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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Alma Hughes, tho 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hughes of Ogden, was struck by a Bamberger electric car and sustained injuries from which be died three hours later. Fire from an unknown source destroyed de-stroyed a portion of the trestle work over which the dump cars pasy at the Garfield smelter. The loss Is estimated estimat-ed at several thousands of dollars. The, Weber club of Ogden has asked ask-ed the board of education to take up chicken culture in t h ; public schools of Weber county, offering prizes for tho scholars most proficient in raising rais-ing chickens. Tho city commission of Salt Lako has voted tho sum of $3,000 to decorate decor-ate the city and aid in the entertain- mem ui uuieyaies iu uie cuniiug irrigation irri-gation and Transmississippl congresses con-gresses in Salt Lake. Purchase of about twenty-one acres of land on the Jordan river in northwest north-west Salt Lake for a west side park and playground has been practically decided upon by the city commission. The hind Is to cost $8,400. The Commercial club telephone committee com-mittee has petitioned the council for the installation of a telephone system in Ephraim, to be of the latest "central "cen-tral energy" type and to be owned and operated by the municipality. Benjamin Salkleld of East Mill Creek narrowly escaped death by drowning, when the horse he was driving backed wagon and all over an eighteen-foot embankment into the turbulent waters of Mill Creek. The faculty of the Utah Agricultural college announces that fifty-one men and women have been accepted as candidates can-didates for the degree of bachelor of science and will be graduated upon Ihe completion of their work. May 28. "Jack" Porter, who was arrested at Pocatello on advices sent out by the Salt Lake police, was identified by Charles A, Anderson, an Idaho farmer, as one of the men who fleeced him of more than $5,000 in a horse race swindle swin-dle In Salt Lake. After June 1, proprietors of restaurants restau-rants in Salt Lake City must remove all booths or private rooms from their places of business; must not serve intoxicating in-toxicating liquor on Sunday or after midnight, and must not display food In exposed positions. That the forest ranges in the Uintah Uin-tah reserve are deep in snow and will not be available for grazing sheep until June 1 is the statement made by W. I. Pack, superintendent of the reserve, who has just returned from a trip through that country. According to Field Manager Pin-gree Pin-gree of the Amalgaamted Sugar company, com-pany, over 6,000 acres of beets are now in the ground for the Ogden fac- tory, the last few days having afforded af-forded the beet raisers opportunity to plant the remainder of their crops. Sing Sun, prominent in Chinese lodge circles in Salt Lake, is missing, and it is charged by some of the Chinese Chi-nese that he has absconded with about $6,000 intrusted to him by his countrymen, while his friends declare they fear he has met with foul play. After a ten days' shut-down on account ac-count of a strike of employes, the management of the Murray lead smelting works of the American Smelting & Refining company has resumed operations. A large number of strike breakers have been imported. im-ported. William T. Reed, a bookkeeper, died suddenly in the office of a Salt Lake doctor, where he had gone in search of medical attention. Death was due to heart failure. Mr. Reed had been ailing for a little over a week and called at the office seeking relief. The leading merchants of Brigham City have a movement on foot to establish es-tablish an earlier closing hour. A movement is on foot to establish a 6 o'clock closing hour for all classes of business except refreshment stores, drug stores and such other small stores as depend upon evening trade. May 15 was clean-up day in Park City and local residents availed themselves of the opportunity of having hav-ing the waste matter and rubbish which has accumulated during the winter months carted off without any extra expense, as the city council hired several teams and wagons to haul the rubbish from the city. George Burke, a Salt Lake barber, has been sentenced to thirty days' impi isonment for stealing a loaf of bread and a pound of ham from a residence. Burke claims he was starving. Giovanni Arrigoni, a miner, values the great toe on his left foot at $1,-S00. $1,-S00. He filed suit in the district court at Salt Lake to collect this amount from the South Utah Mines and Smelters company. L'tah now has two lawyers from the janks of the fair sex, . Miss Agnes Swan having successfully passed the examination at Salt Lake last week. The only other woman attorney practitioner prac-titioner in L'tah is Miss Margaret B. Connell. Idellus M. Dye was found guilty by a jury at Salt Lake of murder in the first degree for the killing of Joseph Rainbow in Salt Lake on November 26, 1911. There was no recommendation recommenda-tion for mercy, and under the statutes stat-utes Dye must be sentenced to death tor the crime, |