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Show UTAH STATE NEWS It has been decided to m;ike an Improvement Im-provement on the ward meeting house at Wiliard. A $12,000 addition will bo added. Work on the new building for the Rank of Garland has been started. Tho building is to coat between $15,-000 $15,-000 and $20,000. Rrigham City has been selected as tho place and June 21 and 22 as tho dales for the annual outing of the United Commercial Travelers. By Juno 1 more than 2,250,000 trout fry will have been planted In the lakes and sit reams of Utah, according ac-cording to a statement m; do by tho Btato fish and game commissioner. F. L. Roach, a locomotive fireman employed by the Union Pacific com-puny, com-puny, was taken to the hospital in Ogden following a street fight in which ho was kicked by another fireman. fire-man. Crushed under tons of earth and rock, Carl 10. Holberg, aged 41, met Instant death In a gravel pit in Salt Lake, where he worked as a laborer In tho employ of the street department. depart-ment. Fruit prospects of Box Elder county coun-ty are bright this year, more than 2,-100 2,-100 acres having been planted to fruit trees this spring, according to figures submitted to the state horticultural Inspector. Two highwaymen, masked with scarlet handkerchiefs, held up a street car In Ogden, obtaining $3.70 and an IngorsoU watch of the conductor, E. A. Cook. There were no passengers on the car. J. T. Baker, arrested In Salt Lake for stealing a horse belonging to R. T. Adamson from in front of the city hall in Ogden, pleaded guilty to grand larceny and was sentenced to ono year in the state prison. The damage done to the farms in and around Marriott, Slaterville, Wilson Wil-son and West Weber by the overflow of the river, will run into the thousands thou-sands of dollars, as many of tho fields were planted for the season. r Work is to begin at once on the construction of the Ballard-Logan cutoff. cut-off. The road, nine miles in length, will cut the distance between Cache Junction and Logan four miles. The route now is by way of Hyrum and Wellsville. James Kirk, aged 5, met death In Salt Lake in an unusual manner. A man was unloading rubbish from . a wagon when the boy crawled underneath under-neath the wagon and was hurled under un-der falling dirt and rubbish, being smothered to death. With people abandoning their homes in the northwest section of the city and adjoining suburbs, the flood situation caused by the high waters of the Ogden and Weber rivers riv-ers assumed serious proportions at Ogden last week. There will be graduated from the Utah Agricultural college at Logan on Tuesday, May 28, fifty-one young men and women representing the departments de-partments of agriculture, home eeo-jiorjjlcs, eeo-jiorjjlcs, general science, commerce and mechanic arts. The Sanpete Valley dairy at Fair-view Fair-view burned to the ground on the 21st. The Are started from the boiler in the engine room. A heavy wind was blowing at the time. The ice house was also burned. The loss sustained by the company is $2,500. Lying face downward on a pile of coal and half covered by an old work bench, the body of Wong Sing, formerly for-merly a railroad cook, was found in the basement of a store conducted by a Chinaman in Ogden. The police are investigating the oriental's death. J. H. Palmer, alleged confidence man, who was extradited out of Poca, tello, Idaho, on charges of complicity in robbing Charles Anderson, ranchman ranch-man of Maekay, Idaho, of certificates of deposit for $5,770, May 11, escaped trom the Salt Lake police last week. Ogden will use all of her efforts to secure the next convention of the In termountain Good Roads assoclatioa A large delegation will be sent from that city to Logan June 12, 13 and 14 to attend the third annual convention of the association and boost for Ogden. Og-den. One hundred and sixty-four students finished the grades of the Provo City public schools Wednesday evening, when that number graduated from ihe eighth grade. This is the largest graduating class in the history of the city schools. There are 79 girls and $5 boys. Work on the railroad from Helper to the Knight Investment company's coal fields in Carbon county will be commenced within the next few days. It is planned to have the road carry-lug carry-lug coal before next -winter. The cost of erecting the line is estimated at $250,000. . The Ogden Portland Cement company com-pany has offered to donate cement tc build a paved road from Tremonton to Garland, a distance of three miles There is no cement road in the county coun-ty and this stretch would make a splendid experiment. It is reported that hundreds of Ute Indians on the former Uintah roser- j vation, in northeastern Utah, are actually act-ually hungry while they have plenty ! of money in the bank. They can not ! draw on the bank account, while their 1 food supply has dwindled down to nothing. i |