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Show UTAH STATE NEWS 8everal cases of smallpox developed devel-oped In Ijayton the past week. A complaint has been filed against three young men of Mendon for throwing red pepper about and trying to break up a dance. An additional rural free delivery route will be established by the post-office post-office department from Logan, Cache counly, on May 1. It is announced that the plant of the Amalgamated Sugar company at La Grande, Ore., Is to be moved to Ogden next Reason. The people of South Wlllard are working with the railroad company to get a switch between the I'lah Hot Springs and WUlard. '.'he question of Murray acquiring ownership of the electric light and water system of thai place is again agitating the minds of the city of nclals. T. J. Campion, while confined in the city jail at Ogden, attempted suicide, opening the arteries of his light wrist with a penknife, but his actions were noticed In time to save his life. One hundred and I en thousand dollars dol-lars Is the amount to be spent this sea eon in improvements by the manage ments of the four resorts that are adjacent ad-jacent to and within easy reach of Salt Lake City. Charles B. Waite, 85 years old, for more than sixty-five years a resident of Chicago, court associate of Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln, territorial judge in Utah for years, died in Chicago, March 26, of pneumonia. The board of Inquiry which investigated investi-gated the railway accident at Granger finds that the accident was the result of the carelessness of the trainmen. The engineer and a brake-man brake-man were killed. As the result of an outbreak be tween the Greek factions in Ogden four men are behind the bars and one In the hospital, and several other arrests ar-rests will be made. The fight oc curred in Ogden Canyon. Last week the Cache Fruit Growers' Grow-ers' association met and organized electing officers and instructing the jp secretary to order 20,000 apple boxes, showing thereby the expectation of a bountiful harvest next fall. Two new special agents for field service have been appointed from Utah by the commissioner of the general land office. They are John V. Coughlin and George E. Woolley, both assigned to Salt Lake. Market day at Logan on Saturday March 27, was a great success, not withstanding the fact that the entire programme was carried out in a drizzling driz-zling rain. A large crowd, including nearly 1,000 visitors, was present. Carl L. Drassner, a young man about 19 years old, has been arrested in Salt Lake City, charged with issuing is-suing worthless checks. Dressner was posing as Clans Spreckles, Jr., and was issuing checks in a free manner until arrested. The little child of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Jones, of Mt. Pleasant, had its life crushed out. by being run over by a wagon. The little one accidentally fell from the wagon to the ground, the wheel running over its head, crushing out its brains. As the result of being thrown by R horse, which had become frightened fright-ened at several barking dogs, Fred Hall, a young man of Ogden, was rendered ren-dered unconscious for a short time and sustained several painful bruises about his body. By the use of cold water and soap, the avowed enemies of trampdom, Chief of Police Browning believes that he will rid Ogden , of vags and hoboes, or at least decrease the vast number who nightly apply for a lodging lodg-ing place 'in the city jail. Missing his hold as he stepped from the front platform of a street car in Salt Lake City, Gordon L Hutchins fell to the ground, his right foot going beneath the front wheels of the car. His toes were crushed to a pulp and his instep fractureu. Virgil Claude Wells, the fourth prisoner to confess to the robbery of the East Portland bank, December 7 last, has made affidavit that he enclosed en-closed $2,400 in a newspaper and sent the same to the name of Charles Price at Ogden. An Ogden man got the money. The legislature passed an appropriation appro-priation for the state central experiment experi-ment station for the ensuing two years, on the conditon that Lehi give the farm sixty-three shares of watei and American Fork fifty-three shares, in addition to what the farm already has. The five-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Wells of WUlard was found dead in bed when the parents par-ents arose one morning last week. The babe seemed to be in the best of health when the parents went to bed, and It is thought the little one smothered to death. The president has signed an executive execu-tive order changing the spelling of the La Salle national forest, in southeastern south-eastern Utah, to "La Sal." The change was made in accordance with suggestions of field officers of the forest for-est service, as well as administrative officers in Washington. The eighth legislature created a commission to provide for the display of Utah's resources at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle this summer, and provided the sum of $25,000 to meet the expenses necessary nec-essary to make an exhibit that would be a credit to the state. |