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Show I UTAH STATE NEWS There ,1s moro bulldlns nativity In Lehl -this HcaHon tlinn for Bevcrnl yonrs past. Tho Lohl city council linn raised tho city tax rato from 7 to 10 iiiIIIb for city and street purposes. Four hundred Block Hawk war yet-crnna yet-crnna attended tho enenmpmont at Bpnnlsh Fork last week. Thd Salt Lake tenm of Eagles won tho first prize, $1,000 ensh, In the parado contest nt Scattlo last week. Tho Wlllard cannery has now about cmplctcd Its run on beans and has commenced to can largo quantities ol npricots, " Petitions nro being circulated nt Willacd favoring n local option plank In tho platforms of all tho political parties this fall. . A piece of glazed pottory, ovldontly n relic of prehistoric ages, was found 380 feet from tho surfaco of tho earth by woll diggers In Ogden last week. Lehl will hold a spoclal election September 14 to voto on $20,500 water bonds. Tho result of tho election will dctormlno whether Lehl Is to havo a water- system or not. Salt Lake City will mako a strong effort to obtain tho now $1,000,000 plant which It Is understood tho Mar-rlman Mar-rlman Interests will erect fat tho manufacture man-ufacture of motor cars. A young man of Mantua Box Elder county, was last week fined $100 for giving whisky to minors. Ho succeeded suc-ceeded In getting two girls, aged 12 nnd 10 years, intoxicated. In connection with tho movement which Jias been started foi good roads throughout tho stnto, Salt Lnko county has started work and expects to show good results within a short tlmo. Tho amount duo tho stato ota Utah from tho not receipts of forest re-serves re-serves for the: flBcal year ending Juno 30, 1908, Is $32,161, as compared with $9,003 In 190C, and $13,657 In 1907. Tho Salt Lako Y. M. C. A. has rc celved tho honor roll of tho ten asso-ftV asso-ftV clntlons that lead in tho 1908 Interna- tlonnl educational work contest for Bf boys, nnd Its name appears at tho ImprlMincd In a box car without food or water for thrco long days, Jo-soph Jo-soph Hnrtman was released when tlio car reached Ogden, only to bo lmmo-HH lmmo-HH dlatoly arrested on tho charge of tres- Qovernor Cutlor will appoint any J eportsman who wishes to nttend tho gathering of tho Lcaguo of American Sportsmen nt lawton, Oklahoma, Oc- HK tober 12 and 13, a dolcgato from Uio ftj states Tho outing of .tho Utah National Kf guard In Wyoming cost $921.33, ox- elusive of transportation and subsist-enco. subsist-enco. Of tho total amount, tho stato paid $4,298.99 and tho government $6,- Contracts have been awarded for tho completion of Sprlngvlllo's now high school building. Tho building, when all the floors aro completed, which will bo next year, will cost over $20,000, -C. J. Chrlstcnscn, penniless and KJ suffering from an incurnblo disease. BJ suicided In Salt Lako City by hanging himself, rather than return to tho poor fl house, where ho had bcon for several F. Busamycr, 'an agod. man of Salt Lnko, who shot .Thomas Walloco at Salt Lako on July 31, will havo to face a charge of assault with intent to murder. s Wallace Is recovering, from his injuries. John A. Nelson, a resident of Og-den, Og-den, has'. Invented a butter holdor lu ! bo used by merchants lu tho dollvory of tho product which will lnsuro It reaching ho hands of custqriiors lu first-class condition during tho hot In a runaway on tho dugway near Mercur, William Hates of Mercur ro-eclved ro-eclved n fractured skull and collar bono, Mablo Oroats of Lehl nn.d r -a child wero slightly Injured. Tho neck- I yoke broke, tho team ran away, and tho wagon was overturned. Mildred Smith, a resident of Salt Lake City, tried to commit sulcldo by drinking embolic acid last week. im A messenger boy prevented hor get- ting tho contents of tho bottlo past hor lips, but enough of tho acid was spilled on her face to bum her badly. A shocking death occurred about four miles north of Kalrvlqw when Frank Stowart of Mllbum was run over by tho special train which was returning from Fort Ilussell with thu Utah National Guard. Mr. Stowart was about 50 years of ago and leaves a largo family. - Property owners in Salt Lako, conn-ty conn-ty will pay this ,ycar $954,332.55 to-wurd to-wurd (tidcatlon, und $1,2G2,953 toward tho support of tho city, county and stnto governments, making a total if $2,227,2S6.CG. This means that thoro Is a per capita tax of approximately fo for education. WM A. F. Sleekier, n minor nt tho Gemini mine at Eureka, whllo coming off shift nl 4;30in tho afternoon, lost his balanco on, the 700-foot I0V9I " aiul pitched tf) the l,C00-foo( lovely it ills-tanco ills-tanco of 000 feci, and was instantly HK killed, His nock was brokon and ho H was badly crushed by tho fall. BM'' |