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Show UTAH STATE NEWS MayfielJ residents are planning to nstall a waterworks system. Smallpox has aaln broken out in Bait Lake City, new cases being reported re-ported every day. t Arrangements are being made by the Commercial club for the organization organiza-tion of a company to operate a knitting knit-ting factory in Ephraim. George S. Drury, a former resident of Spi Ingville, was killed near Bakers-field, Bakers-field, Cal., last week, as the result of an oil w i 1 1 di-rrick blowing mr. Because of a quarrel with his wife, which tetulted In the woman leav-Ing leav-Ing bogie, Clarence E. Baker committed com-mitted suicide in Salt Lake City, inhaling in-haling chloroform. Joepi ('. Rue, a laborer employed at the Oregon Short Line depot in Salt Lake City, fell from a scaffold upon which he was wtjTking and sustained serious Injuries. The Weslern Pacific railroad is now completed ten miles west of Elko, Nev., and the track laying 1b being rushed as rapidly as the condition con-dition of the weather will permit. Love for liquor and gambling is the cause attributed for the suicide of William Rolloff, 29 years old, who was found dead in his bed in a hotel in Salt Lake City. Laudnanum was the poison taken. While assisting in the erection of scaffolding at Devil's Slide, Irai Fowler, Fowl-er, a young man of Hennefer, lost his footing and fell head first to the ground, breaking his neck. Death was instantaneous. A gasoline explosion caused a fire In Park City which for a time threatened threat-ened the entire business portion of the city. The blaze was finally gotten got-ten under control after about $1,000 .oamago had been done. That the government has but small chance to recover the $2,410 received through the mails by Chas. C. Price' at Ogden last January is the opinion of the Ogden authorities who have, looked into the case. Two Ogden .newsboys, Nicholas Hig-glns Hig-glns and a lad'named Smith, became engaged in an altercation, when Smith stabbed the other lad with a pocket knife, the point of the blade striking a rib, preventing serious injury. The chamber of commerce of Ogden Og-den has gone on record as being unanimously un-animously in favor of advocating the passage of a bill at the present session ses-sion of the legislature providing for a state public service commission. In a bill that passed the house last week, the secretary of war was directed di-rected to give for ornamental purposes pur-poses two condemned brass cannon and carriages, to be nlaced on the state house grounds in Salt Lake. As the result '.of playing with matches, the little child of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Thorpe of Ephraim was badly burned last week, the accident ac-cident happening while the mother . was absent from the room for a few ' ' niojnents. Orson Saunders, the 21-year-old son of Street Supervisor Joseph Saunders Of Ogden, committed suicide on February Feb-ruary 26, taking carbolic acid. As the young man was apparently in good spirits, the cause for the rash act is a mystery. Mrs. Dollie Goodfield, wife of William Goodfellow, is lying - at the point of death at Devil's Slide, Weber We-ber county, the result of drinking liniment lin-iment which she thought to be the medicine she was using for an illness ill-ness from which she was suffering. If a plan proposed by the chief nf police of Salt Lake City becomes effective, long time prisoners in the city jail are to be furnished with clothing during their confinement in jail, the suit to consist of brown shirt, khaki trousers and brogans. The stolen will of Jacob C. Sor-enson, Sor-enson, who was murdered in his home west of Murray by robbers, has been recovered. The will was among a lot of papers taken by the robbers and was found in the streets of Salt Lake City three days after the murder. mur-der. Through presence of mind Clarence Chandler, an employe of a cracker factory in , Ogden. saved ius right arm from being crushed when his hand became lodged in two press rollers of his machine. He managed to reverse- the machine and save his arm. Stock has been fully subscribed for the erection of a bauk building for Ephraim, the majority having been purchased by J. B-. Jones of Butte, Mont. The ground has been secured and the work of building will be started as soon as the weather will permit. The senate committee on agriculture agricul-ture has restored the increase of salary sal-ary from $1.00 to $-1,500 for George P. McCabe, solicitor of the department depart-ment of agriculture, whose home is at Ogden. The house knocked out the increase when it was reported on the bill. John W. Bybee, a pioneer of Uintah, Uin-tah, is dead. Mr. Bybee was born in England in 1S29. In 1S47 he emigrated to this country, taking up his residence at Uintah. His wife, six children, fifty-nine grandchildren and forty nine greatgrandchildren survive him. While returning from Huntsville through Orrt'.cn canyon, at night, i party of young people of Ogden whe had been to the neighboring town to attend church, had a narrow es cape from death, when one of the horses of the team slipped over tba bank of the river. |