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Show UTAH STATE NEWS I.".-i;ir: cod, aged 31, suicided at Smlthfield, hanging himself to a beam In his barn. So cause is known. JoHcph N'orrls, a soldier, suicided in a lodging house in Salt I-ake by shooting, shoot-ing, following a drunken debauch. Adam Duncan, pioneer contractor and mining man, who came to Salt Lake In 1SGI , died April 16 ot heart failure. Rural freo delivery carried No. 7 ot Murray, will make his deliveries after May 1 by motorcycle. This is the first motorcycle delivery instituted in L'tah. Victor Peldo had his clothing blown from his body when he drilled into a missed hole in the Silver King mine at Park City, but escaped serious lu-iury. lu-iury. Mrs. Edith Dee-Mack, who was shot by her husband at Ogden, December 21, ID 12, has secured a divorce. After shooting his wife, Mack shot himself and is totally blind. Boys playing with matches started a fire which destroyed the barn, straw-stack straw-stack and chicken coop of Bert Taylor in Plain City. The bain contained 200 bushels of grain and some beet seed. During celan-up day at Murray, Earl Merrlth, aged 11, fell under a moving wheel scraper and was badly bruised, being dragged several feet and buried under dirt before the scraper could be Btopped. The first report of a death from hookworm In the state of Utah occurred oc-curred last week when Frank W. Shu-man, Shu-man, 10 years old, son of Forest A. Shuman, West Ogden, died from the disease. A windstorm at Garfield on the 16th caused the wreck of a score of chimneys, chim-neys, while many of the frightened inmates in-mates of the homes fled in their night clothes. The damage, aside from the chimneys, was slight. Senator Smoot has introduced a bill permitting the Sallna Land & Grazing company to exchange certain lands known as the Fish Lake national na-tional forest for government lands within the same forest. J. L. Burns, clerk to Roadmaster Holt of the Short Line, and A. Erick-sen, Erick-sen, section foreman at Cache Junction, Junc-tion, have been arrested on a charge of defrauding the railway company by carrying "dummies" on payrolls. The safe in the county clerk's office in the county courthouse at Mantl was blown open by dynamite one day last week. The robbers took county warrants war-rants that had just been made out and destroyed several valuable books. The alfalfa fields of Wilson and Riv-erdale, Riv-erdale, Weber county, are infested with gophers and mice to such an extent ex-tent that considerable damage has been done. In some places the rodents rod-ents have destroyed the roots of the alfalfa. Mila Hayes, a drug user who escaped escap-ed from the Ogden city jail by sliding down a rope from a second-story window, win-dow, returned to police headquarters Thursday and asked that she be locked up. She said that she was tired of hiding. Callin Hassen, a Turk, who died at the Salt Lake county hospital April 15, from wounds inflicted in the abdominal ab-dominal region, declared just before his death that he had been beaten by policemen. The county authorities are investigating the case. During a quarrel in a rooming house in Salt Lake, said to have been inspired in-spired by jealousy for a woman of the half-world, Henry E. Rutherford, 50, smelterman, was shot through the heart and instantly killed by Thomas Clements, 48, a boilermaker. Nick Sophilas, a demented Greek, caused a scattering of pedestrians in Salt Lake when he drew a revolver and began shooting in the -direction of imaginary Turks who were in reality real-ity peaceable pedestrians. He will probably be sent to the asylum.. Two hundred feet of track of the Southern Pacific railway were washed away at Saline, on the Lucin cutoff near Promontory Point, by the force of the waves from Great Salt Lake, caused by a wind which was blowing at the rate of seventy miles an hour. Falling 400 feet after being knocked from the manway at the shaft of the Chief Consolidated mine at Eureka, Vera Openshaw, shift boss, was almost al-most instantly killed. His death was due to his own orders to operate the cage counterbalance while the man-way man-way was being repaired. George Ballard attempted suicide at Payson, discharged his revolver three times, aiming each time at his head. He did no harm to himself except to blast a few powder marks across the ide of his head, singing the hair. Ballard Bal-lard was out of employment, ana despondent. de-spondent. Unable to keep the promise he made that he would stop drinking and make every effort to provide for his wife and children, John G. Bir-rell, Bir-rell, aged 34. a machinist, committed suicide at his home in Salt Lake, firing fir-ing a bullet into his brain. John Webber, who confessed to . killing a railroad detective, has now admitted to the sheriff of Utah count? that ais story was false. Webber i believed to be insane, and will be sent back to Denver in charge of his father, who will place him under medical med-ical treatment. |