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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Over fifty delegates attended the fcecond annual convention of the State Firemen's association in Ogden last Week. Oto Odama, a Japanese employed in the Southern Pacific shops at. Ogden, (was hit by the traveling crane and severely injured. Omer Call, who, with his brother, built the first flour mill in northern Utah, died at Willard, September 15, at the age of 75. The Logan city council has decided to submit the question of prohibition prohibi-tion to the people, and a special election will be held on November 2. Within the next month the shipments ship-ments of material for the new freight depot to be constructed for the Harriman Har-riman roads at Ogden will begin to arrive. Walter Moore, a well known char-actor char-actor of Logan, was found dead in the city jail, where he hal been placed the night previous for drunkenness. drunk-enness. A school for the use of the blind Is being fitted up in Salt Lake City. The necessary equipment has been ordered and. the school will be opened as soon as possible. The different towns in Utah county will pay taxes this year totaling $367,- 201, Provo alone paying $101,896, Lehl being second with $41,093 to contribute to the treasury. Lehl will be "dry" after January 1, 1910. The city council has passed an ordinance making It an offense to Bell Intoxicating beverages even for "medicinal or mechanical" purposes. Resolutions looking to the protection protec-tion of the health of the people of the state were discussed and finally passed at the last day's session of the Utah State Federation of Labor held in Ogden. The opening session of the Utah county teachers institute was held at the Geneva resort Saturday, September Septem-ber 18. It was the first session for this school year and was largely of la social nature. The installation of the block sig-inal sig-inal system on the Oregon Short Line Ibetween Salt Lake City and Ogden llKis been completed. The system is also to be installed between Ogden and Cache Junction. Contracts were let last week for portions of the work on the mammoth mam-moth new hotel to be erected on the ground formerly occupied by the old Deseret News building in Salt Lake City, the contracts totaling $1,247,000. John Holladay, who took a prominent part in breaking up the famous fa-mous gang of cattle thieves operating operat-ing In Utah county and further south In the latter part of the seventies, died Bt his home in Santaquin, September 16, at the age of 80. A rather gruesome find was unearthed un-earthed by D. B. Jones at Murray. Mr. Jones was plowing some ground In the center of the street passing his farm, when the skeleton of a man was turned up. All the bones were in good condition, and the teeth were Intact. That the cement output In Utah in 1908 was almost double that of the previous year is shown in statistics on the cement business compiled by State Statistician Haines. The number num-ber of barrels of cement manufactured manufac-tured In Utah last year was 469,427, as against only 2,123 in 1907. The president of the Salt Lake & Ogden Railroad company will probably prob-ably petition the Ogden city council ifor permission to run trains into the city along Lincoln avenue, with steam, temporarily, until the work of electrifying the road between Salt Lake and Ogden is completed. Mrs. Savina S. Southwick was found dead in her bed at Lehi. She had evidently passed away some time during the night previous from heart failure, though the exact cause is not definitely known. She had been a resident of Lehi for nearly fifty years. The trial judge has refused to accept ac-cept the recommendation of the prosecuting attorney that Nick Vacos, who killed a Greek candy manufacturer manufac-turer at Ogden, be allowed to plead guilty to murder in the second degree, de-gree, and it is probable that Vacos will now stand trial. The secretary of the interior has withdrawn temporarily from all forms of selection, disposal or settlement, settle-ment, land in the Green river country, coun-try, Utah. approximating 101.660 acres. The land withdrawn lies along the Green river and within a quarter of a mile of the stream. A peculiar and unknown disease, that is so far as it has been diagnosed, diag-nosed, has broken out among the horses in Morgan county. The disease dis-ease is principally confined to Croydon Croy-don and the surrounding district, six head having died in Croyden within a week. Albert M. Baker, one of the first settlers to enttr the Cache valley, going go-ing there in 1S55, died at his home In Mendon. He was 75 years of age. Paralysis was the cause. He had crossed the plains two times by ox team. While attempting to oil a shaft in the Utah Copper mill. John Rafferty 28 years old. had his clothing caught in a set screw and was terribly bat tered by the whirling machinery. His left arm was completely pulled out of the body and his left leg was smashed to pieces, death resulting. |