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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The people of Willard voted solidly sol-idly against the state capitol tax. Harold Brooks, aged 6, fell from his father's wagon. In Salt Lake City, landing squarely on his head, his neck being broken. An electric railway is to be constructed con-structed from Plain City to Ogden, a portion of the grade having already been finished. Salt Iake now has one of the most stringent set of regulations for the butchering and sale of meat of any city In the country. Central, a small town south of Richfield, is engaged In laying a four-Inch four-Inch pipe line to a spring three miles out of town to secure a water supply for culinary purposes. Fairvlew citizens have purchased six acres of ground which will be used as a public park, It being the intention inten-tion to provide a meeting place and amusements for the residents. Cut worms are causing the farmers farm-ers of Salt Lake county no end of trouble this year. In a number of instances in-stances it will be necessary to replant the oats crop as a result of the activity activ-ity of the pests. Club women of Ogden are asking the removal of H. H. Thomas, superintendent super-intendent of the state reform school. Charges have been preferred against the superintendent , who declares there Is no truth in the charges. Mike Bogdau, the Bingham bartender barten-der who shot and killed George Podorvich, has been released from custody, it having been shown that the shooting was in self defense, the victim of the duel having fired first. Whle playing with matches, the three-year-old daughter Jof Emanuel Lundquist of Salt Lake City was burned to death, the child's clothing catching fire, she being enveloped in flame when discovered by her parents. Juauiata Oaillett. aged IS, a native of Utah, committed suicide in Butte last week, taking carbolic acid on the day she was to have been married to a prominent, resident of Butte. The reason for the rash act is shrouded in mystery. While crossing an improvised bridge over Parley's creek, in Salt Lake City, Matthew Desmond, aged 6, fell into the swollen stream and was drowned, the body being found an hour later about a block from the scene of the accident. The pharmaceutical board of Utah will, in the next few days, start a warfare against the violations of the statute passed by the last legislature regarding the sale of dangerous and poisonous drugs except under the restrictions re-strictions provided for. The state board of equalization has added $2,750,000 to the value of the taxable property of Weber county. This is over and above the valuation fixed by County Assessor Edwin Dix, and brings the total valuation for the county up to $17,180,000. While crossing Chalk creek about two miles east of Coalville in a delivery deliv-ery wagon driven by a teamster, Willie Wil-lie Clark, the 12-year-old son of W. S. Clark, a well known resident of Coalville, was thrown from the wagon and drowned in the creek. Henceforth unlicensed chauffeurs and drivers of automobiles are to be prosecuted, the new law passed by the last legislature having been placed in operation. The law makes the operation of an automobile without with-out a license a misdemeanor. Rather than allow liquor to be sold In town, Huntsville citizens at a mass meeting have decided to do without the revenue derived from the licenses Issued to saloons and to sell the electric elec-tric lighting plant owned by the little town to pay off the municipal debt. From indications the Murray council coun-cil will make no effort this year to stop the small boy from discharging giant firecrackers on the Fourth of July. Last year there was a measure adopted to prohibit the sale of giant crackers to children on the Fourth. The eight-year-old deaf and dumb daughter of O. P. King, a motorman, was run down by a street car in Salt Lake and so badly injured that her right foot had to be amputated. The car was one on which her father was employed, but he was off duty at the time. The pupils of the public schools of Salt Lake City have made a silk flag which will be presented to the national na-tional officers of the Grand Army of the Republic during the August encampment. en-campment. The flag is 4xG feet in size, and has a deep fringe of gold lace. The Devil's Slide Commercial club Is the latest club of the kind to be organized In Utah. Devil's Slide is in Weber canyon. Weber county, and the incorporators declare the club is not organized for pecuniary profit, but to further the interests of the town. A tramp was shot and killed by K. A. Kay, a brakeman on a freight train near Woodside. it being claimed the tramp pulled a gun and the brakeman shot in self defense. Two other tramps who were in the car at the time of the shooting are being held as witnesses. A Salt Lake workman who was feeling ill, called upon a physician one day last week and was informed that he was suffering fl'rom ;maT. Xox, and had been for over a week. During that time the man had be.-n working in the same room with a score of other men. |
