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Show UTAH STATE NEWb Thomas IiarkiT, who attempted to escape from an officer in Salt Lake ul I i r being a; rust.-.-d, was .shot in the log. Plans are luring made by residents of I'pper IJinglmiu to have tlv.it part of the camp annexed to the town of P.ingliam. Halt Lao City's fire Ions is the-lowest in the country in comparison with the-lire losses in other large citie3 of tho United States. The work of tearing down the Ling-ham Ling-ham Consolidated smelter at Midv.ile has begun, a force of twelve men being be-ing engaged on the job. ISurglars entered the stores of the Ilooth Mercantile company and Folger Uros. ei Co., at Garland and escaped with goods valued at $900. The Oregon Short Line has issued a call for bids on the construction of double tracking for twenty-two mile3. between Farmington and Ogden. The news comes from Richfield that M. Kabayashi, a Japanese laborer, lost his lite in the fcjovler river as a result of his horses being frightened by an auto. Entombed alive by a cave-in in the mine of the Ohio Copper company at llingham, Cirilla Miano, an Italian miner, was smothered to death beneath be-neath tons of earth. While unloading timbers from a car in the rauroad yards at Brigham City, Lyman Packer of that city had his right foot so badly smashed by a heavy piece of timber that amputation amputa-tion may be necessary. American Fork is to have a big horse show on April 14. The object of the show is to create more interest in tho breeding of fine horses, and thoroughbred stock in this section will be exhibited at tho show. A fully developed baby weighing but one aud a half pounds was born to Mrs. J. A. Hancock of Salt Lake last week. The child is a girl, is alive, and has a good chance to survive, notwithstanding not-withstanding its infinitesimal size. An organization or the Daughters of tho Pioneers has been effected at Richfield. All those who are daughters daugh-ters or granddaughters of those men und women who came to Utah before 1S53 are eligible to join the organization. organiza-tion. Following the footsteps of the Utah Development league, though on a larger scale, the Western Development Develop-ment association will inaugurate a cooperative co-operative system of handling inquiries received from prospective settlers and investors. After surveying and checking up on coal lands in Carbon and Sevier counties, the government has brought into effect a new classification of these lands, increasing the government govern-ment value all the. way from 50 to 500 per cent. Weapons were used Thursday in the laundry workers' strike in Salt Lake, when William Rufi, one of the Utnlciiig laundry workers, was fired upoji pri. wounded iu the left arm by 11. Tliiessen, a guti.,1 employed by one of tiie fcuMric-i, David S. McCurdy, sales agent in Utah tur the Crescent Manufacturing company of Seattle and one of the best known and most popular travel-'iug travel-'iug men of "the west, died in Salt Lake Thursday as a result of having fallen down stairs, fracturing his ekull. No legal proceedings will be required re-quired to show that Murray is a city of tho second class and is therefore entitled to the commission form' of city government, for the reason that about five years ago Murray was proclaimed pro-claimed to be in the second class by tho governor. After vetoing proposed appropriations appropria-tions amounting to ?S0,000, Governor William Spry on Tuesday approved the general apropri?.tion bill, providing provid-ing for expenditures of aproximately $2,500,000 for the general maintenance mainten-ance of the state government for the next two years. Cswell Knight, aged eighty-five years, a pioneer of Utah, who came to the Salt Lake valley in 1S50, died at Preston. Idaho, Tuesday of general debility. He had lived in the vicinity of Salt Lake for sixty years until recently re-cently he went to visit with his son in Idaho. He was a farmer. Application for right of way from Lund, on the Salt Lake Route, to Kanarraville, near the Washiugton-Iron Washiugton-Iron county line, has neen filed in the United States land office by Utah & Grand Crion Railroad company as the P.rst step towards the building of a line through southwestern Utah. With the opening of the 23,000-acre tract of land in Iron county, near Modena, Wednesday, under the enlarged en-larged homestead act, there was a general rush of land seekers. Applications Applica-tions for approximately 19,000 acres of land were received at the local land office within ten minutes after the office of-fice was opened. Five Greeks employed at the Utah Coper mine at Bingham and two Greeks working in the smelters si. Midvale, were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of naving come into the United States without passing the re quired immigration examination. - Heart trouble, resulting from the shock attendant upon the serious injury in-jury of his wife in a street car accident, acci-dent, caused the death in Salt Lake on Saturday of Joseph Warburton, patriarch pa-triarch of the Mormon church and bishop of the First ecclesiastical ward cf Salt Lakq for about forty years. |