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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Accused by two young women of playing the role of a "masher," C. ! Borensen, a laborer, 20 years of age, was fined 7, in the Salt Lake police court. The first carload of marble ever received re-ceived in Salt Lake City from a Utah quarry arrived last week from the Itirdseye Marble company's quarry near Price. A large glass manufactory, one mile north of Moroni, is planned by the Utah Glass company, which has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary sec-retary of state. Y. Garcia, 24 years old, Mexican miner, alleged to have stabbed H. J'larlno in connection with an attempted attempt-ed holdup at Bingham January 14, was arrested in Salt Lake last week. Despondent over his inability to control his appetite for drink, and unable un-able to secure employment, W. H Manhart, a cook, made an unsuccessful unsuccess-ful attempt at suicide at Salt Lake. Representing that the total value of the property in five states and CanaJa does not exceed $4,500,000, a petition for letters of administration in the estate of David Eccles has been filed at Ogden. For the first time in the history of the state a value in dollars and cents has been placed on the affections of a wife. A jury at Salt Lake fixed the price at $887, allowing it to John Reed for the loss of his wit'es' affections. A quarrel, said to have started over a gambling debt of $60, culminated in a fight between two Japanese in Salt Lake, one of the men being shot four times. The wounded man is in the hospital and his assailant is in jail. An old feud that began some time ago when two Greeks were employed in a smelter at Murray came to a head last week when George Lurides and George Alelizos fought with knives, both being painfully injured. Harriet Crook of Payson, convicted of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors, liq-uors, was sentenced to pay a fine of $150 and to be confined in the county jail for twenty days by Judge Morgan in the Fourth district court. The case will be appealed. An opera which depicts the life of the American Indian, his customs and i traditions, has been written and com- j posed by William Hanson of Vernal i and Mrs. Bonin, a full-blooded Chero- kee Indian of the White Rocks. It j is called "The Sun Dance." While leaning out of the front vestibule ves-tibule of a -street car to look backward, back-ward, Samuel Wagstaff, a street car conductor of Salt Lake, was kneked from the car and suffered a concussion concus-sion of the brain and severe bruises, I when his head struck a pole. W. L. McAllister of Salt Lake has been appointed vice-president of the farmers' national convention September Septem-ber 23 at Piano, ill. This big farmers' farm-ers' meeting, national in its scope, will be attended by agricultural experts ex-perts from all over the country. ' A gold bridge and other dental work in the upper jaw of the skeleton found near Low station on' the Western West-ern Pacific last week may furnish a positive clue to the identity of the 1 man who, from the fractured skull, is believed to have been murdered. Andrew J. Miller, 75 years of age, who was fatally burned in a fire at his residence in Salt Lake several weeks ago by the explosion of a lamp kept alight for many years, a beacon of greeting for his sweetheart drowned forty years ago at sea, died last week from his injuries. The Farmers' association of American Amer-ican Fork has forwarded a petition to the state legislature protesting against the passage of house bill No. 25, levying a tax on vehicles, claiming claim-ing that it will be a burden upon the farmer, who, they declare, is already overburdened with taxes. The cases against Frank E. Hanson, postmaster at Filmore, Utah, charged charg-ed with petit larceny, at Ogden, have been dismissed, owing to the meutal condition of the man. Hanson will be taken back to the state mental hospital hos-pital at Provo, from which place he was released a short time ago.. Farmers who hold land in the vicinity vicin-ity of Utah lake which is liable to be flooded if the compromise level is reached declared in meeting at Provo that they would prosecute the Utah lake commission if the dam across the Jordan river was not removed so that the flood waters could run out. A large delegation of boosters from Green River journeyed to Salt Lake last week to lend their voices and influence in-fluence in support of the bill now pending in the legislature asking for an appropriation of $50,000 as a pre-Jiminary pre-Jiminary fund in the interest of the Midland trail transcontinental highway high-way route. It is probable that Juab county will receive a considerable number of tho elk to be turned over to the state fish and game warden by the United States government. The government will give Utah ninety of the animals this spring. : F. E. Grant, a convict, regarded as a desperate criminal, escaped from the convict road building camp at Echo in Washington county on Saturday. Grant answered roll call at midnight, hut failed to respond when his name was called at 7 o'clock in the morn lug. |
