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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The convention of the Utah Postmasters' Post-masters' association will be held In Bait Lake City on May 27 and 28. W. li. Kimbrough, a vendor of fruits end vegetables, dropped dead on the Streets of Salt Lake,' death being due to heart disease. Leslie Fuller, who admitted forging forg-ing a check for $7.50 on an Ogden business man, has been sentenced to three years In the slate prison. Springville has at last secured the long desired state fish hatchery, which Is to be located on Spring creek. The hatchery will have a capacity of 2,000,-000 2,000,-000 fry. The house in Salt .Lake City in which Maud Adams, the celebrated actress, lived when a baby, has been torn down to make room for a modern mod-ern building. Elmer Burtner, a single man, 23 years old, employed In the Daly West mine at Park City, -was accidentally caught in the shaft while descending for work and Instantly killed. The campaign inaugurated by the Commercial Club o Salt Lake City to raise $150,000 with Whteh to liquidate the debt of the local V. M. C. A. has come to a successful conclusion. Governor Spry has appointed C. A. Htekenlooper, of Ogden, to membership member-ship on the board of directors of the Ulan State Fair association, in the place of F. ,T. Hendershot, resigned. The new law passed by the last legislature leg-islature requiring an autoist to take out a state certificate or license, became be-came effective on May 11. The lawl Imposes a fee of $2 for registration. The new law regarding divorces In Xltali went into effect on Monday, May 10. The new law prevents remarriage of divorced people within one year after af-ter they have been granted a divorce. A mysterious robbery case in Salt Lake City, In which a number of articles ar-ticles of jewelry of value were stolen, has been solved by the confession of a 15-year-old boy, who admitted that he had turned poarch climber. M. F. Cnnnigham, a newspaper man, was assaulted by a highwayman, in Ogden, while on his way home from his work, being so ;V badly beaten about the head that he may lose the sight, of one eye. A Salt Iake woman who has filed a BUit for divorce from her husband, alleges al-leges that her husband wrapped her In a blanket and tried to set fire to the blanket with matches, but failed to get rid of his spouse in this manner. man-ner. Pawnbrokers of Ogden have been notified that unless they conform with the provision of the statute passeir by.Ibe last legislature, requiring them 1 to make daily reports of loans handled to the sheriff, they will be. prosecuted. Will Outzon had a narrow escape from injury at the Jumbo plaster mill at Richfield. His shirt sleeve was caught in one of the conveyors, and only his strength saved him from being crushed to death. His clothes were torn from his body. Charles Staples, a colored race follower, fol-lower, was shot by Clarence Ernest, colored, who runs a cigar store in Og1-den, Og1-den, death resulting the following day. The shooting was the result of a disturbance started in Ernest's place of busines by Staples Ed. Wright, a teamster, came near meeting death by drowning in Ogden river last week, when he drove into the river to wash bis wagon, the horse, wagon and driver being carried down stream, and escaping from ttef' high waters after a desperate .fight. After a shut-down of two and one-half one-half weeks, the Ogden sugar factory has resumed operations in its osmos-lng osmos-lng plant. The shut-down was caused by the lack oi water while the annual cleaning of the canal was in progress. Claiming to have stolen and cashed a draft for $250 in Seattle in 1907. Al V. Tucker sought refuge from a troubled conscience behind the bars of the Salt Lake City jail. His story was believed to be the result of a diseased dis-eased mind and he was released from custody. With his right arm torn off at the , -,- elbow by a separator machine at the Ogden Steam laundry, Frank Harris. a.ged IS. bandaged the wound, rode to the hospital and climbed on the operating oper-ating table, where the arm was amputated ampu-tated between the elbow and the shoulder. National banks of Salt Lake on April 2S, according to their report submitted sub-mitted to the comptroller of the currency, cur-rency, under his call, held deposits ag-gregating ag-gregating $8,399,352, and had loans and discounts of $6,999,003. The amount of gold coin in their reserves was $1,235,665. Responses received by John K. Hardy, private secretary to Governor William Spry, indicate that the public pub-lic institutions of the state will be able to assist greatly in the work of furnishing flowers for the national encampment en-campment of the G. A. R., to be held In Salt Lake City. William Gentry, under a twenty-year twenty-year sentence for highway robbery, having held up a street car in Salt Lake and robbed the conductor, bi.i who was released from the state prison on parole, has been taken in custody at San Bernardino, Cal., for violating his parole. The matter of eliminating the undesirable unde-sirable element in Murray is now a matter which is facing the citizens of that place. The officials of the Amcr-. Amcr-. lean smelter have come forward with the information that they are ready to do everything in their power to help tiiit movement along. |