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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Three tir.-mon were Injured and two horses kill.Ml whoa a tiro hose an-imiirtus an-imiirtus crushed into a street cur at Salt Lake. The Salt Lake Iron & Steel company com-pany ts said to have refused a $3,000,. MM contract for making shells for tha Russian government. R. N. Prlteluird, a raneliman of Fort Fairfield, Utah county, was lilt on tho hand by a coyote, believed to bd rabid, and will take the Pasteur treatment. treat-ment. While carelessly handling a revol-ver, revol-ver, Joseph N. Young, of Salt Lake, was seriously injured, the weapon being discharged, the bullet penetrating penetrat-ing his abdomen. In a jury verdict at Salt Lake, Dr. A. N. Mlnaer was found not guilty ol the assault charge made ngaiust him In the suit brought by Inger Jessee for tlO.OOO damages. Because J. J. Sanborn fell asleep with a lighted cigar in his mouth and the cigar fell upon a bed and did about $12 damage, he must spend fifteen fif-teen days in the city jail at Ogden. The state auditor has sent a letter to the state superintendent of public-instruction, public-instruction, calling his attention to the fact that the balance in the state high school fund amounts to $43-Sl'S.47. $43-Sl'S.47. Ten thousand officers and workrs attended the twenty-first general annual an-nual conference of the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Improve-ment association in Salt Lake last week. According to an order issued last week by the L'tah state board of sheep commissioners, all sheep in the state must be dipped between July 1 and ctober 15, so as to eradicate all ticks. Efforts to bring about "twilight sleep" by the use of peyote weed, a strange narcotic, has resulted in the death at Randlett, Uintah basin, of six Indian women of recent date, according ac-cording to a report. Roll call at the joint officers' meeting meet-ing of the Y. M. and Y. L. M. I. A. of the Mormon church held in Salt Lake last week, called forth responses from 1,300 officers of the organization organiza-tion from Canada to the Mexican border. bor-der. Negotiations are progressing between be-tween the coal companies of Ctah operating in Carbon and Emery counties and a number of firms on the Pacific coast manufacturing briquettes for the sale of the slack dumps at the Utah mines. A search for the flag and bugle which the Mormon battalion carried through Utah is being made by the general board of the Mormon church in te hope that the flag and bugle may be added to the collection in the Des-eret Des-eret museum. It is reported that electrification ol the Bingham & Garfield railroad between be-tween Garfield and Bingham is to take place shortly. Estimates of a probable cost of $2,500,000 for changing chang-ing from steam to electricity have been made by the roau. When the president of the Sandy City bank opened the institution for business on June 10, he found that tha safe had been blown open by robbers during the night and looted of nearly $2,000, mostly currency. The cracksmen left no clue. George Gourley, 19 years of age, returned re-turned to his home at Silver City, from his father's ranch on Mud creek near Eureka, kissed his mother and stepped into Ws bedroom. A minute later he was found dead from a pistol wound it is believed inflicted accidentally. acci-dentally. Bertha Burnett, colored, shot her sweetheart, Clinton Stevenson, a colored col-ored dining car conductor, in the abdomen ab-domen at their cottage in Ogden after the two had quarreled about the amount of money she was turning over to him. Stevenson is in a serious se-rious condition. The estimates for Utah on winter and spring wheat indicate a decrease of 813,000 bushels compared with the final estimates taken at this time last year. This indicates a decrease of 645,000 bushels in the winter wheat and 170,000 bushels In the spring wheat of Utah. After coasting down Twenty-fourth street hill at Ogden with such rapidity rapid-ity as to be unable to make the turn into Washington avenue, Ralph Mox-ham, Mox-ham, aged 13 years, sustained a dislocated dis-located right shoulder and other injuries in-juries when he and his bicycle crashed into an automobile. Jumping into the icy water ot tne city reservoir just outside of Kays-ville Kays-ville Walter Rushforth, aged 11 years son of Samuel B. Rushforth, city watermaster of Kaysville, gave up his life in a futile effort to save his little brother, James Rushforth, aged 9 from death by drowning. 'Arrangements for the entertainment entertain-ment of about 225 business men froir northern Utah and southern Idaho in Ogden on June 21 are practically complete. com-plete. If plans of the Weber County Farm bureau are carried to completion every ev-ery farmer in Weber county will be taking extension work from the Utah Agricultural college next fall -and winter or will be enrolled In agricul-tural agricul-tural night schools in the several towns of the county. Reports of a calf and colt gone mad from the bites of rabid coyotes reached reach-ed The state board of health from Tooele last week. The infested ant mals have been killed. There is no cure for animals when stricken with oydrophobia. |