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Show uiIWk Total value of the fruit output in Salt Lake county in lSUo was $TT.S".0. according to the annual report ol" the county horticulturist. Kussell Salt. 14 years of age. of Salt Lake, was internally injured when the sled upon which he was coasting witn ais older brother, ran into an automobile. automo-bile. Mrs. Annie K. Hardy, a well known Salt Lake woman, has been appointed by the governor as a member of the hoard of trustees of the Agricultural College of Utah. As he attempted to swing from a train at I'rovo, S. W. Collins, a brake-man, brake-man, was thrown under the wheels ot Ihe last car and his right leg was severed sev-ered near the knee. Giovanni Anselmo. slayer of Patrolman Patrol-man Thomas Griffiths, at Salt Lake, has pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree and was sentenced to imprisonment for life. The state dairy and food commissioner commis-sioner is preparing to start in on a "clean-up" of patent medicines labeled as "cures" for various diseases, when as a matter of fflct they do not cure. Farmers from all parts of the state gathered at Logan on January 24 to attend the annual Farmers' roundup and Housekeepers' conference For two weeks at the Utah Agricultural college. col-lege. Nearly forty different makes of automobiles au-tomobiles are represented by the firms that have already applied for space in connection with the 1916 automobile show to he held in Ogden, February 3, 4 and 5. Import and necessity of national legislation prohibiting 'child labor was urged in numerous pulpits of Salt Lake on Sunday, and in several instances in-stances made the sole topic of the sermons delivered. The plan proposed by officers of the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad company for a rail and boat line to serve the territory along the western shores of Utah lake, has begun to assume definite defi-nite form, it is announced. John Berg, aged 73 years, a resident resi-dent of Utah for more than thirty years and known as a recluse, was found dead by neighbors in a little hovel in wlhch he had lived in Murray. Mur-ray. Death had resulted from natural causes. Mentally unbalanced, it is believed, ever since three years ago he found the body of his father in the barn, a suicide, the-'condition of John Larson of Murray became such last week that it was found necessary to cause his detention. An intense, burning love for Raymond Ray-mond Dodds, a young mulatto, caused Mrs. Viola Hood, wife of a San Diego hotel proprietor, to leave her husband, father, mother and friends and elope with him to Salt Lake, Both gave themselves up to the Salt Lake police. Because it is shown that Utah imports im-ports approximately $1,000,000 worth of poultry products each year, a campaign cam-paign will he inaugurated for an appropriation ap-propriation by the state legislature to carry on development work in that line of industry. For the first time in many years the annual report of the Salt Lake branch of the Young Men's Christian association shows a balance on the right side of the ledger, according to the document of the directors just issued is-sued in pamphlet form. James Lynch, serving a life sentence for the murder of ' Colonel" George Prow-se, a faro dealer, during an attempted at-tempted holdup of the Sheep Ranch gambling house at Salt Lake about fifteen years ago, has been paroled by the state board of pardons. Instead of a long-looked-for visit from her only son, Mrs. K. E. Fox, a widow of Salt Lake, has received a te'.egrnn; from St. Louis, saying her son, Byron H. Fox. 24 years of age, had jeen shot and killed by a Chinaman, China-man, whom he was robbing. John Kleisch, a Russian Pole, captured cap-tured near Wellington by deputies of the sheriff's office, has been placed in the county jail at Price. It is reported he ransacked the belongings of his friends at Sunnyside and obtained several sev-eral postoffice money orders. Frozen to death in his attempt to reach the property of the Alta Tunnel & Transportation company, located aC the head of Silver Fork in the Big Cottonwood Cot-tonwood district, Oswald Schwarig, a German, who had been employed at the property, was found by another miner. Injured by a premature blast at Promontory Point William Dickamore is being treated in Ogden, but his injuries in-juries are not serious. While employed em-ployed in a mine he was unable to get away after lighting a fuse and was struck in the face and head by dirt and rocks. That the menace of the Rocky Mountain spotted fever tick in Utah, Idaho and Montana deserves attention no less than that of the rabies and other subjects to be taken up at the national health congress in Salt Lake, February 2, is the opinion of state and federal officials. Danish West Indie3. The Danish West Indies, comprising the three islands, St. Croix, St. Thomas Thom-as and St. John, have an aggregate area of 138 square miles. The 28,000 inhabitants, most of whom are of the negro race, are engaged in the cultivation culti-vation of sugar' cane, cotton, fruit ana vegetables. Few of Them Can Do That. There would be less temptation to speculate if the losers could talk as interestingly as a winner. Washing ton Star. |