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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Willard will Join with the rest of the towns In having a futfe and sane fourth of July. Provo has been selected as the next convention place for the Utah State Bankers' association. Other counties in Utah than Wayne are without a railroad. They are Rich, Uinta, Garfield, Kane, Washington and Ban Juan. Frank Tica, who attempted to "shoot up" Ogden in old-time frontier tyle, has been sentenced to 180 days In the city jail. Lester Makl, a Finn, about 30 yeara old, was caught under a cave-in in the Highland Boy tunnel at Bingham and was crushed to death. W. II. Farnsworth, secretary of the state board of land commissioners, has Bent his resignation to Governor William Wil-liam Spry, effective June 30. Luclle Phillips, aged 12, sustained Injuries to the spine which may result In making her a cripple for lire as a result of falling from a Saltair train. Mrs. Rose McFarland, aged 70, fell from a buggy as she was returning to her home in Ogden from a pleasure ride, sustaining injuries which may prove fatal. After a trial lasting for several days, Frank E. Hanson, charged with arson In the burning of a barn at Fillmore, has been found not guilty by a Jury and discharged. Hewlett Brothers of Salt Lake City are to install machinery for a modern factory to make tin cans. It is expected ex-pected the factory will be In operation within the next three months. There was a wedding at the residence resi-dence of Senator Smoot in Washington Washing-ton on June 21, Parley P. Jensen and Miss Julia Howe, former residents of Salt Lake, being united in wedlock. The special election on the question of bonding the city of Nephi in the sum of $15,000, for electric light, -and water Improvements, resulted in a victory vic-tory for the advocates of the bonds. Charles W. Penrose, former editor of the Deseret News, has just returned return-ed from Europe, having been at the head of the European mission of the Mormon church for the past four years. It Is reported that within a few days a party of surveyors will start out from Marysvale to make a reconnaissance reconnais-sance of the country, with a view to building a railroad to Loa, the county eat of Wayne. According to Washington advices an additional $30,000 is contained in a enate amendment to the omnibus bill for the public building at Salt Lake City and an increase of $5,000 for the Park City building. Ray White, the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence White of Salt Lake City, drank a saucerful of fly poison which he found in a window, Bnd died a few hours later. There was arsenic in the fly poison. The breaking of a small trestle on the Boston Consolidated high line at Bingham resulted in a steam shovel and dinky engine being dropped down the side of the hill about 200 feet. No ' one was hurt, but the machinery is in bad condition. Failing health, through which he had nearly gone blind, caused Alma C. Riser, city dog tax collector, to commit suicide in Salt Lake City. He left a last message for his wife, in which he said that he would rather die with his sight than blind. The statistical report of the past ichool year submitted by Superintendent Superintend-ent W. S. Rawlings of the Provo schools shows l.SSS pupils enrolled during the year, 973 boys and 915 girls. One hundred and seventeen (61 boys and 56 girls) were graduated from the eighth grade. Over one hundred visiting delegates were present when the Utah State Bankers' association went into annual convention in Ogden on June 22. A number of important banking questions ques-tions were discussed during the different dif-ferent sessions of the convention. To date the total amount of taxes Imposed upon all corporations having an annual income of $5,000 or more, paid to the internal revenue collector for Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, amounts to about $40,000. This is about $160,000 short of the amount which is due the three states. Nearly 2,500 men and women who have passed the 70-year mark visited Tooele on June 22 Old Folks' day. Sightseeing trips, speeches, a musical program, baseball games, and a mammoth mam-moth banquet, at which over 5,000 people peo-ple were fed during the day, were all arranged for their entertainment. The dry farmers of Cedar Valley, where over 100,000 acres of land have besn taken up, have not had a drop of rain, or moisture, for four months, and heavy losses have been the results. re-sults. But, notwithstanding, this unusual un-usual occurrence, the wheat crop is in good condition While driving along the roadway in Ogden canyon, three young men were run over the embankment and plunged into the Ogden river, their team being frightened by an automobile. automo-bile. All of the victims of the acci-Sent acci-Sent escaped without serious injury. The people of Richfield are to again have the opportunity to enjoy ginger ale high-balls and the pleasure of "rushing the can," a majority of the city council having decided in favor of a high-license, and in future it will not be necessary to hunt up a "bootlegger" "boot-legger" to secure a drink. |