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Show I UTAH STATE NEWS The Logan Commercial clith tailed to endorse the public utllltfe bill now before the legislature. The supremo court last week adjourned ad-journed unlllMnrch 22, liavltiB com- pletod Its February session. Frank ScnlGro, n Greek, -10 years of nge, dropped dead on the streets ot Halt Lake' on evening last week, death being duo to apoplexy. A mecH;,g will bo held at Logan March 2C of the leading business men ot- Cache county to decide on a county coun-ty 'fair, to be hold September 15. The level of the Great Salt lako Is now 4.25 feet above the zero mark nn compared with 3.7 feet above one year ngo, u trlllo over six Inches A. M. Farnum, nged 45, employed as a Bwltchmnn, was run over by an en- nine and horribly mangled In the yards j of tho Oregon Short Lino In Salt Lako Tho enlarged homestead bill Is now ft law and will soon bo In forco In Utah. ,Of the 2,000,000 acres obtained for Utah, 1,000.000 will bo selected nt As tho result of frequont disagree-' disagree-' ments between members of tho coun cil and tho major or tho town of ;- Jluntsvllle, Mayor Lofgreon has re- Fire of mysterious origin completely complete-ly destroyed tho plant occupied by. iho Western Macaroni Manufacture Jug company In Salt Lako City, causing caus-ing a loss or $200,000, February, tho shortest month In tho rear, was tho biggest month In tho United States land oinco In tho acre-tigo acre-tigo of land solectlous Hied. Over 73, 000 acres were filed on. Mr. It. 13. Eckart, great-granddaughter of Bishop William White, ono of tho first Episcopal- bishops In this country, died at her homo In Salt Luke City, March 3, at tho age of CO. It is announced that Ogdcn Is to becomo n part of tho Orpheum the-aire the-aire circuit, a now theatre to be built at once, which wjll furnish tho June I Hon city people with first-class vaude-It vaude-It develops that a 17-year-old boy, Andrew Boyar, arrested In Salt Lake City for dlslurblng u religious meeting, meet-ing, cannot bo brought under tho Jurisdiction Jur-isdiction of tho Juvenllo court, as ho - has a wife and child. Adjutant General El A. Wedgowood of tho National Guard ot Utah has announced an-nounced under the head ot General Orders No. 8, a prlzo of $100 to bo r awarded- Tor excellence nt tho coming ;ovurnmcnt Inspection. Tho Gunnison Telephone company cf Sanpete county filed articles with iho secretary of state. Capital Is ?5.000, In shares or S2.G0 each, fully liubscribed by citizens of Gunnison, Oenterileld and Payette. Charles and Georgo Taylor, two negroes, ne-groes, charged with robbing William Wagner's residence at Tucker, havo confessed and told (ho o Ulcers whero they had hidden the monoy uml Jewelry Jew-elry tnken from tho resldenco. Harvey W. Gross, a brakomau In tho employ of the Oregon Short Lino, was killed last, week in tho yards at Mountain Homo, Idaho, while switching. switch-ing. He leaves a wifo and child. Tho family formerly resided In Ogdcn. A movement Is on foot to organize a .Weber county league of baseball ,play. crs for the coming senson. Tho villages vil-lages of North Ogden, Hooper, Plain City, Eden, Huntsvllle, Farr West and Warren aro to bo represented la tho On board tho first passenger train lo run over tho Western Pacific, tho western end of thoGould system, on March 3, wore tho governor and most of tho Utah legislature and other Clients of Presldont 13. T. Jeffrey of tho railroad. Forester Plnchot Is arranging a western trip, on whlchho will uddres,. tho New Mexico legislature, March lo, Colorado legislature, March 1G; pu-He pu-He meetings at Grand Junction on l.. 20th, Delta tho 22d and will reach Ot den March 23. While excavating for sewerage purposes pur-poses on the site of tho new forestry building In Ogden, workmen dug up several sections of an old stone eewer installed over forty years ago, wheu Ogden was a hamlet with a few Una dred Inhabitants, The citizens of Mayfleld havo bet. agitating the waterworks syiitem, aiiu have selected men to make a cauvubo of tho town and secure signers, it iho necessary amount, SG.000, can bu secured, work will bo started In tho very near future. Tho Utah Health Leaguo, an aggros-tilvo aggros-tilvo branch of tho National Health Jeaguo, has been organized In Sale hh lalco City, tho object of the leaguo MSjj being tho promotion of the public Sj f health and tho study of sanitary ques- jyi i Hons and needs of the state. Mil V David Logan, who shot aud killed . JUchard Hawkins, in Salt Lako City, v. September 10 last, was found hoc guilty of murder by a Jury last wco Tho defense .'.was that Hawkins hud KB threatened to-hlllLogan, tho two me.i, Hg both negro.es,sh'uvlng'Ctiurreled over u Hf card game. |