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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Salt Lake received i;3 first snowfall of the season on October 30, the fall being very light, however. O. N. Hilton, counsel for the Western West-ern Federation of Miners, predicts that there would be a settlement of the strike at Bingham within one week. The first rails for the extension ol the Eccles electric Interurban railway from Logan through the south end of Cache valley were laid on the 31st. The general Increase In the salaries of the railway mall clerks throughout through-out the country will swell the pay rolls dn the Ogden office $10,000 annually. School has begun at Richfield after the beet vacation and the records show a very high percentage of registration regis-tration both in high school and In the grades. Leroy J. Tidwell, the special deputy sheriff wounded In the recent battle with Btrikers at Bingham, Is Improving Improv-ing so rapidly that he expects to be able to leave the hospital In a few days. E. W. Cole, an Oregon -Short Line brakeman, fell in front of the engine while the train was In motion at Wheolon station, between Collinston and Cache Junction, and was instantly instant-ly killed. Official notice that Salt Lake has been selected by the executive committee com-mittee of the National Education association as-sociation as the meeting place for the association in 1913 has been received at the capital city. William Pike, aged 67, recently" committed com-mitted to the county jail in Salt Lake for contempt of court for failure to pay alimony in the sum of $50 to his wife, has applied to the supreme court or a writ of habeas corpus. P. W. Brown, a railroad brakeman, has been acquitted in Salt Lake on a charge of robbery. Brown was alleged to be the man who assaulted Gut Givakos, a Greek, and robbed him of $140 on the night of October 16. Scoring of forty-eight of sixty dairies In the Layton district which supply milk on the Salt Lake market shows that all of those examined are up to or above the standard of fifty points required by the present ordinance. The Utah Light & Power company's plant in Ogden canyon has been shut down for the first time. The shutdown shut-down is caused by draining of the reservoir to clear it of mud. It will take six weeks to complete the work. John Gill, 28 years old, veteran of Ihe first Mexican revolution which re-lulted re-lulted in the unseating of rornrio Diaz, died at a Salt Lake hospital last eek of a nife wound received two H'eeks previous when he was attacked by two Mexicans. All building records for a week were broken in Salt Lake last week according to a report issued by the building inspector. Between October 21 and 26, nineteen permits were is-jued is-jued representing building operations ralued at approximately $55, boo. James O'Neil of Salt Lake, nreman an a northbound Oregon Short Line train, was held up in Ogden and badly beaten, after which he was locked in & box car. When the engineer started to move his train, he discovered his Breman was missing and a search was made. As result of a pair of horses becoming be-coming frightened by an automoDlle the funeral cortege at Bingham of Lester Pape was scattered ana norses attached to three of the carriages made a mad dash down the canyon Luckily there was no one in the carriages. car-riages. H. Gustaldi, who had been on trial at Nephi for a week for the killing of H. Palmer, was acquitted on the 31st. The shooting took place January Jan-uary 14, 1911, and evidence produced during the trial showed that Palmer had made light of his relations with Gustaldi's wife. The handsome locust trees in the northeast corner of Liberty park, Salt Lake City, which were planted by Brigham Young when the park was the old Young farm, are being felled by axmen of the park depart-, ment, under directions of the commissioner commis-sioner of parks. During winter the Ogden Rapid Transit company will convey students along its line between Brigham City and Ogden to school in trailers. The agreement entered into with the Box Elder board of education will eliminate elimi-nate the transportation of the pupils to and from school in wagons. Henry P. Richards, who died at Salt Lake last week at the age of SI, wa3 a pioneer of Salt Lake valiey oi 1S48, and of Nauvoo (111.) of 1842, who won prominence during his youth for an important ambassy to King Galakauka In which he obtained the extension of privileges to Mtorraon missionaries in the Hawaiian islands. A fine of $20 and a scathing lecture constituted the sentence pronounced by an Ogden Judge In the case of Stephen R. Wlillis, the father who become be-come Intoxicated and allowed h i 3 eloven-montha-old baby to fail from a go-cart Into a gutter filled with water. Walter Sanstrom of Murray was ac- cidentally Phot while hunting Son- . day by Edward Covington, his chum, and died as he was being taken to a hospital about two hours later. Vfhe two boys, who were aged 15 and l years, respectively, were hunting for |