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Show UTAH STATE NEWS For the first time In Its history the Carnegie freo library of Ogden shows balance in the treasury. . The Utah Fuel company will spend a half million dollars improving its properties in Carbon county. The last case of smallpox was released re-leased from the pest house at Ogden a few days ago, and the building cIohhiI. D. If. Christensen, jrH been reelected re-elected for his sixth cotiseculivo term an superintendent of the Salt Lake City schools. . President Taft has been invited to be present at the opening of the new Strawberry project, but It is hardly .probablo that he will be able to attend. at-tend. The committee of the Commercial Travelers having in charge the annual an-nual outing of that organization, an "jounce that everything is in readiness readi-ness for the gala' event, June 21-22 at Brigliam City. Crazed by jealousy, Earl Simmons; aged 30, an ore teamster, slashed the throat of his wile at their home in Bingham and then tried to cut his own throat with a jackkniie. Neither .wound proved serious. More than ninety-five members of the Utah County District Federation Of Women's Clubs, from Lehl, HeDer, Frovo and Springville, met at Lehi on the U7h. Mrs. Irene Jensen of Spring-villa Spring-villa was elected president. Two runaway ore cars on the 1,200 foot level of the Daly-Judge mfue at Park City leaped the track at a point whore Steve Jackson, a trammer, stood waiting for them to pass, striking strik-ing the man and killing him instantly. Material improvement and exteu-Biou exteu-Biou to the playgrounds system of Salt Lake will come as a result of -the action taken by the city commission, commis-sion, which intends providing play-grouuds play-grouuds for all the children of Salt .Lake. The home of It. White at Sandy .was struck by lighfn.ng during an electric storm. No one was injured. .The upper part of the house was badly damaged, but tne tire was quenched before it gained serious headway. Over 3000 persons saw the athletic events held at Bingham. The feature of the afternoon was the double-hand- eu i-ocK urnung contest, which was .won by Otto Carlson and Andrew Jackson, drilling forty-five inches in fifteen minutes. David J. Sharp, aged 43 years, one .of the most prominent coal dealers in ihe state, died of heart failure June .12, at his home in alt Lake. He .was taken ill April 10 and had been confined to his bed almost continuous continu-ous since. Randolph Reasser, aged 11, or Salt .Lake, is in a hospital with a frac-.tured frac-.tured .skuil and two lingers missing from his right hand, as the result oi .touching a match to the end of a rifle cartridge which he picked up on the parade grounds at Fort Douglas. Slipping its brakes, a train loaded with Utah copper ores and composed of a locomotive and three cars, ran away on a 7 per cent, incline at Singh am. The train left the track, the locomotive being demolished, and all but the trucks of the cars de-.stro de-.stro ed. Wimield Wood, aged 34 years, married, mar-ried, with five children, shot and orobably fatally wounded Mrs. Margaret Mar-garet M. Martin, aged 47 years, married, mar-ried, with five children, as she stepped from a street car in Salt Lake. Wood confesses that he was insanely jealous jeal-ous pf the woman. rCla'im for $3,000 damages for the death of her husband, Carl E. Hel-berg, Hel-berg, who was killed by a cave-in in the city gravel pit .at Salt Lake on May 11$ last has been filed with the city recorder by Mrs. Emma L. Hel-berg, Hel-berg, in behalf of herself and her three minor children. Additional sleepeis and better service ser-vice for passengers out of Salt Lake and Ogden, a better convention rate from coast cities to Salt Lake and the sale of summer tourist tickets J'rom western po nts to Salt Lake Lave been demanded by the Salt f .1L-0 ( "nm in til orf-i -i 1 r-liiVi Ilyrum F. Homer and his wife and child were returning in a buggy to their home a few iniles north of Park City, when a bolt of lightning struck .some- high tension electric wires alongside the road. Homer was -Knocked senseless, although the wile and child were uninjured. Loss than eight hours after being Awakened from a sleep in which he drear.rd that te had been run over by a sleam engine, as he told his rnother. Oroville Collins, six-year old sou of V. J. Collins of Murray, sustained sus-tained injur.es under the wheels of a Rio Grande train which resulted in bis death. While cleaning his revolver, William Wil-liam Leavey was accidentally shot at his home in Park City and the injury may prove fatal, as the bullet entered enter-ed the man's right side and followed the ribs and came out just under the right shoulder. According to J. E. Wright of Ogden. president of the Wright-Whittier Can niDg company, this year will be a banner one for the cherry crop in Utah. The company's orchard and ' canning factory is located at Roy, and a new canning factory is being built .III Ogden. |