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Show UTAH STATE NEWS A terrific hailstorm in the American Ameri-can Fork district caused damage to growing crops estimated at $20,000. About 200 yards of state road was washed out between Kanosh and Meadow as the result of a cloudburst. Utah's winter wheat crop is estimated estimat-ed at 5.056,000 bushels, worth 86 cents per bushel, or ?4, 247, 040 for the entire crop. Z. Frank Zimmerman of Ogden and H. C. Newhart of Denver were injured in-jured when run down by an automobile automo-bile in Salt Lake. Comparing Salt Lake's clearings in July of this year with the corresponding correspond-ing month last year and there is showu an increase of $6,306,464.92. Durich Kirkovich, an Austrian miner, was dangerously stabbed in a quarrel with John Jovanovich, a fellow fel-low countryman, at Bingham. A band has been organized at Vernal Ver-nal and has contracted with the city to furnish music at the city and county coun-ty park for the next two months. - Hundreds of delegates from all over the country attended the convention of the National Association of Master Bakers, held in Salt Lake last week. Merna Brim, 3 years of age, who was run down by an automobile driven by Ward Preston, a chauffeur, at Salt Lake, died from the injuries. On Sunday the corner-stone of the new $60,000 clubhouse being erected by the Eagles at Salt Lake was laid, more than 500 persons attending the ceremonies. cere-monies. Frank Garcia, one of the three Mexicans Mex-icans shot in a gun fight with several police officers at Salt Lake, is dead, and Focundo Gouzals is not expected to recover. The Logan city school census has been completed and shows an increase in the enumeration of 1916 over 1915 or 129 pupils. The census shows 1,634 boys aDd 1,657 girls. Ben Garcia, a "bootlegger," and Albert Al-bert Albertson, awaiting trial on a charge of assault, escaped from the jail at Logan, sawing out two bars in one of the windows. Hyrum and Abner Swain have just completed manufacturing over 200,000 brick, which will be used in making new buildings in the city of Vernal this summer and fall. When two small stretches of road in Millard county and one in Juab county have been put. in shape, the entire en-tire state road between Salt Lake and St. George will have been improved. Thousands of ears of Utah sweet corn will be roasted and served to the excursionists who spend Thursday, August 17, with the Ogden Retail Mer chants' association members at Lagoon. La-goon. The boys and girls clubs in Box Elder county are doing splendid work this year, and according to one authority author-ity the work done by the boys and girls is far above the work done by the adults. Officers securing recruits for the Utah national guard on the Mexican border have worked out a system by which they hope to secure three out of every 1,000 men in the various counties coun-ties of Utah. Four boys and girls were thrown into Ogden river, near the Hermitage, when the roadster in which the four were riding struck a dog, swerved and dashed over an eighteen-foot embankment. em-bankment. All escaped with severe bruises. Plans for operation of a new wireless wire-less system between Salt Lake and Ogden over which messages will be sent in original handwriting, pictures transmitted and checks transferred, have been perfected by an Ogden inventor. in-ventor. While cleaning his rifle preparatory prepara-tory to going to a rifle range for target tar-get practice, Fred Winter of Salt Lake, accidentally shot himself through the foot The bullet went-entirely went-entirely through his foot, entering near the arch. Joseph Fenstemacher, who, with his brother, was struck by lightning near Sandy, July 23, is said to be convalescing, and has a good chance to recover the use of his right leg and arm, which it was at first feared would be paralyzed. Samuel Scoffield, a Kaysville man who has been herding sheep in Wyoming, Wy-oming, was found dead near his camp one day last week. Scoffield apparently appar-ently had sat down to rest, when he was stricken with heart failure, and died without a struggle. The Cache county commissioners have fixed the salaries of county officers offi-cers as follows: Assessor, clerk, recorder, re-corder, sheriff and treasurer, $1,200 per year; attorney, $300; surveyor, $250; commissioners, $600 per year each; physicians. $3u0 per year. There were 773 cases brought before be-fore the criminal division of the city court of Salt Lake during the month of July. Of this number 55G of the defendants were convicted, 12 were acquitted and 192 were dismissed without trial. In the 773 cases tried, a total of $3,433 was imposed in fines When the Utah State Bar association associa-tion convenes at the Hermitage in Ogden canyon on August 19, three delegates will be elected to the annual an-nual meeting of the American Bar association, as-sociation, which will meet in Ciicago August 30 and 31 and September 1. Charles Kvans Hushes. Republican nominee for president, will speak in Salt Lake City on the night of Thursday, Thurs-day, August 24. James B. Bell, 57 years of age, suffered, suf-fered, a fractured shoulder when he slipped .-.:-.; fell on the sta'rs of his home a; ZJ.: Lake. |