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Show m UTAH STATE NEWS In tho region about St. Ooorgo almonds al-monds nro In bloom. The Heaver woolen mills nro to bo reopened, n now company having purchased pur-chased tho plant. Work Is now under way on the power plutit to bo erected at Wlllard, Dox Elder county. V hchl citizens will soon hnvo fish for tho market, Hint being tho latest Industry Inaugurated there. It Is announced Hint tho Bait Lake & Ogden railroad will bo completed to Ogden by the Hist or .June. Tho board of cdiicntlon of Ogden lms decided to Instnll up todato flro escapes es-capes In ovory school building In tho city. StrlUc-brcnkers nro taking tho places of tho striking machinists In tho Denver & ltlo O rondo shops hi Bait Lake. CltlzonB of St. George will hold n mn8 meeting Monday evening, iMnrch 30, to consider question of prohibiting tho snlo of liquor In that city. Tho problem of eradicating measles Is ono which Is giving tho health department de-partment nnd tho board of education of Ogden considerable trouble. Grnntsvlllo Is again enthusiastic ovor tho prospects of a railroad. Tiro plan Is to hnvo 11 spur from tho Western West-ern Pacific built Into tho town. Members of tho Snlt Lnko branch of tho Women's Christian Tomporanco union hnvo undertaken a crusndo ngulust tho objectionable picture post-cnnl. post-cnnl. J. Hlack, n tcamstor, wns probably fatolly Injured as tho result of his team running nway In Salt Loko. Ulack fell under tho wheels nnd wns Injured Internally. Whllo attempting to bent hlu wny to Denver on n passenger trnln, Daniel Matthews, n trainman, fell beneath tho trnln nnd wns ground to pieces, tho accident happening In Salt Lnko City. Moses Jones, who bad his skull lractured with n beer bottle whllo In n row with Dunne- McCandlass at Lchl, Is dead. Al chargo of murder In tho first degreo will bo preferred ngnlnut McCnndlaBS, A good many "dry farmers" havo left Ichl and surrounding towns for Cedar Valley to proparo their lands for fall planting. Tho sovornl thou-rand thou-rand acres of wheat planted last fnll Is up and looking lino. Ten thousand acres of sugnr beets liavo been contracted for tho Lehl factor', fac-tor', and tho condition of tho soil nnd nbundnnt snow fnll In tho mountnlns lndlcnto tho biggest tonungo this season sea-son In tho fnctory's history. At tho preliminary hearing nt Blng-hnin Blng-hnin Junction In tho caso of Maco Cockrnn, who fatally shot Mat Zoraph whllo tho latter was stealing coal, Cockrnn was bound ovor to tho district dis-trict court on n chnrgo of murder In tho uccond degreo. Snmuol Mtilholland, n carpenter, was utruck by a strfet car In Salt Lake City and fatally Injured. Mul-liollnnd Mul-liollnnd stepped from behind a polo In front of tho car, nnd tho motor-man motor-man could nut stop tho car In tlmo to prevent tho necident. Jnmes Jensen wns shot nnd Instantly Instant-ly killed In n saloon In Mt. Pleasant by Archlo Durns, HI feeling had existed ex-isted between tho two men for some time, minis was tho aggressor In tho quarrel, It Is said, and fired six -shots, four of which took effect. Lnwrouco G. Crncroft, aged 18, was run down by a blcyclo rldor in Snlt Lake nnd fntnlly Injured. Tho rider escaped. This Is tho second fatality In tho Cracroft family within p. fortnight, Lorenzo Crncroft, n cousin having committed sulcldo. Fifteen carloads of cattlo wero shipped from Utah last wcok to Loa Angeles, to bo used In feeding tho pallors or Admiral Evans' licet upon their nrrlvnl. Tho cattlo aro nil Utah products and will bo sent aboard tho ships on their nrrlval at San Diego hnrbor. Mrs. Ann demons, a pioneer, who arrived nt Nauvoo on April 13. 1811, In company with 200 Mormon converts con-verts from England, is dangerously 111 at her homo In Snntnquln. Mrs. demons dem-ons will bo 99 years of nge on August 28, and Is probably tiro oldest woman In tho state. Hoforo another year, It Is hoped that tho city of Ogdon will own a waterworks wat-erworks and electric lighting plant. It Is probable that tho powor plnut will bo located noar tho South Fork canyon, ho that lt would bo possible to easily furnish tho town of Hunts-vlllo Hunts-vlllo with power. Tho next subject to bo brought up In tho Ephralm Commercial club will bo tho changing of tho plnns of tho now school house bo that tho heating plant will bo outsldo tho building. Sinco tho groat school houso lire In Ohio tho people nro demanding action ac-tion In that direction. At n meeting of tho directors of tho Utah Stato Fnlr association last weok, it was decided to closo ull week, It wbb dccldod to closo all entries en-tries of oxhlblts on October 3, five days before tho opening of tho fair, which will bo Octobor B. Tho fair will contlnuo to tho 11th. A protest Is going up from Utah against tho effort of Jnmes H. Mann, congressman from Illinois, to bring about tiro passage of n bill requiring that alfalfa seed bo absolutely pure and freo from foreign substance It Is clalmod It is Impossible to rai'so alfalfa seed without clovor. Tho llret stops toward tho decoration decora-tion of tho templo wall In Salt :ako with statues was taken recently -with the placing of nn ordor for a Ufa-size flguro ot tho Prophet Joseph Hinltn with Mahonrl M. Young, a Salt Lako sculptor. Tho worlt of preparius tho statue U progressing rapidly. |