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Show UTAH STATE NEWS ' Governor Spry has issuer! Ms formal 'proclamation providing for general state election to be held November 5, 1 1 f ! V I . Ji-rry Daly, a conductor on the Denver Den-ver & Hio Grande, dropped dead on liis train near Green Kiver, deatli be-in;; be-in;; due to heart trouble. The National Foil oration of Post-office Post-office Clerks, in convention at Salt Jake last wcir, voted against, the ablishment of a pens;oi for super-'animated super-'animated elerks. . J. S. Berry of Brlsham narrowly escaped death by accidentally taking a dose of bichloride of mercury. IIo was taken to a hospital, where prompt medical aid saved his life. ' Frank Romeo and Robert Zaffy, convicted con-victed murderers of "Ab" Jenkins at '.Sunnyside in February of 1911, must pay the death enalty for their crime, according to an opinion of the supreme su-preme court. Annio Mitchell, negress, who shoi and mortally ' wounded Ollie Burns, ber dusky admirer, at Salt Lake on the night of August 10, was exonerated exoner-ated of murder in the first degree at her preliminary hearing. Work on roads in Weber county is being pushed before the stormy weather. Not only will the Wilson and Riverside roads be macadamized, but the highways of Plain City anrf Hooper will be placed in good condition. condi-tion. Indianapolis, Ind., is to be the 1913 convention city for the National Federation Fed-eration of Postol'fice Clerks, that city having won over Cleveland, O., its most formidable competitor, at the convention held in Salt Lake last week. Christian Madsen, pioneer resident of Jit. rieasant. died suddenly while , at work in the field. Mr. Madsen was (15 years old. He was born in Denmark, Den-mark, coming to Utah while a mere ' lad. crossing the plains in Captain Hi-gan's Hi-gan's company. At the close of the first day of the 11112-13 school year, registration in the twenty-nine public schools of Salt Lake had reached 16,017. as against 15,553 for last year. It is estimated' that the number will reach 17,000 by the end of the week. As the result of an assault made upon him by Leonard Washington, a negro, whose home is in Salt Lake, Charles Walker, aged 15, of Ogden, is suffering with concussion of the brain, and Washington is in jail, charge with assault ( and battery. The much-talked-of railroad from the Black Hawk coal claims in Emery county to some commercial center is about to be realized. The Utah Construction Con-struction company of Ogden has arranged ar-ranged for the establishing of two grading camps in the country. In order to give the fruitgrowers oi the country districts all the aid possible possi-ble in harvesting the peach crop,. the board of education of the Weber county coun-ty school has decided to open the schools on Monday, September 23, instead in-stead of September 1G, as originally planned. That Pearl Connor, aged 3 T. daughter daugh-ter of John F. Connor, proprietor of the Connor hotel at Stockton, whose disappearance mystified authorities, came to Salt Lake with the purpose of eloping with Joseph Hames. has been established, and a search is now being made for the couple. An organization of the retail druggists drug-gists of Ogden has been perfected for the purpose of affiliating with the National Na-tional Association of Retail Druggists. Drug-gists. It is the desire of the local pharmacists to join in the movement to secure more favorable legislation and to better general conditions. While the labor situation at Bingham Bing-ham may become strained any day, it Is believed the calm counsel of the cool-headed will prevail and a strike be averted. The operators recently announced a voluntary 25-cent raise, but the men are in favor of a 50-cent .ncreaie. Gomer Thomas, a resident of Salt Lake City and well known as a coal mine expert, died Sunday. The immediate im-mediate cause of death was liver trouble, but Mr. Thomas had not been well since the Scofield coal mine disaster dis-aster eleren years ago, when 300 miners min-ers were killed. Guglielmo Guiste, an Italian employed employ-ed at the Galena mine. Bingham, was seriously injured in a blast. Guiste went into a stope to eat his midnight lunch not noticing a blast had been set and the fuse lighted. He received the full force of the explosion. One eye was torn from its socket. Lafayette Farley, probably the best known barber in Ogden, fell dead just as he had finished shaving his brother Asa Farley. He was born in Ogden forty-seven years ago. Former Governor James H. Brady of Idaho, newly elected president of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress, con-gress, predicts that the Salt Lake session ses-sion of the body will prove more fruitful fruit-ful th'jn any previous meeting in work to be accomplished. The Midvale Commercial club seeks to emulate its larger brother in Salt Lake by inaugurating a membership campaign. The membership has been divided into two camps, lb,e "Reds" 1 and the "Blues, " and each will strive to secure more new members than the other. |