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Show UTAH STATE NEWS (Mali lake is now frozen over and teams can cross with safety from one Bide to Vhe other. OKden will likely he chosen as the meeting place for the trap shoot this year between Idaho and Utah gunmen. gun-men. Several wooden churns were the freaks in the parcel post delivery from the Salt Lake postoffice one day last week. The comptroller of the currency hag issued a national .bank charter to the National City bank of Salt Lake. Tho capital the bank is $250,000. Kxccpt for a temporarily paralyzed water system. Utah lost nothing by the recent cold snap. Farm products were unhurt, because seed has not yet been sown. The work on the new canning factory fac-tory at Sandy is rapidly being completed. com-pleted. The contractors expect to have it finished by the last of this month. For distribution among the farmers, the state bureau of immigration and labor statistics 'has sent out its annual an-nual agricultural schedules to county assessors. Fire, once extinguished, it was believed, be-lieved, in the Parry building at Ogden, broke out anew after the firemen thought all danger was over. The loss will reach $30,000. Poultry men of Davis county have perfected an organization known as the Davis county Poultry association. The organization is for the purpose o! placing upon the market a high grade of eggs. Nancy Bird, aged 12, and her baby brother Frank, aged 4, of Richfield, were seriously burned on the face and )iands when a can of oil exploded. The liister was attempting to light a fire unci was using coal oil. The Madsen Brothers are again f.eining on the Utah lake for carp l.nd suckers, which they are shipping to New York and other eastern markets. mar-kets. The first carload left for the rast by express the first of the week. Four miners were killed and two ueriously injured as result of acci-tleuts acci-tleuts in Bingham mines on Tuesday, three deaths resulting from a cave-in, while one man fell seventy-five feet to (he bottom of a deserted shaft and vas killed. There is no danger of a coal famine n Salt Lake,, according to the dealers, who assert they are well supplied and that the railroads are continuing U. send in the regular shipments from the mines in southern Utah and Wyoming. : The body of a man who had been en gaged as a cook was found in a 'box car at Tucker. The man had $140 in Ills possesion, and had evidently got on a drunk and went to the box car to Bleep off the effects, where he froze to death. Mrs. Annie Wells Cannon, member of the lower house of the legislature from Salt Lake county, is suffering from the fracture of two ribs. Mrs, Cannon was injured by a fall when hanging curtains in her home. Shq struck on a chair. Fire which destroyed the tin shot and foreman's office in the yards ol the Denver & Rio Grande at Salt Lake is estimated to have resulted in a loss of $6,000. Damage was principally princi-pally to tools, the buildings bein.i roughly constructed. Three hundred delegates and theii relatives and friends are expected tc attend the seventeenth annual convention con-vention of the International Assoc'a-tion Assoc'a-tion of Railway Special Agents and Police .which is to be held in Salt Lake, June 17-19, 1913. Resolutions were adopted by the Utah State Woolgrowers, at the Salt Lake convention, favoring a mora drastic law in relation to the dipping of sheep for the prevention of scab and favoring a bouny for the destruction destruc-tion of predatory animals. For the death of her husband, who with two others was killed when a Rio Grande train struck an automobile automo-bile near Salt Lake last August, Eleanor P. Groesbeck has filed suit against the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad company for $35,000. Using a heavily-loaded shotgun and discharging it by pressing the trigger with a broom handle, Robert Cheese-mao Cheese-mao of Brigham City ended his life. Despondent over continued ill health, he took advantage of an opportunity offered by the absence of his wife to kill himself. Report from the farming district near the mountains east of Spanish Fork to the effect that quails were dying dy-ing by hundreds has been received. Whether death is due to the extreme cold that has prevailed or to the fact that the birds are unable to find food is not known. At 12 o'clock on January 6, Utah county, which has for the past twelve years been under the control of the Republican party, switched back again to the Democrats, and in every office Democratic deputies will eventually succeed the Republican incumbents. Legislation taking from the hands Df the various county inspectors all horticultural inspection work in the state and placing it under the supervision super-vision of the state horticultural commission, com-mission, is suggested by J. Edward Taylor, state horticulturist, in his bieulal report to the governor. |