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Show UTAH STATE NEWS." Jri":y Sevier county's public school grad-y; grad-y; uates are more numerous this yeai f than ever before. The San Pedro road has already sixteen engines of the latest type, and more are coming from the shops. Mrs. William Roylance, one of Springville's oldest residents, is dead. Mrs. Roylance came to Utah and settled set-tled in Springville in 1853. At a meeting held in Salt Lake City last week, resolutions were passed ''condemning the brutal atrocities perpetrated per-petrated upon the Jewish people of Russia." The electrical workers who were formerly in the employ of the Utah Light & Power company are on a strike, demanding that the company recognize their union. J T. Cfokons, a rough rider, was thrown from his horse during the pa- rade in honor of the president in Salt Lake, alighting on his head, sustaining sustain-ing serious injuries. Over $4,000 was secured by pickpockets pick-pockets during the president's visit to Salt Lake, they having availed themselves of the opportunities afforded afford-ed by the dense crowds. In a runaway accident at Mt. Pleasant, Pleas-ant, John W. and Brig Farnsworth were both injured, both being knocked down, the wagon running over them, each sustaining serious bruises. ' A number of Mt Pleasant sheepmen find that the recent storms were not bo disastrous to their flocks as was at first reported, a number of flocks escaping with 5 and 10 per cent losses. As the result of a drunken brawl In a saloon in Salt Lake City, Walter Russell, an electrician, is in the hospital hos-pital with a fractured skull and his assailant, John Abernathy, a soldier, 'is in jail. J. B. McVey, a carpenter of Salt Lake City, was run over by a Rio Grande train last week and killed. He was carrying an umbrella which obscured ob-scured his sight until the train was Upon him. Morris Morri'- , a lad of eight . - rep living f 'it Lake City, wai - -rrestea -last wel Oil a" charge -oV horse stealing, ana admitted his guilt, but was released upon promise of good oehavior In the future. Samuel W. Davis fell from a roof which he was shingling In Spanish Fork, and was badly injured, his elbow el-bow being dislocated, his thigh bone slipped from its socket, and his head badly cut and bruised. Emll G. Nelson, an employe of the South Swansea mine at Silver City, fell down a shaft on the 30th, his dead body being found later. It is not known how the accident occurred, as he was alone at the time. At the 115th general assembly of the Presbyterian church, held in Los Angeles, resolutions were adopted calling upon the United States senate to expel Senator Smoot and declaring that polygamy was still practiced by the Latter-day Saints. The dead body of Thomas P. Murphy Mur-phy of Price was found in the rear oi the Wilson hotel, in Salt Lake City, Sunday morning last. The deceased de-ceased was a great sufferer from consumption, con-sumption, and it is thought that h may have been attacked with a fata stroke while standing near the win' dow and fell out. . 'ine intercollegiate debate between Nevada and Utah, which took place at Reno, Nev., on the subject, "Resolved, "Re-solved, That Municipalities Should Own and Operate Street Railways, Light and Telephones," was won b Nevada; who had the affirmative. Safe-blowers ma'de an attempt to crack the safe of the Cudahy Packing company in Salt Lake City Sunday morning. They failed to secure any money, but succeeded in demolishing the safe and leaving a, pile of ruins as evidence of the desperate attempt. It Is said that almost every orchard in Sevier county is infested worse than ever before known with the tent caterpillar. They can bo found on nearly every tree in from one to twen' , ty clusters. They are devouring the . leaves and young fruit rapidly. Five cases of smallpox were reported report-ed during tho week in Salt Lake City, end one case was Imported; 7 cases were discharged as cured, leaving 17 cases In quarantine, as compared with 18 for the previous week and 10 for the same week of last year. |