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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Headquarters for the X Uional Edu-fational Edu-fational association wi.i be opened al the Hotel Utah, Salt Lake, June 2. Mrs. Mildred K. Randal, Sf, years of age, a widely-known educator ol the early days, died May 2i) at a Salt .Lake hospital of old age. Judge Aurelius Miner, well known jurist and business man, one of the incorporators of the 'A. C. M. I., died at Salt Lake, May 20. in his 81st year. Before insanity can be pleaded as a cause for divorce effectively, it must be proven by a regularly appointed commission, according to a ruling made last week by Judge C. V. Morse lit Salt Lake. The basement of the city courthouse court-house at Logan resembles the storerooms store-rooms of a wholesale licjiior house as a result of raids conducted recently by the officers on drug stores and "blind pit's." Representatives from all the Utah -camps of the Woodmen of the World attended the district convention of the order, held in Bountiful, May 21. Seventy-nine delegates registered at the opening session. It. is asser.'.ed that an organized plan to take Caleb Tnlow from the officers of-ficers while ht was being taken to the court room in Salt Lake and lynch him, has been unearthed and frustrated frus-trated by the officers. Andreas Neilson, 67 years of a?e, a watchman at the Midvale smelter, died at his home in the Farmers ward from Internal injuries suffered In a fall. While on duty Mr. Neilson stumbled on a railroad track. The Utah Bankers' association will meet at Ileber City, June 26, and committees' com-mittees' of townfolk have been busily preparing for the entertainment of the 350 or 400 who are expected to attend at-tend the annual convention. Fearing that the disease may spread until it becomes an epidemic, the state board of health has taken up the investigation of a report that several cases of hookworm exist in Wilson and Plain City, Weber county. Joseph S. Clark, a prominent Farm-lngton Farm-lngton banker and farmer, sustained a broken leg when a vicious bull charged a horse he was riding, throwing throw-ing the horse and rider, Mr. Clark's leg being broken as a result of the fall. George T. Judd of Provo, formerly sheriff of Utah county, has been appointed ap-pointed by State Auditor Lincoln G. Kelly to be deputy auditor, with the 6pecial function of examining the accounts ac-counts of state offices and state institutions. insti-tutions. Everet Covert, 73 years of age, mai carrier for President Brigham Young at the time of the B'.ack Hawk wars, and a man who is said to have faced untold dangers in the delivery of letters, let-ters, died at his home in Salt Lake on May 21. ; 1 The city of Providence, through lta , mayor and town board, entertained several hundred business men of Logan Lo-gan on May 20, the occasion being the official opening of the interurban i line from Logan to the thriving city j on the south. ; After signing an affidavit in which he declares that, to the best of his . . .. knowledge, he is 100 years old, Samuel Sam-uel II. Green of Pocatello, Idaho, was united in marriage at Ogden to Mrs. Emma Estoria, aged 46 years, and also of Pocate'.lo. ' Jack Muir, fireman employed by the Pintsch Gas company, which serves the railroads at Ogden with gas, was seriously burned about the head and otherwise injured when the oilank which feeds the boiler in the gas plant, exploded. Stricken with epilepsy as he was backing an engine attached to a circus cir-cus train in Salt Lake, Wilbur S. Noyes was fatally injured and two other men slightly injured, the engine crashing into the cars. Noyes died the following morning. R. Albright, a railway mail clerk running between Ogden and Cheyenne Chey-enne on the Union Pacific, has been arrested by postoffice inspectors. It is alleged that Albright has taken money from registered letters which he handled on his run. Henry W. Lawrence, city commissioner commis-sioner and for years prominent in Salt Lake City in the ranks of the Socialist Social-ist party, was formally expelled from that political organization last week, because of his refusal recently to vote for the increase in pay for the city firemen. The governor has issued a proclamation procla-mation prohibiting the importation Into this state of animals exposed to any contagious, infectious, or communicable com-municable disease. The proclamation provides that all live stock imported into this state must be accompanied by health certificates. Too many names were irregularly placed on the petition for an election on the question of wet or dry, ruled the Provo city commission, and, as a result, no election will be held unless contrary action is forced through the courts. There are approximately 750 manu-ifacturing manu-ifacturing plants in Utah. Fourteen thousand one hundred and thirty-three people were employed in the entire list of manufacturing plants in Utah in 1910 and the proprietors or firm members mem-bers of these companies numbered 688. |