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Show I UTAH STATE NEWS Tho convention of Utnh munlclpall-. munlclpall-. ties will be hold In Logan on January 24 and 25. Nophl Manning, a popular young man of North Ogden, is dead as the result of injuries sustained when a liorso kicked lilm. Tho thirty-ninth annual convocation of tlio Utah grand lodge of Frco and Accepted Masons was held in Ogtlen tho first of tho week. '; William Smith Pftrkor, bcllovcd to bo the oldest man. In Webor county, died nt his resldonco in Ogden on January 18, of general debility at tho j ago of 1)2 years. ; , Freight is now being diverted through Prlco for tho reservation, Instead In-stead of going over tho Uintah railway. rail-way. Price 1b becoming a bigger forwarding, for-warding, point than ever. Salem is tho next town to profit by tho government electric power plant. Tho town is to ho lighted by tho ilrst of June. Tho town of MnpMon is also considering the matter. Oleomargarine at HO conts a pound is making a bigger hit with tho housewives house-wives of Salt Lako than butter at 45 conts, and grocers report a brisk demand de-mand for tho cheaper product. I' Tho house fly Is blamed for much . of tho dlseaso in Salt Lako and a war ; against tho pest Is urged by Dr. M. It. Stewart, rotlring health commissioner, In his nnnual report to tho mayor. Charles Davis, an Ogden carpenter, slipped on an Icy pavement, tho back x of his head struck- the corner of a cigar case, his skull being fractured f in three places, and it Is feared ho i will not recover. Tho SouthPrn Utah railroad Is now f carrying coal from the Consolidated Fuol company's mines, twenty miles south of Prlco. and will bo hauling I from 500 to 1,000 tons daily within I tho next thirty days. ' Salt Lako Is to have, a now intcrur- - ban lino which will tnp tho territory ' to the Bouth as far as Payson, Utah ! county, connect with the Bamberger j lino to Ogden, and extend Into Box ! ' Eider county to tho north. k' , Horso dealers from Los Angeles have been In Cache valley recently ' buying horses. . They picked up alx-' alx-' tcen.hond. paying on an average $200 j a head.. They advise tho farmers to ralso heavy-legged draft horses, s T. Murphy, of Ogden, while working nt tho plant of the Utah Canning coin 's pany, was caught in tho machinery, his left arm and right foot being bad-' bad-' ly Injured. It Is reared It will bo ; necossary to amputate tho foot, s At a recent meeting of fruit growers ! of Box Elder county, It was decided to uso coal heaters In tholr orchards. A committee was appointed to secure tho nsslstanco of tho local Commer-: Commer-: , clal club In securing bettor freight rates on coal. B, it. H. Lawson has Just made ono B of the largest single shipments of ' lambs over sent out of Utah. Thoro Bi woro sixteen cnrloads of best quality, Hi rolling fat, that Mr. Lawson brought B.j from tho vicinity of Ephralm and No- B:, , phi, and sent to the Taney eastern B,'; market. H;' . Dr. V. W. Knowlcs, representing the Bt, I tiatlonnl bureau of animal Industry, Btf who has been In Provo Tor some tlmo, By commonccd a test of milch cows In I ' the city for tuberculosis a few days li ngo. Ho will tost all the cows In that B vicinity and then thoso In tho towns B. to tho south. B Tom Rico, an Indian, 38 years old, B Is now In tho Salt Lako county Jail, B S charged with tho murder of his B. brother-in-law, nt Shorn, Washington Br, " county, on December 11, 1909. The B f killing was tho result of Interference If by tho murdered man whllo Tom was i beating his wife. B v Lavon Baor, a boy employed at tho B i sugar factory at Logan, was badly B j hurt Saturday. Ho Is employed to run B j a beet grinder of some kind and in B 1 , some way got his finger caught In tho B J machine tho result being that the B 1 1 member was torn out. B , A mortgage has been filed with tho B county recorder at Provo covering tho Bi Tintlc Rango railway, running from B ; Sprlngvlllo to Tintlc, and projected to B 1 sorno point In Nevada by way of B ; Deep Creek, and which Is subject to Bt; ' t the Hen of tho Morton Trust company I of Now York. B,'j 1 The Bnuff habit In Salt Lako Is get B'aJ ting a strong hold according to the B4 i statements of local tobacco and cigar B ) dealers, and there Is an Increasing B use of tho compound. This is appar- B M ently confined to tho foreign popula- B . tlon, however, and the sale Is largost B I among foreigners. B' ' i I Six horses dead and two more bare- B;i ' ' ly alive, out of a small bunch of ton, B'! 1 ' "" . yrero found on a ranch owned by B:, ; i George Couts, on tho Jordan river Bt ; near Salt Lake by a humano officer, BT ' nd an act,on wju Probabl' be Br, J .v. , . brought agnlnst Couts. The animals B-'-l ( L' tiad died from starvation. K' j |