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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. The Oregon Short Line expects a heavier summer travel than ever la its' history. Beet planting was finished In the Mt. Pleasant district last week. Fifty-two Fifty-two acres were planted this year, as against 108 last year. It is expected that not less than 500 cowboys will participate in the parade in Salt Lake City when President Roosevelt visits the capital city. Prof. J. J. McClellan, who presides at the big organ in the tabernacle in Salt Lake City, is to compose a comic opera, entitled "A Romance of Japan," M. Howe, a pioneer of American Fork, is dead at the age of 83. He came to Utah in the early, days and passed through all t,he early trials of the Saints. The merchants of American Fork, Lehi, Pleasant Grove and. Alpine have decided to give their clerks a half holiday each week during the summer months. The grading firm of Straw &. Storrs, of Springville, has been awarded the contract for all the grading repair work pn the line of the Rio Grande Western this year. The body of an infant was found In the Jordan river at Salt Lake City Jast week and a coroner's jury has decided de-cided that it was murdered, but discovered dis-covered no clue to its parents. Clyde Ellison, on trial in Salt Lake City for the murder of Undertaker A. S. Watson, was found not guilty by a jury. Ellison accused Watson of being be-ing unduly intimate with his wife and C. Scott, of Klmberley, employed at the Annie Laurie mill, was caught in the belting last week and sustained two broken ribs and a number of bruises, his escape from death being a narrow one. Miss Matilda Lund of Ephralm was Injured in an accident last week. "While riding in a buggy with three others, the reach pole broke and Miss tLund fell face downward upon the dashboard, cutting her face badly. Captain Andrew J. Burt, who went to the Philippines with the Utah boys and remained to take a position in the Manila police department, is back in Salt Lake and reports that Utahns In the islands generally are doing well. WilforJ Miller, aged 12, was dragged to death by a horse at Paro-wan Paro-wan on the 9th. He was preparing to stake the-torse out for the night when it started to run and the boy's feet got fastened in the rope and he was dragged over two miles before the horse was caught Mrs. Clyde Ellison, wife of the man acquitted of the charge of the murder mur-der of Undertaker Watson f Salt Lake, declares she will begin suit for divorce, claiming non-support and cruelly. She professes) surprise at the outcome of the trial and calls it a case of attempted blackmail and murder. mur-der. Sam Newton, a blacksmith of American' Amer-ican' Fork, tried to kill his wife Sunday Sun-day last while in a drunken rage, and would have succeeded had it not been tor the "nerve of the woman, who knocked his shotgun out of his hand after he had struck her with it once, and made her escape. Newton is now In jaiL Prince Nanzeta Montezuma, exiled ruler of the Aztecs and last of the Montezumas, was a visitor in Zion last Week. ' The prince is 25 years of age, but looks much younger, and wears his hair hanging down over his shoulders. shoul-ders. "Red" Price, who was pardoned from the Utah penitentiary on account of failing health, has just been sentenced sen-tenced to life imprisonment in the Colorado penitentiary for a murder committed .in Denver a few months ago. The big pumps at the head of Jordan Jor-dan river commenced sending water to the Salt Lake valley farmers Monday. Mon-day. From now on each of the four big pumps will draw 100 cubic feet of water per second from the supply in Utah lake. Shearing at the various pens in Sevier county is almost over and the count shows losses fully up to what was reported some weeks ago and In some cases in excess of calculations. calcula-tions. The average loss is from 10 to 12 per cent |