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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Fire destroyed the paint shops al the new Tooele smelter, causing a loss of $700. At least fifty new business and dwelling houses are under construe tlon at Tooele. Trappers a few days ago caught a bear near Ephralm which weighed over 300 pounds. Stricken with heart failure, William Jarvi.s, 69 years old, a resident of Salt Lake City, died while seated on tho cast steps of the temple. The old folks of Weber county will be entertained at Lagoon on July 21 It Is expected that 1,000 persons over 60 years of age will be present. The retail clerks of Ogden are forming form-ing a labor organization, which will be the largest union in Weber county when the organization la perfected. Spontaneous combusllon which started In a pile of mouldy straw was responsible for a fire which destroyed a barn and four horses in Salt Lake City. Gerald Johnson, the 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James G. Johnson of Sapulpa, Okla., was killed In an elevator ele-vator accident In a Salt Lake hotel, his body being badly crushed. Wlllard Thompson, who pleaded guilty to robbing a gambling house in Bait I-ake City, being assisted by William Wil-liam Bringhurst, has been sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. Because there was such a vigorous protest from the citizens of Plain City against allowing a billiard hall to be opened there, the county commissioners commission-ers have denied a license to an appli cant. Mrs. Susan Bryan, who lived In England, but who had been visiting in Wyoming, dropped dead at the Union depot in Ogden while on her was to Salt Lake City, death being due to heart failure. Tom Ginis, a Greek, aged 32 years, employed in a Bingham mine, fell a distance of 200 feet down an ore chute and escaped with a broken leg and several bad contusions about the body and head. Charles Dennis, nightwatchman at the Highland Boy mine at Bingham, was shot by one of four foreigners who were on a drunken spree. The bullet struck Dennis in the spine, and his recovery is doubtful. Miss Dagny Ingelbretsen, a trained nurse, ended her own life in Salt Lake City, taking sulphate of morphine. There is no known reason for the deed, aside from the fact that she was subject to spells of despondency. As a result of burns received in a rather mysterious manner, Mrs. Henry Hanson of Ogden, is dead. Mrs. Han-eon Han-eon was found at her home, by members mem-bers of the family, in an unconscious condition, with her clothing enveloped In flames. Immense damage is being done the alfalfa crop by the leaf weevil. The effects of the destructive worm are now apparent from the North Davis county line to three miles below Provo, and from Tooele City to Park City and Coalville. . Surveying parties in the interest of the Colorado-Utah Mines & Oil company com-pany have started out from Richfield to make a thorough study of the best route to Loa, Wayne county, and as soon as their reports are filed the organization or-ganization of the new railroad will be effected. The State Food commissioner has Issued a bulletin calling attention to the law governing the sale of imitation imita-tion flavoring extracts and coloring matter in food products. The bulletin bulle-tin declares that the regulations of the bulletin will be rigorously enforced. en-forced. While digging a cesspool at American Ameri-can Fork, Walter Hunter, a married man, 23 years of age, was buried up to his neck in falling gravel and dirt. It took five hours for his rescuers to get him out. owing to the loose earth, which kept constantly caving. The state bor.rd of equalization has completed its final report on the assessment as-sessment and adjustment of complaints com-plaints for the year 1910. The report show that the total assessment made by the board amounts to $42,265,519.-22 $42,265,519.-22 for the year 1910. as compared with $3S,S95,526.51 for 1909. Three men believed to have been Connected with the robbery of the train north of Ogden have been arrested ar-rested and are now in the Ogden jail, but while the officials admit the men under suspicion are railroad employes, em-ployes, they will not divulge the names of the suspects. Four of the thirteen bodies of members mem-bers of the powder gang at the Union Portland Cement company's plant killed by an explosion of black pow-d.-r at Devil's Slide June 1 have been recovered by the workmen who have been engaged in -removing the huge pile of rock since the accident. Will Davis, a soldier, attempted to commit suicide at a rooming house in Salt Lake City, taking laudanum, but was hurried to the emergency hospital, hospi-tal, emetics administered, and is now sorry for his action and determined to live his alloted time. William J. Anderson, the 15-year-old son of Peter Anderson of Sandy, was smothered to death by a cave-in In the sandhills about two miles east of Sandy. It appears that the boy-while boy-while endeavoring to escape the blinding blind-ing rays of the sun, crawled into the tun r ow cave. |