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Show UTAH SIATE NEWS While riding a bicycle, G. Bern-hard, Bern-hard, of Salt Lake, collided with a wagon, being badly injured. The work of rebuilding the state highway between Hot Springs and Wlllard will begin at once and be rushed to completion. Completing a journey of nearly 2,500 miles, the Ogden tabernacle choir has arrived home from its California tour of Pacific coast cities. Rafael Lopez, Salt Lake county's many-thousand-dollar bandit refugee, may be in jail in Leadville, Colo., according ac-cording to information received at Salt Lake. Frank White, 22 years of age, an employee of the Utah Copper company, com-pany, died at Salt Lake of injuries received several days ago in a Bingham Bing-ham railroad accident. The body of Herman Cruz of Canyon Can-yon City, Colo., was found on the track of the Tooele Valley railway at Tooele. It Is supposed he fell from the train and was killed. Joe Metlek, an employee of the Daly-Judge Mining company at Park City, was killed at that property by being struck with a piece of timber which fell down a raise some forty feet. An unidentified man was Instantly killed by a train near Spanish Fork He appeared to be about 35 years old and carried pencil and notebook with writing, stating that he was deaf and dumb. The campaign on flies will be continued con-tinued with no lessening of determination determ-ination on the part of the city health department of Salt Lake, but after July 31 there will be no bounty paid on flies. The recent election held In Corinne for the purpose of deciding the ques tlon of building or not building thf Corinne drainage district went unani mously in favor of the big reclama tion project. Arrangements are about completed complet-ed by the Utah state bar association for the entertainment of, members ol the American bar association, which will meet in Salt Lake August 16 for a four days' convention. Lists of all purchasers of state lands who have been required to pa the war tax on patents issued by the state are being prepared by the state land board with a view to having the amount of the tax refunded. Use of a match to determine which of two cans contained gasoline resulted re-sulted disastrously to Leland Thomas, Thom-as, aged 22 years, of Ogden. In the explosion which followed his experiment experi-ment he sustained painful burns. Robert, Sedell, a- miner, was found dead at the bottom of a chute in the new Utah-Bingham mine at Bingham by workmen who investigated when Sedell failed to come up for lunch. He Is suposed to have been killed by a fall. Of a total of 191 towns and dis tricts reporting in the month of June the state board of health bulletin foi the month shows 111 as having re ported no deaths. Of the total num ber 121 are shown as free from con tagious diseases. Due to the recent decision of the postal authorities to handle more ol the west bound mail at the Ogden terminal instead of taking it to Sacramento, Sac-ramento, the regular force of men at that station is soon to be increased increas-ed from fifteen to twenty-five. Miss Marion McGraw, the Salt Lake nurse who was willed $4,000 it cash and $8,000 worth of bank stocks by Edgar Wilson, one of the counsel foi defense in the famous Moyer-Hay-wood-Pettibone case at Boise, will not receive the money owing to the Idaho statutes. For the past twenty-five years the Salt Lake route has been pumping its water for engine purposes from Lehl, a distance of two miles to its tank at Lehi Junction. The company is now sinking a ten-inch casing at Lehi Junction with the hope of securing, an artesian flowing well. As his trial on a charge of assaull with Intent to murder Leon G. SkliriJ was about to begin at Salt Lake Gregorios Pologeorgi withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered a pies of guilty. He was sentenced by Judge M. L. Ritchie to an Indeterminate period in the state prison. A. C. Ure, deputy warden of the state prison, has established the identity of Sam Lyon, cracksman killed in a duel with Patrolman Ar thur Merrick and Alfred Hargrove al Salt Lake last week, as Bert T. Morgan, Mor-gan, who served a sentence In the state prison from October 25, 1902, until January 27, 1905. Having changed his plea from nol guilty to guilty, Lauritz von Arnlm who achieved notoriety several monthi ago. by the theft of a treasure bo from the Maharajah of Kapurthala Prince of Punjab, from the suite o' the royal party at a Salt Lake hotel was sentenced to state prison for at indeterminate period. The Lehl fire department has installed in-stalled an electric fire gong over the fire station. Hereafter, as soon as an alarm is sent in to central, the telephone tele-phone girl on duty simply touches a button and the town at once knows that there is a fire somewhere. Court costs incurred in presenting the case of Albert Geddes Eccles against the David Eccles estate to establish es-tablish his heirship, amount tc $i)94.70, according to the bill of costs filed in the district court at Ogden b; Tude W. H. King and John C. Davi .1' couniL-1 for AlberL |