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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The citizens of I.'-hi have decided to erect, a $''.), t)W school house, making mak-ing live school houses for that. town. Frank Hanson, former postmaster of llmoi , bas been acquitted of the charge of robbing and burning the postol'lice. The grand lodge session of Utah Knights of Pythias was held in Sail Lake CM ty last week, 150 delegates being In attendance. On Tuesday, May 17, the Kureka volunteer fire department celebrated Us seventeenth anniversary. The department de-partment is the pride of Kureka. Henry C. Lamb, who lias been postmaster post-master at Wales since 1887, died May 18 alter a short Illness. Mr. Lamb took an active part In the Black Hawk war. Claude H. Cllve, charged with murder mur-der In the first degree for killing W. O. Wilcox at Mill Fork on the night of May 7, has been released from jail on $5,000 bail. Mrs. Cella E. Bean, aged 50, while engaged in washing windows at her home in Salt Lake City, fell to the ground, a distance of twelve feet, her ueck being broken. The closed season for duck shooting In Utah does not begin until midnight, January 1, according to a district oourt decision rendered last week in the case of a Bingham man. Tho annual state convention of the Woodmen of the World convened in Logan on May 18, delegates from all over the state being present, a parade being held preceeding the convention. Henri Montenas, a journalist from Amsterdam, Holland, is passing through Utah on his long tramp around the world on a wager of $5,000. He Is to complete the trip in five years. With the adoption of a recommenda. tlon by Ogden's mayor to purchase a oarload of crude oil for the sprink ing of the city streets, it is thought that much of the present road troubles will be eliminated in the Junction City. The Logan "boosters' " club had its annual clean-up on May 19, all refuse being gathered up, the weeds on the side of the walks shorn, trees trimmed, trim-med, and a general clean-up made, hundreds of citizens taking part, in the work. Henry Jennings, one of the pioneers of Levan, died May 18 of heart failure. fail-ure. He oame to Utah from Tennessee Tennes-see in 1S4S and had s'nee resided at Levan, a well known and well respected re-spected citizen. He was a Black Hawk Indian war veteran. Peter Wilson, an expert dynamiter, lies in the Ogden general hospital at the point of death, the fingers of both hands blown off, his intestines perforated per-forated and his skull badly cut and bruised, as the result of a powder pxplosion at Lakeside. Albert J. Gill, a book-binder of Salt Lake, who had two fingers cut off a? the result of an accident last week, has had the fingers sewed back on, and all indications are that he will be sble to use them after the healing process pro-cess has been completed. George Veliass, a Greek laborer, was literally ground to pieces by falling from a gravel train in Salt Lake City when some newsboys threw gravel at the train as it was passing, the claim being made that a small stone struck Veliass, causing him to fall. Two large paper balloons with yards of flaming rags trailing iu their wake threw consternation into the hearts of many people who took the balloons for cometary fragments when they appeared above the eastern hcri f.on at Ogden on Wednesday at the hour when it was reported the earth would pass through the comet's tail. When Mrs. Mat Shober of Tone e missed her little son, two and one-half one-half years old, she immediately sougi'.t assistance of neighbors and a searching search-ing party was organized. After a few hours' hunt the baby boy was found dead in a creek near his home. Elmer Booth, an actor, may lose the sight of one eye as the result of an accident at Ogden. The heroine ru the play fired a shot at him with a pistol loaded with blank cartridges, when the heavy wad from one of the irtridges struck him just over the right eye. "Come out asd dance yourself to deatjh" was the cheerful invitation sent out from Centerfield Monday. 'The last dance on earth," which was liven while Hal"ey's comet is frolick-ng frolick-ng through the skies, took place Wed. . ie.-day night at the Centerfield opera House. Tom Rice, an Ind'an .of the Navajo tribe, whose home is at Shem on ttre ShebTt resorva'.iou, Washington county, coun-ty, is on trial iu the federal court in Sa': l ake City on a charge of man-slau.hter. man-slau.hter. he hav'ug killed his brother-in-law, John Uioe. with an ax De-re:nt De-re:nt iv 11. 1900. Citizens of Coalville are making ex-ensive ex-ensive preparations for entertainment nl former residents on "Home Coming Day." June 14, 15 and 1G, when former residents from all over the country are expected to be present, an excel lent program being in preparation. Walter P. Stockton is in a Salt Lake nospital in a precarious condition from burns received while working as a lineman for the Utah Light & Rail way company, while Frank Bowland and Bai'ey Werner, who rescued htm from his perilous position, were badh tmrn'-ri. |