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Show UTAH STALE NEWS1 The people of Pauguttch are enthit iastic over the prospect of getting , railroad. Enrollment at the Farmers' RoBrf up at Cedar City reached 490 on , second day. Of the national banks in the x of Utah twenty-three have made appi; cation to join the federal reserve sn. tem. Charles R. Mabey of Bounti:-' cashier of the Bountiful state bunt has been elected president of yj Utah Development league. Willard Thompson, a twenty-y. prisonei of the Utah state prison, es caped from the convict road camp L Washington county on Wednesday. The city commission of. Provo vtia between now and March 15, call t for redemption twelve $1,000 414 p... cent waterworks bonds. , This vti! leave the bonded indebtedness of tir city only $153,000. John Wilson, an aged man arresit; at Ogden. because of his peculiar at tions, is believed to have teniporarilv lost his mind and will be kept in jail for a few days in the hope that h; condition will improve. Dangling from the end of a rope t, a transom in his home at Salt Lakt, Christopher Kenlinalou was fouim dead by Mrs. Fred Kainz, a neighbor All indications point to suicide, h,. had been dead apparently for a wed. The new plant of the Hercules Po der company at Backus, about four miles south of Magna, which has ben under construction since November last, is fast nearing completion, and it is expected will be finished by Jul; 1st. The Utah-Apex mining company mm asks Salt Lake county to pay $G.4!o for closing down its mine at Bingham during the hunt for Rafael Lopez. Ai ready the county has paid out mort than $20,000 on account of the Lopei hunt. "Dutch" Jake, whose body wa found in a canal leading from the Jtir dan river twelve miles northwest 0! Salt Lake died in a manner unknown and possibly by accidental drowning, according to the verdict of the coroner's coron-er's jury. Harry O. Honolon, 30 years of age. a bartender of Salt Lake, narrowly es caped death when he was stabbed in the head with sharp pocket knife, the cut being alleged to have been inflicted inflict-ed by J. D. Moran, aged 25, machinist, during a quarrel. The planting of peach trees in Brig-ham Brig-ham City and vicinity has practically conie to a standstill. It is supposed that not 100 peach trees are being planted in this entire vicinity this year, except in cases where old trees are being replaced. Thomas G. Wimmer, a resident ot Utah since 1852, died suddenly at Ocean Park, Cal., February 24. He was a veteran of the Black Hawk Indian In-dian war and became successful in business life after beginning at the bottom of the ladder of success. At the annual meeting of the stockholders stock-holders of the Kaysville Irrigation company the proposition of building a reservoir to store enough water to furnish fur-nish two irrigating streams for forty-five forty-five days, w:as passed upon favorably. The project will cost about $25,000. Lawrence Noble of Ogden, had a narrow nar-row escape from death or injury when the buggy in which he was riding wenl over an embankment ntar Uintah. The horse he was driving was so badly in- i jured that it had to be killed and the buggy was completely demolished. George Gerber. a laborer who has been employed in the sintering plant of the International Smelting & Refining Re-fining company, was locked in tli? county jail at Tooele, after he had ruddenly become violently inssae ' while at work late the night before. J. C. Kennedy, a teamster, V years of age, narrowly escaped deaih when he fell from a window in the third floor of a building at Salt Lake- j Kennedy had been drunk and friend' I locked him in the room for him to sober up. He attempted to escape by the window and fell. j Despondent because she says Fhe , had been prevented from marrying j the man of her choice and said to be 1 mentally unbalanced as the result 0' an eight-day fast, Miss Ida Apple j lieek, 30 years of age, attempted sui- j cid& by shooting at Salt Lake, but ! it is believed she will recover. I In an effort to place Utah on a fa" ' footing in comparison with other states in the matter cf Red Cross . nurse enrollment, the Salt Lake coo- ! mittee on Red Cross nursing service j is launching a campaign for member- j ship which it hopes will bring the en- 1 rollment in Utah up to the 100 mark- Good roads enthusiasts and county ; officials of Salt Lake, Utah, Wasatch the Uintah counties, acompanied by : two ofifcials of the Pike's Peak Coast- I to-Coast highway, met in Provo . last wt.ek to discuss the Utah wort to be done in the construction of the j latest proposed trans-continental hig''- j way. j Beginning June S of this year thJ , church teachers' summer school will 1 be opened in the buildings of the ; Brigham Young university at Prove : Already communications are coniin? ; in from different parts of Utah. Ida- I ho. Wyoming. Canada and other plac-es. plac-es. and the indications point to the j largest attendance of any summer : school held in the state. i Three men were injured in a fall of nearly thirty feet when a scal'fo'.vi of which they were at work, painting the ceiling of the First Methodist church, Salt Lake, gave way. j |