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Show I UTAH STATE NEWS I A brush Are on the rldgo between Nephl and Lovan did much damage to j the grain. Ovoreomo by tho heat, Bert Couhcll, u negro employed as driver, fell from n wagon In Salt Lako City and bus-talncd bus-talncd severo bruises about tho head. Drlgham citizens are getting busy in tho matter of selecting a site for tho new federal building, for which $35,000 was appropriated by congress rqccntly. The Ogden Morning Examiner, tho only morning newspaper In the June-tlon June-tlon city, has mado a voluntary as-jH as-jH slgnment for the benefit of its crcd- In a free-for-all fight In a saloon In HH Salt Lako City, Frank Qaugham re- eclved sovere cuts on the body, his assailant being a Greek, who mado his Dcforo tho close of tho present year Plain City homes will bo lighted by electricity. This Is the nows sent out from tho llttlo agricultural city to tho north of Ogden. Peter Kokos, tho Creek who, It is al-leged, al-leged, is suffering from leprosy, has been placed In the Salt Lake pest house, and an offort will be mado to deport tho afflicted man. Surveyors for tho proposed railroad from Cedar Creek to Huntington aro now In the field and prospects for railroad facilities within the next fow months are very bright. A Rio Qrande passenger train crashed Into the cabooso of a freight train at Sprlngvlllc, causing a sovere shaking up of tho passengers, but no ono was sorlously Injured. After three months of wrangling a slto has been selected for Salt Lake City's proposed half-million dollar high echool building. Tho proposed site will cost tho city $102,000. Daylight burglaries aro becoming a common occurrence in Salt Lako City, the wave of crime being charged to the criminal olemcnt on their way east from tho Reno prize fight. John II. White, a prominent stock-man stock-man and former vice-president of the State Fair association, died suddenly at his homo In Salt Lako City on July 12, death being duo to heart disease. The officials or tho Ogden Rapid Transit company promise to have the Intorurban read between Drlgham City and Ogden completed before Peach day, and help carry tho crowds to fl Drlgham. Samuel Hadley of North Ogden was badly injured when a spirited horso driven by him took fright at a passing Kiito and, after running wildly for a quarter of a mile, crashed into a fenco, throwing him from the buggy. Plans for an old-fashioned colobra-tlon colobra-tlon of "Pioneer day," July 24, are un-dor un-dor way at North Ogden. Owing to tho fact that July 24 Is on Sunday, tho following Monday will be chosen for tho carrying out of the program. Thirty-eight enumerators are taking the school consus of Salt Lako City. Last year the school census showed 20,114 children of school ago in tho city limits, and It is expected that the count will exceed 25,000 this year. It Is announced that tho Oregon Short Lino will at once erect an $8,000 station at Murray, which will bo a vory largo and handsouie structure. A now freight houso will also bo erected. It will bo used Joint-ly Joint-ly with tho Salt Lako Routo. John S. Painter who died at his homo In Nephl following a sovcro at-tack at-tack of blood poison, was one of tho pioneers of this country and also an Indian war veteran. Ho was born In Buttorworth, England, February 27, 1838, and camo to Utah in 18G2. Directly resulting from tho now city ordlnanco compelling milkmen of Og-den Og-den to bottlo their milk, tho price of this product has taken a decided up-ward up-ward jump. Hereafter milk will ro-tall ro-tall In tho city for fourteen quarts for a dollar Instead of sixteen quarts. It appears that tho extromo drought of tho past few months has had but llttlo effect on tho grain crops of Box Elder, according to reports from varl-ous varl-ous parts of tho country. Samples of dry farm wheat is being shown by i farmers that has stood over flvo feet , In height. The people of Nephl woro terribly shocked Monday evening at the sudden and untimely death of "Todo" Sporry, i a well-known young shoopman. Ho has been suffering for somo time with , goiter, and wont to Salt Lako to un- dergo an operation. Ho did not re-cover re-cover from tho oporatlon. Sprlngvlllc and Mapleton and tho people of the adjoining territory aro In a fair way to procure a water supply removed from dangor of pollution, Tho forestry dopartment at Washington, D. C, has signified Us Intention of restoring to tho forest reserve the , part of tho water shed from which j their water supdLt 1b obtained. |