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Show UTAH STATE NEWS An unidentified man threw hlmSelf In front of a rapidly moving engine at Tucker and was killed Marry Dobson, aged 35, a black, smith, drank 'rough on rats" at Salt Lake, death resulting after hours of Buffering. The trial of J. A. Hill on the charge of murdering Frank A. Colclough, night marshal at Midvale, last August, was begun In Salt Lake on Thursday. It is more than likely that Utah will be largely represented at the third National Na-tional Drainage congress, which will meet In St. Louis, April 10, 11 and, 32. Thomas Lee, 40 years of age, a veteran miner, dropped dead at Bingham. Bing-ham. He had been In his accustomed good health up to the time of his demise. By a majority of only 11 votes the property owners of Davis county have expressed themselves favorably on the proposed Issue of $l.q0,000 In school Improvement bonds. Five of the Judd liquor bills introduced intro-duced Jn the house at the request of the Municipal League of Utah were among the thirteen bills signed by Governor Spry on March 20.: An Austrian workman Is dead and a companion probably fatally injured as the result of the overturning of, elag pot at Garfield, the molten metal being spilled on the two men. The state board of sheep commissioners commis-sioners at its meeting last week decided de-cided to quarantine Grand, Emery and Carbon counties for sheep scab until the disease is eradicated there. Sheepmen who have been investigat- ing the situation in Iron county claim ' that the sheep are in splendid condi- tion, and that they expect to shear a larger amount of wool this season than" last. Official notice of an order signed by former President William H. Taft, March 3, 1913, changing the boundaries of the.Nebo national forest reserve ' ', in Utah, has been received at the Salt ' Lake land office. Thatcher Brothers Banking com-pany com-pany has announced that they intend to erect a five-story building at Logan ' to be built for a hotel over the ruins 1 of the Thatcher opera house which 1 ' burned a year ago. The Park City Commercial club held a special meeting last week and decided de-cided to build a modern hotel. Eight : thousand dollars was subscribed at the meeting, and a committee will be i appointed to collect funds. '! Inspector George Shorten of the , i health department of Ogden gives j ' William Paskett of Grouse creek cred- ; i dt for being the cause of 60 cases of ; emallpox. Paskett broke quarantine ! ; while suffering from smallpox, i j ' Carl and Frank Scott, two colored ; men of Salt Lake, have been sencenced 1 j to one year each in the state prison for , ; having set fire to the house in which they were living, with the intention of ' ; collecting insurance on their house- i hold furniture. :' A California firm has ordered a ' ' steam plow outfit which will be ship ped into Iron county. It will be taken !to the desert and operated upon a ' : ' tract of 25,000 acres of arid land. It ds believed this amount can be brjfeen up by next fall-Charles fall-Charles C Richardson, a well-known resident of Plain City and a prominent official of the Mormon church, was stricken with apoplexy while walking along the street in Ogden. Death resulted re-sulted in a few minutes after he had been removed to the hospital. The people of Springville and Maple-ton Maple-ton are almost certain of a sugar factory fac-tory soon. Farmers are now engaged in securing contracts for the necessary -5,000 acres of land for five years, which the sugar company must be guaranteed. guaran-teed. The factory will be a co-operative affair. Rapid progress is being made on the ' j construction of the Denver & Rio Grande detour at Soldier Summit. The Utah Construction company has twenty-one steam shovels in operation. One thousand men, 100 teams and twenty-' twenty-' one locomotives are also engaged in the new work. The winter's campaign of the extension exten-sion division of the Utah Agricultural college was concluded last week with a three-day meeting at Price, making ? a record "of 720 meetings during the ' season. It is estimated that at least 75,000 farmers and housekeepers were k. - reached by the meeting. ' "The finding and elimination of one tubercular animal is of more value to the health of the state than the-estabT ; ' lishment of the butter fat percentages of 1.000.000 gallons of milk," says the 1 ' state live stock inspector on the eve ' of a campaign for the examination of , ' the state's dairy animals. Mike Yokel, world's champion In the 158-pound division of the wrestling i ' -came, twice pinned to the mat the ' ' shoulders of Joe Turner, holder of the ' Police Gazette belt, at Salt Lake, ' March 19, and thereby won undisputed ' honors in the middleweight class. The Cedar City Commercial club is still working on the movement to secure se-cure a railroad for Cedar. A new feature of this proposition has cropped out. It is now intended to start the road near Milford, branch over to Heaver City, on down by way of Par-owan Par-owan and to Cedar City. |
