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Show UTAH STATE NEWS A Salt Iiko mnn wlto winked nt ;ho Jiidgo iltirltiK tho trial of his enno, was sent to Jnll for contempt of court Tho twenty-sixth nnnunl convention of tho ConRregntlonnl ngsoclntlon of ttth was held In Salt IjiUo City last week. Mrs. M. Swltzgnblo, aged 84, was uioc)i'(l down by a rtmawny horse on Main fllreot, Salt hako City, receiving injuries which tuny result in death. I'eter Moll I nil, an Austrian aged 18, employed nt tho IllKhlnnd Hoy mine at HIiikIiiui) as a miner, wnu killed by falling down a shaft. He received n fractured skull. A stone placed on tho track by n mimll boy caused the wreck of 11 street car In Salt Lake City, the motorman being painfully Injured and a number of the passengers severely shaken up. So great has been tho Increase In attendance at the Wasatch school In Salt I.nke City In tho last year that the board of education has found It necessary to erect an addition to this building. Mike Oster, a ItusBlan .Tow, nbout 10 years old, committed suicide In Bait Unite, taking a full ounce of car-t'ollc car-t'ollc acid. Letters which ho lett would Indicate that tho young man was Insiine when ho ended his llfo. Plucky telephone girls nt Kphralm probably prevented a robbery when a mnn tried to break Into tho telephone building at night. One of tho girls llrcd two shots from a pistol at the Intruder, who IniBtlly beat a retreat. What Is believed to bo an attempt to transport a young girl about 1 1 years of age to China, there to become tho wife of Homo wealthy Oriental, rgalnst her will, Is bolng Investigated by Southern Pacific detectives at Og-".on. Og-".on. Frnnk Pete, a Greek, 27 years old, foil from tho top of a freight ear at (larlleld and beneath another car with tho result that his left leg was so badly crushed that It had to bo am-jutated am-jutated half way between the hip and knee. John Hums, employed In tho Daly West mine at Park City, attempted to leave tho cage when It stopped momentarily, mo-mentarily, and was caught and crushed crush-ed to death. Hums had been working but four days In tho mine when the nccldont occurred. .Mrs. W. K. Stnkor, wlfo of Dr. W. H. Sinker of Ogden, was badly Injured In n collision with n heavy wagon, while riding In a buggy nt night. Tho narrowness of the path and the darkness dark-ness prevented the vehicles pnsslng each other safely. Over 300 wool growers will gather In Salt l.ako City on November 9 to discuss mnttcrs which vitally affect their Interests nnd hear tho report of tho Nntlonnl Wool Orowors' committee, commit-tee, which has selected Chicago as the wool center for the cntlro west. Tho Denver & Illo Urnndo Hallway company hns mortgaged Its road, rolling roll-ing stock, grounds nnd other property to tho Hankers' Trust company of Now York City for J1G0,000,000. Tho mortgage mort-gage was tiled with tho county recorder re-corder of Salt Lake county Inst week. Thomas Kvans, tho football player whose nock was dislocated during tho game between the Agricultural col-lego col-lego team of Ixgau and the Colorndo School of Mines, died without having regntned consciousness. Kvans wns "21 years old and llvod In Jirlghnni City. Prlvnte Mlko Heecham of tho Klrst cnvnlry, who ran amuck nt Camp Strotsteiiburg, P. I., last May and killed four of his comrades, hns been sentenced to llfo Imprisonment by tho trial court before which ho appeared. Heecham wns at one time a resident of Utah. William P. llepworth. aged 30, T resident of Salt Lake City, was crushed to death In a mlno at Gold-field, Gold-field, Colo., last weeK. Ho wns working work-ing In the mlno chuto on tho G00-foot level, when somo hugo bouldors were freed nnd descended on him with terrific ter-rific force. Tho Prosbytorlnn ministers of southern Utah met nt Mantl last week to organlzo tho Southern Utah presbytery. pres-bytery. This becamo necessary on account ac-count of tho nctlon of tho synod which met recently at Idaho Falls, whereby Utah was divided Into threo presbyteries. John D. II. McAlllstor, for many years n resident of Salt Iako City, widely known, dropped dead In his bnm at the rear of his homo on tho 2Sth. Mr. McAlllstor for somo tlni'i had been suffering from stomach trouble trou-ble and It Is thought death wns duo to acute gastritis. One of tiro most Important organ I za-tlonB za-tlonB formed In Salt Lnko City In years wns horn Inst week, when a new DulldlngTrades Council was organized. or-ganized. The'now organization will be affiliated with tho American Federation Feder-ation of Labor, and It stnrts out with a membership of 4,500. Grief over tho recolpt of news of the sudden death of her brother, In addition to despondency over continued contin-ued 111 health, drove Mrs. May Minor ot Salt Lako City to attempt suicide. She swnllowpd nearly an ounce of chloroform, but prompt .medical attendance at-tendance saved her. Scott P. Kimball of Salt Lake City, a student of the technological depart nient of tho state university of Hos ton, was kidnaped and forced to occupy oc-cupy a deserted resldenco whllo lilr sophomoro classmates held their annual an-nual dinner, where he had been due to act as toastmaster. Golden C. Klmor, n resident of Uta for the past thlrty-seovn years, dleO at lilft home In Salt Lako City, Octr ber 27. of pneumonia. The deceased was ono of th first men to oper mines In the Tlntlc district, nnd wut connected with various other mlnlnp districts ' the statn |