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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The schools of Lehi were closed for two dayB last week on account ol scarlet rever. A ban has been placed on the slot Machines by the city officials of Murray. Mur-ray. The town of Alpine is now lighted by electricity, the lights being first turned on February 2. There is a famine in houses for rental ren-tal purposes in Green River, and at least twenty families are looking for homes to live in. Dog poisoners are busy in Ogden. Over a score of valuable animals have been poisoned by some miscreant during dur-ing the past week. Work on Lehi's new waterworks system 1st to begin in the spring, the bonds recently issued for that pur pose having been disposed of. Approximately 800 Utah people left Salt Iake City over the Salt Lake Route, February 0, on the Elks fourth annual excursion to Los Angeles. By the latter part of August, Murray Mur-ray will have ar. up-to-date, modern, electric flour mill In operation, with e capacity of 125 barrels per day. An unknown man, evidently a for clgner, met death on a street crossing cross-ing in Salt Lake, being run down by a train, the body being hprribly man Clecl. Harry C. Wright, well known in rail Way circles in Utah, was killed at Green River, Wyo., last week, being caught between two cars and crushed to death. The Ogden City Improvement league has passed resolutions request ing the city council to have clusters of electric lights installed in the business busi-ness section of the city. It is understood that seven neti pteel bridges are to be built at once by the Salt Lake route between Sail Lake City and Los Angeles, the new bridges to replace the present wooden Structures. A committee of city councilmen ol Drigham City has been appointed tc secure plans and estimates of costs for a suitable city hall, and to find il the necessary funds can be raised fot this purpose. The home of Irving L. Pratt, prin clpal of the Tucker schools, was burned to, the ground on February 4, the loss being $2,500. A defective flue (s supposed to have been the cause fbr the conflagration. When the farmers institute cars Bent out by the Agricultural college reached Santaquin, 150 men met the cars and attended the lecture on "Horticulture "Hor-ticulture and Dairying," displaying a great interest in the discourse. Jim Donaldson last week began his ten-year sentence in the state prison for his part in the robbery of the Mc-Whirter Mc-Whirter brothers, the two Scotchmen who were buncoed out of a small fortune for-tune in a flim-flam game in Salt Lake City. I While running across the street, Louis Strausberg, aged 72, of Salt Lake City, slipped and fell in front of a street car, his right leg being so badly crushed that amputation was necessary. Owing to his age the injury in-jury may result fatally. A local telephone system is soon to be put into operation at Gunnison. It will extend to Centerfield, Fayette, Axtell and probably Mayfield. Sixty-five Sixty-five phones have already been subscribed, sub-scribed, with probably ten more if the line is run to Mayfield. Joseph Lund, of Castledale, recently recent-ly lost a fine miJch cow under peculiar pecu-liar circumstances. An investigation showed that half of a lady's hairpin had in some way passed through the usual blood channels till it reached the heart, causing death. . C. R. Savage, the pioneer photog- .' rapher of I I ah and of the west, hav ing established the first photographic establishment in thevstate of Utah, died at his home in Salt Lake City on February 3, at the age of 77. Mr. Savage Sav-age came to Utah in 1860. Ogden is to have an athletic tourna7 ment late in March. Athletes from rthe state school for he deaf and the blind, from the state industrial school V and from the Ogden High school are already listed, and other local insti-Titions insti-Titions will also be represented. iJie Utah Indian war veterans have Tiiad,application to Colonel F. K, Sterreiexecutive director of the G. A. R. enctSmpment. for permission to take part inNihe great parade of the G. A. R. veterXns when the veterans meet in Salt LaiJeCity next August. Following up suggestions made b? Juvenile Judge Volney C. Gunnell. the police of Ogden will hereafter strictly enforce the ordinance against fast rid ing and driving. Already there has been an unusual activity noticed in the enforcement of the bicycle ordinance. ordi-nance. The town of Sandy has a full-fledged volunteer fire department. The apparatus appa-ratus consists of only one hose cart, but just as soon as the contribution!; , are in, new equipment will be pur . " chased and housed in the central por tion of the town. Ole Nelson was chosen chief. At the annual convention of the Utah State Woolgrowers' association held in Salt Lake City last week, i was voted to retain in office the com . plete list of officers and directors' foi . another year, and thereby sustainec the action of the organizers and pro ' , motors cf the association. |
