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Show UTAH STATE NEWS An effort Is being made to organize a state rural letter carriers' association. associa-tion. Brigham City boasts of the largest and best tomato crop in years, but the price has dropped to 80 cents a bushel. The Utah Copper company has raised the wages of all Greek laborers at Bingham from $1.75 to $2.25 per day. beginning September 1. An effort Is being made by the Manufacturers' association of Salt Lake to start a factory for the manufacture manu-facture of apparatus for the production produc-tion of denatured alcohol. E. C. Blaylock, after lingering for several days after being horribly burned by the explosion of a gas tank at the pickle factory at Ogden, died at the Ogden general hospital on September Sep-tember 2. Superintendent Williams, of the Moscow mine at Milford, met with a painful accident while going into the mine, a rock becoming dislodged and crashing down on his leg, causing a bad break. The Willard Canning company commenced com-menced operations last week. No apricots or plums will be canned this year, and In all respects the canning season in Willard will not be a very profitable one. A large excavating machine that will dig 1,000 feet of trench a day and two carloads of laboring men have just arrived in Logan, and from now on the work on the Logan sewer will be pushed rapidly. State Auditor Jewkes is putting forth special efforts to get persons holding state bounty certificates to forward for-ward them to his office for paymen,t at once, as he wishes to get them paid and out of the way as rapidly as possible. pos-sible. The Tabernacle choir brought back to Salt Lake in the neighborhood of $3,500 receipts after paying heavy advertising ad-vertising bills and other large accounts incident to the trip to Seattle. The money was earned by giving concerts along the route. John M. Browning, known all over the world as the inventor of tlie deadly dead-ly automatic Browning revolver and other firearms, has returned to Ogden after spending three months in Belgium Bel-gium and eastern cities of the United States in the Interests of his Inventions. Inven-tions. For the purpose of manufacturing "coalettes," a fuel which it is said has been demonstrated to be more valuable valu-able than either soft or hard coal for heating purposes, a company known as the Superior Fuel & Briquette company com-pany has been formed at Coalville, with $250,000 capital stock. Two young men of Ogden made arrangements ar-rangements recently with two girls of the State Industrial school for them to escape from the school and join them. The officers of the school got word of the plot and they proceeded Immediately to entrap the would-be runaways and also capture the young men. Dr. B. G. Gowans, of Salt Lake City, has begun his duties at the State Industrial In-dustrial school, taking the place of former for-mer Superintendent H. H. Thomas, whose resignation followed shortly after af-ter the investigation of charges of incompetency, in-competency, which was made by a committee appointed by Governor Spry. Within thirty days the Telluride Power company will have completed Its double line from Grace, Idaho, into Salt Lake City, carrying a total, of 100,000 horsepower. Eastern capitalists capital-ists will spend $5,000,000 In developing develop-ing and extending the transmission lines of the Telluride Power company throughout Utah. John Brough, who came to the United States from England, and pushed a handcart over the plains and mountains to Salt Lake, arriving there in 1852, took passage on a Cunard liner lin-er last week for England, on his first visit to his old home. The case of the people of the state of Utah against all of the transcontinental transcon-tinental railroads entering into the business of rate making for this section sec-tion will be opened September 22 in the United States court rooms In Salt jake, before the interstate commerce commission. As she attempted to step backward out of the elevator at the L D. S. hos pital, in Salt Lake City, when she saw it start downward, Miss Nancy Os-bourn. Os-bourn. a trained nurse. 34 years of age, was struck by the top ol tne cage, thrown to the floor and had her head crushed between the shaft and the elevator, ele-vator, death being instantaneous. Miss Bertha Parkinson was rendered ren-dered unconscious for two hours by a bolt of lightning which struck the Oaks hotel in Ogden canyon. Miss Parkinson was standing under an electric elec-tric light in the kitchen when the lightning struck the house. rTOVO will go absolutely dry on January Jan-uary 1, 1910, according to the official action of the city council, when, by a vote of C to 3, with one member not present, all previous liquor laws were repealed and a prohibition ordinance passed. With a view to securing Information Informa-tion which will be used in acquainting acquaint-ing people with what Utah needs in the way of manufactories, a circular letter is being prepared by the secretary secre-tary of the Utah Manufacturers' association, asso-ciation, which will be addressed to manufacturers of the state. I |