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Show UTAH STATE NEWS S. Nakahara, .charged with attempting attempt-ing to kill T. Oshima, was found not guilty by a jury at Ogden. A total of 116 students are candidates candi-dates for graduation from the public schools of Provo city, at the close of the present school year. Delegates from every large city in the state were present at Ogden on May 9, the occasion being the annual state convention of tne Knights of Columbus. Caught beneath several tons of Bleel rails, S. Guml, a Japanese laborer, la-borer, was crushed to death at Ogden Og-den while helping unload the rails from the cars. The city council of Ephraim has taken action that is delsgned to improve im-prove the appearance of the city, by converting the grounds of the Central school into a park. The-people of Mosida, on the west side of Utah lake, are now receiving daily mail by private carriers from the Provo postoffice. They have petitioned pe-titioned for a postoffice. William James Hancock, aged 75 years, a Webe'r county pioneer of 1856, died at his home In Ogden, May 10, as a result of a complication of pneumonia and other diseases. An unknown Austrian stabbed and fatally wounded Samuel J. DeKay, a Denver & Rio Grande fireman, in a ealoon at Mldvale, following a quarrel. quar-rel. DeKay died later in a Salt Lake hospital. A passenger train crashed into a sheep camp wagon and outfit near Lehl, throwing the wagon several rods from the right-of-way without injuring in-juring a boy named Wren, who was driving. It was practically decided at a meet ing of the Salt Lake Commercial club excursions committee last week that the club should conduct a Utah excursion excur-sion into Idaho some time during the coming summer. Lawrence Marsh, the negro lawyer and editor of Salt Lake, charged with maltreating three white girls, has been cited before the supreme court to show cause why he should not be disbarred from practice. Prank Connors, who has been on trial in the Fourth district court at Provo since May 1 for the killing of Police Officer William Strong in that city June 27, 1899, was acquitted by the jury Friday morning. The Utah Construction company of Ogden has been awarded the contracts for the construction of twelve miles of additional track and grade for . the double-tracking of the Southern Pacific Paci-fic between Lucin and Tecoma. With about 100 women delegates present, representing practically every woman's organization in. the city, the Salt Lake Anti-Liquor league was organized and launched upon ita career in Salt Lake' on Wednesday. The new law especially provides that intoxicating liquor may only be sold in a saloon, a pharmacy or a club, and that it shall constitute a sale when the delivery of such and payment are made in me same place. Temporarily deranged through despondency de-spondency over his inability to shake off the drink habit, D. W. Shields, a car repairer of Ogden, slashed his throat with a 'razor and is now under the care of physicians, who believe that he will recover. The board of inquiry in charge of the investigation of the wreck May 3 near Tecoma, which caused the death of Engineer Lee Nelson, of Ogden, has made its report to the effect that Engineer En-gineer Nelson and Conductor W. G. Mulick were responsible for the accident. acci-dent. An attempt to blow up the residences resi-dences at American Fork of Mayor Gardner and S. L. Chipman, president of the Alpine stake, together with their families, was made one night last week. Dynamite was found which would have caused untold damage had it exploded. A lone locomotive running north on the Denver & Rio Grande through Jordan Narrows, in the southern end of Salt Lake valley, collided head on with the Eureka passenger train Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon damaging the engines en-gines and shaking up and bruising the passengers. The first trout planting of its kind ever attempted in this section has just been accomplished by the state fisheries department, when it completed com-pleted the setting out in the Provo river of 16,000 native brook trout, all of them being six inches or more 1 long, are all above the legal size. Falling from a bridge into the spillway ditch from the woolen mill at Provo, Joseph, the four-year-old son of ejsse D. Thompson, was carried car-ried for a distance of four blocks by the current, and the body of the drowned child was not recovered until un-til the water had been turned out of the ditch. Willard Hamer, one of the best known and most popular of the young attorneys of Salt Lake City, died suddenly sud-denly Friday. Death was due to heart failure, superinduced by the shock Of witnessing the killing of Walter Ax-tell Ax-tell by J. J. Morris, the hold-up. William B. Richey of Manti Is dead after an illness of several months. He built one of the first homes in Mantl and for several months during the Indian In-dian trouble he lived in a fort, and took an active part in all the battles with the red men in the early history of the county. |