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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Th nffw city adm'iilstration of Mid-Tale Mid-Tale contemplates the Innlallat Ion ol a, water system in the near future. The next Municipal League convention conven-tion will be held in Sandy next January, Janu-ary, that town having won over ML Pleasant, and Mailt! at the Ixgan convention. con-vention. Scott. Lynn, a midshipman from Salt Lako City, has been dismissed from Annapolis, and his friends In Utah have taken steps to have his case reconsidered. re-considered. Members of the Manufacturers association as-sociation of Utah are making a determined deter-mined effort to arrange for the reopening re-opening of the Provo woolen mills, which have been Idle for several years. An election is to be held at Pricn on February 15 to vote on the proposition proposi-tion of bonding the city for J 1 0,000 for the purpose of erecting an electric lighting plant and establishing a system. sys-tem. Land owners under the new state canal north of Richfield have secured the promise of the use of enough water wa-ter from the state land board to irrigate ir-rigate 2,000 acres of new land this year. While driving along Twenty-fifth Btreet In Ogden, a buggy belonging to George Butler was run into by a street car and Butler thrown to the pavement, pave-ment, but he escaped with slight bruises. George Bridenbecker, one of the Injured In-jured trainmen in the Lemay wreck on the Southern Pacific, will not lose his leg, as was at first supposed, It having been found that the member can be saved. Widespread interest is being manifested mani-fested at Murray in the proposed revival re-vival of the flax seed industry. For 'the past two months meetings have been held and a great deal of good accomplished. Property values in Juab county are on the rise. The greatest demand appears ap-pears to be for thy farm lands, which often bring as high as ?G0 per acre. The country is booming agriculturally, and prospects for the coming spring are unusually bright. George Radeliffe and Charles Mux-)hy, Mux-)hy, suspected of holding up and robbing rob-bing the conductor and motorman on a street car in Salt Lake City, have lieen placed behind the bars in Salt Lake City, ltadcliffe has made a confession con-fession which implicates Murphy in the holdup. . Whether or not it Is lega.l for the city to impose a license against the hatchers while other kinds of business busi-ness are exempt will he the point at Issue when the case of seventeen butchers, arrested for failing to pay the license for the year 1909, will come up for hearing in Ogden. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sprague and William Morgan have been arrested in Salt Lake City on a charge of counterfeiting. coun-terfeiting. The remains of a counterfeiting counter-feiting plant was found at the Sprague residence, while several counterfeit coins were found in the possession of both Morgan and Sprague. Within a few weeks the Utah Packing Pack-ing and Provision company, which filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state a few days ago, will begin the erection of one of the most up-to-date and modern packing plants west of Omaha, in Salt Lake City. The company has a capital of $100,000. An outbreak of the disease known ns goitre has developed in the little town of Freedman, nearly every female fe-male in the town suffering from the disease, a swelling of the thyroid gland in the neck. Physicians believe the water used by the residents of the town is responsible for the disease. dis-ease. Joe Arnone. a prominent Italian of Pueblo, and Mattie B. Murray, a girl 17 years of age, have been arrested in Salt Lake City, it being charged that Arnone had abducted the girl, who was living with him as his wife, from tier home iu Pueblo. A few hours after being ordered confined in the state mental hospital, A. E. Davis, a motorman employed on the Salt Lake street railway, died in a padded cell inte county jail. Davis was in a street car wreck some time ago, in which his closest friend was killed, and worry over the affair drove him insane. As the result of the verdict of a coroner's cor-oner's jury, William Naughton, head brakeman of the freight train with which a passenger train collided at Lemay, on January IT, must answer to the district court on a charge of criminal negligence, due to leaving the switch open, thus causing the collision col-lision and the death of four men. The subterranean Union depot, in Ogden, which were among the im-irovements im-irovements planned in this city by lie llarriman railroads for this spring, lave been abandoned, at least temporarily. tem-porarily. No reason for this change las been announced. Tbe Dick bill, passed by congress to nave state laws conform to federal regulations re-gulations regarding mtlktas. went Into i'li'ect on January '22, and it finds Utah well prepared with a law passed by the last legislature conforming with ks requirements. Word has been received in Ogden of the permanent promotion of George McCabe to the position of chief of (he forest service law department, with headquarters in Washington. Mr. McCabe Mc-Cabe is an Ogden man, having entered enter-ed the forest department several years ago. |