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Show I STATE NEWS GatheFed'from Various Sources H and Condensed, H An attempt was mndo to wreck the H enstbound pas?enger and express train H on tho Rio Grande Western at a point H known as Sharp's Spur, some four iuiIuh H this side of Colton, or 1'. V. Junction, i H Wednesday night, which is believed to H Jiavo boon the work of train robbers. B A heavy piece of iron had been inserted B in the switch and the ties loosed from m tho rails. The passenger train pusbed B over tiie obstruction in safety, hut u B freight train which cmno along some B time later was badly wrecked. The B passenger irain carried about $10,000 H tocash chocks of railroad employees nt B Uolper. The attempt is laid to tho tho H Robbers Roost gang. H J. B. Jennings, the Richfield attorney, H was ou trial in his home city last week, B charged with purjnry. Judge Rolupp, B of Ogdon tried the case. Thuis lay he H vyas found not guilty. H Tho Agricultural college made n most H remarkable opening Tuesday. The B stttetidanco (or the opening day id H unusually large, 1G0 students having H been registered so far, while nearly 200 B more are awaiting their turn to be en- H WJ, Parker, manager of the Syracuse H canning factory, reports that this com- H pany ia now employing 87 porsons, and B that 200 caseB of canned tomatoes are H being put up daily. The crop of B tomatooB is jrood, and there is no lack B of raw material to last for several weeks B yet, if frost does not cut the ripening H aoason short. Already his company has B Tjegun making shipments, obout 1,500 H cases having been sent out, 500 of which B was consigned to a point in Nevada B The company pays $5.50 per ton for H tomatoes aud'eonsidering that from ten B to tsixtuon ton can bo produced per aero, H it would seem to bo u profitable crop for B v farmers wiio are located near the factory. H The canned product is of first quality, H stnd a ready market is found for it. H During the season's run of about SO H days, probably 0,000 cases will be put B 'Tho proposed glove contest between B "Willard Bean and Jim Williams which B -was expected to take placo at some B date either at Provo or Geneva will not B come oft', for the reason that Williams v has declined the challenge nindo by B J3ean. This leaves Bean thoundis- B puted champion of Utah. |