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Show UTAH STATE NEWS At a meeting of the board of directors direct-ors of the Utah Stale Peace society, It was decided to hold the annual Peace day May 15. Garfield Is to have a brick jail foi the safe keeping of prisoners at the smelter town until they are brought to the county jail in Salt Lake. Because of the rapid decrease in the number of smallpox patients in Sail Lake, it is probable that the isolation-hospital isolation-hospital will be closed down within the next week. Work upon the completion of the new Sandy city park will be completed complet-ed within the next two weeks. This park will be one of the finest in this section of the county. II. 13. Holmes, who claims to come from Denver, and an unknown man ," who escaped, fought a duel' with knives in Ogden. Holmes was badly cut auout the fact and throat. The six-year-old son of Peter Hanson Han-son of Fountain Green was killed by being run over by a disc harrow, when the team became frightened and dragged the harrow over the boy. John I.aRose, a tramp, fell from a Southern Pacific train near the bridge over the Ogden river at Ogden, sustaining sus-taining a broken leg and internal injuries in-juries which may cause his death. Charles Murphy was sentenced to ten years and George Radcliff to five years in the state prison at Salt Lake , on Wednesday, having been convicted of holding up a street car in January. John Fitzgerald, a miner from Park City, attempted suicide in the Salt Lake City jail, endeavoring to saw his head off with a piece of wire, which in some manner came in his possession. The grand conclave of the Knights Templars, called at Ogden to organize organ-ize another grand commandery for Utah, closed with a banquet after completing the organization and electing elect-ing the officers. Option on the Hatchtown reservior project of the state board of land commissioners com-missioners expired on April 20, and now the land board wil soon take action ac-tion regarding the disposition of the Hatchtown lands in Garfield county. A half million dollars is to be ex-" ex-" pended during the coming summer in raising the grade of the Lucin cut-off and insuring its safety to Southern Pacific traffic. This much has been definitely announced as the result of Robert S. Lovett's brief visit to Ogden. Og-den. Lorenzo II. Hatch, father of H. E. Hatch, president of Thatcher Brothers' Broth-ers' bank, a patriarch in the Mormon church, and an active colonizer, died at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening at his home in Logan. Mr. Hatch was 85 years of age and a native of Vermont. Ver-mont. To illustrate the discipline of the pupils of the Ogden public schools, an unexpected fire dri'l was called at the Grant school, with the result that 625 students left the building in perfect per-fect order in less than three minutes from the time the fire alarm was sounded. While proving the safety of an automatic auto-matic revolver to a friend at Vernal, Joe Tolliver accidentally shot and killed himself. A curious thing about the shooting was the -fact that, three days previously, Tolliver had purchased pur-chased a plot of ground in the Vernal cemetery. That the lucerne weevil can be exterminated ex-terminated has been proved in the southern part of Utah, where the pest Is probably more prevalent than in any other locality. The plan is to wait until the lucerne has atained a height of from four to eight inches, and then turn a flock of sheep into the field. Apples by the carload will be exhibited ex-hibited at the state fair next tall, according ac-cording to plans of directors of the State Fair association. It is proposed to have the largest exhibit of this class of fruit in the history of the - annual show. Unless there are other heavy frosts this spring, there will be but little damage to the fruit crop. From all parts of Utah have come assurances that the damage to this season's crop is practically of no consequence, except ex-cept in certain localities, where half a crop may be expected. At the closing session of the Utah grand lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, held in Salt Lake City, it was decided to build a state home for aged and indigent Odd Fellows and Daughters of Rsbekah. Such a home will in all probability become a reality within six months. J. P. Fitzgerald, who is suspected by the police of being Insane, attempted attempt-ed to kill himself in the boys' ward of the city jail in Salt Lake, where :e had been placed by the jailer alter being booked as a lodger. Fitz-yr-rald attempted to open the veins of his wrist with a small wire. In the death of Lehi Pitchforth, a full-blooded Indian, Nephi has lost one of its most respected citizens. He died Tuesday of heart disease, after a brief illness. When he was four years of age he was adopted by Samuel Pitchforth. Ruling that the Elks' club is not a charitable institution, and must, therefore, there-fore, pay taxes in Salt Lake county, Judge M. L. Ritchie of the Third district dis-trict court has made a far-rrachhi!; decision, which will affect practically every club in Sa't Lake and In th statf at large owning Its own property |