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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The Socialists of Salt Lake have placed a ticket in the field for the city election this fall. The thirteenth annual session of the Utah Baptist state convention was held in Salt Lake, September 23, 2-t and 25. Nearly a foot of snow has fallen around Brighton, in Big Cottonwood' canyon, since the equinocital storm began. With the completion of the Knights of Pythias building, another Ogden lodge will bo housed in one of the best fraternal structures of the stats. Fred Strochell, a D. & R. G. engineer, engi-neer, was seriously injured near Mltl-vale Mltl-vale when he lost control of a motor cycle he was riding. Professor J. A. Smith, an' Ogden educator, wan unanimously re-elected' president of the State Baptist association asso-ciation at the convention held in Salt Lake last week. S. M. Moore of Ogden was elected president of the Utah State Federation Federa-tion of Labor at the closing session of the ninth annual convention in Salt Lake last week. Pete Kalepetsis, 28 years of age, Greek, proprietor of a restaurant at Midvale, was shot, apparently from behind, and killed in his cafe Wednesday Wednes-day night by three unknown Greeks. Miss Beatrice Brewer, daughter of former Mayor and Mrs. A. C. Brewer of Ogden, was selected by the board of county commissioners as queen to represent Weber county at the stats fair in Salt Lake. 'Ninety-three localities were free from contagious diseases during the month of August, according to the bulletin of the state board of health issued last week. The deaths from all causes total 330. Feasibility of a municipal heating plant to put an end to a large part of the smoke nuisance in Salt Lake will be investigated by a committee named, at a recent meeting of the Salt Lake Municipal league. William Dunn, 35 years, of age, of Ogden, is at a hospital in a serious condition the result of having 35,000 volts of electricity pass through his body at Farmington while at the top of a pole of the Salt Lake & Ogden railway. As the result of an accident which ' when his automobile was struck by a freight train, H. P. Garrison of Ogden . has " started suit in the district court against the Denver & Rio Grande company in an effort to recover $2,-1S5 $2,-1S5 damages. t William Alfred Rossiter, aged 70, f fell dead in front of the Lion House in Salt Lake, when he suffered a stroke of heart disease. Mr. Rossiter came to Utah when he was 17 years of age and became driver for President Presi-dent Brigham Y'oung. A rumor to the effect that the sea gulls, which once helped the early pioneers pio-neers in their struggle for existence in Utah, were dying fast is denied by Fred W. Chambers, state fish and game commissioner, who described the rumor as all vrong. Believing that the man's . mental condition makes him a subject for investigation in-vestigation by a medical board, Geo. occurred at Roy on June 24, 1913, Ferguson, aged 45 years, a carpenter who has been employed in Ogden, has been placed under arrest. At the meeting of the Utah State i$ Medical association in Salt Lake last week, Health Commissioner Samuel G. Paul issued a warning to all members mem-bers of the medical profession who fail to enforce the quarantine laws and comply with the laws regarding vital statistics. Blackmailers are again at work In Ogden and this time they have selected se-lected Mrs. David Eccles, widow ot the late financier, as their victim. A letter has been received by Mrs. Eccles demanding that she pay to them $1,000, ' "something will be done for which you will be sorry." The parcel post has long since passed pass-ed the experimental stage and is now the greatest success, being used for the shipment of almost anything weighing less than the limit, according accord-ing to postoffice officials of the state. Lorenzo Eliason, a farmer near Murray, suffered the loss of two firs fi-rs while unloading hay on his ranch-His ranch-His hand was caught in a pulley an(1 two of the fingers were so W-r j crushed that amputation was found necessary. In four- years past nineteen Dig I school buildings have been erected W this state, at a cost of $25,000 to $500,000 each. And 95,000 of the H' (J 000 children of school age of Utah & enrolled in the public schools. 111 ten years the enrollment and atten ance have increased 600 per cent- Viewing the receipts of the W1' tru postoffice as -an index to the busing paj conditions of a city, there has hu a decided increase in the volun car business transacted in Ogden, dur;-; her the past year over the same 'v- unit or 1911 and 1912. . J Though Utah always has had 1" T h porated in its constitution f'"1 y' " ' franchisement for-, women, not the history of the judiciary w - ( state has a woman sat upon a P ftf, try either criminal or civil Women are exempt, but not from jury service. ' , A. J. Price, a former reside"'... I boen , Salt Lake, died at Evanston. Mrem last week from poisoning- , Si; mixing strychnine as a PisBh "(jje- , " otcs and it is supposed tw " u 1 to properly clean the polsol afterward mnda coffe in |