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Show UTAH STATU NEWS Ttle lgan Commercial club failed j to endorse the public utilities bill now i before the legislature. The supreme court last week adjourned ad-journed until March 22, having com- ' pleted Us February session. Frank BCalero, a' Greek, 40 years of j oge, dropped dead on ihe streets of Salt Lake one evening last week, 1 death being due to apoplexy. A meeting will be held at Logan March 2d of ihe leading business men' of Cache county 10 decide on a county coun-ty fair, to be held September 16, 1 The level of I lie Great Salt lake! is now 4.25 feel above the zero mark ! AH compared with H.7 feet, above one j year ago, a trifle over six Inches! fclgher. A. M, Farnum, aged 45, employed as' a switchman, was run over by an en gine and horribly mangled in the yards of the Oregon Short Line in Salt Laks City. The enlarged homestead bill is now a law and will soon he in force in Utah. Of the 2,000,001) acres obtained for Utah, 1,000,000 will be selected at once. As the result of frequent disagreements disagree-ments between members of the council coun-cil and the mayor of the town of Huntsville, Mayor Lofgrecn has resigned. re-signed. Fire of mysterious origin completely complete-ly deslroyed the plaht, occupied by Ihe Western Macaroni Manufacturing Manufactur-ing company in Salt Lake City, causing caus-ing a loss of $200,000. February, the shortest month in the fear, was the biggest month in the United States land office in the acreage acre-age of land selections filed. Over 73,-000 73,-000 acres were filed on. Mr. R. B. Eckart, great-granddaughter of Bishop William White, one of Ihe first Episcopal bishops in this country, died at her home in Salt Lake City, March 3, at the age of US). it is announced that Ogden is to - become a part of the Orpheum the-litre the-litre circuit, a new theatre to be built lit once, which will furnish the June, lion city people with first-class vaudeville. vaude-ville. It develops thai a 17-year-old boy, Andrew Royal, arrested in Salt Lake City for disturbing a religious meeting, meet-ing, cannot be brought under the jurisdiction jur-isdiction of the Juvenile court, as he has a wife and child. Adjulant General E. A. Wedgewood of the National Guard of Utah has announced an-nounced under Ihe head of General Orders No. 8, a prize of $100 to be uwarded for excellence at the coming government inspection. The Gunnison Telephone company rf Sanpete county filed articles with the secretary of state. Capital is $5,000, in shares of $2.50 each, fully mbscribed by citizens of Gunnison, Cenlerfield and Payette. Charles and George Taylor, two ne-proes, ne-proes, charged with robbing William Wagner's residence at Tucker, have confessed and told the officers where they had hidden the money and jewelry jew-elry taken from the residence. Harvey W. Gross, .a brakeman in the employ of the Oregon Short Line, was killed last week in the yards at Mountain Home, Idaho, while switching. switch-ing. He leaves a wife aud child. The lamily formerly resided in Ogden. A movement is on foot to organize a Weber county league of baseball players play-ers lor the coming season. The villages vil-lages of North Ogden, Hooper, Plain City, Eden, Huntsville, Farr West and Warren are to be represented in the league. On board the first passenger tvain lo run over the Western Pacific, the western end of the Gould system, on March 3, were the governor aud most of the Utah legislature and other Ernests of President E. T, Jeffrey of the railroad. Forester Pinchot. is arranging a western trip, on which he will' address j the New Mexico legislature, March 13; j Colorado legislature, March 10; public pub-lic meetings at Grand Junction 011 the 20th, Delta the 22d and will reach Ogden Og-den March 23. While excavating for sewerage purposes pur-poses on the site of the new forestry ouilding in Ogden, workmen dug up several sections of an old stone sewer installed over forty years ago, when Ogden was a hamlet with a few hundred hun-dred inhabitants. The citizens of Mayfield have been j pgitating the waterworks system, and have selected men to make a canvass of the town and secure signers. If ihe necessary amount, $0,000, can be secured, work will be started in the very near future. The Utah Health League, an aggressive aggres-sive branch of the National Health .League, has been organized in Salt Lake City, ihe object of the league teiug the promotion of the public health and the study of sanitary questions ques-tions and needs of the state. David Logan, who shot and killed Richard Hawkins, iu Salt Lake City, September lu last, was found not guilty of murder by a jury last week, the defense was that Hawkins had threatened to kill Logan, the two men, both negroes, having quarreled over a card game. The bill introduced in the Utah legL islature by F. B. Hammond of Grand county appropriating the sum of $150 to every motner in the state upon the Lirth of her twelfth child and $25 lor each succeeding one did uot meet with the approval 01 the committee and was killed. |