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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. A Salt Lake barber, arrested for shaving customers on Sunday, was, fined 815. August Lange, ordnance sergeant at Fort Douglas for the past fifteen years, suicided Sunday by hanging. Two stores in Mona were robbed Friday night, a small amount of money and several articles of clothing being taken. The wall of an adobe building on Main street, Salt Lake, collapsed on Thursday of last week, but fortunately no one was hurt. W. A. Nelden of Salt Lake was made fourth vice-president of the National Wholesale Druggists' association at the recent session held at Old Point Comfort, Com-fort, Va. George J. Gould, during his recent visit to Salt Lalre Citj, declared he was in favor of a uaion depot for Salt Lake, and expressed the ppinion that it would be built. The Saltair management has decided to try some experiments in dredging in the vicinity of the bathing houses, the water having become too shallow for bathing purposes. . As a sequence to the quarantining of Utah sheep .last spring by Idaho inspectors, in-spectors, suits for damages to the amount of $34,475 were last week filed against the Idaho inspectors. Lizzie Carlson, a young domestic employed in Salt Lake, suicided Wednesday Wed-nesday evening while the family was' at the theatre, shooting herself in the temple. Ill health was the cause. Pearl Padgett, the girl soldier who enlisted with the volunteers and went to Manila attired as a man, is serving a sentence of thirty days in the Salt Lake City jail on a charge of stealing a skirt. President Andrews of the National Asphalt company, who of late has been examining into Utah deposits, says that eventually this state will be found to be one of the largest depositories of the hydrocarbon in the world. Figures taken from the annual report re-port of the commissioner of education show that the number of pupils enrolled during the school year of 1899-1900 was 73,052, the average daily attendance being 50,595, at a cost to the state of 81,446,306. Members of the bar of Salt Lake appear ap-pear to be dissatisfied with the nominations nomi-nations made by the two political parties for the city judgeships, and declare they will place an independent ticket in the field for the people's consideration. con-sideration. John W. Young, builder of tbe Utah Central, now a branch of the Western, connecting Park City with Salt Lake, and originator and part builder of the Utah Northern, from Ogden to Butte has returned to Salt Lake after eleven years passed in London. Tbe attorneys for Abe Majors have not yet given up hope, and within a few days will present a motion for a new trial in his case. Majors has already been convicted twice upon the charge of murdering Police Captain Brown of Ogden about two year s ago. A number of prominent physicians of Salt Lake are working on a plan to establish a medical school in Utah, the idea being to have the school made a department of the State University, if possible, and to secure an appropriation to assist in maintaining it. A daring sneak-thief seized an overcoat over-coat from a dummy on one of the principal prin-cipal streets of Salt Lake, in broad daylight, last week, and succeded in making his escape, though hotly pursued pur-sued by the owner. The police were notified and he was captured later. Willie Car and Lawrence Martin, two Salt Lake boys about 12 years of age, are under arrest and have confessed con-fessed to stealing a purse containing $40 from a lady in a store. Tbey snatched tbe purse from a table and lost themselves in the crowd before pursuit could be given. Nearly all the money was recovered. San Juan stockmen, among whom is Representative Ridd, claim that the fences alleged to be enclosing government govern-ment land, which the government asks them to remove, merely closes the the mouths of canyons through which cattle thieves run cattle. This being the case, the suit will be dropped. The class in commercial law in the Latter-day Saints Business college, Salt Lake, is free to all persons over 21 years of age that desire to take this work. The class is held from 12 to 1 o'clock in the Lion House, and is Mder the supervision of R. W. Youiff. |