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Show UTAH STATE NEWS H. Seyrhara was hit by a "trip" in a mine at Black Horse and killed. Packs of coyotes have been creating havoo with deer in Morgan county. The Young Women's Christian association as-sociation of Salt Lake celebrated its tenth birthday last week. Every ibranch of the National Guard of Ultah is having busy days at present pres-ent New recruits are joining all departments. de-partments. Frank Critchlow and Jinn Fogarty were arrested in Salt Lake on suspicion sus-picion of having passed a number of bogus coins. Edward Monson, 65 years of age was shot, but not seriously wounded, by holdups as he was about to enter his home in Ogden. Major H. P. Myton, tried1 on a charge of second degree murder for the killing of Roy J. Horton at Salt Lake, was acquitted by a jury. At the settlement of Saline, near the Promontory point zinc mining region, re-gion, a hotel is to be built, and a general gen-eral merchandise business established. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Monk, who have lived in Utah since 1854, and in Spanish Fork since 1S65, on February 19 celebrated the sixty-second anniversary anni-versary of their marriage. ' Oil leases are being signed in southern Juab county by F. J. Wheeler of Riverside, Cal., and it is expected that drilling of test wells will he started 'Within a short time. Mrs. John T. Lant of Payson sustained sus-tained a fracture of her right ankle as a result of a fall when stepping off a pavement. Just a year ago she suffered suf-fered from a similar accident. The government of Yucatan has written to the Agricultural college of Utah Xor teachers of cooking, commerce, com-merce, agriculture, mechanic arts and a director of the normial school. Ward Malcott, known throughout the country as an opium smuggler, was shot 'by Chief of Police Shores when the man resisted arrest at Salt Lake. It is believed Malcott will recover. re-cover. Another Ogden industrial institution institu-tion is to be materially enlarged during dur-ing the coming summer by the erection erec-tion of a large addition to the plant of the Goddard Pickle & Preserve company. Boys' and Girls' club work, which has been successfully conducted in Davis county during the past few years, will be placed on a new basis immediately and the work improved and extended. Not at any time in Its previous history his-tory did Salt Lake accomplish so much in public improvements as in 1915, according to the annual report of Sylvester Q. Cannon, city engineer, just completed. The reported valuation of the Mountain Moun-tain States Telephone company in Utah, .according to i the statement of S. E. Hamer, tax agent, received by the state iboard of equalization, is given giv-en as $3,490,453. James Yates, an eployee of -the Silver Sil-ver King Coalition at Park City, while working around the ore bins at the mill accidentally dropped the door of the bin on his right hand and his little finger was cut off. Information of how to make a dry farm as profitable as an irrigated farm will be conveyed to tillers of the soil at the session of the dry farmers' institute, which is scheduled to open in Salt Lake on March 3. Frank Conway, who says his home is in Evanston, Wyo., reported that he had been robbed of $17 and his shoes in a Salt Lake rooming house. The proprietor of the rooming house loaned him a pair of shoes. Nathan F. Haworth, 53 years of age, sentenced to death June 30, 1900, for the murder of Thomas Sandall, a nigbtiwatchman, at Layton, March 28, 1899, and since the former date an inmate of the Utah state prison, has been paroled. The coyote menace was again called to the attention of state officials last week, when word 'was received of depredations de-predations along Lost creek in Morgan Mor-gan county, and also a case of a rabid coyote was heard from down on Green river at Mormon bend. A farmer's fight with a mad coyote coy-ote near Lucin, in Boxelder county, reported re-ported to the state board of health, has caused apprehension among state officials that an infection of rabies from Nevada, which has worked havoc this winter, has taken place. The threatened shortage of beet seed and jute bags for sugar is causing caus-ing a great deal of apprehension among the beet sugar manufacturers of the United States, according to T. R. Cutler, vice-president and general manager of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company. com-pany. Eastern capitalists interested in the development of the oil fields of Juab county state in telegrams to Salt Lake that a number of those interested interest-ed will Join F. A., Wheeler of Riverside, Cal., at Nephi within the next few days to determine how much money is to be spent in the drilling of test wells. |