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Show UTAH STATE NfcWS Lightning struck the barn' of Hyrum .'"u'.ir.imui at lgan, the barn and cm. :ents being burned. All schools in Payson will begin active ac-tive work September S. The buildings are being renovated and repaired. Urigham City will probably have a municipal telephone system to add to her already extensive public utilities. Crops in Box Elder county nevir were better, except for one cutting of hay that was spoiled by an untimely rain. A new fish hatchery, tho fourth un-iler un-iler state supervision, will be established estab-lished in Uinta county, according to the state fish and game commissioner. The people of Park valley are planning plan-ning to hold a big fair on September 20 and 21 for the purpose of exploiting exploit-ing that rich section of Box Elder county. The past week has been one of much anxiety to the people of 'Guiitii. son, as three cases of smallpox have broken out and the entire town has been exposed. The big ditching machine at ' Corinne is helping to put the land into condition to Dioom, since uie unfiles are being tiled and alkali is being eradicated. Florence Thomas and Albert Osborne, Os-borne, narrowly escaped death for serious injury at Murray when the rooming house in which they were sleeping was destroyed by fire. Members of the Mormon church in Mexico are no lorger molested, according ac-cording to a message received at the first presidency from Ray L. Pratt, president of the Mexican mission. Brigham City will probably he ohosen as the distributing plant for a large eastern lumber company that is contemiplating establishing wholesale and retail lumber yards in Utah and Idaho. Following an illness of three months, Isaac L. Clark, head of the I. L. Clark & Sons company and pioneer merchant of Ogden, died August Au-gust 26. Mr. Clark was born in Ogden in 1853. Joseph Gurr was seriously wounded and F. A. Wade and Miss Patsy Mease slightly wounded in a shooting affray which took place in the lobby of the Orpheus theater at Vernal. ,' Gurr be gan the shooting. Nick Foco, a bartender in a Bingham Bing-ham saloon, took four shots at Percy Cornford as the latter ran from the saloon. None of the bullets did any damage. It is said Cornford attacked ' Foco, who then fired at him. John Sparchevtch, resident of Bins-ham Bins-ham for only three months, was shot and mortally wounded in the Copper King saloon Thursday. Eli Churvich, owner of a boarding house at Highland High-land Boy, is in jail, charged with the crime. Lewis Marango, a Mexican miner, was probably fatally stabbed in a fight at the Dennis boarding house at Bingham. The name of his assailant is not known, tie escaped, although it is said that he was also severely wounded. Norman Wold of Morgan county was fined $100 on a charge of dynamiting dynamit-ing fish by -Samuel Francis, justice of the peace, last week. Wold was arrested ar-rested by a warden in Morgan county. , This is the first sentence under the new fish and game law. The Uintah basin fair this fall, to f ' be held at Fort Duchesne September IS, 19 and 20, will excel the extensive exhibits of last year, and the sports and other attractions will be bigger and better than ever before in connection connec-tion with a fair in that basin. Following an address by Robert P. Cross, general manager of the Chicago Chi-cago Land show, members of the Provo Commercial club decided to make further investigations, with the view of sending a Utah county exhibit to the Chicago show this fall. ihe fruit harvesting and shipping in the Ptovo district is now well under un-der way. The crop is the largest ever produced, the quality is good and the prices promise to be good. About the only present cause for complaint on the part of the growers is scarcity of help. As the result of a heavy rainstorm at Ephraim, the busi ness district, as I well as the residence portion of the town, was covered with mud and had it not been for the hard work of some 7 of the men it would have entered all the stores. Sacks of sar were used to turn its course. During a severe electrical storm that passed over Mt. Pleasant, lightnins struck the washhouse of O. F. Wail tearing a hole in the roof and 'otherwise 'other-wise damaging the building. No o.'.e was hurt, although Mrs. Wall bad 1?" the -building and gone into the h;l5e a few steps away but a moment ' fore the stroke. Dan Cupid established a record f' matrimonial operations at Ogden las' week when he brought about the nu;' , riage of Henry S. Blancet, aged ' r years, and Mrs. Charilla Welch, a?0" ? S-t years. It is the fourth marriage fo' h each of the contracting parties. Murn Bertram, 21 years of a?p' was sentenced to ten days in 'f (j county jail by Precinct Justice D(1. ' Reid of Pleasant Green for "rags'"? a at Saltair. The sentence of Berv& is said to have been made in view ft 4 setting an example to put a stop 1 lof increasing "ragging" at Saltair. Wj While Mrs. Patrick Callahan ta, Price was taking the body of her band, recently killed at F.lackha" f0n Colorado Spring for Interment- , ha one entered her bouse and al'''r0't ated jewelry and other rtickl value M the amount of about i- |