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Show UTAH AND UTftHNS 'I'ho general superintendent of the Utah Humane society reports that during dur-ing tiie past year (jl I complaints were investigated. 10.'! disabled horses taken from work, -14 pads ordered or provided pro-vided for horses, 127 sick or fallen horses assisted, 41 horses ordered blanketed. III horses and 49 dogs humanely hu-manely destroyed. An audit of the hooks of the state treasurer has just been completed by the slate auditor, covering the period of bis office and extending back of that two years, which shows that dur- j ing the six years covered by the audit the total receipts have been $40,619,-Glo.O:: $40,619,-Glo.O:: ami the disbursements $39,049'-553.7S. $39,049'-553.7S. One hundred members of the Commercial Com-mercial club will leave Salt Lake September Sep-tember S, on a trip through southern south-ern Utah, during which the party will travel nearly 900 miles and be present at the formal dedication of Zion National Na-tional park September 15, nnd will also visit Bryce's canyon. L. J. Muir, state superintendent of public instruction, announces that there are repeated calls for instructors in domestic nrt und sciences, and that there are not teachers enough In these subjects to supply the demand. There is also a demand for teachers in the grammar grades. Lorenzo Bott of Brigham City, was bitten by a large rattlesnake while he was hunting chickens in Blacksmith Fork canyon. Mr. Bott came upon the snake suddenly and the reptile sank its fangs into the fleshy part of the right leg just above the knee. He will recover. re-cover. Three clerks and one carrier of the Salt Lake postoffice have been released re-leased from further duty under the civil service retirement bill. The measure provides for the retirement of all employees in the postoffice department depart-ment who are more than G5 years of age. "Teachers who left their profession to engage in other vocations are returning re-turning to the schools again," . said State Superintendent L. J. Muir when asked whether or not there was a shortage of teachers for the coming school year. Don B. Colton of Vernal, Uintah county, and E. O. Leatherwood, of Salt Lake, were nominated as the Republican Republi-can candidates for congress from the First and Second districts, respectively, respective-ly, at the district conventions held on August 27. Al Ringling will be brought back to Price from Idaho to stand trial for the murder of M. Bostolmew, a grader, seven years ago. Ringling is said to have confessed to the crime following his arrest on a charge of forgery in Caldwell. Glen Mack of Ogden was fatally injured Sunday in an auto accident on. the highway near Salt Lake, and Byron Haslam of Salt Lake was sori-ouslv sori-ouslv injured. A car collided with a truck driven by Haslam, on which Mack, who was blind, was riding. To facilitate obtaining the necessary buildings to care for the rapid increase in the population of Delta, preparations prepara-tions are now being made for the organization or-ganization of a building and loan association. as-sociation. The project will be hacked by a number of business men. The proposed expenditure of $125,-000 $125,-000 in Ogden in the early spring by the Mountain States Telephone Sc Telegraph company is announced by officers of the company. The money will be used in the building of new-aerial new-aerial and underground lines'. Stockmen of southern Utah will probably take into the courts the Arizona Ari-zona law which would place a tax of 25 cents- a head on livestock from other states which graze on public ranges in Arizona. Naomi Meakin, wife of Dr. Fred W. Meakin of Salt Lake, was seriously injured when a street railway trolley collided with a sightseeing automobile in which she was riding at Boston last Sunday. Word comes from the Dinosaur national na-tional monument quarry near Jensen, fifteen miles from Vernal, that a specimen of ancient reptile unknown to science before is being uncovered. The regular annual excursion of old folks from Box Elder county took place on August 27 and a reunion was held at Lagoon, which was attended at-tended by approximately 500 people. The National Farm Women's congress con-gress will convene in Salt Lake October Oc-tober 7 S and 0, for the purpose of holding its tenth annual convention. Arrangements have been completed for the Teach day celebration to be he'd in Brigham City, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 14 nnd 15. John H. Lundy was crushed to death between two cars at the American Smelting & Refining company s smelter at Murray. . John Harder, aged GO. was killed at Salt Lake when an auto in which he was riding collided with a street car. Interest in the Cecil Rhodes senm- arships in Utah is very keen tins yea . as indicated by the fact that applications appli-cations and credentials have bo.-., received re-ceived bv the secretary of the state committee from thirteen young men who are aspiring to .he appointments to be made on September o. Mrs OUie Clough, 40 years of age. who is .aid to have confess,, to prompting hor 14 -year-old s on La . to murder his father, James C ou,h. at O'don was committed to the s,.Ue : men",; hospital after a jury had found j the woman insane. |