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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The Sprlngvllle Commercial club is picking arrangements to hold the Utah county annual horse show in B'prifigvllle tills spring. John iFure.y, accused of .robbing, uliigle-handed, Finch's cafe, in Salt I,ake City on October 12 last, has been found guilty by a Jury. J II. Keefe of Garfield had his right foot caught in the machinery at the mill and crushed to such an extent thai, amputation was necessary. A ban has been placed on four clubs organized by negroes in Salt i Ijiko City, the chief of police having ordered Unit the clubs he closed. A. coroner's Jury will investigate the doat.h of Martin Cahill, a Rio Graade weol.ion foreman, who died in convul-hIohm convul-hIohm at Ogden, aiter eating a can of ardines. Hugh A. McMillin, census supervisor, supervi-sor, expects within the next week to be able to announce the selection of enumerators for the work which will begin on April 15. Wlillo adjusting machinery in the fiow Rex mill at Cold Cirele, Nevada, O. Uie Gllson or Salt Lake City was caught in a belt and received injuries from which death resulted. Samuel Werh, aged 10, was seriously serious-ly Injured when a giant cap which he had found on the street in Salt Lake Oily exploded, after lie had touched u match to the cap to "make it fizz.' A verdict of not guilty was rendered ren-dered In the Dolly. Dimples" case at Ogden. Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Curry, the defendants, were accused of swindling an Ogden newspaper in a circulation contest. The county physician of Cache county has made application to the county commissioners to contribute $500 to a fund to be raised for providing pro-viding means for the proper care of Indigent school children. A siege of weather far above the average for summer has been experienced experi-enced at Ibex, Millard county, and K .w,....1n ..J (-' : wio icupiu iiictc die 1U1 lain. Wheat is growing about an inch a day, but rain is badly needed. loosing his balance while walking acrosH a narrow ledge on a building under construction in Ogden, John San horn, a carpenter, fell to the ground, a distance of twenty-five feet, fracturing his left ankle and baaly spraining his right leg. Mrs. Marion C. Gordon, one of the pioneers of Murray, is dead as the result of burns which she received while In the act of burning rubbish, her dress catching fire from the burning burn-ing rubbish pile. Mrs. Gordon was 7(! years of age and came to Utah in JS4S. An epidemic of scarlet fever is threatened at North Ogden, where five families have been placed under Quarantine to prevent a spread of the disease. There are said to be ten cases lu the little town, all of which are confined to the families under quarantine. A petition which has been circulated circulat-ed in Mount Pleasant recently asking the city council to pass an ordinance strictly prohibiting the sale or dispensing dis-pensing in any way of intoxicating liquors, has been presented to the council, witn the names of 700 adult signers attached. Edward Boyer, 17 years of age, and aa employe of the International Smelter Smelt-er company at Tooele, met death by being caught in the crushing wheels ot a planer in the company's mill. He had been In the employ of the smelter company but three weeks and his home was in anaconda, Mont. - Despite the hrm stand taken by the recently organized Beet Growers' union of Weber county, the Amalgamated Amalga-mated Sugar company reports that fully 2,000 acres of beet land have been contracted for within the week. This will be sufficient, it is claimed, to break the backbone of the threatened threat-ened boycott. Catching the striking spirit now rampant throughout the railroad world, several hundred Greek labor era, employed at the Union depot ir. Ogden, went on a strike, demanding t2 per day for 10 hours' work. Diplo macy on the part of the railroad of tieials sent the toreigners back to work. The new map of Utah, soon to be Issued by the Utah conservation com mission, will be four and a half by eix feet in dimension, and it is believed be-lieved that it will be the most complete com-plete map of any state in the union. Small copies of the map will be printed print-ed and attached to the next report of the commission. The existence of smallpox at the city jail in Ogden is having a good ftffect on the morals of the city, according ac-cording to the judge of police court, wiio took a holiday on 1 hursday because be-cause of the lack of prisoners to face! his bench. Not a single arrest has been made by the police since the n latest uulbrean. of smallpox at the jail. At a special meeting of the board of education of the Jordan sci ool district dis-trict last week it was decided to hold a bond election for the purpose of erecting new buildings, and for general gen-eral school purposes, Saturday, March 1J. The issue is to be ?G0,000. Albert Stevens, one of the pioneer rcsidenls of Holden, died at that j place March 5, after an illness of two weeks. Death resulted from old age and general debility. Mr. Stevens was born in Mt. Pleasant, Canada, S2 years ago, and came to Utah when a young man 1 |