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Show UTAH STATE NEWS George T. Boll, 56 years of am retired soldier, died at his home Salt Lake as a result of drinking alcohol by mistake. James Woodard, aged 21, has arrested at Park City, charged witv stealing a -horse, saddle, bridle, revolver re-volver and an overcoat. The board of education has deter, mined to introduce an experimental course in domestlo science in grade schools of Box Elder county It is estimated that less than 20,00!c votes will be cast at the city election, to be held in Salt Lake next week, the registration being unusually light. Railroads entering Salt Lake, t common with other railroad systems of the middle west and east, fear a cai shortage with the coming of November. Novem-ber. Residents of North Ogden are complaining com-plaining that fish by the thousands ai-9 dying in the shallow water of the North Ogden canal, which is -beins drained. Frank Smith, a laborer, pleaded guilty to stealing an overcoat from the check room of the Healy hotel at Ogden, and was sentenced to $60 or sixty days. That tlie house fly and not the -water supply is to blame for cases of typhoid fever in Provo Is fie opinion of C. Fi-ank Emery, sanitary inspector ot the state board of health. Wltth the view of strengthening holme town ties, fifty former residents of Spanish Fork, who now live in Bait Lake, have organized the Spanish Span-ish Fork Home Town club. Restaurants and 'hotels are to blam for the small amount of mutton consumed con-sumed in 'proportion to the amount, ol beef eaten in this country, according to a prominent Utah sheepman. Migratory and insectivorous bird's i Utah are now under the protection of the federal government. By the approval ap-proval of President Wilson the law became effective in Utah on October L The city commission of Salt Lake has appropriated $100 to secure ex-per ex-per testimony as to whether there are any appreciable mineral deposits on the lands embraced in the city's watershed. water-shed. While the tonnage of sugar beets produced by the farmers of Weber county probably will exceed that of last year, the output of sugar from the Ogden factory will be greater than in 1912. T!he guns of the state board ot health are being trained on Carbon county, where, it is said, cases of disease dis-ease and death are not being reported by physicians or officials as required by law. Arrangements for the fourteenth annual an-nual exhibit of the works of Utai artists have just been completed by the Utah Art institute. The exhibit will be held in Salt Lake, November 11 to 19. W. H. Richards, of Idaho, was given a suspended sentence in the police court at Ogden when he candidly admitted ad-mitted that three drinks of whiskey were too much for the constitution of a man from "dry" territory. Information has come to the national na-tional forest service at Provo that the Nebo forest, as such, is to be abandoned. aban-doned. The district embraced in the Nebo forest will be apportioned between be-tween the Uintah and the Manti forests. for-ests. The body of Frank J. Stafford, the S'pringville man who was caught in the Dawson, N. M., coal mine explosion, was taken from the mine and buried there, as it was not possible to bring the body to Utah for- burial as was intended. The Deseret museum at' Salt Lake has received a handsome portrait ot Brigham Young incased" in a heavy' frame of inlaid molding. The gift was; sent by William Lindsay of Heber City. The frame Is the work of the-late the-late William Bell, a pioneer cabinet', maker. That many fish are being killed because be-cause the state fish -and game department depart-ment has no money with which to-screen to-screen the streams and the water is-being is-being turned from streams into irrigation irri-gation ditches without -proper warning being given is the opinion of the state fish and game commissioner. The new pol- line and overhead: transmission wires ot the Western Union Telegraph company between Uorrinne Junction and Lucin along the old line of the Central Pacific will be completed before the end of the-year. the-year. Mitchell Conlin, who died at Provo on the 21th, at the age of S4, came-:o came-:o tha United States when a boy and went west in 1S69, at the time of the building of the Union Pacific, being with the railroad construction forces. Voluntary manslaughter was the verdict returned by the jury in the I case of Albert I. Rucker, charged with the murder of George A. Painter. Rucker killed Painter at Bingham last June 4, stabbing him in the neck: with a knife. Harley Mewhinney, murderer of C. .1. Erickson. entere a petition for commutation com-mutation of sentence at the meeting of the at ate board of pardons, but asaiu his case was continued. His petition is now scheduled to come up tor consideration at the November meeting of the board. That the Salt Lake tabernacle choir representative as a body of singers ol the Mormon church organization as a whole, may outer the great International Interna-tional exposition eisteddfod to be held at San Francisco in August, 1915, ' considered probable |