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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Charles Dyer, who was Injured In a blasting accident at Park City, will not loes his Might, as at first anticipated. antici-pated. Peter O'Hara, a miner employed at tho Daly West mine, at Park City, was instantly killed on the 16th by a cave-in. J. Montgomery, who was injured in a hay bailer near Heber City, may be a cripple for life, his leg being badly crushed. Excavation for the 120-room addition addi-tion to be built adjoining the main ' structure of the Hotel Utah on the north began last week. Two Ogden banking hcuses will poon begin the erection of modern bank buildings in the heart of the business district of the city. In a lecture to his class in ethics of citizenship, Professor Milton Bennion of the University of Utah strongly as Balled Becret societies and fraternities as they exist in American colleges. Two Salt Lake policemen have been summoned to appear before the fed eral grand Jury at Indianapolis, now Investigating the dynamite outrages, Buposed to be part of the McNamara activities. The law passed by the last legislature legisla-ture In regard to public drinking cups, prohibiting their use or presence on trains, in depots, school and public buildings in the state, will go Into effect ef-fect February 1. The biggest Jail delivery in the history his-tory of the city prison took place at Salt Lake City last week when eighteen eigh-teen drug users, many of them serving serv-ing long sentences for vagrancy, escaped es-caped from the basement of the police po-lice station. Three hundred farmers from the surrounding country stood with note books in hand at the tabernacle at Nephl on the lGth and kept "tab" on the lectures delivered by the agricultural agricul-tural experts accompanying the demonstration dem-onstration train. . An Oregon Short Line motor car struck a load of hay, at Farmington, scattered the wagon and hay in many directions, but not injuring the driver or the horses. The driver saw his danger in time to release the team from the wagon. John E. Brown, who is in jail at Moab awaiting trial for the killing of his daughter and her husband, James A. Du Bois, on November 18, 1911, parries on his business from his cell. Brown is engaged in the ranching and ' stock raising business. Louis Ries. the Mexican who made , a desperate attempt to stab an Og den policeman when the officer ordered or-dered him to move on and not block the sidewalk, is at the county jail in a padded cell, and will probably be sent to the state mental hospital. When loss or destruction of baggage bag-gage occurs through negligence of the railroad company the printed agreement on railroad tickets limiting limit-ing the company's liability to $100 does not hold good, according to a decision by Judge Lewis at Salt Lake. The Utah High School Debating club, which is under the direction of the University of Utah, has prepared for the season of 1192 and made public pub-lic the plan. For the purpose of ef fectively holding the tryouts, the state has been divided into four districts. The Utah Press association, the Utah Development league and the Native Na-tive Sons of Utah are to meet in joint session in Salt Lake for the purpose of discussing plans for the proper ob servance of "Utah day," which will be designated by Governor William Spry. Representatives from most of th towns of Sanpete and Sevier counties were in convention at Salina last I week for the purpose of forming an organization covering the two coun ties. At this meeting the .Central Utah Farmers exchange was organ ized, with a capital of $25,000. After a successful run, the Ogden factory of the Amalgamated Sugai company closed down on the 16th For the next sixty days the factory employees will be grading the outpul and the manufacture of brown sugai from the coarser material, this beins known as the "osmose" process. Paul Droubay, the Tooele sheepman accused by the state authorities oi violating the state laws governing sheep raising, has been bound over tc the district court. Three charge: were filed- against him, violation o: the law pertaining to sheep dipping .violation of quarantine and failure tc dip sheep. Notices are being sent out an nouncing the annual meeting of th Utah Press association, which will b held at Salt Lake, January 23. Mike Maloof, a peddler, was kicked Jliy a horse at Kaysville, sustaining i fractured skull, while it is feared h( may lose the si.sht of one eye. As soon as spring opens up thf street lighting system of Provo is tt be separated from all other circuits and the old lamps now in use are u be replaced with the latest tungstei globes. The change will require mon than a ton of copper wire. That financial arrangements hare been completed for extending the Den ver. Northwestern & Pacific railroad known as the Moffat road, from ii: present terminus at Stxamlna Springs, Colo., to Salt Lake City i, declared by the Rocky Mountain ,'6W Df Denver. |