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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Mrs. Nephi Foreman, who had lived in Monroe for forty years, is dead. That Turk City will have a new Bostofflce in the near future seems now assured. The bail bond or H. Gustaldl, Charged with the murder of W. H. Palmer at Eureka some weeks ago, bas been approved and Gustaldi has been given his liberty. George Kawhata is on trial for his life at Ogden. Kawhata, who is a Japanese gambler, shot and killed his countryman, Okano, In November, 1910, claiming self-defense. The spread of smallpox cases has become so serious in Ogden that it is feared it may be necessary to close one of the public schools in the neighborhood neigh-borhood where there are so many cases. Wales boasts of having the heaviest baby for its age of any town in the etate. The child is but thirteen months of age and weighs a little more than forty pounds Btripped of its clothing. After terrorizing women for several sever-al days in the vicinity of Kanesville, George Tracy, aged forty years, said to be violently insane, was overpowered overpow-ered by deputy sheriffs, and taken to the Weber county jail. The fruit growers of Utah county are preparing to fight Jack Frost. It has been estimated that 600 carloads of peaches alone were lost to the growers of this section in 1910, which would have brought $360,000. The special election held at Logan to learn the wishes of the voters in the matter of bonding the city for ( 35,000 for the erection of another publlo school, resulted in a victory for the advocates of the bonds. The work of grading the main street'' of Spanish Fork is being pushed rap-Idly. rap-Idly. The work is being done by voluntary vol-untary contributions of money and labor and the citizens are responding generously to the "good roads" call. Trouble on the main line of the Western Pacific through Feather River Riv-er canyon assumed a serious aspect Tuesday, when the, east end of Spring Garden tunnel caved in. The accident was caused by seepage from the melting melt-ing snow. Because relatives in Harlem, New fork City, have declined to guarantee burial expenses, the body of Albert James Green, who died at a Salt Lake hospital last October, is still being be-ing held at a Salt Lake undertaking establishment. ,. ' Lawrence Marsh, a negro lawyer and publisher Of a newspaper, has been arrested in Salt Lake on a "white slaver?" charge preferred by three white girls. Marsh is also charged with a"bduet!0n and selling liquor without a license. To celebrate Us passing from a vil-' lage to a city of the third class, Price has declared a public holiday for March 24, when all business will be suspended in order that the new epoch In the town's history may be ushered In in festive style. : Hoken Olsen, the man who made Huntsville famous by running a grog shop in violation of the liquor ordi-naces ordi-naces and getting arrested more times than the county of Weber has record of, has again Deen convicted of illegally selling liquor. To show their appreciation of the gift of Thomas Smart, trustee of the Agricultural college, who gave $10,-000 $10,-000 toward the erection of a gymnasium gym-nasium building at the college, fully 2,000 students and citizens held a public demonstration in Logan en Tuesday. All hoboes who let the sun set on them more than once in Price will hereafter . figure rin the industrial schemes of this city, according to the plans of the city council, which has ordered the marshal to put all vagrants vag-rants at work cleaning out the town ditches. The Oregon Short Line depot at Murray was burned to the ground Thursday night by a blaze of unknown origin, which was discovered at 11:45 o'clock by a passing mill hand. All baggage and valuable property of the company was saved by the Murray tire lepartment. It is reported thai the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad company has purchased a large tract of land near the Geneva resort, for the purpose, It is said, of erecting a small wharf and buildings for a pleasure resort and landing for all kinds of boats plying the waters of Utah lake. For dereliction in duty in failing to observe flagging rules. Conductor E. ' T. Mylor, Engineer J. H. Davis and Head Erakeman W. S. Brown of the ' eastbound. freight train that collided with a westbound freight train near American Fork, have been discharged from the Denver & Rio Grande road. The Denver & Rio Grande artesian well, being bored by the company at Woodside is down over 400 feet, and the. drill is still in the' shale. The well will be put down over 3,000 feet, unlss good water is found under that depth. For the first time this winter the city of Logan is free from all contagious conta-gious diseases. Three cases of smallpox small-pox broke out about a month ago, and fear was felt that the disease would spread, but all three patients have been discharged now and the city Is tntlrelv free. |