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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Charles Dyer, who was injured In a blasting accident at Park City, will not loes his sight, as at first anticipated. antici-pated. Peter O'llara, a miner employed at the Daly Wlest mine, at Park City, was Instantly killed on the 16th by a save-in. J. Montgomery, who was injured in i hay bailer near Ileber City, may be L cripple for life, his leg being badly crushed. Excavation for the 120-room addition addi-tion to be built adjoining the main Itructure of the Hotel Utah on the north began last week. Two Ogden banking houses will oon begin the erection of modem bank buildings in the heart of the business district of the city. In a lecture to his class in ethics ol Citizenship, Professor Milton Dennion Df the University of Utah strongly as - (alied secret societies and fraternities Is they exist in American colleges. Two Salt Lake policemen have been luramoned to appear before the fed pral grand Jury at Indianapolis, now Investigating the dynamite outrages, luposed to be part of the McNamara activities. The law passed by the last legislature legisla-ture In regard to public drinking cups, prohibiting their use or presence on trains, In depots, school and public buildings in the state, will go into effect ef-fect February 1. The biggest jail delivery in the history his-tory of the city prison took place at Bait Lake City last week when eigh teen drug users, many of them serv- I Ing long sentences for vagrancy, es- ,; caped from the basement of the po- lice station. ! Three hundred farmers from the surrounding country stood with note books in hand at the tabernacle at Nophi on the 16th and kept "tab" orj the lectures delivered by the agricul tural experts accompanying the demonstration dem-onstration train. An Oregon Short Line motor car truck a load of hay, at Farmlngton I f scattered the wagon and hay in many directions, but not injuring the drivei r the horses. The driver saw his danger in time to release the team from the wagon. John E. Brown, who is In jail at Moab awaiting trial for the killing oi his daughter and her husband, James A. Du Bois, on November 18, 1911, carries on his business from his cell Brown is engaged in the ranching and stock raising business. Louis RIes, the Mexican who made a desperate attempt to stab an Ogden Og-den policeman when the officer ordered or-dered him to move on and not block the sidewalk, is at the county jail in n padded cell, and will probably be ent to the state mental hospital. When loss or destruction of bag lage occurs through negligence oi the railroad company the printed agreement on railroad tickets limiting limit-ing the company's liability to $10C floes not hold good, according to a decision by Judge Lewis at Salt Lake. The Utah High School Debating club, which is under the direction o! the University of Utah, has prepared for the season of 1192 and made pub lie the plan. For the purpose of ef fectively holding the tryouts, the state has been divided into four districts """ The Utah Press association, the Utah) Development league and the Native Na-tive Sone of Utah are to meet in joinl eession in Salt Lake for the purpose of discussing plans the proper ob servance of "Utah day," which will be designated by Governor William Spry Representatives from most of the towns of Sanpete and Sevier counties were in convention at Salina lasl week for the purpose of forming ar organization covering the two coun 7ties &X this meeting the Central Utah Farmers exchange was organ ized, with a capital of ?25,000. After a successful run, the Ogder factory of the Amalgamated Sugai company closed down on the 16th For the next sixty days the factorj employees will be grading the outpul and the manufacture of brown sugai from the coarser material, this being known as the "osmose" process. Paul Droubay, the Tooele sheepman accused by the state authorities o; violating the state laws governing sheep raising, has been bound over tc the district court. Three charges were filed against him, violation oi the law pertaining to sheep dipping violation of quarantine and failure tc dip sheep. Notices are being sent out . an nouncing the annual meeting of the Utah Press association, which will b( held at Salt Lake, January 23. Mike Maloof, a peddler, was kicket by a horse at Kaysville, sustaining i fractured skull, while it is ftared h( may lose the sight of one eye. As soon as spring opens up th( street lighting system of Provo is t be separated from all other circuits and the old lamps now in use arc t , be replaced with the latest tungstei globes. The change will require mori than a ton of copper wire. That financial arrangements havi been completed for extending the Den ver, Northwestern & Pacific railroad known as the .Moffat road, from it: present terminus at Steambya Springs, Colo., to Salt Lake City ii declared by the Rocky Mountain New of Denver. |