OCR Text |
Show UTAH STATE NEWS During the past three months, tht poor department of Weber county oared tor 23S persons at a total cost of f4.36S.44. A crowd estimated at 25,000 to 35.-000 35.-000 people viewed Uie Liberty bell during its stop an hour and sixteen minutes at Ogden. After being imprisoned for twenty hours, Eric Ericson and Charles Cilva were rescued from the Minnie workings work-ings of the Apex mine at Bingham. Opium valued at ?22.400 has been discovered at Park City and confiscated confiscat-ed by the officers, and it is believed that the opium traffic in Vtah has now been suppressed. W. O. Lindsay of American Fork suffered a broken leg by his horse failing upon him. The horse shied at a piece of paper which blew across the street in front of him. YVHlard AY. Bywater, a resident of Salt Lake. more than half a century and for forty-two years an employee of the Oregon Short Line railroad, died July 9, from pneumonia. Cadets of the Salt Lake high schools, a battalion of four companies and a baud, numbering in all 340, have left the capital for a seventeen-day trip to the two California expositions. Three youths were painfully and seriously se-riously burned about the feet, legs and arms when they unwarily stepped into a bed of hot ashes at Sixteenth West street and the Saltair tracks, at Salt Lake. More than three times as man? iirths as deaths occurred in Salt Lake during the past week, according to the vve.ekly report of the city board ol health. There were 49 births agains 14 deaths. Because of the success attained hi SaU Lake City by the "better babies" movement, members of the Children's Aid society of Ogden have decided to take advantage of the plan in t?:o Junction City. The Huntsville extension of the fg.ien, Logan & Idaho Railway com pany is so near completion that pas Miger trains may now be run froru Idiewild. the terminal of the canyon line, into Huntsville. Governor and Mrs. William Sprj celebrated the twenty-fifth anniver sary of their marriage, the silver wed ding, with a large reception and danci at Salt Lake on June 10. Five hun dred invitations were issued. That ranching stockraising is a profitable prof-itable industry in Vtah these days is illustrated by a report from the northeast north-east corner of the state where Wyoming Wyo-ming buyers last week paid as high as S3S a head for yearling steers. George C. Johnston of Salt Lake, .for many years a guard at the state prison, died July 10 at the age of 49 years. Mr. Johnston was a brother of Sergeant J. Henry Johnston of the police department, who was killed the night of July 4, 1911, by Elmer L. Dewey. About 125 girls and boys from Tooele were able to see the Liberty bell at Salt Lake Sunday as a result of the kindness of business and professional pro-fessional men of the city, who are the owners of automobiles and who were willing to use tiiem to give die young titers a good time. v In a battle with a burgler at his home in Salt Lake, J. W. Arey had his left thumb shot off. Undaunted by the smoking automatic pistol the burglar bur-glar flourished in his hand, endeavoring endeavor-ing to fire at him a second time, Arey captured the thief and turned him over to the police. Harvesting of thousands of acres of dry farm wheat lands in all parts of the state will begin this week, and tne reports in general are that the yields will be lan.e. The expectation is that the 1914 total wheat crop of 7.343,000 bushels and that of 1913, 6,420.000 bushels, will be exceeded. . A fire in the business section of Beaver destroyed almost completely he New v, o."k store, owned by M. I'apkin, and greatly damaged Limb's barber shop. Both were frame buildings, build-ings, and tht une occupied by the svore was almost demolished before the re hose could be brought into play. Between ten and fifteen thousand persons were at Cache Junction to greet the Liberty bell, which Htopped there about lifteen minutes. There were 400 automobiles from all around ( ache valley and the crowd was the biggest that has ever gathered in Cache county on any occasion. In an attempt to emulate William Tell, Clarence Allen, 20 years of age, of Bingham, is alleged to hfve shot Andrew Miller, 14 years of ago, through the neck. According to the report of the affair, Allen was shooting shoot-ing at Miller's hat, but his aim was off about a -foot. Extensive- Improvements to the waf'-r system of Bingham are to be made a a result of the bond election held July 12. The proposition to Is-buo Is-buo J 17,000 In bonds to be used for the improvement and enlargement of the water system was carried by a vote of i;x to in. .Some estimate the 1'lah wheat yield of 1 1 1 r. at f. nun. 000 to tt.'.OO.OOO bushels. bush-els. The yields run from ten to twenty twen-ty hie huxhclH an acre on virgin lands, Hiid twenty live to forty, fifty and In particular cases at Monti' ello and No-phl No-phl exceeding sixty bushels to the acre. The erec tion of a modern sky-cniper sky-cniper costing approximately $1,200,-000 $1,200,-000 on the Bile now occupied by the 'tab Stale National hank El Salt Lake In to be begun within the n'-xt few 'combs by the Salt ijike IW.iirlty A "i i i' t nriipiiii) |