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Show UTAH STATE NEWS During a football game at Park City, Itobert Edwards, member of a Salt Lake team, had his leg broken. For breaking into a store in Ogden, William Lindsey will have to serve leven years In the penitentiary. Aleck Heck of Oenterfleld was Ihrown from a fractious horse, the fall breaking his leg and Injuring his Bplne. State Treasurer Mattson's report for November shows that there was a balance on hand, November 30, of $410,912.94. Roller skating Is on the wane In Ogden, and It is rumored that the skating rink Is to be remodeled and used as a theatre. A reclamation scheme has been started at Monroe whereby 1,500 additional ad-ditional acres will be reclaimed on the , bench south of the town. Salt Lake's bank clearings for the month of November, 1909. reached the highest point in the history of the city, the sum being $33,282,000. With the arrest of Earl Barber, aged 19 years, the police believe they have taken the leader of a gang of youthful thieves, which has been operating op-erating In North Salt Lake. There are 104,876 children attending attend-ing school in the state of Utah, as compared with 102,056 in 1908, an increase in-crease of 2,920. The total for the counties is 70,309; for the cities, 34,-667. 34,-667. Morton J. Cheesman, a prominent business man of Salt Lake City, dropped dead at his home Tuesday morning. He was interested in Walker Wal-ker Bros.' bank and the Walker Dry Goods company. Reports on th.e national forest business busi-ness for last year show that 4,449 cattl.a and hu.se permits, and 1,449 sheep permits were issued, allowing the grazing of 118,059 head of cattle, 6,799 horses and 905,446 sheep in Utah. Ben Sparks, one of the prominent young men of Ephraim, died at his home, after suffering for several days as a result of exposure during the re- cent cold weather. He was thrown rom his horse and lay out in the open all night. The constant danger to passengers at the Ogden Union depot while fre-Queutly fre-Queutly crossing several tracks to get to their trains, is to be partially obviated obvi-ated by the installation of subterranean subterran-ean passageways leading to the tracks from the depot. Tex Rickard, the Ely mining man, has secured the handling of the Jeffries-Johnson championship fight, and will give Salt Lake the first chance. If the capital city can guarantee the fight can take place witlaout interference, interfer-ence, the championship may be settled there. With both arms fractured between the elbow and the wrists, Lewis Mar-enelle, Mar-enelle, an Italian, was picked up in Ogden, and when his injuries were being attended to it was found the man was insane. He will be sent to the State Mental hospital until he recovers. re-covers. George W. Reed, a pioneer journalist journal-ist of the state, died at his home in Salt Lake City on December 1, at the aged of 77, as a result of injuries sustained sus-tained in a collision with an automo-mlle automo-mlle on October 16. Mr. Reed was employed on the Deseret News In the early days. Free school wagons, for the purpose pur-pose of conveying the children living on the outskirts of the town to school eveiy morning, are now in operation at Sandy. The matter of wagons for this purpose has been before the school board for some time and at last was agreed upon. Clarence Ernst and Nick Vacos, in the Weber county jail on the charge of murder, are to be tried early in January. Ernst, a negro, is accused of killing another colored man, while Vacos shot John Contos, a prominent Greek business man, at Ogden. Captain W. A. Johnson, formerly associated with John Hays Hammond and considered at one time as one of the greatest mining engineers in the world, committed suicide in Salt Ijake City by drinking a solution of cyanide of potassium. Worry over financial matters had driven him insane. Applications for a right of way from Garfield west to the Utah-Nevada state line were filed by the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company, and the Utah-Idaho-Nevada Telephone company, with the United States land office iast week. These are the first applications of the kind filed in Utah. Edwin P. Condon, aged 6S, went to a pasture at considerable distance from his home at Willard to catch a horse. While he was putting the halter hal-ter on one horse, another animai kicked him on the leg, breaking both bones below the knee. He lay out In the snow for two hours before he was missed and help came. Frank Hanson, former postmaster of Fillmore, Millard county, has been arrested on a charge of lining the United States mail and malicious destruction de-struction or government property. His bond was fixed at $5,000, which has been furnished. Lon F. Morford, fireman, was killed, and William Koll, engineer, was seriously seri-ously injured In a headon collision between be-tween an engine running light and an extra freight train on the Oregon Vhort Line railway, about two mlies east of Cache Junction, Cache county, November 2C. |