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Show ' UTAH STATE NEWS An Ogden branch of the Society of the Daughters of the Pioneers of kjtah was organized last week. The people of Perry, a town recently recent-ly Incorporated three miles south of ferigham City, have organized a band, With twenty-five members. "Utah Products Week," a week devoted de-voted to the exhibition of Utah-made goods, will be held in Salt Lake City, April 1 to April 6, inclusive. Made ill by the shock at the tragic death of her 9-year-old son Bernard, who dropped dead in her presence, V(rs. Mary Ann Edin Berlin died at Mammoth. The residents of Plymouth, In the northern part of Box Elder county, (want a new deputy road commis-feioner commis-feioner to take charge of the road affairs af-fairs In that vicinity. : Neil Rogers, the 12-year-old Salt Lake boy, whose ambition to become J a great discoverer led him to leave his home for a tour of the world, was picked up by the police of Evanston, !Wyo. Henry Gehring retains the middleweight middle-weight championship of the world, bs he gained the decision over Mike Yokel of Salt Lake at the end of Ithree hours' contest at Cleveland, O., Tuesday night. Thomas Burningham, while hauling 1 brick from the yards southwest of Bountiful, was thrown from his wagon and sustained a broken arm. The ac-Icldent ac-Icldent was caused by an unnoticed rough spot in the road. The fruit growers of the Bear River valley are making extensive preparations prepara-tions to smudge this spring. This jmeans of protecting the fruit crop jfrom the late frosts of spring is prov ng more popular each year. 'The commission of Salt Lake has passed an ordinance providing that every loaf of bread made and sold in the city must bear a plain label showing show-ing Its exact weight, the name of the baker and his place of business. Before the Utah vegetable season Is opened the members of the Market Gardeners' association, an organization organiza-tion of farmers and gardeners of Efountiful and vicinity, will have their wn commission house in Salt Lake. I June Rose, who was assaulted by a negro woman in Salt Lake, her throat being cut, owes her life to the fact that she has a very fleshy neck. It was found necessary to take eight butches in order to close the wound. ' The flight of William Jones, short Iterm prisoner at the state penitentiary, peniten-tiary, who escaped from the convict Icamp at Willard City November 4, fended at Portland, Ore., a few days pgo, when he was captured and will be returned to Utah. The success of the canning industry indus-try in Davis county during the last tew years, particularly during 1911, when the entire pack of all the canneries can-neries was disposed of to good advantage, advan-tage, has led to the promotion of another an-other company at Syracuse. Jay Hitesman, aged 19, who lives near Ogden, was arrested In a Salt Lake rooming house and accused of passing several worthless checks. The police say his misdeeds were prompted prompt-ed by a desire to make his acquaintances acquaint-ances believe he was n sport. Double-tracking of the Oregon Short Line between. Salt Lake and Ogden is progressing and nearly 500 men are engaged at various points near Ogden. Most of these men are doing ballasting and the principal camps are at Kaysville, Farmington and Roy. The police have been instructed to shoot all bulldogs found on the streets of Ogden unmuzzled. A vicious vici-ous bulldog fastened its teeth in the leg of Bert Curtis while he was riding rid-ing a bicycle and the dog's jaw had to be pried apart before the leg could be released. More unemployed men than usual have been seeking shelter at the city Jail in Ogden. Prom twenty to twenty-five unfortunates have been lodged every night for several weeks and there seems to be no prospect of a reduction in the number of applicants for this kind of charity. The Denver & Rio Grande railroad has placed orders for thirty-five of the latest model Pacific type engines. These locomotives are used almost exclusively on roads having heavy mountain grades and during the winter win-ter they are said to have made a better bet-ter record than any other type. It is announced that $10,000,000 is Involved in a coal mine and railroad . deal that is being consummated by 1 William G. Sharp, president of the V United States Smelting, Refining and Mining company. The coal proper- ties are in Emery county and the railroad is projected from Provo S ': Mohrland, which is m the heart of the Emery county coal district. I C. B. Stewart, secretary of the Utah ' Woolgrowers association who went jjp Washington about two weeks ago to I opose a bill for forest extension, presented pre-sented by Senator William E. Borah iof Idaho, has returned. He reports that he was successful in his mission. Hanging by a strap attached to a Tied post in his room at an Ogden hotel, ho-tel, the lifeless body of Thomas Lewis, Lew-is, formerly a bartender, was discovered discov-ered by the police on Monday The man evidently had taken his life Sup-day Sup-day night. He left no word to explain Ll act. |