OCR Text |
Show UTAH STATE NEWS The mayor will veto the search and seizure law passed by the Provo City council. The fourth annual convocation of the missionary district of the Episcopal church In Utah was held in Salt Lake last week, beginning Wednesday. Woods Cross school district No. 1 Is to build a big schoolhouse at a cost of $23,000, and the money is to be secured se-cured by direct taxation, instead ol Issuing bonds. An Imposing granite monument, erected In honor of the late President John It. Winder, at the City cemetery In Salt Lake was unveiled before a large gathering on Decoration day. The Oregon Short Line railroad haa commenced condemnation proceedings In Farmington to secure a strip ol land for its right of way for the new double-track line through Clearfield. The first convict camp for prison labor on the state roads will probably be established at the point of the mountain, at Jordan Narrows, early next week, according to present plans. While gathering flowers on the mountains east of Provo, Glenn Wood, aged 12, stumbled and fell some distance dis-tance down the hillside, striking on a sharp rocl which fractured his skull, causing death. Three cases of kidnapping have cc curred in Brigham City, recently, and In each instance the kidnapped child has been returned to within a short distance of its home within three or four hours after disappearance. Weber county commissioners have been asked to provide the sheriff with a high-speed motor-cycle, with which the latter may equip a special speed officer to patrol the Ogden canyon boulevard for violators of the automobile automo-bile regulations. Relatives of D. B. Davis, a Socialist orator of Salt Lake, have become alarmed over his disappearance, fearing fear-ing he has met with an accident, or foul play, and have asked the assistance assist-ance of the officers of the different towns to locate him. If all of the natives of Lehi, who are now living in other parts of the state return to that place for the home-coming celebration to be held June 5 to 11, the visitors will swell the population of the town to double Its present inhabitants. Two well-known Utah men, Parley P. Jenson of Salt Lake and David R Roberta of Logan, have received passing marks in the examinations of the National university of Washington and will be graduated with the degree de-gree of bachelor of laws. The United States land office at Salt Lake haa received notice of the designation of 2,000 acrea of dry farming land in the Tintic valley, Juab county, for public opening under un-der section 6 of the enlarged homestead home-stead act. The land will be opened for entry June 8. The state of Utah has lost its suit against the Montello Salt company in the supreme court of the United States for title to large tracts of saline lands Utah claimed title to thousands of acres of saline land under an act of congress granting the state land for university purposes. In round figures, as nearly as can be estimated at the present time, the total assessed valuation of property under the jurisdiction of the state board of equalization will amount to $95,000,000. This amount is about $9 -000,000 greater than the assessed valuation val-uation of last year. Fifty thousand dollars damages Is asked in a suit filed in Salt Lake by Marie, Elmira and Orville Oliver, through their guardian. Rose Oliver against the Bingham Central Railroad company for the death of their father Isaac E. Oliver, who was killed near Lark last December. Falling thirty feet down an air shaft In a rooming house in Salt Lake, FreJ W. Heaton, aged 41, a t3legrapher, sustained injuries from which he died a few hours later. It is supposed that Heaton leaned out of the window of his room, which looks out over the air shaft, when he lost his balance. A. B. Cox, of Ogden, whose mania seems to be a craving for mud baths, has been committed to tne state mental men-tal hospital at Provo. Cox has been In the habit of seeking big mud puddles pud-dles and whenever a suitable one presented pre-sented itself, he would proceed to lie In it and cover himself with the filth. A state-wide movement, that has for Its object the abolishing of Inferior seed wheat from the farms of the atate and encouraging the growth of nothing but the best of grain, has been inaugurated by the millers of the state. Every farmer in Utah will be asked to plant nothing but a standard 6eed wheat. . Thomas Riley, acoomplice of Harry Thorne in the murder of George W. Fassel, a Salt Lake grocer, March 20. 1910, must expiate his connection with the crime with his life. Thorne, who did the actual shooting, is granted grant-ed a new trial by the supreme court. Steve Dellch, the Austrian, who fatally fa-tally wounded Joe Uzelac, a fellow Austrian, during a drunken carousal at Bingham, March 5, 1911, by striking strik-ing him over the head with a beer bottle and fracturing his skull, last week entered a plea of not glllty, when arraigned at Salt Lake. |