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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Richmond, Cache county, is soon to oave a Carnegie library. Salt Lake has been officially select ed as the 1013 convention city of the National Educational association. Greeks In every walk of life are leaving Utah for New York City, where tiiey will set sail for their native na-tive land on the first vessels leaving. Thomas Riley, accomplice of Harry Thorne in the murder of George W. Fassell, a Salt Lake groceryman, was executed at the state prison on Thursday. Thurs-day. F. C. Johnson, colored, pleaded guilty to killing Dan Smith at Castle Gate, in the district court at Price. He was sentenced to twenty-five years in the penitentiary. More than fifty Greeks, Ogden's flrsl large contribution to the army which Is being mobilized to fight the Turks, departed from that city for their native na-tive land on Wednesday. Edward B. Johnstone, accused ol killing young Brigham Taylor on the highway north of Helper in September, Septem-ber, has entered a plea of not guilty. His trial was set for November 8. Efforts are being made by Salt Lake citizens to Induce the members of the board of county commissioners to reconsider the decision by which they ordered voting machines used at the . coming election. Claim for damages in the sum of $20,000 has been filed with the city recorder of Salt Lake by Mrs. Lillian Lil-lian Martin, widow of Finley Martin, who was killed by the police automobile auto-mobile September 23. The first shipment of apples from Clearfield in Weber county was mads last week, when fifty cars were dispatched dis-patched to eastern markets. The growers expect to realize from 75 cents to $1.00 a box on the fruit. William T. Holt, said to have been somewhat deaf, was instantly killed in Bountiful on Wednesday. Holt, who was 69 years old, was walking on the track north of the station when struck by a speoial Bamberger electric car. There will be no coal famine in Utah this winter by reason of a car shortage on the Harriman lines, according ac-cording to A. L. Mohler, president o! the Union Pacific and of the Oregon Short Line, who was in Salt Lake last week. Striking miners of Bingham have commenced to derive the benefit ot the Western Federation of Miners' strike fund. Strikers are paid at the rate of $3 per week for single men and $6 per week for men with families. fam-ilies. Work of building the Salt Lake & Utah railroad, the electric interurban line to run between Salt Lake and Payson, will be done by the Interurban Interur-ban Construction company. Grading ;rews are now at work at three points on the line. This past season hundreds upon hundreds of bushels of choice peaches peach-es went - to waste at Brigham City, in some cases there was no market lor the fruit; in other instances the wind played a part in destroying the biggest part of the crop of 1912. The new school house at Huntsville was threatened with destruction by fire last week when sparks from the chimney fired the roof. The people of the village organized a volunteer fir department on the order of a bucket brigade .and succeeded in saving the building. Another mine at Bingham, the Bingham-Xew Haven, resumed operations opera-tions Wednesday. The owners said twenty former employees returned to work without an increase in wages and without recognition of their union. Strikers deny that the number is that large. The fly-swatting contest, conducted during the summer under the direction direc-tion of Dr. T. B. Beattie, secretary of the state board of health, has been closed. It is estimated that not less than '50,000,000 flies were killed in Utah, during the summer by the different differ-ent contestants. Proposals for the reclamation of 48.000 acres of land under the iarey act in Beaver county by means of storage reservoirs and pumps fed by wells, have been laid before the state board of land commissioners com-missioners by representatives of two companies which desire to secure the land for settlement purposes. "Chalky" Germaine, the young pugilist pugi-list injured in a boxing match at Salt Lake, is still in the hospital, suffering Irom concussion of the brain, but his Ultimate recovery is hoped for. More than 250 hogs have died and Ihe droves on several farms have been entirely wiped out by a cholera epidemic epi-demic in the farming districts of Lay-ton Lay-ton and Kaysville in Davis county. Henry E. Gibson, aged SG years, and lor many years prominent in the civic iind business affairs of Ogden, died October Oc-tober 19. Mr. Gibson was one of Ogden's Og-den's earliest pioneers, having been in business there for more than thirty years. Sunday, October 20, was the semicentennial semi-centennial anniversary of the established estab-lished of Fort Douglas by General ratrick Connor, who on October 20, ISG2, completed his march from Cali-tomia Cali-tomia to Utah in Tesponse to an or- . Jer from the war department at Washington. |