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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The Btrike of employes of the Utah Construction company at Tucker con UnueH, although It la said the company Ib Importing strike-breakers. The seventeenth annual convention Bf the International Association ol Railway Special Agents and Police waf beld in Salt Lake last week. David Hunter was caught in a grave! slide in Ogden canyon and buried tc bis neck. Workmen heard his call foi help and dug him out. He Is expectec to survive. Within the next few weeks the wort of replacing the shop building at the University of Utah, which was destroyed de-stroyed by fire a few weeks ago, will be commenced. Sanpete county has teen visited with heavy rainstorms, which has been thousands of dollars of benefit to the crops and range. The storm tame Just in time to save the crops. Ten men had a narrow escape from death at Ogden, when the wall of a building collapsed and feU into an ex cavation. The men escaped from tht excavation just as the wall collapsed Alleged to have stolen a suitcast containing a child's savings bank frore a resident of Price, John Wolfe. 28 years of age, was arrested when leaving a passenger train in Salt Lake Chris Christensen, aged 23, suicided sui-cided at Ogden, drinking carbolic acid, after he had been refused a position posi-tion as shoe salesman by a firm he bad formerly worked for several fears. Nick Retat, laborer on the South ern Pacific, was taken to Ogden on a upecial train, suffering from a deep wound in his abdomen, Inflicted by a compatriot during an altercation ovei cards at Lakeside. Riverside park, Salt Lake City' oew beauty spot on the west side, will be formally opened and dedicated July ?4. Appropriate exercises will be held with city officials and prominent citizens taking part. Norfolk, Va., was selected as the place for the 1914 convention of the International Association of Railway Special Agents and Police at the closing clos-ing session of the convention at the Hotel Utah, Salt Lake. ' Mrs. Ann Malin Sharp, a great-granddaughter great-granddaughter of William Penn, and one of the early residents of Utah, died at her home In Union last week of general debility after a lingering Illness. She had resided in Utah sinct 1S56. Ben R. Eldredge has been appointed dairy expert by the United States department de-partment of agriculture and will .tie stationed in Logan to assist in dairy improvement throughout the state, in co-operation with the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college. With 650 students enrolled, the University Uni-versity of Utah summer school began Its sessions June 17. According tc members of the faculty, many students stu-dents have been delayed and the complete com-plete enrollment will not be recorded until some time this week. The explosion of a cartridge in a Btove resulted in serious injury to Peter Pe-ter N. Gjording, 24 years of age, pcr-ber pcr-ber and bartender at a Salt Lake saloon. sa-loon. The injured man was burning rubbish w-hen the cartridge exploded and struck him near the heart. Miss Mary Williams, an Ogden girl, a few days ago ascended to the topmost top-most point of Ben Lomond, the mountain moun-tain east of North Ogden, which rises to a height of 5.2S0 feet above the level of Great Salt Lake. She is the first woman to reach the top of the peak. A story of having been swindled out of $2,400, the savings of ten years, told to the Salt Lake police by Firim Duffand, an Italian from Price, has set detectives of the department looking for a confidence man who worked the time-worn envelope trick on the complaining com-plaining victim. Although only fourteen mile3 of the sixty-fivesmile stretch of the Midland trail from Castle Gate to Green River remains to be placed in condition, E. R. Morgan, state road engineer in :harge of the work finds himself lacking laborers and needs about fifty more at $2.50 per day. because the board of education of Salt Lake refuses to pay for sidewalks wd curbs and guttering, and the state law prohibits the city from compelling It to do so, the city Is retaliating by refusing to lay any sidewalks or install my curbs and gutters in front of school property in the city. A practical exhibition of efficiency will hereafter be required of aspiring dentists, who make application for' licenses. Twelve modern dental chairs and other necessary apparatus have been installed at the state prison and In the future convicts there will have their dental work free of charge. Cammillio Planero has been formally charged with the murder of Casper Palmup, who was stabbed in the stomach stom-ach In a fight at his home in Sunny-side Sunny-side June 9, and who died on the 15th. Attempting to escape, Planero walked from Sunnyside to Green River. Brigham Ballantyne, a business man of Ogden, was accidentally shot and killed while hunting rabbits near SnowviUe, Box Elder county. A companion, com-panion, Charles Field, tripped and fell, his gun being discharged, the contents con-tents striking Ballantyne full in the ace, death being instant. |