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Show I UTAH STATE NEWS Tho citizens of Lehl hnvo dccldod to erect a $30,000 school house, making mak-ing flvo school houses for that town, Frank Hanson, former postmaster of Fillmore, has heen acquitted of tho charge of robbing nnd burning the postofflcc. Tho grand lodge session of Utah Knights of Pythlns was hold In Salt Lake City last week, ICO delegates being Jn attendance On Tuesday, May 17, tho Eureka volunteer flro department celebrated Its seventeenth anniversary. Tho do-pnrtment do-pnrtment Is tho prldo of Eureka. Henry C. Lamb, who has been post-master post-master at Wales since 1887, died Mny 18 after a short Illness. Mr. Lamb took an active part In tho Dlack Hawk Claudo II. Cllve, charged with mur-dor mur-dor In tho first degrco for killing W. O. Wilcox nt Mill Fork on tho night of Mny 7, has been released from jail on $G,000 ball. Mrs. Cclla E. Dean, agod CO, whllo engaged In washing windows at her homo In Salt Lake City, fell to tho ground, a distance of twelve feet, her neck being broken. Tho closed senson for duck shooting In Utah docs not begin until midnight, January 1, according to a district court decision rendered last week In the case of a Bingham man. Tho nnnuol state convention of tho Woodmen of the World convened in Logan on May 18, delegates from all ovor tho state boing present, a pnrada boing held preccedlng tho convention. Henri Montenas, a Journalist from Amsterdam, Holland, Is passing through Utah on his long tramp around tho world on n wager of $G,000. Ho Is to complete tho trip in flvo With the ndoptlon of n recommenda. Uon by Ogdcn's mayor to purchase a oarload of crude oil for tho sprlnklng of the city streets, It is thought that much of the prcsont road troubles will bo eliminated In tho Junction City. Tho Logan "boosters'" club had its annual clean-up on May 19, all refuso being gathered up, the weeds on tho H Bide of tho walks shorn, trees trim- mod, and a' general clean-up made, hundreds of citizens taking part In tho work. Henry Jennings, one of the pioneers of Lovon, died May 18 of heart fall-urc. fall-urc. Ho came to Utah from Tonnes-sco Tonnes-sco In 1848 and had s'nee resided nt Levan, a well known and well re-spected re-spected citizen. He was a Dlack Hawk Indian war veteran. Peter Wilson, an expert dynamiter, lies in tho Ogden general hospital at tho point of death, the fingers of both hands blown off, his Intestines per-Toratcd per-Toratcd and his skull badly cut and bruised, as tho result of a powder explosion at Lakeside. Albert J. QUI, a book-binder of Salt Lake, who had two fingers cut off as tho result of an accident last week, has had tho fingers sowed back on, nnd nil Indications arc that ho will bo able to use them after the healing pro-cess pro-cess hns been completed. George Vcllass, n Greek laborer, wa3 literally ground to pieces by falling from a gravol train in Salt Lako City when some newsboys throw gravel at tho train ns it was passing, tho claim boing mndo that a small stone struck Vcllass, causing him to fall, Two large paper balloons with yards of flaming rags trailing In their wnko threw consternation Into tho hearts of many people who took the fl balloons for cometary fragments when they appeared above tho eastern horl-zon horl-zon at Ogden on Wedncsdny at tho hour when It was reported tho earth would pass through the comet's tail. When Mrs. Mat Shobcr of Tooo'.o missed her little son, two and one-half one-half years old, she immediately sought assistance of neighbors nnd n search-Ing search-Ing party was organized. After a few hours' hunt the baby boy was found dead In n crcok near his homo. Elmer Hooth, an actor, ' may lose , tho sight of ono eye as , tho result of an accident at Ogden. The hcrolua of tho play fired n shot at him with a pistol loaded with blank cartridges, when tho heavy wad from ono of tho cartridges struck him just ovor 'tho right eye. "Come out and danco yourself . to deatih" was tho cheerful invitation sont out from. CentorJlold Mondny. "The last dance on earth," which was given whllo Halloy's comet Is frollck-Ing frollck-Ing through' the skies, tpok place Wed-. Wed-. .D(?sday night at the Centerfleld opora Souse., " Tom Rico, an Indian of tho Navajo tribe, whosb homo Is af'Sbom on tho Shebit reservation, Washington conn-. conn-. ty, lo on trial in the federal court In Salt Lake City on a charge of man-slaughter, man-slaughter, he having killed his broth-er-in-law, John Rico, with an ax Do-cembor'll, Do-cembor'll, 1909. |