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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Tho county assessor reports that WJM the assessed valuation of Salt Lako Cty Is fifty-six million dollars. A Salt Lake druggist, convicted of WW selling beer without n Uccnso, has been sentenced to ninety day a In Jail. Ell Kendall, Justlco of tho peace at Lehl for many years, wns run down by a frightened horso n few days ago, mistnlnlng serious Internal Injuries. The conunorclal travelers of Utah Hb nro making great preparations for tho iSH annual U. C. T. outing to be hold at Provo for two days, beginning July I. I The Denver & Hlo Grando Railroad I company has commenced unloading I 20,000 tons or coal at Green lllver for I Btorago to havo on hand In case of I emergency. I On tho new Western Pacific be I twoon Salt 1-ako City nnd Oakland I there nro forty-thrco tunnels, tho ng- I grogato length of which figure closo I to nlno miles. I Tho supervisor of census for Utah I hns been authorized by Director Du- I rand to oxtend Indefinitely the time I of taking tho census In Salt Lake City I and other parts of Utah. I Farmers and orchnrdlsts in tho I northern part of the state are jubilant I over tho recent storms which havo I visited these parts. Heforo the storm I everything was drying up. I Inasmuch as all debts on the mag- I nlflcont now tnbernaclc erected In I Lehl at a cost of $G0,000 have been I paid, and the building completed, the I edlflco will bo formally dedicated I May IS. I Eugcno Thnygarson, a structural I Iron workor, 152 years old, fell head I foremost from tho third floor of tho I Utah hotel structuro In Salt Lako to I tho basement and received injuries I that aro likely to provo fntal. I Ernost Lokc, 35 yenrs old, a fireman I In tho employ of tho Denver & Hlo I Orando railway at Bingham, while In I the net or oiling his engine, slipped I nnd fell beneath tho wheels, sustain- I ing injuries which resulted in his I death. I Considerable opposition Is develop- I Ing against tho merchants' license or- I dlnance passed by the city council I several weeks ago by certain classes I of business men of Ogden, nnd the I constitutionality of tho ordinance will I be tested. I i To celobrato tho raise In wages from I $l.G0 to ?R.O0 a day, tho Salt Lako I union carpenters held a jollification I meeting Wednesday night. Tho car- I pentors gave notlco somo tlmo ago of I the expected Increase, and tho con- I tractors granted tho request. ISovcnty-sIx thousand ncres of lnnd will presently bo reclaimed In tho famous fa-mous Beaver district. This land will be put on tho market by tho Beavor Irrigation, Lnnd and Powor company. It Is situated south and southeast of Milford, in Mlnersvllle canyon. There havo been 202,000 ncres ol arid land takon up In the stnto nl Utah, under section 6 of tho enlarged I homestead act or February 19, 1909, i according to a roport made by tho j United States land office in Salt Lake to tho general land office nt Washing ton. I Ray Leavltt, aged 9, had a narrow j escapo from death at Provo. when ho j was thrown from n horse. As ho fell, his foot caught In the rolnB and tho j boy wns dragged over the rough road for more than a block. Ills clothing was torn from his body nnd ho wns considerably bruised. A force or men Is bUBy tearing down I tho Btlclng stntlon at Sprlngville of tho Utah Sugar company. Part or tho plant will bo shipped to Richfield, whoro It will bo used In tho now factory fac-tory to bo built thero, and part will bo taken to Provo and used In the sllc-i sllc-i ing plant, which will bo enlarged. To care for employees on tho Lucln cut-off who may become Injured while nt work, tho Sotithorn Pacific Railroad company is arranging for an emergency emer-gency hospital on wheels to bo maintained main-tained at Lakeside, under tho direction direc-tion of n competent trained nurse. MM During nn electrical storm nt Ply- WMM mouth, in Box Elder county, eight MMM head of horses were killed by light- WWm i nlng. The animals were feeding along H, the, country road near Mound Springs, Hj whpn , tho heavy bolt struck right In Hj the middle of tho bunch, instantly kill- MmMm Ing soven nnd fatally Injuring ono Dan H. Harrlgan, 54 years of age, anil a section foreman, died in a Salt Lake hospital on Sunday as tho result WWM of a peculiar accident. lie had, whllo Hj In a tool house, overturned n can of gasoline, and breathing tho fumes of H( tho gasoline wns responslblo for his WWM death. Falling head first over the railing of the stairway on the third floor to tho second floor, Gus Miller, 45 years of age and 'employed as ' a shoemaker, was instantly killed in ' a, rooming house In Salt Lake City... MUlor was WmW intoxicated when-the accident -,oc- H "jre.(l, t , |