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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Franklin D. Steed, a prominent farmer and dairy man. of Farmington. died suddenly of apoplexy. Mrs. Bertha Davis, aged 3S, a former for-mer resident of Logan, suicided at Ogden, taking carbolic acid. The total receipts from timber sales from the Wasatch national forest for-est this year will reach $60,000, in the opinion of Supervisor Bruins. As a safeguard against shoplifting during the rush previous to Christmas, Christ-mas, several Ogden department stores bave employed special detectives. Fifty more men are to be put to work on the beet sugar factory, which is being built by the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar company at West Jordan. At a municipal election held at Kamas, the bond issue of $13,000 for the construction of a modern, sanitary sani-tary water plant was favorably voted. 59 to 34. Children playing with matches set fire to the barn and warehouse of Benjamin O. Carlston at Ephraim. The fire completely destroyed the building build-ing and contents. With the re-election of J. C. Knud-i.ou Knud-i.ou of Brigham City as president for another year, the annual convention of the Utah State Horticultural society so-ciety was concluded at Ogden. There are fewer deaths in Utah in proportion to the population than iu any other state in the Union except Kansas, according to statistics compiled compil-ed by the United States census bureau. Samuel E. Diston, a coal miner, was killed in the workings of the Union Fuel company's mine at Grass Creek when the roof of an underground under-ground chamber fell in and a pile of rocks showered down. John Hasalone, 61 years of age, proprietor pro-prietor of a 'barber shop in Bingham, died Monday of inhalation pneumonia, induced by injury to his lungs when-he when-he came near drowning in a swimming swim-ming pool at Salt Lake. More children attend the Summit county schools in proportion to the population than in any other county ot the state, said Prfessor Mosiah Hall, state high school inspector, upon his return from Summit last week. John Andre, aged 31 years, ot Price, known (throughout Carbon county and southern Utah as one1 of the leading members of the French sheep colony, died last week at a Salt Lake hospital of a complication ot diseases. Stricken with heart failure as he was standing on the street, James Thompson, aged 62, an old resident of Ogden, toppled to the sidewalk with such force that the base of his skull was fractured and he died a few minutes min-utes later. tl- - - Charges against Judge W' J . : a new t'" ""' 'irtrrranuMrJf one-time juvenile courtTudgeoibair'" w m Ltke, that he operated a confidence game in s-elling stock in a motion picture pic-ture company to L. A. Thompson, a Chicago railway mail clerk, have been withdrawn. The formal opening of the new Capitol Cap-itol will not take place January 4, the twentieth birthday anniversary of Utah as a state, as has been suggested, suggest-ed, as the building will not be in entire en-tire readiness for the formal opening ait that tima Henry Naylor and Lawrence Stap-ley, Stap-ley, miners at Eureka, drilled into a missed hole and sustained very serious ser-ious injuries. Naylor, who was closest clos-est to the charge of powder, was the more seriously hurt, although there is a possibility that both men may lose their sight. An order for two carloads of potatoes pota-toes and several hundred pounds of Utah celery has been received at the Salt Lake offices of the Wabash railroad rail-road as a result of the sending of potatoes po-tatoes and celery to A. L. Gilbert, commercial agent ot the Wabash at Fort Wayne, Ind. Water power electric project developed de-veloped in the Fourth district of the forest service, of which Ogden is the headquarters, produced ID.75G horsepower horse-power and in the national forests of the districts are many sites for further fur-ther development when there is a larger market for the electricity. When it appeared that she would recover and after she is reported to have begun nourishing hopes of being reunited with her family, Mrs. Car-' melia Crcnshow, who was shot through the mouth December 8 at Salt Lake by F. B. Alirolil, who committed com-mitted suicide, died December 1!). With the purpose of extending the state highway from Itlelifield to Marysvale, by way of Rlclificld canyon, can-yon, which will save many miles -of travel, including a tortuous climb ver a high mountain, fifty-five convicts con-victs of the state prison have been sent to their winter camp in Sevier ounty. The various boards of sheep commissioners com-missioners have been asked to meet In Salt Lake during the coming convention of the National Woolgrow-ers' Woolgrow-ers' association to consider ways and means to make as uniform as possible possi-ble elate regulations concerning the interstate movement of sheep from one grazing land to another. Conditions that are regarded by the authorities as pointing to a possible murder mystery surround the discovery discov-ery at Ogden of the body of a man believed be-lieved to be A. Y.. Asbby of Los Angeles An-geles or Ixmg B'ach. Cal. The body i found beneath the ice of a pond by a boy. Herman Harms, state chemist, will make an analysis of the water In the Sevier river at the request of Arthur f'ratt, warden of the state prison. The warden wants to be assured that tha water supply will be pure for use ot r convict construction camps. |