nrk City. It is not known just how tho uccldent happened, but the Injured men think It was caused by n lighted candlo faLUaE Into 11 box or caps. C. J. I.lndnlo, n railroad fireman residing In Snlt Lako, has Invented n system of safety block's which Is de signed to bo utilized by single nnd doublo-trnck railroads, nnd, tr proved by use to bo practicable, may suggest sug-gest grewt changes In tho present block signals. While Mrs. E. J. Klako lay unattended unat-tended In 11 sick bed In Snlt Lake City, lire rrom dcrcctlvo electric light wiring broko out and flames were rapidly enveloping her homo when n passer-by discovered tho lire, broko In tho door nnd snved hpr from a horrible death. V. a. Klllmar, n mining man, suicided sui-cided In Salt Lako City, hanging himself, using baling wlro for a rope. Klllmnrs despondoncy wns npnrently duo to his failure to moot success when ho went to work ror tho Step-too Step-too Vnlley Smelting & Mining coin-l.any, coin-l.any, nt McGlll, Nov. Tho answers or the dolendants In tho suit or tho United States to (lis-solve (lis-solve tho so-called Harrlman system of railroads ns being n monopoly In restraint or trado, woro (lied (n ths federal court nt Salt Itko on April 0. Theso nnssVers mnko n general denial to tho allegations. Klro nt Spring City Inst week totally to-tally destroyed n resldenco, two largo barns and other outbuildings and corrals. cor-rals. Tho loss Is estlmntcd nt about $3,000. lt Is supposed that tho cause of tho flro was an ovor hoatod stove-plpo stove-plpo passing through tho room ot Hemlnlntr Hansen's hoiiBO. |