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Show UTAH SM NEWS The body of an unidentified man fished out or the waters of trie hiptli-line hiptli-line canal of the Utah Copper company com-pany near the Magua plant., has not been identified. Dr. George E. Hyde, former head of the Idaho mental hospital at Black toot, Idaho, has been appointed super-ntendent super-ntendent of the state mental hospital it Provo to succeed Dr. D. H. Calder. Henry M. Worthen, aged 76, a pony express rider and freighter of the early ear-ly days of the state, was found dead in his room at a lodging house in Salt Lake. Death was due to the infirmi ties of age. Surveyors representing the Salt Lake Route and the Denver & Rio Grande are working every day in an effort to select the most favorable routes for railroads into the Uintah basin, it is said. Lemuel Colbath, aged 41 years, a mining engineer, was found dead in bed at his home in Salt Lake. The cause of fiontii jg given as heart (lis- z i The club planTtoTeTtov?7uI'a scholarship every year. The case of the state against Robert Rob-ert L. Burns, charged with murder in the first degree, on suspicion of complicity com-plicity of the slaying of William San-dercock San-dercock at Garfield, November 21, 1911, has been dismissed. Plans for banqueting members of the National Conference of Governors in Salt Lake on June 27 and 28 were m"de at a meeting of the Utah chapter chap-ter of the Sons of ti e American Revolution, Revo-lution, held in Salt Lake. Fred J. Schneider, former meat inspector in-spector for the city board of health at Salt Lake, dropped dead on the street at Salt Lake, May 27. He had suffered for more than a year from heart disease dis-ease and a sudden attack caused his death. More than 9,000 men, women and children from all the country round celebrated at Payson, on May 26, the completion of the great Strawberry irrigation ir-rigation project and the advent aud completion of the Orem interurban railway line. Armed with search and seizure wai rants issued by a justice of the peace, n nosse of fourteen officers made a . a Utah to take the competitive ex tion June 6 for entrance to the ll States military academy at I Point. 1 The Rev. George E. Davies, pi of the First Presbyterian churcl Salt Lake City, has been electel the board of education of the Pre! terian church. The board was creal at the one hundred and twenty-eigl assembly, which closed at Atlantl City on Friday. r The people of Emery county v week experienced forty-eight hours! the heaviest windstorms ever lcnol to the oldest settlers. Roofs of chicl en coops, etc., were torn off, and aj automobile which was occupied V three men, was upset between Cast j Dale and Clawson by the wind. I A verdict of guilty as charged, witV a recommendation of mercy, was returned re-turned at Salt Lake in the case of Jesse Gesas, tried for involuntary manslaughter as the result of his having hav-ing driven the automobile that fatally struck Edward Davies and Miss Gladys Mitchell on the night of November No-vember 13, 1915. The Mountain States Packing company com-pany with a capital stock of $600,000, has been formed to take over the property of the Intermountain Packing Pack-ing company, at Salt Lake, and as soon as the company is financed on,; of the largest packing concerns between be-tween the middle west and the Pacific coast will be put in operation. Frank -XJe Pretto, under sentence to be shot at the state prison June 9 for complicity with Harry Brewer iu the murder of Eugene Allen during the burglary of the store of the Highland Boy Mercantile company nearly two ears ago, has been granted a reprieve re-prieve until June 17. Police have been endeavoring to learn the identity of the person who put strychnine sulphate in a bowl of sugar at the boarding house of Mrs. Josephine Waldron at Ogilen. Mrs. Waldron has been ill for a week as a result of tasting half a teaspoonful of the poisoned sugar. There were 139 deaths from all causes in Utah in April, according to the monthly bulletin of the state board of health. Pneumonia caused the most deaths, with a total of twenty-one. Tuberculosis was the cause of thirteen deaths. Five deaths resulted re-sulted from whooping cough. j |