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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The twelve miles of bad road between be-tween Moab and Thompsons Is to be rebuilt with native shale by the state. ICvery available team was called into reuqisitlon to handle the large peach crop of Brighain City this year. A female bear and her cub visited the town of Brlgham, Utah. The female fe-male was killed by Henry Tingey, but the cub escaped. Headquarters for the compilation of statistics concerning the irrigation surveys will be established in Salt Lake September 1. Loul3 Polous, the Greek gambler ghot by P. P. Stathakos during a quarrel quar-rel in Salt I-ake City, is dead, and his slayer now faces a murder charge. Harry Ferguson, aged 13, accidentally accidental-ly shot himself through the eye while playing with a target rifle In Salt Lake City, death resulting three hours later. The committee on fruit exhibit for Pe'iteh day, September 7, have completed complet-ed arrangements for the big fruit display dis-play that will be on exhibition at IMgnam' City this year, Frank P. llutchens, a well known Ogden machinist, aged 37, Is dead as the result of the accidental discharge of a shot gun while hunting chickens at Croydon, Morgan county. On Sunday, August 2S, the new Salt Lake Route fast train, to be known as the "American Express," will be put Into service, according to announce mont made by officials of the road. It is reported that the fruit in tbe ricinity of Moab has entirely escaped "ihe blight which has attacked some of the fruit In the northern section of of the Utah fruit exhibit at Chicago the state. New election proclamations, which Include the call for the election of a Justice of the supreme court, were mailed to the boards of county commissioners com-missioners of every county in the state last week. Narrowly escaping death by Jumping Jump-ing from his automobile when the steering apparatus failed to work, Dr. Ezra Rich deserted the machine a second sec-ond before it was reduced to splinters by a depot-bound car in Ogden. After lingering in terrible agony 6ince last Friday morning, when she was fearfully burned while lighting a pile of rubbish in the rear of her little grocery store In Ogden, Mrs. M. La Mar died Tuesday forenoon at 11 o'clock. J. Edward Taylor, who has charge during November and December, has es yet been unable to secure enough money to get up an exhibit. Unless enough money can be obtained to make a favorable exhibit the plan will be dropped. E. P. Stathakos, a brother of the Greek banker, N. P. Stathakos, shot and probably fatally wounded Louis Poulos and Gust Meritsas, two Greeks, Tuesday night in Salt Lake A dispute over a gambling game was the cause of trouble. Fins, believed to have originated from the flying sparks of a passing engine, totally destroyed the Willard canning factory at Willard in Box Elder El-der county, Tuesday afternoon. The loss Is estimated at $16,000, with about $11,000 insurance. Henry Shields of Park City has filed suit against J. J. Coffey, sheriff of Summit county, and against his bonds-nieit, bonds-nieit, Henry Welsh, William Archibald Archi-bald and Julian Frankel, for the recovery re-covery of $4,760. Shields claims that Coffy refused to serve an execution from the district court of Salt Lake county. Typhoid fever is second in the death list fr July in Utah, according to the monthly report of the state board of health, which shows that thirteen of the eighty-two eases during the month resulted in death. Pneumonia leads with fifteen deaths reported. The fate of Harry Thorne, the youthful murderer of George W. Fas-sell, Fas-sell, a Salt Lake grocer, is now in the hands of the state board of pardons par-dons and will not be finally determined by the board until September 3, just six days before the date set for his execution for the crime for which he was convicted by a jury. It is estimated by the United States Immigration authorities that one-third of the underworld population in Salt Lake City is of foreign birth and comes under the laws governing such people. Should the immigration officers offi-cers here receive instructions from Washington, the work of arresting and deporting the foreign women in houses of ill-repute will be begun at once. The failure to report cases of typhoid ty-phoid fever, Salt Lake City physicians are likely to be prosecuted by the city health board. Edward Kent and Robert Bush, the two men who were by a jury on July SO convicted of burglarizing Frank Yurkd's clothing store in Bountiful last May, when the clothier lost $800 worth of goods, were sentenced to seven years in the state prison. A. M. Richardson, formerly of Salt I-ake City, shot and killed Jesse C. Hale, at Portland, Ore., for ruining his home. George Bromley of Echo was sentenced sent-enced to serve sixty days in the county coun-ty jail for stealing a horse and buggy belonging to H. Morton of Coalville. |