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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Utah hns loss thnn 2.000 miles of railroad within its borders, one of the smallest state totals. Tho Commercial-Booster's club ol Logan, through tho committee on nil-vortlslng nil-vortlslng and promotion, lias issued u folder setting forth tho advantages of Cache county and Logan City. According to tho records kept by the Southern Pacific Railroad com-pnny com-pnny of the rise and fall of the Great Salt Lake, there has been no percept-iblo percept-iblo riso in tho water lately. Without recovering sufficiently to 'lj explain under what circumstances his JHH throat wns cut at Kcmnicrcr, Wyo J. 13. Smith died in a Salt Lake hospl-tal. hospl-tal. The belief is entertained that he met with foul play. When a big machine drill cut Into nn old charge of dynamite on the Western Pacific, fifteen miles beyond Tlmpio, half a dozen laborers were hurled in tho air, three 01 them sus-taining sus-taining serious injuries. Decisive steps looking to the com-plction com-plction of the silver service to he con-trlbutod con-trlbutod by the stato of Utah for the new battleship Utah were taken at a meeting of the silver service com-mlttcc com-mlttcc in Salt Lake City. Payson is preparing to eclebrato on October 20 and 21. the sixtieth annl vcrsary of the settlement of "Potent-ncet "Potent-ncet Creek" on a scalo perhaps never before attempted by tho people of any city of its slzo in the west. Having failed to connect him with the Oregon Short Line train robbery ! of last June, the authorities have re- leased Thomas Wilson from the conn- ty Jail at Ogdcn, where ho has been a prisoner for two months. The Utah State Retail Merchants' association held its annual convention in Salt Lake City on Wedncsdny and Thursday. One of the results of the convention, it is expected, will be the establishment of a state Journal for the retail trade. After n two days' session, chnrnc-terized chnrnc-terized by leading physicians as one of the most Instructive and interest-I interest-I Ing meetings held In years, tho Utah j State Medical association conc.uded I Us sixteenth annual meeting, in Snlt Lake City, on Tuesday. - Tho city council of Provo has grant- od a hundred-year franchise to Evans, Chlpman and others, to build and op-orate op-orate an electric raiway lino through that city. The line must be complct-ed complct-ed and in running order through the city within three years. Paul Gorskc, wealthy Russian cattle owner, with 35 000 ncrcs of range In J Nevada and Utah, has left for a four months' visit with relatives In Russln. Mr. Gorske Is one of the largest indl-! indl-! vldual cattle owners of the west, rang- ing close to 12,000 head. That Sanford K. Marsh, who is said to have swindled the Windsor hotel out of $110 by means of n bogus chock, and was arrested at Grant's Pass, Ore., and brought back to Salt Lake for trial, lias a long career as a bad check man is claimed by the Plnkertons. Catching a burglar In the act of robbing trunks and dressers in her apartments in Salt Lake City, Mrs. 1 Ray Peterson dashod upon him and, leveling a revolver at his head, dis-charged dis-charged two shots almost point blank Neither shot took effect, and the bur-glnr bur-glnr After plying tho heavy waters of Great Salt lake slnco l'JOl, the steamer Promontory, tho largest craft ever launched on the inland sea, hns been dismantled by the Southern Pa-clflc Pa-clflc company nnd now lies a barren hulk, prey to tho lirst storm to swoop the beach near Lakeside. To satisfy a Judgment of $13,317.70. against tho Ogden & Northwestern railroad, tho property of the company operated under the name of tho Og- I den Rnpld Transit company from Og- den City to the Utah Hot Springs, has H bcon sold nt public auction. Refusing to testify in police court in Salt Lake City against her bus I band, Mclvln Knrth, who flvo months ' ago attempted her llfo by shooting, 1 Mrs. Eva Karth was successful in so- 1 curing the relcaso of tho man, but la- ter in the day she wns granted i I divorce in tho district court. 1 , Colonel George I). Squires, commls- sioner of Insurance for Utah, proml-nent proml-nent member of tho Grand Army of H tho Republic and prominent in bus!- ness and politics, died Friday at his homo in Salt Lake City, death being H caused by a combination of several ailments. ( The farmers of Rich valley are- hap- py, having closed n successful year of farming. Crops aro better than ox pected, considering tho dry season. Oats are as good quality, weighing from thirty-eight to forty-eight pounds I to tbo bushel, whllo tho wheat goos I is hich as seventy pounds. |