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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The sixth annual bird show of the Utah County Poultry association waa hold at Provo last week. There were 400 fine birds entered. William Kimberling, who confessed Beveral weeks ago to stealing a horse from an Ogden doctor, has been sentenced sen-tenced to three years' Imprisonment. Edmund Webb, Kaysville's oldest resident and one of the very early settlers in Davis county, passed away at his home last week. He came to Kaysville in 1854. Joseph Qulnney has resigned from his position as cily auditor of Logan, to which office he was elected at the last municipal election. He gives as his reason ill health. Thomas Hinckley, who has been appointed secretary of the American embassy at San Salvador, was formerly for-merly an employe of the Telluride Power company at Provo. All but one of the appointive officers offi-cers under the former Midvale administration ad-ministration were reappointed at the first business meeting of the new Midvale council last week. Dennis O'Neill, aged 36, a Park City miner, suicided in a saloon in Salt Lake by swallowing the contents ef a two-ounce bottle of carbolic acid. It Is believed the man was insane. in-sane. John Carver, a resident of Weber county for nearly sixty years, died at his home in Plain City Thursday. He was nearly 90 years old at the time of his death, which was caused by old age. Charles H. Reagan, a former saloon sa-loon keeper, has disappeared from his home in Salt Lake. W. O. Van Bergen, Ber-gen, a friend of the family, is being held by the police pending an investigation. inves-tigation. Edward Newey, ten-year-old son of John Newey of HuntBville, virtually choked to death Wednesday night after a brief attack of croup and pneumonia which commenced during the evening. The city street department of Salt Lake spent $152,956.50 for the improvement im-provement of streets and the operation opera-tion of the department during 1911, according to the annual report of the former street supervisor. Preliminary plans for the expenditure expendi-ture of nearly $1,000,000 on road improvement im-provement work in the state during the year were discussed at a meeting between the" state road commission and Governor Spry last week. At the first regular business session ses-sion of the newly-elected Springville city council,' Mark Cook ,won in the toss-up against Seymour Mendenhall, who tied for the position of two-year councilman at the recent election. Three little children of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jarvis of Spanish Fork were saved from incineration in their home by the timely arrival of neighbors. neigh-bors. The parents had gone to a dance and left the ilttle ones . at home. The body of John Leonard Hill, son of Leonard A. Hill of Mapleton, who was killed in a railway accident at Dickerson, Va., will De brought to Mapleton for burial. In October, 1910, Mr. Hill went to Virginia on a mission. Prom January 1 to November 15 of last year a total of 339 homesteads were filed upon by non-residents of Utah. This means an addition of 108,480 acres added to the cultivated aores of this state by residents of other states. When Louis Alplni, aged 80 years, an Italian, appeared at the door of his cabin at Ogden at 11 o'clock Wednesday Wed-nesday night, he was shot and killed instantly by Antone Cordamore, a young countryman, with whom he had quarreled. The Lewiston sugar factory has closed its run for this season. Seventy thousand tons of beets were ground up during this run, for which the company has paid out $320,000. Of this amount $130,000 went to Lewis-ton Lewis-ton farmers. Snow in the Huntsville and Liberty dlatriots is deep. Horses are used in breaking out the trails between ranches so that the children may go to school, and it is reported that the deer in . the mountains are having a hard time of it. John E. Miles, who was dug out of the snowslide which caused the death of Feltcher Norris and George Ellis at the head of Sheep Creek in Blacksmith Black-smith Fork canyon, near Logan, has recovered and will be none the worse for his trying experience. J. H. Odekirk, a public chauffeur in Salt Lake, who was charged with conspiracy in Davis county, has been found not guilty by a jury at Farm-Ington. Farm-Ington. It was alleged that Odekirk conspired wtih his chauffeur in the burning of his automobile to obtain the insurance. The city commission of Salt Lake has decided to prohibit prize fights in the capital city in the future, but it is understood "legitimate and humane boxing contests" will be permitted, Under supervision of a committee representing rep-resenting the commission. A sturdy bucket brigade or a score of men saved the business and residential resi-dential district of Garfield from destruction de-struction Friday, when fire developing from the explosion of a gasoline light. Ing generator razed the general etore of Cooper Bros., entailing losses estimated esti-mated at. $30,000. 1 |