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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The town of Illclifield is to have cement ce-ment sidewalk?, the cost to be about 16 cents per square foot. Frank Pierce of Salt Lake is to be retained as assistant secretary of the Interior, according to the latest reports. re-ports. Chief Forester Gilford Pinchot will be In Ogden March 2:i, for the purpose of Inspecting the forestry work in this district. Henry Brown of Koosharem is reported re-ported to be recovering from Injuries sustained some time ago, when a horse fell on him. It is probable that President Taft will attend the national encampment of the O. A. R. to be held In Salt Lake Clly, August 9 to 14. It Is stated by wool buyers that from 85 to 90 per cent of the Utah wool clip has already been contract ed for at from 17 to 22 cents. L. D. Wilbur, a machinist employed In the Southern Pacific shops at Ogden, Og-den, Is dead as the result of a heavy steel beam falling upon him. Through the efforts of the Weber club, the prospects for the early erec- r tion of a Y. M. C A. club house In Og den will probably be soon assured. The railroad between Ogden and Plain City, passing through Farr West, Harrisville and other prosper-I prosper-I ous communities, is now a certainty. Within a short time there is a probability prob-ability of a large woolen mill being be-ing erected in Ogden for the manufacture manu-facture of blankets and other woolen articles. George and Frank Taylor, the negroes ne-groes who pleaded guilty to burglarizing burglariz-ing a dwelling house at Tucker, have been sentenced to serve ten months In the state prison. Mary Ann Frier Smith, wife of Patriarch Pa-triarch William J. Smith, and one of Utah's pioneers, died at her home in Salt Lake City on March 9th. Mrs. Smith came to Utah in 1849. Governor Spry on Thursday of last week granted a reprieve to Thomas Vance, the Salt Lake man who was to have been executed on Friday, March H 12, for the murder of his wife. jK Daniel P. Gavin has been placed s. tinder arrest in Salt Lake City on the charge of attacking his divorced wife on the streets, knocking her Benseless and badly beating her. The report of Salt Lake county's commissioners for the poor shows ' that during the month of February the pauper department rendered as-fek as-fek eistanee to 3G7 different families, or JpT 1,129 persons, at a cost to the county r of $3,155.40. I Among the many pleasing features I of the Old Folks' day celebration at I Draper was the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth I of Father Osborne, a resident of that I town, and said to be the oldest person I In the state of Utah. I While at work in the Southern Pa- ftaaw clfic shops at Ogden, I.. C. Wilver mm' fered injuries by being crushed by a falling steel beam, which may result Wf fatally. The heavy beam fell at least thirty feet and struck the unfortunate man squarely on the back. Already over $2,000 has been raised by the committee in charge of the sheep exhibit, which will be held in Ogden next Janaury in connection with the convention of National Wool-growers, Wool-growers, to be hung up as premiums for the best stock exhibited. That Hugh Meyers, the youthful cripple, who came to Salt Lake from . Park City in company with "Boston Joe" and Phil Mann, was implicated in the murder of John C. Barnett, who was found dead in a Salt Lake rooming room-ing house, Is the opinion of the coroner's cor-oner's jury. James K. Gillespie, dean of Utah real estate men, died at St. Luke's hospital, in Chicago, at an early hour Thursday morning, March 11, following follow-ing an exploratory operation for cancer can-cer of the stomach. Mr. Gillespie entered en-tered the real estate business in Salt Lake City in 1878. At a meeting of the directors of the Utah Manufacturers' association last week, a scheme which had been worked work-ed upon some time to give an industrial indus-trial fair in the chamber of commerce building from April 2 to April 10, during dur-ing the period of the semi-annual conference, con-ference, was approved. John McAvanie, an employe of the Daly Judge mine at Park City, met with a painful accident last week, which made it necessary for him to have three fingers of the left hand amputated. McAvanie was working in the carpenter shop and had his hand caught in a saw. Dr. James E. Talmage is to be the president of the organization which will be known as the Utah Health league, which has been organized in Salt Iake City as a result of a move ment started some weeks ago in response re-sponse to the call of some of the physicians of the state. Until Ogden City and the Ogden Rapid Transit company "get to- tgether" on the differences existing over the franchise desired by the company on Wall avenue, plans foi all city extensions of the company will be temporarily abandoned, according ac-cording to latest reports. Henry Brown, aged 20, was In stantly killed while at work for th Utah Copper company at Garfield Brown was engaged in making r pairs on some oj the shafting of th' mine when in some manner he go caught In the big revolving shaft an '"7 m |