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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Charlie Starkle, aged 8, while Ashing Ash-ing In the Jordan river near Salt Lake fllty, fell Into the river and was drowned. The second annual convention of the Utah Bankers' association, organized organ-ized last June In Salt Lake, will be lield in Ogden June 22 and 2:1. Hans for the establishment, of a factory for the extensive bottling of Ogden grape juice are being considered consid-ered by local vineyard owners. The annual convocation of the Episcopal Epis-copal church In the missionary district, dis-trict, of Utah was held in Logan last week, fifty delegates being In attendance. attend-ance. Fire from an over-heated kitchen stove totally destroyed the home of William Coddle of Plain City. The dwelling had Just been finished at a cost of $2,000. Both the proposition for a bond is-Bue is-Bue of $110,000 for a municipal light- lng plant and an issue of $90,000 to Increase the waterworks plant carried car-ried at the election at Provo. Hasinas Johnson, who was driving the automobile which caused the death of Mrs. Pauline Hansen in Bait Lake City, will have to face a ohurge of Involuntary mansluaughter. An appeal to the parents of Ogden high school students to bring about the universal adoption of the cadet uniforms in the High school cadet battalion has been issued by Superintendent Superin-tendent Mills. Spencer Woodard, of Spanish Fork, who has been working up at the Dream mine, east of Payson, fell down a shaft about 90 feet, but with the exception of a few scratches and Itmlana utq not hurt. The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Tele-phone company has entered Into an acreement with the Moslda Lands company to construct a line between Lehl and the new town of Mosida, a distance of twenty miles. The home of C. F. Farnsworth in Lincoln was destroyed by Are on Monday, Mon-day, entailing a loss of $1,800. Through the prompt efforts of the neighbors, the greater part of the household goods were saved. Careless dropping of lighted matches at the warehouse of the Union Portland Cement company's plant at Devil's Slide, thirty miles east of Ogden, was responsible for a fire which caused a loss of $12,000. In a three-cornered fight over a ne-gress ne-gress in a negro shanty in Ogden, L. W. Strauthers (colored) was shot in the head by J. C. Pitts, another negro. ne-gro. Strauthers was not badly hurt, the ball grazing the top of his head. Owing to the burning of the large trestle on the Tintic branch of the Denver & Rio Grande, south of Springville, the line will be tied up for a few days. The trestle burned as a result of a spark from an engine. Because of numerous complaints recently re-cently about alleged unreliability of various insurance companies operating operat-ing in Ogden, local insurance men have appointed a committee to investigate inves-tigate all fire insurance writers in that district. Two nisaked men held up a gambling gam-bling house in Salt Lake City, Tues- day night, securing cash, gems and watches valued at $3,000. One of the men who resisted was struck over the head with a revolver and went down for the count. Two hundred cars of freight was moved over the Western Pacific from Salt Lake on Wednesday. The line has at last been rebuilt around the south end of the lake, where it was washed out by the violent storms ol a few months ago. As the result of the horse which they were driving taking fright at a train, Mabel and Ethel Rushforth of Kaysville were thrown from the buggy, both being injured, Miss Mabel being seriously hurt, but it is believed she will recover. At a meeting of the conservation i commission of Utah last week, it was decided to appropriate $500 of the funds placed iu the hands of the commission com-mission by the legislature to assist in preparing the conservation map of the state showing the different soils here. Willy Beyhl, aged i)5, who had been employed in a cigar store in Salt Lake City, and whose parents reside in Germany, suicided in a lonely spot in the mountains, near Salt Lake City, shooting himself through the head. Despondency over lack of funds led to the deed. At the next meeting of the publicity bureau of the Salt Lake Commercial club a suggestion will likely be mad3 to set aside one day to be ki;ovn as "Utah day," when the people of Salt Lake, if not all over the state, will be asked to confine thei? food entirely entire-ly to products raised in the state. In memory of the soldiers and sailors sail-ors who were buried at sea, many baskets of flowers were cast cr. the waters of Ogden river Memorial day by the United Spanish War Vet erans, who had charge of ceremouie; in Ogden this year. Anthon Kohler, a boy, had a narrow escape from death Saturday evening when he attempted to stop a ruuawa; team at Logan. The horse on whici. he was riding was impaled on th. wagon tongue of the vehicle to whici the maddened animals were attached killing the horse. |