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Show UTAH STATE NEWS David Reese Holliday, while at work on a new building at Magna, slipped while standing on top of the building aud fell twenty-five feet to his death. Three hundred pounds of choice beef, virtually all the stock of the shop, were carried away at night by-robbers by-robbers who entered a suburban meat market at Ogden. A commission of three members at not less than $0,000 a year each is the plau of the committee that is preparing prepar-ing a public utilities hill for presentation presenta-tion to the next legislat tire. F. N. Brewer of La Sal claims lo have killed the largest hog ever raised in the Moab-La Sal section. The animal an-imal weighed when dressed for the market a little over a 00 pounds. Edward Fauster. arrested at Ogden for the Evansion, Wyo., authorities on a forgery charge, is held as a suspect in the alleged murder of Chris (.!. Gannon near Wasatch, Summit county. Frank Hudson, aged 47, a biscuit maker, suicided at Salt Lake, taking poison, lie left a note saying that he intended taking his life in order that his daughter might collect his life insurance. in-surance. Fred Dennis, -lo years of age, a guest at a Salt Lake hotel, dropped dead in the hotel lobby from a sudden attack of heart failure. ' He was just crossing to the door to leave the place wnen he was stricken. Geniale Ameudoba, an Italian laborer, la-borer, 43 years of age, was instantly-killed instantly-killed at Bingham when he was run over by a backing train. He was sianding on the track evidently un-awaie un-awaie of the approaching train. Jack Kivimaki, a miner in the employ em-ploy of the South llecla company in the Big Cottonwood district, was killed and his four companions had an almost al-most miraculous escape from death on December 8 in a snowslide. An hour after he is said to have visited a physician to obtain relief for pains in his stomach, Andrew Peterson, .a laborer, about 45 years of age, was found dead at his home in Salt Lake, death being due to heart failure. Her clothing catching fire from a celluloid doll which became ablaze when she innocently held it up to warm it in front of a heating stove, the year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Mann of Tooele was burned to death. With the death of Tony Albo o Helper, the number of dead a.s the result re-sult of the collision at Price was increased in-creased to three, the two other victims vic-tims being Tony Verdi and W. A. Wallace, who were killed at the time of the wreck. Two women, giving their names as Delia Morgan, 27 years of age, and Ella Wilson, 23, were arrested in . Salt Lake City and held on suspicion of being be-ing implicated in the drugging of J. Parley Peterson, a miner, who was robbed of $105. "The state should increase the bounty On coyotes from $1.50 to $3 per head and I will urge the legislature legisla-ture to make the increase in my forthcoming forth-coming report," said A. A. Callister, secretary to the state sheep -commissioners, last week. Joseph Sandoval, 25, an employee of Armour & Co., was shot through the leg by C. D. Terry, a chauffeur of Salt Lake. The two men are neighbors and the shooting is said to have been the outcome of quarrel over family matters two weeks ago. Dspondent because of dometic troubles, trou-bles, Samuel A. Munro, who has been operating a ranch near Aurora, attempted at-tempted to slay himself in a room over a pool hall at Richfield by cutting cut-ting the artery of his left wrist with a razor. He will recover. A parade will be one of he features of the inauguration ceremonies to be held on Monday, January 1, 1917, when Simon Bamberger is inducted into office as governor of the state of Utah, according to decision of the committee of inauguration. Milford is arranging for .0 community commu-nity Christmas tree to be placed in the center of the public square and decorated and allowed to stand for a week before Christmas. Every organization, or-ganization, religious, commercial and fraternal, is helping in the work. Governor William Spry, Governor-elect Governor-elect and Mrs. Simon Bamberger and Senator-elect William H. King have gone to Washington, where the governor gov-ernor and the governor-elect will attend at-tend the meeting of the governors' conference on December 14, 15 and 16. At a meeting of the relic committee commit-tee of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers at Salt Lake last week, it was decided decid-ed to issue a general request for pictures pic-tures of pioneer dramatists, artists, writers, musicians, early state officials offi-cials and historical landmarks for the relic collection in the bureau of information. infor-mation. An argument over a game of craps being played in a poolroom at Salt Lake, resulted in two men being shot. They were taken to t.is emergency hospital, neither being dangerously injured. |