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Show UTAH STATE NEWS There were 182 cases of smallpox in Salt Lake City during 1908, and no deaths from the disease. Alvin Heaton has been placed on trial at. Richfield for the murder of Mary Stevens, near OrdervlIIe. The annual convention of the State Horticultural society Is to be held in Salt Kike City on January 26 and 27. Michael M. Sullivan, 48 years of age. died In Salt Lake City from smallpox, last week, after being ill hut a week. About 200 former residents of Kansas Kan-sas now living in Ogden have formed a society for mutual improvement and entertainment. The cash receipts for the Utah relief re-lief fund that is being raised for the earthquake sufferers of southern Italy has passed the $3,000 mark. A house to house canvas Is being made In Ephralm for the signatures oi' men and women who are in favor of closing the saloons In that town. A Salt Lake market man who last week sold a rabbit that was neither fresh nor wholesome was fined $100 for violation of the city pure food law. J. T. Dunham, a well known resident resi-dent of Salt Lake, dropped dead from heart failure while assisting a friend In loading a trunk upon an express wagon. The secretary of the interior has approved to the state of Utah, under grant for public buildings, selections aggregating 1,879 acres in Salt Lake district. The Salt Lake Ministerial association associa-tion has adopted a resolution favoring favor-ing legislation looking toward the abolition of the liquor traffic in the stale of Utah. An attempt was made to reopen the gambling houses in Park City last week, but the mayor had all the gamblers arrested and fined, and the lid Is on again. There were 1,167 deaths in Salt Lake City during 190S, according to the report of the city board of health. This Is an Increase of only seven over 1907, with an increase of at least 5,000 in population. Nell W. Davidson, the absconding clerk from the Ogden office of the Pacific Pa-cific Expr ss company, has been formally for-mally charged with the theft of a package containing $200, and a warrant war-rant issued for his arrest. P. L. Ray, an engineer on the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande, is in a Salt Lake i, hospital suffering' from a broken jaw, the injury being received by being struck by the arm of a mail crane while in the discharge of his duty. The Mullett Clothing company, one of the oldest clothing houses in Salt Lake City, voluntarily went into the hands of a receiver last week. The debts of the concern aggregate $75,-000, $75,-000, but it is hoped to pay all liabilities. liabili-ties. It has been definitely decided by the directors that the railroad running run-ning from Salt Lake City to Saltair will be electrified, but it is not thought that the work will be completed com-pleted before the opening of the next season. Three special trains will run over the Salt Lake route for the Elks' excursion ex-cursion from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles, February 6. It is said that applications for reservations sufficient suffi-cient to fill twenty sleepers have already al-ready been made. Mrs. Jeanette Park, one of Murray's Mur-ray's oldest residents, died on January Janu-ary 12 at the age of 64, having spent all her life in Utah. Her death was due to cancer of the face, the result of an apple falling and striking her on the cheek five years ago. Henry Grimm, 34 years of age, was Instantly killed when he fell underneath under-neath a street car in Salt Lake City. Grimm, who was a bricklayer, slipped on the icy street and plunged head first beneath the car, his head being terribly crushed and his neck broken. Utah's presidential electors, Henry Cohn, Lafayette Holbrook and Thomas Sevey, met in Salt Lake City on January 11 and cast Utah's vote for William Howard Taft for president presi-dent and James Schoolcraft Sherman c for vice-president of the United States. Construction work on the new Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande passenger station In Salt Lake City will begin at once. The building will occupy the better part of two city blocks. It will be absolutely ab-solutely of fireproof construction, the floors of concrete and the walls of fireproof fire-proof tile. A dispatch from Washington announces an-nounces that President Taft will probably name the Doxt marshal for Utah. It has been decided that no recommendation will be made until the term of court ends, which it is understood will carry the matter over until March. While Mrs. Charles Hitesman. of Lehi. was away from home, her two-year-old boy drank some carbolic acid and died In great agony an hour later. The little fellow's six-year-old brother got the bottle out of the pantry, not knowing its contents, and gave it to the unfortunate child. The lumber dealers of the state ere taking a great deal of interest In the coming convention of Western Retail Lumber Dealers, to he held in Spokane, February 2 to 5, and a special spe-cial train will be run from Salt Lake City to accommodate the Utah delegates dele-gates and their friends. L |