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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Fifteen Chir.:nen wore arrested kt Ogden when a raid was raad UIon a gambling resort. That new gas company proposed for Provo and vicinity will be in operation op-eration August 1, is the news thai comes from that city. Arrangements are being made by which the government of the United Suites will assist, in protecting the lives of boaters and bathers on the Great Salt Lake. After his pathetic plea for clemency, clem-ency, A. B. Edler, alias Floyd Scott, formerly of Salt Lake, was sntenced to five months in the county jail at Los Angeles for misuse of the mails. John L. Reynolds, aged 6:5, a building build-ing contractor of Iehi, died at 4 Salt L-ake hospital last week ot a fracture of the left leg, sustained at Newhouse six days previous while constructing a mill. Sparks leaping from a wood fire In an open grate, set fire to a mattress, on which a babe four weeks old was sleeping, at the home of M. Ferrara, in Salt Lake, and burned the child so severely that it may die. D. E. Pinkham, an express wagon driver of Ogden, was painfully injured in-jured when his horse ran away and threw the driver to the pavement. He sustained lacerations about the head and was severely bruised. Offended by the attitude of the city commission, in disregarding a legal I opinion rendered by him several days ago, C. S. Varian, corporation comiso of the city of Salt Lake, has tendered his resignation to the commission. Much interest is being taken by the dairymen of Utah county in getting get-ting the finest dairy stock that can be purchased in the country, and a number of farmers and dairymen are sending east Dor thoroughbred stock. I The Utah company, a $5,000,000 concern, is the corporate name, of the company formed to take over Utah coal properties and operate an inter-urban, inter-urban, railroad connecting the mines with the Salt Lake Route at Spanish Fork. Suddenly stricken while in Salt Lake to attend conference, Charles Wood, Sr., a prominent merchant of Holden, Millard county, died on the 9th. Mr. Wood was eighty-seven years old. The cause of death was general debility. While writing a letter to his mother, moth-er, Joseph Sellers, employed as a pWV in Rait T.ake Cit.v. tonnled from his chair at the writing table and fell across the bed, dying from a severe hemorrhage of the lungs before medical med-ical aid could be summoned. Charles Wise, aged 20 years, and Wallace Shown, aged 30 years, who have been, held in the Salt Lake City jail, under suspicion of being the murderers of James O'Connor, the druggist who was killed by robbers: have been reelased farm custody. The date for the holding- of the Democratic convention for the selection selec-tion of delegates to the national convention con-vention was changed from May 11 to May 14 at a meeting of the executive committee of the Democratic slate committee, held in Salt Lake last week. Edward Burby, a young man who was shot by a special officer in Salt Lake, when the young nntn and a J companion were apprehended steal- log food from a box car they had broken into, is reported to be out of danger. It. was at first thought he would die. Mrs. Jennie Col.on of Woods Cross is suiTcing from lock jaw. About, two weeks ago she was vaccinated and a day or so later had a tooth extracted, ex-tracted, but the a! lending physicians are unable to determine whether either of these was the direct cause of the attack. The low temperature which prevailed pre-vailed at Ogden and vicinity on the 10th is declared ny trim growers uj have been a great bein-fif to the orchards or-chards in that it i0 retard the development de-velopment of the buds, which have been swelling very rapidly during the pfst few days. Headed by Abel John Evans a delegation of residents of Provo and Heber City called on (1 vernor William Wil-liam Spry l"st week and urged thai the board . examiners pp' mit. a deficit de-ficit in the e "ilneering fund sufficient suffi-cient to pay IV, r a hydrographic survey sur-vey of the Piovo river. At a meeting of the board of regents re-gents of the University of Utah last week it was decided to give a three-year three-year course in law, which, together with one year of other work, will lead to the degree of bachelor of laws. This is the outcome of a controversy lasting over three years. Charles Green, aged 45, and a resident resi-dent of Pleasant Grove si'iee childhood, child-hood, dropied dead on the lOUi. lie was currying a horse when l-.e fell backward and called for help. Two of his young sons ran to their , father's Bide and found him dead. Machine and stope men to th number of 370 employed at the Boston Bos-ton Consolidated mine at Bingham went on strike Wednesday night They demand $3.50 a day instead ol $3, which they have been receiving The striking workmen are composed of AuBtrians and Bulgarians. Competition in the sale of electrical power and lighting in the city of Sail Lake was virtually assured last weeli when a delegation representing th Merchants' Light & Power company of Ogden conferred with the citj ; oommisslon regarding a franchise. j I I V ( |