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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. The track of the Leamington cut-. cut-. off is now fifteen miles below Stockton. Stock-ton. Work was commenced Monday on the canul for the electric light plant for Springville. The plant is being put in by the city. John Alexander, a carpenter, is dead from injuries sustained by falling fall-ing from a building on which he was working in Salt Lake City. Judah Howells of Salt Lake City, is the owner of a freak calf born last week. The calf has five legs and three toes on some of its feet. There is a strong probability that the National Guard of Utah will go into camp this summer with the regulars reg-ulars at some point in Wyoming. President Roosevelt will not participate par-ticipate in the proposed buffalo hunt on Antelope island, owing to the limited lim-ited time he will remain In Salt Lake City. At the close of last week twenty-six cases of smallpox remained in quarantine quaran-tine in Salt Lake City, sixteen new cases having developed during . the week. Government experts will probably investigate the grasshopper pest in Sanpete county with a view to finding find-ing some means to exterminate the little pests. Diphtheria and membranous croup have been very prevalent in Tropic and vicinity this spring, claiming no less than twenty-one victims, all under 12 years of age. A rigid quarantine is In force. Dr. Washington Frankftn Anderson, who died in Salt Lake City last week at the age of 80,- was tho first president presi-dent of the Utah Medical society, and attended President Brigham Young in his last illness. uiyae Vinson, wno snot ana Killed Undertaker A. S. Watson in Salt Lake City, is on trial for his iife. Ellison will endeavor to prove that he was justified' in killing Watsou on account . " fami!y troubles. , oss or "Vln this state dur- turf the past wiatcr, according to a report issued 1-y the agricultural department, de-partment, was 7.8 per cent through exposure and 2.1 per cent through diset.se, or 353,436 sheep in all: As the result of a fall' from a horse, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Davis, of Brooklyn, near Eisinore, is lying at death's door. As the boy was alone at the time of the accident, it is not known how it happened. Little Alada Ross, aged 3, of Salt Lake City, while playing In the yard at her home, was struck by a stray bullet fired by small boys who were using a target gun, the bullet entering enter-ing the thigh, inflicting a painful wound. Victor M. Clement, the well known mining engineer of Salt Lake City, died Sunday morning In Saltillo, Mexico, Mex-ico, as the result of an operation which he had undergone a few days previous. Mr. Clement had a worldwide world-wide reputation as a mining engineer. Three accidents occurred ln the family fam-ily of George Barney of Brooklyn within with-in a week. A 7-year-old daughter was run over by a roller and severely ln jured, another child fell from tho shad and broke its collav bono, while a tMiJ Icll into a canal and was fished out just in time to prevent its death. Sheep Inspector Candland of Sanpete San-pete county, after visiting the east and west deserts, estimates the loss of sheep through the past winter and 6pring at 20 per cent. The local flock-masters flock-masters assert their loss will not reach this figure. Charles Christensen, a 16-year-old Richfield lad, has been convicted of breaking into the tabernacle in that city and stealing a purse which had been left on a seat by the janitor. The lad has been sentenced to five years in the state industrial school. The committee from the Agricultural Agricul-tural college of Utah, charged with the selection of sites for the five dry . land experiment farms in Utah, has definitely settled upon two tracts of land. One of the farms will be in Juab county and one in Iron county. The memorial adopted by the last legislature asking that a portion of Utah's vast forest reserve be, opened - to settlement will probably bear fruit, Secretary Hitchcock having stated that much of the land in question will be restored to the public domain at aa early data. |