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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The women of Lehl have formed a blub for civic betterment work. Layton is to have a gravity water tystem, and it will be in operation iy July next. i The Betterment League of Ogden fcas begun a crusade against gambling n the Junction city. As the result of the explosion of a (gasoline stove, a restaurant at Tooele Tvaa des'troyed by fire, j Considerable interest Is being manifested mani-fested in the Boy Scout movement recently re-cently started In Ogden. Captain Charles M. Brough, former Inayor of Ogden, died at his home in os Angeles on November 16. Masked men held up the bartender In a Salt Lake saloon Wednesday bight, but secured only $25 for their trouble. The meeting house and town hall at Aurora were destroyed by lire on the 14th, the fire being caused by a gasoline gaso-line explosion. The Uintah railroad, which runs from Mack, Colo., to Dragon, Utah., is Boon to be extended to Vernal, county eat of Uintah county. James Moffltt, a well known resident of Sliver City, aged 34 years, committed committ-ed suicide by shooting at the home of iis mother on November 15. In various parts of the state small herds of antelope and elk have been ieen, according to reports reaching the tate fish and game commissioner. Frank Miller, aged 3, was attacked by an angry cow at Kaysville, the little fellow coming out of the encounter en-counter with a broken collar bone. Traveling at a high rate of speed in the business district of Salt Lake City, a police automobile struck Mrs. Florence Flor-ence Moss, aged 40, inflicting painful injuries. Charles Shurtliff, a teamster living at Harrisville, Is suffering from fractures frac-tures of both legs and probable lnter-nat lnter-nat injuries as a result of a rockslide at a gravel pit. After ordering his dinner In a Salt Lake cafe, Andrew Rainey, about 63 years old, who is believed to have been 6 painter at Pocatello, Ida., was sud-flenly sud-flenly stricken with heart failure and died. Charles Beck, aged 10, of Greenville, Cache county, was severely burned by the explosion of a quantity of powder, with which the lad had filled his pock-eta. pock-eta. Little hope is entertained of his recovery. Despite the high price of coal the poor people of Weber county will not be allowed to suffer during the present pre-sent winter. The Weber county commissioners com-missioners have placed an order for four carloads of fuel to be distributed among the Indigent familes of the county. Under the direction of the state fish and game department work has started start-ed to clear up the duck situation by burning the' tule grass at the mouth - of the Jordan river in Salt Lake county, coun-ty, it being the belief that the burning of the grass will wipe out all traces of the infection. Wednesday was pay day at the Kaysville Canning factory, when ' Bomething over $10,000 was paid to about 45 tomato raisers for 2,100 tons of tomatoes. These farmers live in Kaysville, Farmington and Layton, and received their pay for all of the tomatoes harvested. Because a non-union man was put In change of the operating plant of the elevators at the new Hotel Utah, " In Salt Lake City, 250 workmen, work-men, representing all the unions affiliated affil-iated with the Salt Lake Building Build-ing Trades council, employed on the building, left their work. Business men of Price are endeavoring endeav-oring to secure a removal of the pres-" pres-" ent government land office from Ver nal to Price and the establishment of a new land district to handle a part of the territory now covered by the Salt Lake land office. With the exception of three, all of the counties in the state have made favorable reports to the Utah Conservation Conser-vation commission regarding information informa-tion which will be incorporated into the new state map now being prepared pre-pared and which will be sent broad-cast broad-cast through the country. The story comes from Ogden that a hunter, while atempting to open a bottle of tabasco sauce, was surprised by a bear and immediately climbed a tree, the bear following. The hunter poured the contents of the bottle in s- "bruin's eyes, with the result that the bear dropped to the ground and was shot by companions of the hunter. Samuel L. Adams, a blacksmith, who bad lived in St. George for about thirty years, and in Provo for the past twelve years, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. Ill health and despondency over financial finan-cial matters led to the deed. The cane raisers of Dixie expect to manufacture 100,000 gallons of choice molasses this season. A portion of the product will be shipped to Ogden and Provo and more will be sent to the settlement between Cedar City and Richfield. Frank E. Hanson, who was tried tome time ago in the federal court at Salt Lake City on the charge of arson and who was acquitted, was again discharged by the court at Nephi Ne-phi on Saturday. It was alleged that Hanson set fire to the postoffice at |