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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Following a stroke of apoplexy, which he suffered while making some purchases at a store in Ogden, William Wil-liam Bird, aged CO, died a lew hours later. The brewery workers of Salt Lake are on Btrlke for an increase in wages and it is announced that the breweries will bo closed down until the strike Is settled. Rodger D. Charles, 29 years of age, private secretary to former Senator Thomas Reams, died May 7 at a Salt Lake hospital of pneumonia, following un operation for appendicitis. Joseph Jensen of Salt Lake has been reinstalled as a mineral examiner exam-iner under the general land office, Mr. Jensen was given a leave of absence ab-sence three years ago to do special work in geology. While trying to avoid a collision tiy turning In the same direction an an automobile which he was following, Hans Helgensen, riding a motorcycle, was seriously injured at Ogden, being struck by the automobile. A water system by which it is proposed pro-posed to furnish culinary water to the farms lying under Cedar Ridge and Willow Creek canyons and to the people of Sigurd and Vermillion is the latest project in that vicinity. An automobile driven by Principal N. K. Neilsen of the Springville high school turned turtle about one mile north of Lehi, pinning Ws 10-year-oid son to the gorund. The boy was painfully pain-fully but not seriously Injured. . One pf Grantsville's landmarks, the Wrathall family residence, was damaged dam-aged to the extent of $1,500 by fire last week. The flames started from " a brooder house, set afire by an incubator incu-bator lamp, in the rear of the resilience. resi-lience. A spring-tooth harrow, strung with wire, is being used by a farmer in teh . neighborhood of Salt Lake City for the purpose of killing the alfalfa weevil A street sweeper has also been usea successfully in destroying the eggs of the alfalfa weevil. Taxpayers of Bingham Canyon will vote on June 10 on the proposition of a special bond issue of $25,000, the jnffuey to be used for the improvement pf tbS water system, the building oj r a town hall find a:6P ft building for the fire department, William Stevens, pioneer smelter. . toan of Utah and Nevada, was instant- ly killed at the plant of the American Stae!ting &. Refining company at Oar-field, Oar-field, when he was caught under LOOQ pounds of slag, which was accidental, ly dropped on him. Salt Lake City has been officially notified by the county attorney that hereafter the city will have to prosecute prose-cute its own liquor cases and after the . . first of the coming month the county attorney's office will not he bothered . with the city's cases. The state dairy and food bureau, cooperating co-operating with the government bureau of animal industry and the state agricultural agri-cultural college, is organizing a Utah ; dairy cow competition which is ex- j peoted to begin in the fall and to last ;. one year, valuable prizes and trophies to be given. I Dr. Jeremiah Beattie, for thirty-; eight years a Salt Lake practitioner, died suddenly May 7. Heart diseasa " "was the contributing cause of death, i ' Ed Langley, said to' be "king'' ol ' '" cocaine and morphine smugglers, has 1 been arrested in Salt Lake, and is in jail awaiting trial. I During April there was shipped out ' . of Salt Lake county 30,000 rose bushes, 5,000 ornamental and shade I trees, 2,000 fruit trees, 2,000 shrubs and evergreens, and innumerable other flowering roots and bushes, ac- ' . cording to the monthly report of the ' county horticulturist. A patent has been issued to Fire ; , Chief William H. Bywater and William Wil-liam B. Morrison, former electrician of the Salt Lfake fire department, for Morrison's electrical door-opening de-1 vice. The apparatus has been in use -., on the doors of the Salt Lake fire sta-1 sta-1 : ; tion for more than a year, and has ' .-. never failed to work. Mrs. Sarah E. Haslam of Salt Lake is believed to be one of the youngest, ; ". if not the youngest, great-grandmoth-. . er in Utah. Mrs. Haslam was born -' in England in January, 1S51, and is therefore only a few months over . 62 years of age. j Work has commenced on measuring the streams of the state, for which an appropriation was recently made by the state legislature. Several stations sta-tions have already been set in Wayne and other southern counties. I Letters from Utah cities that "will be visited by the Greater Utah excursion. ex-cursion. May 12-17, indicate that the army of boosters wii be met with j unbounded enthusiasm at every point. A movement of widespread import- ance to the state of Utah is being vigorously vig-orously pressed forward by the Salt Lake Commercial club in its efforts to collect and diffuse information concerning con-cerning the use of water in this state for irrigation. I Slashing at his heart with a pocket knife as he lay on a cot in the county hospita". at Salt Lake, Gunner Pe'er- , son, a tailor 29 years of age, wounded wound-ed himself fatally, thu's accomplishing his purpose of suicide, a first attempt at which was made In Sandy, when ba slashed his leg. |