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Show UTAH STATE NEWS 'a' " " near Xephi aro invcstigat lng the feasibility of bringing part of the watcrH of the Strawberry project pro-ject into Juab county. With the national election settled the people of Ogden are centering theilr thoughts on tile school election which takes place December G. Unable to get through the llne3 and reach the devastated Mormon colo nles in Mexico Apostle A. W. Ivins of the Mormon church lias returned to Bait Lake. Details of a plan to park and beautify beau-tify seven acres of Liberty park, Salt Lake, now used as a ball ground and ' hay field, have been presented to the ) city commission. ' Frank Chase, who resisted an of-i of-i fleer who attempted to arrest him election night at Ogden for throwing ,' talcum powder, was sentenced to fifteen fif-teen days In the city jail. Attempting to whirl a target pistol about his finger in a shooting gallery In Salt Lake, Edward Wilson, 27 years old, a soldier, shot himself in the abdomen ab-domen and his recovery is doubtful. Gorgo Belmont, aged 40, captain ot a company of special deputy sheriffs, dropped dead from an overdose of cocaine co-caine In liingham Thursday afternoon. after-noon. His home was in New York-i Arthur L. Koontz, aged 27, a drug clerk, has disappeared from his home in Salt Lake, and it is feared he has either met with foul play or suicided suicid-ed while in a despondent frame of mind. Hans J. Brown, a resident of Mount Pleasant since 1862 and prominent i citizen of that place, died on the 5th of paralysis. With his mother he emigrated emi-grated to Utah in 1862, crossing the plains with an ox team. Attorney General A. R. Barnes will recommend, In his report to Governor Spry, that a new penal Institution be established that will be a medium between be-tween the state prison and the state Industrial school. Eric Erovitch, while working in a stope on the 1400-foot level of the Daly-Judge mine at Park City, was Btruck on the head by a falling rock and Instantly killed. He was 30 years old and single. As a result of the tag day inaugurated inaugu-rated by the Salavation Army work-ers work-ers of Ogden on election day, more than $50 was secured for the nation--s.1 fund with which it is proposed to erect two colleges as memorials to the late General Booth. Suit has been filed at Ogden by John Hughes against the Bamberger road for $20,096 damages. This amount is asked for the death of Mr. Hughes' three-year-old son, Alma, who was killed by a Bamberger car near the parents' home on May 26. A convention of United States district dis-trict foresters was called to order in Salt Lake last Wednesday by Prof. Henry S. Graves, cbief forester of the United States, who, unbeknown to the public, has been preparing his annual report in Salt Lake since November No-vember 1st. The Imperial Order of Muscovites, Kremlin Kazan, has been ordered on the seventh annual "bear hunt," which will be in the neighborhood of Trenionton, November 16. There will be a parade in Tremontou and a general good time by the members of the fraternity. An amendment to the state constitution con-stitution making it compulsory to observe ob-serve patriotic exercises and salute the American flag in the public schools will be urged before the next legislature by Superintendent Chris-tensen Chris-tensen of Salt Lake and other school officials of the state. A resident of Lay ton is the owner . of a rooster which has three legs, lie says that he has refused an offer of $2j0 for the bird. He has not determined yet just what he will do with it. It is remarkably healthy and large for its age, being only a cockerel. 4 months old. State Engineer Caleb S. Tanner has returned from a tour of Kane, Piute, Garfield and Wayne counties, where he has been examining road work. He reports that considerable road building build-ing is being done i: all the localities he visited. He say that most of it is being done by citizen labor. Addewall Wootton. one of the best known educators in the state, died at Heber City, November 1. Mr. Woot-ten Woot-ten was born in England and was 73 years old. He acted as county superintendent super-intendent ot schools for twenty years. Electric lights were turned on at Salem last week for the first time. Practically ' every house in town is wired and the principal streets are lighted. Electricity is supplied over a branch line of the Spanish Fork plant. November 1 was a banner day in Cedar City. The first circus to visit the town since its settlement showed there to bumper crowds. Every business busi-ness house was closed while the circus cir-cus parade wound its way through the etreet3. Births during the month of October more than doubled the number of deaths, according to the monthly report re-port issued by the Salt Lake board of health. The total number of deaths was 104, while the births numbered 209. Of the births 104 were males and 105 females. |