Show STATE NEWS LEHI DEATH OF MRS FRANCES ALLRED lehl july 17 mrs frances wife of harry allred ois lehs SK skov Sv thlu respected cills morning after ness n an of over a year mrs aureda foalden name was prances E dover she had a former husband david harkness war who was killed in the civil PROVO DAMAGE SUIT rna 1 damage suit of sallie jean Bl bigelow gelow vs the rio grande western railway company before judge booth la the fourth district court Is proceeding quite rapidly and will be given to the jury tomorrow the evidence is mostly in the nature of expert testimony on the bucs alon of car wheels their inspection ets the important point being whether or not the defendant company was guilty of negligence in using the defective wheel which caused the wreck of the train in which mr bigelow lost his life THE CENSUS OF OWNERS OF CANALS AND DITCHES WHO HAVE NOT MADE REPORT the preliminary investigation of irrigation by the census office Is progressing rapidly director merriam is well pleased with the prompt response from to the census inquiries and is confident that the forthcoming report will be accurate and complete and will comprehensively show the progress which has been made in reclaiming large portions of the arid and sub humid regions of the tabulation sheets with typewritten descriptive notes are being prepared and at an early date will be submitted to authorities ties in the arid states these results were obtained by the schedules and in the fora oa preliminary bulletin giving name location length width cost and acreage of the principal irrigating systems arranged by counties will ae sent out for revision and later embodied in the final report the have evinced an intelligent tell igent appreciation of the importance of securing a full report of the condition of irrigation and the lacal results achieved during the last decade they have cheerfully rendered valuable assistance which has materially facilitated the work of the census office director merriam through the press has made the purpose of this invests gallon fully known and desires to state that upon request schedules will be promptly forwarded to owners of canals and ditches who have not yet made report WAR RUSSIA NO DOUBT THAT CHINA HAS THROWN DOWN THE GAUNTLET i TO THE CZAR london july dally mall publishes a sensational dispatch from st petersburg dated monday which asserts that there is no doubt that china has declared war against russia the russian press says the correspondent spon dent is restricted to the publication of official details and the publication of any dispatches from the front has been prohibited I 1 bear however from a reliable source that the chinese troops and the boxers seized a russian transport vessel laden with munitions at arragon Ari agon on the amur river about eighteen miles from the russian frontier killing almost the entire russian T n ey next suddenly attacked and bombarded the town of capital of the amur government on river the garrison held out bravely but was finally overwhelming y overpowered nearly all perished and the town was burned |