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Show UTAH STATE NEWS For the first time In its history the Carnegie free library of Ogden shows a balance in the treasury. The Utah Fuel company will spend a half million dollars improving its properties in Carbon county. The last case of smallpox was released re-leased from the pest house at Ogden a few days ago, and the building closed. D. H. Christensen has been reelected re-elected for his sixth consecutive term as superintendent of the Salt Lake City schools. President Taft has been invited to be present at the opening of the new Strawberry project, but It is hardly probable that he will be able to attend. at-tend. The committee of the Commercial Travelers having in charge the annual an-nual outing of that organization, an nounce that everything is in readiness readi-ness for the gala event, June 21-22 at Brigham City. Crazed by jealousy, Earl Simmons; aged 30, an ore teamster, slashed the throat of his wife at their home in Bingham and then tried to cut his own throat with a jackknife. Neither wound proved serious. More than ninety-five members of the Utah County District Federation of Women's Clubs, from Lehi, HeDer, Provo and Springville, met at Lehi on the H7h. Mrs. Irene Jensen of Spring-villa Spring-villa was elected president. ' Two runaway- ore cars on the 1,200 foot level of the Oaly-Judge mine St Park City leaped the track at a point where Steve Jackson, a trammer, stood waiting fgr them to pass, striking strik-ing the man and killing him instantly. Material improvement and extension exten-sion to the playgrounds system of Bait Lake will come as a result of the action taken by the city commission, commis-sion, which intends providing playgrounds play-grounds for all the children of Salt Lake. The home of R. White at Sandy was struck by lightning during an electric storm. No one was injured. The upper part of the house was badly damaged, but the fire was quenched before it gained serious' headway. Over 3000 persons saw the athletic events held at Bingham. The feature of the afternoon was the double-handed rock drilling contest, which was won by Otto Carlson and Andrew Jackson, drilling forty-five inches in fifteen minutes. David J. Sharp, aged 43 years, one Df the most prominent coal dealers in the state, died o heart failure June 12, at his home in Palt Lake. He was taken ill April 10 and had been confined to his bed almost continuously continu-ously since. Randolph Reasser, aged 11, of Salt Lake, is in a hospital with a fractured frac-tured iskull and two fingers missing from his right hand, as the result of touching a match to the end of a rifle cartridge which he picked up on the parade grounds at Fort Douglas. Slipping its brakes, a train loaded with Utah copper ores and composed of a locomotive and three cars, ran away on a 7 per cent incline at Bingham. ' The train left the track, the locomotive being demolished, and all but the trucks of the cars destroyed. de-stroyed. VVinfield Wood, aged 34 years, married, mar-ried, with five children, shot and probably fatally wounded Mrs. Margaret Mar-garet M. Martin, aged 47 years, married, mar-ried, with five children, as she stepped from a street car in Salt Lake. Wood confesses that he was insanely jeal-dus jeal-dus of the woman. Claim for $3,000 damages for the death of her husband, Carl E. Hel-berg, Hel-berg, who was killed by a cave-in in the city gravel pit at Salt Lake on May 23 last has been filed with the city recorder by Mrs. Emma L. Hel-berg, Hel-berg, in behalf of herself and her three minor children. Additional sleepers and better service ser-vice for passengers out of Salt Lake and Ogden, a butter convention rate from coast cities to Salt Lake and the sale of summer tourist tickets from western points to Salt Lake have been demanded by the Salt Lake Commmercial club. Hyrum V. Homer and his wife and child were returning in a buggy to their home a. few miles north of Park City, when a bolt of lightning struck 6O1110 high tension electric wires alongside the road. Homer was knocked senseless, although the wife and child were uninjured. Less than eight hours after being awakened from a sleep in which he dreamed that he had been run over by a steam engine, as he. told his mother. Orovillo Collins, six-year-old son of W. J. Collins of Murray, sustained sus-tained injuries under the wheels of a Rio Grande train which resulted In bis death. While cleaning his revolver. William Wil-liam Loavoy was accidentally shot at his homo in Park City ami the injury may prove fatal, as the bullet entered enter-ed the man's right side and followed the ribs and came out just under the right shoulder. According to J. K. Wright oT Ogden, president, of the Wright-Whituer Canning Can-ning company, this year will be a banner one for the cherry crop in Utah. The company's orchard and canning factory is located at Roy, and I a new running factory is being built In Ogden. . A- . . |
