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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. The officials of Deseret are after gamblers at that place, several arrests and convictions having been made recently. re-cently. ' P. V. De Graw, a former resident of Salt Lake City, has been appointed to the position of eastern press representative rep-resentative of the St. Louis exposition. Charles Harris of Lehi was last week thrown from a fractious brocho, bis head striking a telephone pole, inflicting in-flicting injuries which will lay him up for a few days. ' - Miles Romney, who shot and killed , his former partner, Henry Strong, in a saloon in Salt Lake City, last September, Septem-ber, has been acquitted of the charge f murder by a jury.' Eighteen new cases of smallpox developed de-veloped in Salt Lake City last week. During the week thirty-four cases recovered, re-covered, leaving seventy-one cases in the detention hospital. Mary Jane Smith of Salt Lake City, the negro woman accused of murdering murder-ing Daniel Ryan, a miner, by placing morphine in his beer, will be placed on trial during the week. The six-year-old son of John Groes-beck Groes-beck of Springville fell under a wagon which was heavily loaded with gravel, the wheels passing over one of his legs, crushing it very badly. Frederick Walls of Santaquin celeb-rated his 78th birthday on the 26th, thirteen of his children being present. ' Mr. Walls has eighty grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren, x An effort is being made to ., have street car men of Salt Lake City go to Seattle to take the place of striking carmen, but there will be very few. If any, of the men who will go. The Faremrs' union of Wellsvllle, which is now operating a big creamery cream-ery there, is preparing to erect a fifty-barrel fifty-barrel flour mill at Wellsvllle. It is the intention to have the mill in readiness read-iness for next season's crop. ' Fred George, under life sentence at Che state prison and out on parole, made an attempt to escape last week kut was run down by prison guards. George begged his captors to kill him ftsteatfaffaTfrng him-Sack-to" prison. The messenger boys in the employ Of the Western Union Telegraph company's com-pany's office at Salt Lake City went , out on a strike on Saturday of last week, and refused to return until certain cer-tain demands they made were granted. The boys were out but a few hours when they gained their point and returned re-turned to work. Rev. Drf J. L. Leilich, who. for the past year and a half, has been In charge of the Utah mission of the Methodist Episcopal church, has been removed from that position. The removal re-moval of Mr. Leilich 16 the result of a protest against his retention by the ministers of the Utah mission. The prize of $50 offered by the senior se-nior class of Stanford university for the best farce written for presenta-.. presenta-.. . Uon during the senior week has been awarded to Waldemar Young of Salt t Lake and Ralph Renaud of Washing ton, D. C. Young was formerly a reporter re-porter on a Salt Lake City paper. Bessie Knecht of Salt Lake has slept for the past month, and there . ( appears to be no hope of her awakening. awak-ening. Miss Knecht is about 22 years of age, and her affliction is regarded as the result of a case of scarlet fever several years ago. The ' doctors are considerably puzzled" over her case. At Castle Gate last week a large boulder became dislodged- from the side of he canyon, ' fcnd crashed through the house of Reese Lewis, , wrecking the kitchen. Mrs. Lewis and ' :; tier baby had a miraculous escape from death. '.' jf i . . :. .Th'e Railway. Age 'credits the Rio Grande with 282 miles of new road to be constructed this year. Among the lines is one from Colton to the Junction Junc-tion of Strawberry creek and the Duchesne Du-chesne river, a distance of sixty-one miles. At the annual convention of the executive ex-ecutive board of the National Council j of Women held in New Orleans, Mrs. ' Susan Young Gates of Utah submitted v"i iv report showins the good work that tad" been done through the press during dur-ing the past year. The city of Richfield is to have an electric Jight plant, constructed by local capital. The power will be secured se-cured from the Sevier river by taking tak-ing the water of the Sevier valley ranal out at a higher point and utillz-ag utillz-ag the power produced by the fajU, |