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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Fruit growers of Willard are plan nlng the organization of a fruit growers' grow-ers' association. A Willard couple who last week went to Ogden to get married, were quarantined for smallpox while in the Junction City. Mrs. Nettie Johnson, one of the oldest residents of Ephraim, died on January 27, from a paralytic stroke, at the age of 86. A benefit given by one of the Salt Lake theatres last week netted the fund for the sufferers from the earthquake earth-quake In Italy the sum of $2,000. Pedro Peltrle, a Mexican herder, Is under arrest charged with holding up the Hagley saloon at Granger shooting George Campbell through the scalp, and stealing $350. The Sunday closing law is to be rigidly rig-idly enforced at Scofleld, all of the saloon sa-loon men having been notified that they will be prosecuted for future infractions in-fractions of the law. The Kansas Day club, composed of residents of the Sunflower state who have taken up their abode in Ogden, formed an organization last week, 150 "Jayhawkers" being present. Charles Coppe of Mendon dropped 3ead from heart disease while standing stand-ing In front of a hotel in Ogden. He was apparently In the best of health when he was suddenly stricken. Utah's portion of the receipts from the national forest fund at the end of the fiscal year June 30, 1908, amounts to $32,081.49, which amount was received re-ceived by the state treasurer last week. t Ah Sing, an elderly Chinaman, whose home was in Salt Lake City, was found dead In his bed in an Ogden Og-den hotel one day last week, death having been due to rheumatism of the hearC Congressman Howell has received assurance that the rivers and harbors committee will authorize a survey of Green river from Uintah county to Moab, to determine the navigability ol that river. Wallace F. Fielding, recently arrested ar-rested in Ogden .on a dharge of bigamy, big-amy, has been extradited and taken back to Oregon, where he will be tried on a charge of forgery and selling a mortgage. A reduction of 50 per cent in the number of deaths for the month of December, 1908, as compared 'wtith December, 1907, is the showing con tained in the bulletin issued by the state board of health. Mrs. Gertrude Myers, in an at tempt to escape the anger of her husband, hus-band, jumped from a second-story window of their home in Salt Lake City, badly spraining both ankles and severely bruising her body. Harry Davies, 42 years old, a machinist, ma-chinist, whose home was in Platts burg, N. Y., committed suicide Sntur day night in a rooming house in Salt Lake City, taking laudanum. He was out of work and despondent. Delegates from nearly every county in Utah met in Salt Lake City od January 2G and perfected a state .organization .or-ganization for the protection of fish nnd game, and adopted a suitable fish and game bill to be presented to the legislature. Three young boys, aged seven, eight and eleven years, sons Of prominent families of Murray, were arrested last week charged with committing a number of robberies which have puz-Eled puz-Eled the officers. The boys have confessed con-fessed the crime. The widows of Spring City have formed an organization, having elected elect-ed officers at a banquet held at the home of one of the members last week. There are about forty widows In the town. The organization is purely a social one. Because Tom Connors, a miner at the Highland Boy mine at Bingham, Tefsued to give him a pipeful of tobacco, to-bacco, Eli Lugovitch, an Austrian miner, bit off a large part of Connor's left ear. Lugovitch is in jail, and will face a charge of mayhem. As a means of awakening Interest S; among the union men of Utah, a call has been issued to labor organiza-Hons organiza-Hons of the state for the second an-nual an-nual convention of the Utah State Fed-iaUon Fed-iaUon of Labor to be held in Salt LuKei5rr-ou lf5fiS"-y. March S. The home of Joseph Fransden of Uintah was destroyed by fire one night last week, the family being almost al-most suffocated with smoke and barely bare-ly escaping before the roof collapsed. It is thought the fire was started by a spark from a passing engine. Entering from the rear, robbers invaded in-vaded the Davis Shoe company's store on Main street, in Salt Lake City, forced the lock in the door of a safety vault and escaped with nearly $1,000 In cash and bank drafts. Negotiable eecurities valued, it is said, at $10,000, were not molested. When a freight train was passing through the Ephraim yards, some mischievous mis-chievous boys uncoupled all the cars. When the engine started but one car was following. Another car was coupled, and the remainder stood on the track. The train was delayed nearly three hours. Landry A. Burns, a former letter carrier at the Salt Lake posloffice. committed suicide in San Francisco "by cutting his throat with a razor. The act was committed while he was in a demenled condition, brought on by long sickness and overwork. Burns was 28 years old. |