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Show UTAH STATE N E WS A number of cows at Kelton, Boj Elder county, have died from hydro phobia the past week, due to the bites of rabid coyotes. R. J. Sims, aged 40 years, whose home is said to be in Aberdeen Wash., died at the county hospital at Salt Lake of alcoholism. Ben Goodrich, a miner, suffered the loss of both eyes when a number of giant powder caps exploded in his pocket near a mine In Alta. Gaining entrance by breaking through the skylight, robbers entered a jewelry store at Salt Lake and got away with $1,-000 worth of jewelry. Miss Millie Williams, aged 22, one of the most noted singers of the state, died at Salt Lake, June 18, from pneumonia, contracted at Los Angeles. An-geles. Five hundred dollars has been voted by the Alta club of Salt Lake to go toward the promotion of the citizens' military training camp, to be held at Fort Douglas August 1 to September 16. George Keene and John O'Brien were arrested at Salt Lake, charged with having stolen brass and copper fixtures from, the Oregon Short Line estimated to be worth in the vicinity of $1,500. John Treweek, 74 years of age, one of the pioneer mining engineers of Utah and the intermountain region, died at Salt Lake, June 18, of Bright's disease and heart afflictions after a long illness. "Miss Laura Robinson, 20 years of age, who was severely injured when she was thrown from an auto near the Jordan high school on the road between Sandy and -Murray, has a chance for recovery. Joseph Wilkins, 25 years of age, attempted at-tempted to commit suicide at SaU Lake by drinking poison, but is now out of danger. . He had but recently secured employment and his wages had been garnisheed. San Juan county never has appeared ap-peared to be more prosperous, it is reported. While the cattle and agricultural agri-cultural industry is going ahead with leaps and bounds, mining activities of importance are gaining steadily. More than forty local business and professional men have guaranteed that Ogden shall have Chautauqua attractions at-tractions for not less than one week next year by signing a contract with the Ellison-White Chautauqua company. com-pany. A site for the Mormon battalion monument on the new capitol grounds was selected, subject to the approval of the next legislature, on June 16 by the Mormon battalion committee and a sub-committee of the capitol commission. com-mission. The house has passed Senator Smoot's bill, previously passed by the senate, authorizing the grant of lands to the town of .Myton for cemetery, public pub-lic park, water supply and school purposes. pur-poses. The house amended the bill to require payment of $1.25 an acre for the lands. The state convention of health officers offi-cers closed at Salt Lake on June 16 with an address by Dr. T. B. Beatty, secretary of the state board of health, in which he administered a stiff rebuke re-buke to those communities which did not send their health officers to the meetings. More than $5,000,000 will be asked of the board of directors of the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande by H. U. iMudge, president of the road, for improvements improve-ments and the building of additional feeders outside of the proposed Uintah Uin-tah basin line when the directors hold their meeting in July, Utah's state militia iS composed of six troops of cavalry, a battery of light field artillery, a sanitary corps and a band, aggregating a total of slightly more than 600 officers and men. This represents peace strength and increased to war strength the complement will be about 900 men. The damage suit brought by Florence Flor-ence Harris against Ernest Spiers, to recover $5,000 as compensation for breach of promise to marry, came to a termination at Salt Lake when, under un-der a stipulation between the attorneys attor-neys for the contestants, the jury was discharged as if in the case of a mistrial. Another lease upon life was given o Frank De Pretto, under sentence of death for the killing of Eugene Allen in the Highland Boy mine robbery rob-bery at Bingham three years ago by the state board of pardons on June 17. The board will later consider De Pretto's application for commutation commuta-tion of sentence to life Imprisonment. Imprison-ment. The huge lizard, or reptile, uncovered uncov-ered last week near Vernal, by Dr. Earl Douglas of the Carnegie museum of Pittsburg, is reported to be one of . the largest in the United States. It Is also said to be one of the best preserved. pre-served. Its measurements are given at 135 feet, length; neck, C5 feet, and estimated weight, when alive, at several scores of tons. A special train will carry to Baltimore Bal-timore the delegates to the national Elks' convention from the lodges of Utah, Idaho and Nevada and every lodge in Utah will be represented. Plans are now being laid for running the train, which will leave Salt Lake July 5. That Elmer Grant, alias Johi Smyth, the man who attempted to assault as-sault two little girls at Salt Lake, may have been connected with the murder of Alice Empey, 9 years of age, near Ammon, Idaho, April 16, is the opinion of officers. |