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Show I UTAH STATE NEWS During an electrical storm at So phi, lightning struck the barn' of George B. Howard, burning It to the ground. Charles Shtnall, under arrest In Bait Lake City, has confessed to four-teen four-teen burglaries in the capital city during the past four months. Incendiaries are causing considerable consider-able damage in the vicinity of Santa-(juln, Santa-(juln, several haystacks having been destroyed by fire tbe past week. The Hainberger road will be double-. double-. tracked in the immediate future, lrom J Farmlngton to Kaysville, and also for five miles out of Salt Lake and Og- Clarence Morgan, a miner employ -ed at tbe Silver King Coalition mine, at 1'ark City, fell down a chute. fifty feet in length and escaped serious in- With the largest representation in the history of the union on hand, tho etate convention of the W. C. T. U opened In I'rovo on the 14th for a three days' session. The license to retail and wholesale liquor dealers of I'ark City was in-creased in-creased at a meeting of the city couu-ell couu-ell Thursday night. Mayor Frank Daly casting the deciding ballot Joe Nehalephl, 29 years ot k, was killed at the Columbus Consolidated mine in Alta district, Tuesday after-noon, after-noon, by the caving In of a seven-foot fl winze in which he was shoveling. At the fourth annual convention of he Utah State Federation of Labor, held In Salt Lake City, a resolution was adopted opposing any change in the present liquor laws of the state. Losing his balance and falling from the wagon in which he was riding, as tbe team took a sharp turn, Johu l. Ohlson, pioneer farmer of Hooper, Weber county, broke his neck, dying Instantly. W. J. Iiurns, a farmer of Beaver county, has raided probably the larg-est larg-est squash ever seen in the state. The squash, It is said, will weigh 250 pounds. It will be placed on exhlbl-Uon exhlbl-Uon at the state fair. At a meeting of the members of the Utah Press association at Trcmonton, on September 13, a resolution was H,' adopted placing the members on rec- H' ord as being against the creation of a railroad commission, Clement Strong, aged 9, was seri-ously seri-ously Injured at Alpine when a cart-ridge cart-ridge which he had found wuh ex-plodod, ex-plodod, the thumb and forefinger be-lug be-lug torn from the left hand and the right hand badly lacerated. While hunting doves In a can-yon can-yon about a mile south of Kaysville, C. W. Whitman of Salt Lako was ac- B cidentally shot In the leg by a friend. About 200 small shot entered tils H right leg just above the knee. H A most Important move In the dl- V rcction of good roads has been start- H cd In Sevier county. Next, week tho H1 county road commissioner win com- H menco work ut Sallna on a section of V the state road leading south. There i will be a matter of $3,000 spent on H this H Another mysterlouH lire occurred at H Tooele when the big barn belonging H to Henry Dorlmus, sccrcUiry or tho H Tooele waterworks, was burned. Tho H barn contained a largo quantity of H farming muchinery, which was do- H Htroyed. A horse valued at $250 was H also burned. H The recruiting station of the ma- H rinc corps, established in Suit Lake H City on June 25, has mudo an excel- H lent showing In enlistments for the H finrylco during that time. Seventy- fl three men have been enlisted, over H 80 per cent of theso being residents of H The digging of beets has com- H inonccd In Cacljo valley. Tho crop' is H short as compared with that of last H year. In some of tho big producing H districts like Lowlston tho estimate H is that there will bo at lenst a 30 por H cent reduction In tho crop. H Parasites which look like canta- fl loupe seeds aro believed to be tho H cause of tho death of tho wild fowl In H Utah, according to Dr. J. W. Truman, 1 city vetcrnarlan of Salt Lako, who lian forwurded specimens of tho para- H sltos to tho govomment health bit- H rcau at Washington. H The Socialists met In Salt Lako H :1; City and nominated a comploto state H ' and county ticket. Tho platform re- H nfllrjns tho principles embodied In H ! the national platform of 1900, declar- Ing in favor of a complete overthrow H of oxlutlng economic and political H Nno of Salt Lako'H groatost retail H establishments havo doclded to return H to tho lato closing Saturday nights and, beginning September 17 tho old H hours will bo resumed. Tho big mor- H chants claim thoy havo lost $150,000 H thla summer as . a result of the early H closing movomont |