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Show UTAH STATE HEWS Utah will produce this year at least 4,000,000 pounds of honey and the quantity may be larger than that. H. H.- Bullen, Salt Lake aviator, flew to Ely, Nev., a distance of 2G0 miles, In three hours and twelve minutes. min-utes. - On the Levan ridge in Juab county the combined harvesters have been so busy that the farmers worked thein at night. In the seven months ended July 31 the people of Utah invested In thrift and war savings stamps to the extent ex-tent of $73,000. The Farmer-Labor party of Weber county named a ticket for the county election at the convention held at Og-den Og-den last week. A course in commercial engineering will be given at the University of Utah when It opens for the autumn quarter, September 27. Pickpockets operating In Salt Lake and on the electric trains between Salt Lake and Ogden relieved their victims of $341 in a few hours. W. D. McPherson, 03 years of age, city attorney of Springville, died suddenly sud-denly In the county courf house at Provo, while representing a client.- Ten million fish are to be cared tor at the state hatchery In Springville. An enlargement of the plant is to be made, both In building and equipment. Bees In Utah, in many instances, are becoming migratory. Their owners ship them from the state in the fall for warmer climates, and, as a result, the bee.s do two years' work every year. The ieachers of both Logan city and Cache county held an institute in Lo-, Lo-, gan, September 4. Both districts contemplate con-template a most successful school year, with an unprecedented attendance. at-tendance. William Dunlap, aged 51, was killed In an automobile accident In Diamond Fork canyon, near Thistle, his machine turning turtle, Dunlap being be-ing pinned beneath the machine and drowned. Democrats of Utah will participate In a monster parade in Salt. Lake on the afternoon of September 15 during the visit there of Governor James M. Cox, Democratic candidate for the presidency. Charles C. Hood and William Christmas, Christ-mas, both of Spanish Fork, were severely se-verely Injured when their automobile rolled down an embankment on the road Into the Strawberry project, forty miles from Spanish Fork. The mystery surrounding a supposed sup-posed attempted holdup of a train on the Southern Pacific railroad near Little Lit-tle Mountain has been apparently solved In the arrest of John W. Boss, 29, a farmer of Plain City. Marion Lyman Young expects to retire re-tire as superintendent of state printing in the near future to accept a com- mission as first lieutenant in the regular reg-ular army. He recently passed the examination ex-amination for his tommlssion. The Utida , Pumping company of Cornish filed articles of Incorporation with the secretary of state last week, showing Its purpose to be the distribution distri-bution of waters obtained from the West Cache Irrigation company. Care of the three children of James Clough,' murdered at Ogden, on August Au-gust 15, by the oldest son at the Instigation In-stigation of the mother, who is now In the Insane asylum, has been assumed by the Children's Aid society of Ogden. Og-den. Twenty thousand school children were in attendance at the public schools of Salt Lakn City on the opening open-ing day. The enrollment for the first day Is In the neighborhood of 1000 greater than upon the opening day last year. When the brakc-s failed to work, an automobile driven by William Howard Griggs, aged 19, went over an embankment a distance of thirty-five feet and landed right side up. Griggs was only slightly injujred, but the machine ma-chine was wrecked beyond repair. It is announced that the work on dry farming by Dr. John A. Wldtsoe, now president of the University of Utah, written while he was president of the Utah Agricultural college, will be translated into modern Hebrew for use by Jewish colonists In Palestine, William Wrigley, Jr., largest manufacturer manu-facturer of chewing jjum in the world, last week entered the sugar industry In Utah when a deal was completed whereby, with W. Harvey Ross and R. T. Harris, Salt Lake capitalists, and O. II. Egge of Sanla Ana, Calif., he secured se-cured stock control of the Gunnison Valley Sugar company. Utah's eight-hour statute Is not applicable ap-plicable to the office of registration agent for election and women who are registration officei-s must keep their offices upon the required thirteen hours, regardless of the statute which provides that no female shall work longer than eight hours, per day, the attorney general has decided. While It was but a few days ago that the ratification of the suffrage amendment by the state of Tennessee ciwnert with victory fh" long and w;nry battle of this wi men of the nation na-tion for the ballot, Irrespective of the state In which they live, Utah has the distinction of being one of the pioneer commonwealths In the struggle for equal rights. K. C. Rice, 47 years of oge, a resident res-ident of L"S Angeles; sh'it and- killed ICd A. Mayer In a win at a hotel in Rait I.'Ae. UVe claims he sliot In M'iMefousP. |