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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Utah has less than 2,000 miles o railroad within its borders, one of the smallest state totals. The Commercial-Booster's club ol Logan, through the committee on advertising ad-vertising and promotion, has issued a folder setting forth the advantages ol Cache county and Ixjgan City. According to tho records kept by the Southern Pacific Railroad company com-pany of the rise and fall of the Great Salt Lake, there has been no perceptible percept-ible rise in the water lately. Without recovering sufficiently to explain under what circumstances his throat was cut at Kcmmerer, Wyo., J. E. Smith died in a Salt Lake hospital. hospi-tal. The belief is entertained that he met with foul play. When a big machine drill cut into an old charge of dynamite on the Western Pacific, fifteen miles beyond Timpie, half a dozen laborers were hurled in the air, three ol them sustaining sus-taining serious injuries. Decisive steps looking to the completion com-pletion of the silver service to be contributed con-tributed by the state of Utah for the new battleship Utah were taken at a meeting of the silver service committee com-mittee in Salt Lake City. Payson is preparing to celebrate on October 20 and 21, the sixtieth anniversary anni-versary of the settlement of "Peteet-neot "Peteet-neot Creek" on a scale perhaps never before attempted by the people of any city of its size in the west. Having failed to connect him with the Oregon Short Line train robbery of last June, the authorities have released re-leased Thomas Wilson from the county coun-ty jail at Ogden, where he has been a prisoner for two months. The Utah State Retail Merchants' association held its annual convention !n Salt Lake City on Wednesday and Thursday. One of the results of the convention, it Is expected, will be the establishment of a 3tate journal for the retail trade. After a two days' session, characterized charac-terized by leading physicians as one of the most instructive and interesting interest-ing meetings held in years, the Utah State Medical association concluded Its sixteenth annual meeting, in Salt Lake City, on Tuesday. The city council of Provo has granted grant-ed a hundred-year franchise to Evans, Chipman and others, to build and operate op-erate an electric raiway line through that city. The line must be completed complet-ed and in running order through the city within three years. Paul Gorske, wealthy Russian cattle owner, with 35.000 acres of range in Nevada and Utah, has left for a four months' visit with relatives in Russia. Mr. Gorske is one of the' largest individual indi-vidual cattle owners of the west, ranging rang-ing close to 12,000 head. That Sanford K. Marsh, who is sale to have swindled the Windsor hote out of $110 by means of a bogus check, and was arrested at Grant's Pass, Ore., and brought back to Sail Lake for trial, has a long careei as a bad check man is claimed by tht Pinkertons. Catching a burglar in the act of robbing trunks and dressers in her apartments in Salt Lake City, Mrs Ray Peterson dashed upon him and leveling a revolver at his head, dis charged two shots almost point blank. Neither shot took effect, and the burglar bur-glar escaped. After plying the heavy waters of Great Salt lake since 1901, the steamer Promontory, the largest craft ever launched on the inland sea, ha? been dismantled by the Southern P cific company and now lies a barre, hulk, prey to the first storm to sweep the beach near Lakeside. To satisfy a judgment of $13,317.70 against the Ogden & Northwestern railroad, the property of the company operated under the name of the Ogden Og-den Rapid Transit company from Ogden Og-den City to the Utah Hot Springs, has been sold at public auction. Refusing to testify in police court In Salt Lake City against her husband, hus-band, Melvin Karth, who five months ago attempted her life by shooting Mrs. Eva Karth was successful in se curing tie release of the man, but la ter in the day she was granted 3 divorce in the district court. Colonel George B. Squires, commis ' sloner of insurance for Utah, promi nent member of the Grand Army ol the Republic and prominent in business busi-ness and politics, died Friday at his " home in Salt Lsjke City, death being caused by a combination of several ailments. The farmers of Rich valley are happy, hap-py, having closed a successful year of farming. Crops are better than expected, ex-pected, considering the dry season Oats are as good quality, weighing from thirty-eight to forty-eight pounds to the bushel, while the wheat goes ts high as seventy pounds. J. W. Sparks, arrested at Ogden soon after the robbery of the Oregon Short Line passenger train, June 15, on suspicion of having been connected with the holdup, wi'l be arraigned on forgery charges, the robbery charge having been dropped. With his throat cut from ear to ear, J. E. Smith is in a Salt Lake hospital and may die. Smith was found in a hut near Kemmerer, Wyo., in a pool of blood, and has since been unable to explain whether he was attacked by some oun, or the wounds were cU-lnQicled. |