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Show UTAH STATE NEWS ihe town of Gunnison now boasts electric lights. James Sabine, who had been a resident resi-dent of Salt Lake since 18G8, is dead at the age of 90. A Salt Lake resident, convicted of beating his wife, has been sentenced to six months at hard labor. J. Albert McClellan, at one time In the newspaper business at Payson, died at his home in Salt Lake on January Jan-uary 24. Frank White, who admitted stealing three pipes from a show window in Ogden, has been sentenced to one year in prison. " Revenue officers raided an opium den in Salt Lake and found $1,500 worth of opium which had been smuggled smug-gled into the country. Provo 'will have a new directory soon. The book is now in the hands of the printer. The directory will contain con-tain 4,763 individual names. It is. the intention of persons at Murray, Mur-ray, with the assistance of the Commercial Com-mercial club there, to erect an artificial artific-ial plant within the next two months. Between $25,000 and $30,000 will be Bpent by the Live Stock Remedy company com-pany in Salt Lake City within the next two or three months for the establishment es-tablishment of a branch factory. The sum of $32,043 paid into tha state treasury as the income tax on the estate of the late Mrs. Mary Judge is said to be the largest amount ever paid to the state on inheritance tax. At the point of a revolver, Mrs. A L, Porter of Ogden was compelled tc cook breakfast for a bold, grimy tramp, who invaded the Porter home when none of the men folks were , around. The enterprising citizens of Tooele have launched a movement for an aviation meet, it being the intention to secure as attractions the famous aviators who will appear in Salt Lake next month. Frank Shea, charged with assault with a deadly weapon, became so insane in-sane that he was unable to plead when summoned into court in Bingham, Bing-ham, and later attempted to hang himself in his cell. Victor E. Madsen, editor of the Brigham City News, while eating oysters oy-sters found a genuine pearl in one of the oysters. The stone was of unusual un-usual size and perfectly shaped, but had been ruined in the cooking. Herman P. Nielson, one of the pioneer pio-neer residents of Ephraim, succumbed suc-cumbed to old age and general debility, de-bility, on the 25th, after an illness ol only a few days. Mr. Nielson was born in Denmark eighty years ago. Thomas O'Dell and William Lewis, the two men arrested at Ogden on the charge of participation in the Union Pacific hold-up at Reese, have been released from custody, the evidence against the men being insufficient. If satisfactory arrangements can be made -with the residents of Plain City, the Utah Independent Telephone company com-pany will enter that section of Webei county, which is one of the richest agricultural districts in northern Utah. The fifth annual convention of the State Municipal league was held in Sandy on Thursday and Friday' last. In addition to the executives of cities, many county commissioners and prominent men of the state were present. pres-ent. The grand jury at Provo has re ported that It finds not only that tha retail grocers and butchers of Utah county are in a combine and that the lumbermen operate a trust, but it cites evidence to show that the lumber lum-ber dealers of Salt Lake are in a similar pool. An amendment has been added to the Indian appropriation bill authorizing authoriz-ing the construction of a bridge across the Duchesne river and one across the Strawberry river at or near Theodore, at a limit of cost for both of $25,000. Postmaster Peter Martin of Park City is dead from nervous prostration, brought on by rheumatism, from which he had suffered for two years. Martin was prominent in politics, Berved as county assessor for three terms from 1900 to 1906, and was appointed ap-pointed postmaster in 190(3. At the banquet given in Salt Lake City by the Utah branch of the American Am-erican Mining congress in honor of John Dern, president of the congress, I and other general officers, speakers went on record as squarely opposed to the conservation policy now being considered by the government. The Provo Commercial club has Ejone on record in favor of San Fran- Cisco as the place for the Panama Canal exposition in 1915, and the club has sent a telegram to the Utah senators sen-ators in Washington asking the Utah delegation in congress to support San Francisco. A resolution adopted by the city i council of Salt Lake, providing for V the reduction of the number of sa- loons In the city to 100 and the re- i strlctlon of their number to that limit I hereafter, was vetoed by Mayor 1 Bransford. V Thomas Corbctt, an 18-year-old ooy, Is accused of entering the home of Jacob Albertson at Spanish Fork, with the Intention of committing rob- bery, and when Albertson resisted, I boating him into Insensibility. Young I Corbett Is In the Provo Jail awaiting J |