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Show UTAH STATE NEWS p The people of St. George have put up a bonus of 100,000 with rights of way and depot grouna.3 ror a railroad. Mrs. Elizabeth Troop Mau, one of the band of pioneers who made the trip to Utah on foot, died at Plain I'ity, on November 22, at the age of 72. John Wilson, who confessed to having hav-ing commlt.teed more than a score of burglaries in Salt Lake City, has been sentenced to twenty years in the state prison. James Strong figured in a lively runaway at Sandy, when ho was thrown from the wagon and under the horses' feet, but fortunately escaped without serious injuries. Dan Dosen, an Austrian, charged with shooting Tom Starkovitch at Garfield on July 8 last has been cap-tuered cap-tuered In Nevada and brought back to Salt Lake City for trial. The twenty-first annual grand en-Jmr- oampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was held in Park City on Tuesday. Brlgham was selected as the next place of meeting. It is rumored that the Denver & Rio Grande railroad is to build shops In Salt Lake City, the repair work for the Western Pacific and the Denver & Rio Grande to be made at the new shops. , Caught between two freight cars while in the act of making a coupling. Charles McGregor, a switchman aged 24 years, was instantly killed in the Denver & Rio Grande yards in Salt Lake City. Arthur Owens, an apprentice em- pioyeu at tne maenme snops ot tne Denver & Rio Grande railroad in Salt Lake City, got caught In one of the machines and had his left arm broken and mangled. The coroner's Jury has decided that Leon Nelson, of Sandy, who was run down and killed by a street car in Salt Lake City, met death as the result re-sult of an accident and that the car crew was not to blame. There were 20,588 mortgages of record rec-ord In Utah on July 1, 1909, representing represent-ing a valuation of $65,033,S18.18, as shown in a statement of the private mortgage indebtedness in eacji county of the state complied by the state statistician. Ben Sparks is lying at the point of death at Ephriam from having his feet and arms frozen while he was lost on the desert. He was sent to Frisco for the mall and while returning a terrific snowtstorm set in, he became lost and was out all night In the torm. Frank Smith and Simon Levin, two youthful bond jumpers, charged with assaulting Frederick Fougler in Salt Lake City because he refused to buy a paper, beating him in such a manner that his life was despaired of for somo time, were captured in Caliente, Nevada. Circular letters are being mailed to ell hotels, lodging houses and restaurants restau-rants of Ogden inquiring as to the accommodations which can be offered for the National Wool Growers' convention con-vention and Midwinter sheep show, which will be held in Ogden early in January. According to the report of the pchool census for the school year of 1909-10, received by State Superintendent Superin-tendent of Schools A. C. Nelson, there are 34.567 children of school age In the five cities of the first and second class In Utah. Out of that number, 80.522 can read and write. The Promontory-Curley Land company com-pany held its third big land sale Thursday, and It was announced that more than 25,000 acres more of the property of the company had been sold for approximately $110,000. which will bring the total sales of the company in the last few months up to about $400,000. The large number of typhoid fever cases which have developed in the Five Points section of Ogden the past few weeks has led to an analysis of the drinking water by the state chemist, chem-ist, who has found that the water Is Infected and unfit for culinary use. The inmates of the penal and charitable chari-table Institutions of the city, county and state were not forgotten in .e universal observance of Thanksgiving day in Salt Lake City. Thursday, Three hundred and elgnty-ive Inmates In-mates of the penal, and 139 occupants of charitable institutions were treated treat-ed to a rare dinner. Leon Nelson of Sandy was run down by a street car in Salt Lake City and instantly killed. The conductor con-ductor claims the man had been drinking and attempted to alight from the car w'lile it was going at a rapid rate, despite his warning to stay on the car. The state board of health bulletin for October shows the total death list for this state from all causes was 333 deaths, of which 141 occurred in Salt Lake. Typhoid fever led all other contagious diseases, with 32 deaths during the month, out of 35" cases reported. Warlock Amtoft, the 16-year-old lad who is serving sixty days in the Salt Lake county jail for obtaining money under false pretenses on bad checks is charged with victimizing three oi four Provo persons and firms in the same way. In tho year 190S there were no criminal cases for trial In Rich county, coun-ty, while so far this year there have been just two cases of grand larceny. Iron county has almost as good a rec ord, with one criminal case last year, while two cases have developed this year. |
