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Show UTAH STATE NEWS A contract has been given out bj the city council of Bountiful for one-half one-half mile of sidewalk pavement. Citizens of Richfield held an enthusiastic enthu-siastic meeting last week and formed the temporary organization of a commercial com-mercial club- A candy manufacturing company with a capital stock of $200,000 Is the latest addition to the Industrial activities ac-tivities of Salt Lake City. The two-year-old daughter of George Jones of Hooper fell Into a tub of hot water on the floor of the kitchen, sus-taing sus-taing injuries which proved fatal. The home of Andrew Vlrrn at Park City was destroyed by fire, the only thing savod from the house besides the members of the family being a puppy. .Palling from a wagon, Rolf Rolssen, 4 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rolssen of Hyrum was run over, suffering suf-fering injuries from which he died thirty minutes later- The cost of operating the public Bchool system of Salt Lake from July 1. 1912, to April 1, 1913, has been $872,942.49 and the estimated cost for the entire current year Is $912,000. Indorsement of the University of Utah's plan to train youths of the state In industrial and civic life is made by the Utan Development league In circular letters sent out last week. Lying prone in bed with the face buried in a pillow and showing signs of suffocation the dead body of James Russell, a solicitor about 63 years ot age, was discovered in a lodging house In Salt Lake. Boyd Park, father of Mayor Samuel C. Park of Salt Lake City, and one of the most prominent men in business busi-ness and financial circles in Utah, iied April 8, at Ocean Park, Cal., from heart disease. Unless a general strike of all building build-ing crafts should occur on May 1 the state board of labor, conciliation and arbitration will not have a hand in the settling of the electrical workers' strike in Salt Lake. The body Qf John Anderson of Mill-ville, Mill-ville, Cache county, was found in a vacant field about one mile from his home. At the side of the dead man was found a knife with which he evidently evi-dently had committed suicide. -According to the records of the county clerk, a total of seventy-six interlocutory in-terlocutory decrees of divorce were granted in Weber county during 1912. Of this number sixty-two were Issued to "wives and fourteen to husbands. A Washington dispatch says that Representative Jacob Johnson has been slated for committee membership member-ship on the mileage com'mittte of the house and will probably be given a place on the public lands committee. Tie Utah-Idaho Sugar company is preparing to redeem 10 000 acres of land in Box Elder county, by leveling large tracts in different parts of the Bear River valley. It is said the company com-pany has ample water to cover this acreage. George Main, an Englishman, 35 years of age, shot his divorced wife, Mary Main Boyle, wounding her perhaps per-haps fatally, and then attempted suicide sui-cide by discharging his revolver into his own mouth at a lodging house in Salt Lake. Injuries which may prove fatal were suffered by Joseph Wiederhold, 18 years old, when he was struck by an automobile in Salt Lake. The machine was driven by a woman and the boy was riding a bicycle at the time of the accident. Suffering from the hallucination that some one was slinking up behind him to shoot him, Charles Van Atter of Portland, Ore., leaped through a window win-dow from a speeding Union Pacific passenger train near Morgan, but escaped es-caped with slight scratches on the face. Investigation into the death at Panguitch of Edmund Fotheringham, Cedar national forest ranger, 32 years 'of age, shows that he stood before the mirror in his room, placed the muzzle of his resolver behind the right ear and fired. Death must have been almost instantly. Citizens of the western division of Wasatch county at a mass meeting at Heber City decided unanimously to re Ject the compromise proposition on county division offered by the committee com-mittee appointed by citizens of the eastern division of the county. This may block the county division scheme. The state fish and game commissioner commis-sioner calls attention o the fact that, according to the new law, all birds are protected from the hunter except the English sparrow, the blue heron, the squawk or night heron, the hooded merganser or fish duck and the magpie. mag-pie. All migratory birds are protected protect-ed in the future, in this state. The work which has been done the last three summers in southern Utah and northern Arizona by Dean Byron Cnmmings of the University of Utah In excavating ancient Indian ruins will be carried on again next summer more extensively than ever before. The agitation started last summer for the establishment of a detention home in Ogden has been revived again nnd provided the city and county get together and co-operate in the pur-chas pur-chas and maintenance, an emergency hospital will be established within a ghort time. |