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Show H i UTAH STATE NEWS A Juvonllo band In being organized at Wlllnrd. The burnt will bo com-posed com-posed of about twenty pleccH. k Tlio population of Utah wn In- creased 10,009 by bablen alono during ' 1908. a hIiowii In a table compiled by II. T. Unities, Htato Htntlsticlan. Tho commissioner of Indian war vctoraiiB liavo decided to hold hcssIoiif 1 until March ft, when It In expected their work will have been finished. A raccoon wits recently killed In kj Uio niouiitalnH near Thlatlo. Kor a time it was not known to wliat nnl-mal nnl-mal family tho one killed belonged to. I MlHtaken for a burglar while he was ! hunting for burglarH, Albert 1). rat- i iitrong was shot and seriously Injured by his brthcr-ln-law In Salt Lake City. Walter Cox of Provo has been ' granted a patent on an attic window rastoner, which permits the opening of tho window without removing tho State Suporlntcudcut of Schools Nelson, who recently underwent a so- rlous operation in Chicago, Is reported HrN j to bo rapidly Improving and will soon bo ablo to lcavo the hospital. ! According to statistics compiled by j Stato Statistician II. T. Hnlucs, there wore K17 males and one female con-vlctcd con-vlctcd of felonies In the state during tho year 1000 and sent to tho stato j Work on tho construction In Salt Lake City of the now $00,000 house of worship for tho Iminanucl Baptist ' church will bo comnicncod at once, ' following the action of tho congrcga- VIon nt a meeting held Tluirsdny. Mrs. Anna M. Uradloy has renewed her fight In the Third district court to break tho will of tho lato ox-Senator Arthur Brown, and secure a part of tho Brown estate, valued at from $50,-000 $50,-000 to $150,000, for her two children. Whllo Salt Lake City seems to over-run over-run with footpads, they do not always succeed in making rich hauls. Four of RJL that gentry held up a Salt Laker ono 1 1 night recently, and, after searching all i his pockets, discovered but tnirty j Between 250 and 300 members of the Young family attended the nnnu-al nnnu-al reunion In Salt Lake City, on Feb-niary Feb-niary 22, of tho descendants of Prcsl-dent Prcsl-dent Brlgham Young and his broth-ore, broth-ore, Lorenzo, Phlncas, Joseph and Walter J. Manning, a car inspector In the employ of tho Western Pacific, was instantly killed nt Wcndover, when he fell under the rear car of tho worktraln at that place, having lost his footing in attempting to board the Thcodoro McKenn, aged 17 years, was shot and seriously wounded at a fl ,: character ball at Bountiful, by Jasper ': Hepworth, his chum, who did not know that the rovolver ho pressod to McKcan's body contained a loaded cartridge. 1 The agitation of a sane and safe Fourth of July celebration is growing throughout the state, and it is expect-ed expect-ed that at tho different celebrations this year tho promiscuous use of ex-, ex-, plosives and fire arms will be strictly prohibited. While he and companions wore playing with bow and arrows in a vacant lot, nt Sandy, Lelnnd .lorgen-M- Ron, the young son of Enoch .lorgen- i son, principal of tho high school, was hit in tho eye with an arrow, tho nr-row nr-row splitting tho eyeball. Joseph E. Perry, for the past thirty years a resident of Park City, was found dead in a chnlr nt his homo by i tho milk man when ho called to supply tho family with milk. Death was duo to heart disease. Mr. Perry was 7-1 years old and a native of Illinois. - William Nelson, aged HO. who died at New Orleans from an attack of pleurisy on February 22, was a son of ' William Nelson, editor-in-chief of tho Salt Lako Tribune, and wns one of the best known prlntors in tho state, and a veteran of the Spanish-American B- J. M. Blckcl of Richfield has per- . fected a process for converting gj'p- Ll Bum into marblo by a chemical pro- cess. This process consists of all the molsturo in gypsum being exuded by heat. The gypsum is then immersed in. a chemical solutluil, which converts It into marble. Hv Snow from three to five feet deep has practically tied up active opera- Hri' tlons at tho great plant of tho Union Hlf Portland Cement company in Weber j canyon. Extra lorces of men are be- . Ing employed clearing away the snow ' from the quarries and guarding ; against avalanches. 1 As the result of an analysis by tho stato chemist, it has boon decided that f Miss Hazel Astoll, who died under pe- ! cullar circumstances Jn Sandy, Fobru- ary 7, came to hpr death from mor-phlno mor-phlno poisoning. B. II. Cotton, her sweotiieart, will bo charged with mur-dor mur-dor In tho second degree. |