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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Nolan Mellan, a Salt Lake City dairyman, was fined $10 for selling adulterated milk by Judge J. J. Whit aker police court Wednesday morning, Peter Delaney, a telegraph operator rr Salt. I-ake, shot Chief Operator Mc-Cardley Mc-Cardley of the Western Union offices a.t Iet.rolt, Thursday, according to a dispatch received in Salt Lake. That (hero are 2,000 idle men in Salt. Ijtke is the assertion of Captain M. M. Woods of the Salt Lake Charity Char-ity association, who has just returned to Salt. Lake from his vacation. Delegates from Utah, Idaho and Nevada Ne-vada are In Salt Iake in attendance at the convention of Eagles which was called to order at the F. O. E. headquarters, head-quarters, Friday. The jurors called to investigate the killing of seventeen men at the tunnel of the Union-Portland Cement company at Devil's Slide, exonerated the company from all blame. If Is claimed that a total of 5SC cars of peaches, pears and plums will bo handled out of Weber county between be-tween August 15 and September 5 by the Pacific Fruit Express company. Despondent over love affairs, Bertha Cross, a denizen of Ogden 's underworld, under-world, attempted to commit suicide in Electric alley Wednesday night by taking a large dose of potassium cyanide. cya-nide. William Hansen, state food and dairy commissioner, says the law requires re-quires that the exact weight of a butter package shall be Indicated, Instead In-stead of the present labeling of "from 14 to 16 ounces." J. N. Sparks, wanted on several charges of forgery in Ogden, is under arrest at Pocat.ello. An officer with a warrant for his arrest will be sent to the Idaho city at once to bring h'im to Ogden for trial. iWhile fishing at the mouth of Provo river, Arthur Hallariay found a human hu-man foot in a shoe partially buried in the sand where the river empties into the lake. Officers are trying to elear up the mystery. Joe Fougler had a narrow escape trom death in Ogden canyon Thursday night, when the horse he was driving took fright at an auto and bolted over lhe roadway to the jugged rocks of the river bottom, 20 feet below. Samuel Hooper, a bank clerk at Eureka-; was placed under bond In the sum of $500, Wednesday, to answer to a charge of assault upon the fifteen rear-old daughter of Louis Ginini, who ronducts a fruit store in thi'S city. Albert Ferre and Henry Holden, 19 and 21 years respectively, were arrested ar-rested Wednesday by Sheriff Judd of Provo and placed in the county jail on a charge of stealing a hive of bees from James Roberts. It is said that the boys stole the bees and sold them 'to Policeman W. Ferre, their uncle, If or $2.00. Bracing his leg, which is held still "by a plaster cast, across the back steps of a canyon rig, Edward Le-Compte, Le-Compte, son of Dr. I.cCompte of Park City, and -a medical student of the University of Utah, preventd a party ?f .voting women from jumping from a runaway wagon to an almost certain cer-tain death. The jury in the case of the state against John Diumenti, charged with igrand larceny, at Heber, returned a verdict Thursday of not guilty, after Ibelng out about thirty-five minutes. IDiimionti was charged with stealing six steers from William Jolley from the range in Wasatch county. He was arrested on May 28 and his trial was commenced here before Judge J. E. Booth on Tuesday. l)r. R. A. Broadhurst of the government govern-ment bureau of animal industry has been making tests for tuberculosis in dairy cattle at Mount Pleasant during the past two weeks. In all about 50 cows have been tested without revealing re-vealing a case. A jury in the district court of Og den Friday afternoon returned a verdict ver-dict of guilty in the case of William Brown, charged with burglarly. Chief Forester Henry S. Craves, the successor of Gilford Pinchot. arrived in Ogden Friday morning and spent the day with District Forester A. E. Sherman and the other officers of the Fourth district headquarters. Mr. Graves said that in all the forestry districts he has recently visited he has found matter moving along as smoothly as posible. Tom Thoris of Farnham. was he'd up, brutally beaten and robbed of $".5 late Wednesday night near Mosnds. by Joseph Barkarish and Steven Favich of Salt lake, who escaped towards to-wards Sunnyside. Deputy Sheriff P.ur-S's P.ur-S's and a posse from here were soon on the trail of the assailants and early Friday morning succeeded in capturing then. Three young toughs attacked an aged lady in Ogden Sunday night and atempted to snatch a valuable gold watch from tiPr belt. She made sucl: a heroic defense that the youths wen frightened off. making their escape without being apprehended. Wallace R. While, of Salt I.akc City, one of lhe best-known attorney; In Utah, dropped dead in Emigratioi canyon, shortly after 12 o'clock Wed nesday afternoon. Apoplexy, or hear failure, is presumed to have boon tin cause of death, judged by the circum i.tances. |