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Show UTAH STATE NEWS John King, aged 72, a cripple, sustained sus-tained a broken leg when he was thrown out of a Japanese restaurant in Salt Lake by one of the employes. A ' largo area of land In Wasatch county will be thrown open f jr entry in February, according to orders received re-ceived at the Salt Lake land office from Washington. The Weber club, which was burned out by the fire which destroyed the Ecclcs building at Ogden, expects to be in its new temporary quarters' iby Thanksgiving day. Carbon county will send a representative represen-tative delegation of its sheepmen to the annual convention of the Utah Wool Growers' association, to be held in Salt Lake December 8-9. The preliminary hearing in the case of the state of Utah vs. John E. Brown, charged with the murder of his son-in-law, James A. Dubois, will be held at Moab on December 6. The shipping of sugar beets from Green River is practically complete. Altogether a dozen cars have been loaded at this station. The growers have received an average of $5.50 per ton for their crop. That the state will have considerable consider-able opposition to its plan to build a dam across the Logan river at the mouth of the canyon was evidenced by the enthusiastic meeting of protestants held at Logan last week. To enable the teachers In the Weber county schools to attend the annual convention of state teachers in Salt Lake, the schools, after closing Friday for the Thanksgiving vacation will not reopen until December 4. The government, through the secretary secre-tary of the interior at Washington, has reported that the work on the Strawberry project is now just half completed and that the work so far has been very satisfactory. Charles Logle, an employee of the Daly-Judge 'mine, at Park City, was stabbed twice in the right breast, by Steve Vandelich, with a miner's candlestick. can-dlestick. Owing to the heavy clothing worn y Logle he was not seriously injured. George R. Wickham, a traveling man, was set upon by an able-bodied beggar when he had refused to give alms, and was so terribly beaten that he may be disfigured for life. Wick-sham's Wick-sham's assailant was captured and is behind the bars. The department of animal husbandry of the Utah Agricultural college at Logan has begun a campaign in the k interest of the livestock of the state, with the end in view of having the different sections of the state specialize special-ize in animal breeding. John Lawrence, a young man of 27 years, who was born and reared in Park City and has always held an enviable reputation, was found in an unconscious condition Wednesday night, having been beaten by thugs. No motive is known for the act. The farmers near Brigham City again are having trouble in harvesting the suar beet crop. Many growers have harvested only half of their beets and have been compelled during the past few days to dig the beets out of the snow, which has covered the fields. After battling for life nearly three months at a Salt Lake hospital, Olaf 'C Amunsen, for years a town character , of Murray, who sustained a fracture of the spine in falling from a scaffold- Ing on a barn he was building at Big Cottonwood early in September, died Wednesday. C. L. McDonald, who recently married mar-ried a Salt Lake girl, has been arrested ar-rested at Great Falls, Mont., on the charge of bigamy, the charge being preferred by a woman at Lincoln, Nebraska., who claims she is McDon-a'd's McDon-a'd's wife, and that he has never secured se-cured a divorce from her. By December 1 the new transmission transmis-sion line of the Utah Light & Railway company between Weber canyon and Bait Lake City will be cut into service. The company has supplanted the wooden poles for carrying the high tension wire with indestructible steel lowers at a heavy expense. The directors of the Utah Lake Irrigation Ir-rigation company and the Utah Lake Distributing company have started work on the canal which will be run eighty-five feet above the level of Utah lake and around to the point of the mountain. It will bring under cultivation 3,000 acres of land. The domestic science department of Rranite high school has exhausted its supply of money, and the members of his department, rather than ask the board of education for further aid have decided to establish a cafeteria, supplying sup-plying the students with hot meals, tnd thus raise the necessary funds. Bear River valley farmers are prosperous, pros-perous, judging from the figures of the last payday of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company. When the company made Its first payment for beets, checks to :he amount of $200,000 were issued to the farmers of the Bear River valley. Two men attempted to blow the lafe in the Denver & Rio Grande station sta-tion at Bingham. Two charges of nitroglycerin were used, but neither as heavy enough to force open the afe. The noise of the explosions irousrd the neighborhood and the i men were scared away. I |