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Show STATE NEWS WORK ON INTERUR BAN. Lebi. Feb. 14 The Suit Lake i. Utah interurban railroad is showing considerable activity here. About 20 men are busv unloading lies, rails. Lolt!-, fish plates, etc.. and extending the company's switch just north of the D & R G depot Enough rails hae already been unloaded here to lay about eight miles of track. The company has a man here purchasing pur-chasing land for the road's right of way From near the Jordan narrows the new road will parallel the D. & R G, to a point Just north of the D & R. G. station, where it will enter en-ter the west end of Third North street, which it will follow to the eastern city limits, and then take a direct line to American Fork. PEACH CROP IS SAFE, REPORT OF AN EXPERT Provo. Feb. 13. There is considerable consider-able discussion on the streets and elsewhere with reference to the prospective pros-pective peach crop and many of the growers and others claim that the buds have been hard hit by the winter. win-ter. William M. Ro lance, a leadinx wholesale fruit and produce merchant desiring to get authentic information informa-tion on this line, sent out an expert in this line and he reports that this crop is entirely safe; that the tres apparently wont Into the winter in first class condition, uell hardened, and that there has been no extreme cold weather. The temperature has not been low enough to do any damage to the tree and bud However, as the result of the heavy yield of trees for 1912, the budding will be lighter than it otherwise other-wise would have been but there are more than sufficient buds on every tree to make a safe crop, and shile the trees will not be so heavily loaded, load-ed, perhaps, as they were in 1912. the fruit should be of superior quality, both In size and color This will be pleasing news to the fruit growers und the public generally, because of th? many rumors that the peaches have been damaged during the wlu-ter Mr. Roylance states that on hisi I recent trip to the Western Fruit Job j bers convention In New Orleans he met a good many growers and shippers ship-pers from western Colorado, who io-ported io-ported that In most of the western Colorado districts there would be absolutely ab-solutely no peaches as Ihe temper- alure has registered as low as 34 de- 1 grees below zero. He hopes, of course, that the crops In Colorado district have not been injured to a6 great an I extent as reported, but says If tblB Is true it should mean better markets mar-kets and better prices for Utah peaches. peach-es. He advises every grower to get ready to pruue his trees in the usual way and then look after the spraying; and thinning where necessary. BITTER TOWARD OSTEOPATH Boise, Feb. 13 Charge,! with manslaughter man-slaughter Dr. C C. Smith, an osteo-pathh osteo-pathh physician of King Hill, was arrested ar-rested at that place today and i being be-ing hole" as responsible for the death of Miss Clata Foy, the school leather who died Tuesday from starvation. It was on the advice said to hav been given to Mia Fov hv Dr Smith that the voung lady attempted a forty-day fast. The complain! against the physician phys-ician was tiled bv the postmaster of 'the village. The authorities learned today ihat Dr. Smith had been called into treat Miss Foy for stomach irou-ble irou-ble and had informed her she was I suffering from ulcers of the stomach I He is s&id to hae advised her to eat as little as possible and then to take DDg fast The young lady followed hs adOv. it is claimed. Rh r?itod for forty days, when Dr. Smith gave her the Juice of oranges. The weak-ened weak-ened condition of Mi88 Foy as a re-suit re-suit of the starvation cure could not i be improved and she dfel. ! Residents of King Hill are hishlv j Incensed over the death of the school teacher and feeling runs high against Dr. Smith OPERA HOUSE SOLD Provo. Feb. 13 The Provo opera house was sold today to a company tshlch will Incorporate u a few davs The consideration was In the neigh borhood of $15,000. but "Uncle Jesse" KniRhr would not stat the exact amount he received for the building. The Knight interosts had a company Incorporated some years ago at $1&" 000 with Jesse Knight as president and R K Allen as secretary and treas urer. It secured the old opera house about ten years ao on a mortgage. The original cost of the place, which was built about 28 years ago, was $30 -U0o The new company which consists of H. C Jex, the present manager, and I A. Smoot. K G Epperson Walter Wal-ter Adams. W K. Stoker. H. C. Hicks. E. H Fastmond Prof J. C. Bwenson, and Lero Dixon, will meet In a fe days and reorgani7,e the company They are planning extensive improvements improve-ments and a complete remodeling ot the house. LECTURES ON LAKE BONNEVILLE Pocatello. Feb. 1 3. ProfesBor Norman Nor-man B Adkison. head of the science department ot the State academy, yesterdav delivered an address In the student assembly hall before a gTeat number of visitiag townspeople, on the topic. Pre-historlc Iake Bonneville'" Bonne-ville'" The present evidences of lake shores were discussed extensively, with their special relation to the condition,; con-dition,; which wre necessary for then production The depth and extent of the old lake and interesting points concerning moraines, deltas, and th" j overflow and outlet were ahlv handled 1 in a scientific manner. It was of par. Iticular Interest to Pooatello people I because the outlet of the early lake led thiough the Portneuf river, and here v. here the river debouched upon the plain gT3t deposits of rounded boulders were left. BRICK COMPANY BUSY t Prove Feb 13. The Proo Press. Brick company, under the manage-nvent manage-nvent cf 9. H. Belmont, received an order today for 917,000 pressed brick to be used by the Utah-Idaho Sugar, company in the construction of Its sugar factory at Payson The order came through B. G Breefe of the; I Dyer Construction company, which' has the contract for the erection of ! the factory. The company also received an order or-der today for 100,000 brick for the (building of a flour mill in Provo for John F Smith of Salt lake and' ! Sprlngvllle Another ordr came from Lindon for 43 000 brick Mr I : Belmont says thev estimate that the 1 will necrt not less than 1,01 00 bri'k to supply the local demand here thib spring |