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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Tho hopes of tho citizens or HI-nl'noro HI-nl'noro for wntorworks nro nbout to bo realized. T... Fulmcr, a D-yeur-old Salt Loko boy wns run down by a railroad tricycle tri-cycle and Bi'rlously Injured. A largo forco of men have been put to work on tho cnnal being built by tho stnto near I'nnKiiltch. While worhltiK on a Iioubc, Ilrlg JohiiBon. a SprliiRVlIIe carpenter, fell Irom tbo roof and as a result l In tho liospltnl with two broken ribs. The biiBlneviB men of Bingham Junction nre considering ways and meanH for Installing a syHtem of pipes and hydrants for lire protection. A full reglmentnl post at Kort Douglas Is tho present plan or tho war department. The house bill for military appropriations cnrrles ?1C1,-000 ?1C1,-000 for tiro post. Tho movement for temporanco In Kphralm Is now assuming tangible form. At a recent meeting It wns decided de-cided to talto stops to organize a temperance tem-perance league. Tho Democratic state convention for tho naming of delegates to tho national na-tional convention at Denver on July 7 will bo held In Salt 1-ako City on Friday, Juno 12. A big forco of workmen Is cngnged nt tho Ogden-I.ucln cutoff lining in tho trnckB or tho Southern Pnelllc which were damaged by the waves of tho lake during n recent ntorni. Thomas Plerpont, tho first railway mnchlnlBt to enter Salt Lako valley, was found dead In bed nt his homo lu Snlt Lako City on tho lCth, heart troublo being the cause of death. Ada C. llutler, aged 18, committed suicide at Hooper, cutting her throat with a butcher knife. Tho young woman lind been despondent for Bonio time, although sho had never hinted nt suicide. A movemont Is on foot In Salt Lake City to send the High school cadet corps to Snn Francisco to uttend the great naval review next month. Subscriptions Sub-scriptions will bo taken to defray the expense of the trip. While, cleaning a revolver, George Hails of Ogdcn shot off tho end or u linger on his right hand. Tho weapon wea-pon exploded while- Unlls was trying the trigger spring, tho ball passing dangerously nenr his head. Ignored In his will, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Uulkley of Salt Lako City is endeavoring to uBtnbllsh her Identity Iden-tity and secure tho IliG.OUO estato or her father, John Cain, who died at Long Iloach, Cal., about a year ago. Uftectlvo May 1, all roads In tho Western Passenger association will nbollsh second-class ratea on west-bond west-bond passenger trains where less than $10 rare has been paid and only llrst-clnss passengers will bo carried. Jens S. Nielsen, ot Pleasant Grove, who visited Snlt Lako City last week with tho avowed purposo or killing A. A. Duncan, an nttornoy of tho capital cap-ital city, has been adjudged lusnne, and Is now In tho stnto mental hospital. hospi-tal. Uoforo many months havo passed, lt Is probable that tho Weber club of Ogdon, will bo making preparations prepara-tions to inovo Into new tpiarters, which havo become almost Imperative Impera-tive owing to tho Increasing membership. member-ship. Instructions havo been Issued by William ABhton, chief englneor or tho Southern Pnelllc and Oregon Short Lino railroads, ordering tho transfer of tho engineering oillco of tho Southern South-ern Pnelllc at Sparks, Nov., to Salt Lako City. Tho president has signed n proclamation proc-lamation establishing tho Natural monument In Whlto Itlvcr canyon, can-yon, San Juan county, Utah. Tho area set apart Is forty acres, which eoutalns threo nntural bridges, the largest In tho world. Dr. Henry UiMotto, an oculist ot Salt Jjiko, will test tho constitutionality constitutional-ity of the law passed by tho last leg-lulntiim leg-lulntiim ronulrlni: all tltoso who de sire to practice optometry to secure a license from the state board, also created by tho act. Axel Hulgion, a machinist employed employ-ed lu the smelter at Murray, killed himself on April 10. by drinking a quantity of carbolic acid. Ho had been drinking heavily for soveral days, and It Is thought that his mind had become affected by liquor. According to the report of tho health olllcors, there are now rorty cases or smallpox In tho vicinity or West Weber. Whllithoro have been no fatal results from the dlscaso as yet, somo ot the cases are said to bo of tho most malignant form. Tho little daughter of Joseph C. Jonsou, whlto playing near the canal which runs by tho foot or tho hill below the Agricultural college, at Logan, Lo-gan, accidentally foil Into the stream and was drowned. Tho child was between be-tween threo and four 'years old. Hva Jobporson, the girl whoso wanderings wan-derings in Ulg Cottonwood canyon recently during a snowstorm caused the entire force ot the sheriffs oillco of Salt Lake county no end of trouble, trou-ble, a search for her being kept up for several days, has been adjudgod Insane. The pupils of tho public schools of Salt Lako City did an abundance or gpod work on Arbor day, as shown by reports submitted to the superintendent. superin-tendent. Tho pupils planted U,40U trees, 8.227 shrubs and made 8,783 flower beds. In addition, thoy cleaned C.1C9 yards. Although Judge Howell of Ogdon declared Mrs. Marie Olson or Hunts-villa Hunts-villa guilty or having used a Itorse-whip Itorse-whip on James C Wangsgaard of that place In his Baloon on May 2U Inst, because Wangsgaard had mudo derogatory ronmrks about her, ho lm-uosed lm-uosed 110 penalty. |