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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Charles Cheetman. aged ."(. wdio is suspecleil of being responsible for the Maze which gutted the Albany hotel ;it Salt Lake, is in a serious condition at the, county hospital from injuries received during the lire. Cheetman was badly burned by the flames, which iire said (o have originated in his room. Sail Lake may he made an army training station for rescve aviators, wilh a squadron of planes here all the time and aviators of the intor-lnountain intor-lnountain disiriei coming here to rake their yearly training flights, if suitable suit-able grounds and hangars are provided and maintained by the city. I'lah families are to receive $5,375,-100 $5,375,-100 from the United Slates government govern-ment in war risk insurance claims, according ac-cording to announcement by tlo bureau bu-reau of war risk inairance of the treasury treas-ury department. This will be distributed distri-buted to (!l.ri beneficiaries of soldiers', sailors and marines now dead. Alma Powell, employee at the upper Telluride power plant, at Beaver, was going from work to his cabin when lie caught his toe in a tree root and fell headlong down a declivity. The fall broke one of his ribs, fractured an elbow and tore loose some lign lnents of his left foot. Senator III rum .Johnson of California, Cali-fornia, whose western trip was recently recent-ly interrupted in order that he might return to Washington, to fight for his .amendment to the league of nations covenant, will resume his itinerary and will appear both in Salt Lake and Ogden. .Mathew Thomas, aged (ill. a negro who has been in jail in Salt Lake probably more times than any other man. riled in a cell at the city jail one night last week. The jail was probably the only "home" Thomas had known for the past ten years. James C. Rich ins, aged 15, was tilled in a runaway accident at Ilene-fer. Ilene-fer. The horses became frightened by the wagon seat falling on them and they bolted, the boy being thrown between be-tween the wagon and a tree. His neck, back and ribs were broken. While attempting to enter the tabernacle tab-ernacle at Salt Lake to listen to President Presi-dent Wilson's address. E. H. Fendail, .aged 50, was overconie by excitement .and died within a few moments. Death was caused by cerebral hemorrhage. Lulu Johnson, negress, -40 years of -aged, a tenant of a rooming house at -Salt Lake, died from suffocation and many others are suffering from slight .burns as a result of a tire, believed to have been of incendiary origin. More than 100,00 acres of government govern-ment land in the Uintah basin are the subject of fifteen grazing suits between be-tween the federal government and scores of persons residing In the basin. Contribution of $50 to the International Interna-tional Rotary relief fund of $10,000 for expenditure in aiding the storm victims vic-tims at Corpus Christi. Texas, was voted by the Salt Lake Rotary club. Duchesne county increased its assessed as-sessed valuation this year about $S50.-000 $S50.-000 more than it was in 1918, the grand total being $6,717,453. as compared com-pared with $5,S00,227 in 1918. Dr. J. L. Catron, who has been inspector in-spector of industries for the industrial commission of Utah, has resigned, effective ef-fective at once, to become deputy collector col-lector of internal revenue. Charles' C. Richards of Salt Lake, on September 23 took the oath of office as assistant attorney general of tlie United States, under A. Mitchell Palmer, at Washington. James Miller, field foreman for the XTtah-Idaho Sugar company, suffered a broken leg when his automobile was wrecked by a coal car at the factory .near Spanish Fork. A shoe manufacturing plant, em ploying 500 to 000 prsons', is to be started soon at Ogden. Six buildings are being erected for the housing of the plant. War Saving stamp sales in Utah through postoffice and banks from January Jan-uary 1 to August 1 of this year amounted to $594,021.83, a per capita of $1.30. With an attendance estimated at T0.0O0 persons, the Cache county fair opened at Logan on September 24. The .program was carried out most successfully. success-fully. I "lull stale insurance fund amounts to $312,744, of which $101,730 is in--cash, the largest cash remainder ever carried by the fund. The new Beaver high school building, build-ing, now being rapidly constructed. Is expected to be ready for use in January. Jan-uary. The little town of Pleasant Grove, in Utah county, has shipped 50 carloads of peaches this season. Work is progressing 011 tlie third of three large buildings for the Agricultural Agricul-tural college at Logan. Officials of Weber county are planning plan-ning for reclamation of 57,01X1 acres ef land near Ogden. The pea growing industry is to he enlarged in north Cache county. Charged from a short distance by an immense black bear infuriated by wounds, Roy llolyoak, a boy living in the La Sal mountains of San Juan county, kept his nerve and with steady tire dropped Ids formidable opponent nl most at his feet. While playing in a wheal field near tlie home, the 4-year-ohl s of Mr. and Mrs. Orven Wright of Tabiona had a narrow escape from death. A hinder driven by a harvest hand passed over one of the child's arms, nearly severing it. and badly cutting his In-east. |