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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. j ' A movement is on foot by Butte cap- Italists to erect a drug manufacturing plant in Salt Lake City. : Mumps is the disagreeable disease j jprevaling in Manti at present among ! iyoung and middle aged classes. All of the nine young people who j were injured by a train crashing into I their sleigh in the suburbs of Salt Lake j City will recover. i A meeting was held in Richfield re cently by representative farmers of Sevier county when it was decided to organize a farmers' union. A number of cattle are reported as j flying on Green river from the severe ! weather, while many sheep are said to Ibe perishing on the White.river ranges. I William Baker, aged 15, was caught j in the machinery of the finishing room I of the Provo woolen mills, where he was at work, and had his arm badly lacerated. 1 The Arrapine Commercial Club has Just been organized at Manti. The oh- jject of the organization is to promote-ithe promote-ithe material interests of the Temple City, socially and otherwise. The ward meeting house at Jensen was destroyed by fire last week. It is Ithought that the fire resulted from the carelessness oi the janitor in not properly prop-erly attending to his duties. The. safe in the office of the Felt Lumber company, Salt Lake City, was :blown open by burglars, presumably amateurs, one night last week. Only one dollar and. an old rusty pistol was taken. .'- Austin M. Brown of Salt .Lake City 'will probably lose his leg as the result ;of .his falling off a wagon containing a 4,000 pound load, the wheel passing over his leg, . crushing it in a terrible (manner. j : Chief of Police Paul of Salt Lake City has -..handed ..in his resignation, which has been accepted. ' Failure of (of the chief " 'to-' agree with the city administration regarding Sunday closing clos-ing and gambling is said to be the cause for- the resignation. :. : ; -'. Sheep-owners in the vicinity of Lund re very anxious about their flocks Ithis winter5. ;The win tec has been ex-Itremely ex-Itremely cold arid the snow so deep on . 'the deoert that they are compelled to 1 . (range their' flocks in the hills, where teed is very scarce. ; William Krogh, a 14-year-old Salt jLake boy, while cleaning a target gun Iwhich he had purchased but a few hours (before,' shot himself in the forehead, (death resulting instantly. It appears the little fellow had forgotten to remove ithe cartridge from the gun. A panic almost occurred at one of ; . jthe public schools at Salt Lake City last eek. A boy gained access to the building and shouted fire up the cold air pipes leading to several of the rooms. - A stampede was averted by the princi- pal announcing a false alarm. j ' John B. Glenz of Salt Lake City sui cided last week by taking a dose of ' carbolio acid. A short time ago Glenz, who it appears comes from a good family, married a woman of the tenderloin tender-loin district, and the two quarreled, when Glenz took the fatal dose. Dan Collier, a young man of Naples, met death in a peculiar manner last week. While chopping down a tree it became lodged in another, and climbing climb-ing it to release it from lodgment, he lost his balance, and falling a distance of thirty feet, was fatally injured. t Mrs. A. P. Mayberry attempted suicide sui-cide in Salt Lake City Sunday morning by swallowing an ounce of laudanum and severing an artery in her wrist. Her condition was discovered by friends in time to save her life. Domestic troubles are said to have been the cause. Ben F. Sparks of Ephraim has been brought home from the west desert suffering suf-fering from a dislocated shoulder blade. He was1 herding sheep when the accident acci-dent happened. He was alone with the sheep, and assistance did not reach him for a period of eight days. Since' the bounty has been plJod up- - on rabbits in Sevier county a great number of the bunnies have been slain Recently in a contest between Redmond parties over 600 were slaughtered. A great many rabbits are being killed by individuals for the bounty. The report comes from Kanarra that . ,.on account of the extremely cold weather cattle are dying and the loss is heavy. At Bellevue, thirteen head of cattle are reported to have been frozen to death in one corral. Indicatioas point to a heavy loss of stock. |