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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Thomas Hull has been renominated renominat-ed surveyor-general for the district of Utah. The city council of logau has passed a prohibition ordinance which Ifl acceptable to the prohibitionists of that city. At the big raumt hunt between the towns of Mona and Santaquin, the former town won by a score of near-ly near-ly 200 to 16. Arthur Hottle, 17 years old, left the sugar factory at Garland ou November Novem-ber 24, and has not been heard from since, and tin effort is being made to locate the boy. A campaign has begun looking to the raising of the sum of $40,000 to complete the erection of the Macser memorial building at the Brigham Young University at Provo. The Salt Lake Commercial club has made the widow of its late secretary, Fisher S. Harris, a substantial Christmas Christ-mas present, having purchased a home and deeded it to her. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Tletjen, at Santaquin, was destroyed by ure on December 2. The young couple were newly wed and lost all their savings as a result of the fire. Mldvale was visited by a disastrous fire Tuesday, which destroyed three business houses and seriously damaged dam-aged two others. Some of the volunteer volun-teer fire fighters suffered severe burns. Ray Kay, of Mona, was accidentally accidental-ly shot in the leg when a brother, who had been duck shooting, was unloading un-loading his shotgun, the charge of ehot striking the boy in the calf of the leg. While walking along the street at Murray, Mrs. Annie Halstrom, an aged woman, accidentally slipped on the roadway and fell with considerable consider-able force on her right arm, breaking It below the elbow. James McTernay, a saloon man of Salt Lake City, has been made defendant de-fendant in a $50,000 breach of promise prom-ise suit, the young woman in the case declaring McTernay had failed to keep his promise to marry her. rH. W. Griffith, state librarian, nas ed his report for the year with the ivernor. The report shows that 144 ts were " received in the year ,rtou .l:tles. The largest liiim-oer liiim-oer coming from any state was fifteen, fif-teen, from Missouri. Ten came from Kentucky. The range in the home of Dr. Miner, of Nepbl, was blown to pieces by a terrific explosion, caused by the water jacket freezing, which hurled fragments of the stove clear through the ceiling, and drove portions of coal in the fire box right Into the brick wall. Jealous over the attentions paid to his wife, Bob Marich, an Austrian, shot Nick Ratisovich, another Austrian, Aus-trian, at Upper Bingham Canyon, shooting his rival in the back as he slept, but failed to inflict fatal injuries. in-juries. Marich took to the hills, but pas captured. The board of education of Salt I,ake City has decided to ask the people of Salt Lake to vote $700,000 in bonds with which to build a new bigh school on the east side, and Brect new grade schools, improve and enlarge old and buy sites for new school houses. A child of Charles Hanson of Santaquin San-taquin was badly burned. The mother had placed it in a chair while she went outside to do her chores. Another child got some matches and In some way ignited the clothes on the baby's chair. Hopes are entertained enter-tained for the recovery of the little tone. V Charles C. Shaw, one of the oldest -.' residents of Utah county and a man known from one end or it to the ( other, died at his home in Hyrum, December De-cember 23, of Bright's disease, from r-hich he had been suffering for some time. At the annual meeting of the stockholders stock-holders of the Salt Lake Route, held In Salt Lake City, December 21, a bond issue of sixty million dollars was authorized for the purpose of retiring re-tiring tne first mortgage bonds of the company issued in 1903 of forty million dollars. The election contest between M. J. McGill, Democrat, and J. W. Thomp- son, Republiacn, which came up in the district court at Park City, was decided in favor of J. W. Thompson. The trouble arose in the sixth voting district of the Park City precinct in the last city election. The contract between the forest service of the United States and the state board of land commissioners will terminate on the first day of January. 1910. and all state lands in the forest reserves will be open for lease to the highest bidder alter said date, the minimum price being 10 cents per acre. Dr. T. B. Beatty, secretary of the State Board of Health, wishes all doctors doc-tors to understand that arrangements I.; ve been made whereby anti-toxine Is furnished free to those whose finan cial condition bars their purchasing purchas-ing it. Mrs. L. V. Curry, better known as "Dolly Dimples," who, with her hus band, was wrought back from Los Angeles recently, to face a chargt of swindling the Ogden Standard, has been allowed to leave the jail, without with-out bail, she being sick, and hnvtng promised to be present for trial. |