Show UTAH STi STATE STiPE PE NEWS President Taft Tan will probably visit Salt LaJ Lake e City In September Sam Tout of or O Ogden Is In Iii a precarious ous Otis condition as the result of colliding could collid Lug ing with a n do dog doc while riding his motor motor- cycle Jacob J. J Jacobson a bricklayer was struck by a 3 street car in Salt Lake l City lt receiving Injuries that may result In his death 3 Utah h has farms covering a 3 combined area of or acres this this' Is lout out of an approximate cultivable area aren of acres In In the year 1908 Utah had acres of land devoted to horticulture horticulture ture with a product valued at 1693 or an average of or per ier acre At present there is more than 20 20 20 private capital Invested in irrigation ir Ir- ir- ir works works' in Utah This does not take account of oC the government projects The depot at Devils Devil's Slide Weber county was burglarized one night last week but hut little of value taken the robbers being unable to force entrance en tra trance ce to the safe In an nn effort to save her bab baby from death by fire Mrs Peter of Salt Lake City was so badly burned that she ma may die dle The child was fatally burned For the fiscal year ear Bended ended June 30 the total business done In tn the Salt Lake Late land office amounted to That Is more than double the amount of any previous year ear Loretta GillispIe aged 8 Is dead as f the result of ot burns sustained on the Fourth of J July ly She and some other children were playing with fireworks when her het dress caught fire Utah dairy products in 1908 exceeded exceed exceed- ed In value dairy farm property exceeds annual butter product pounds and nd ch cheese ese pounds The Ibe value of farm fruit aud and garden garden garden gar gar- den crops in Utah In 1908 exceeded in addition to this the wool clip cUp and range stock sold real real- more than During the past eight years 1736 has been expended in tho the state of ot Utah for new school buIldings buildings build buIld- ings the valuation of oC public school property In Iii 1908 was State Chemist Harms has recently made a chemical analysis of oC the drinking water furnished by the city waterworks of Salt Lake City and finds the water absolutely pure Two Two thousand dollars had been raised raised by the people of Ogden at the close of last st week for the entertainment entertainment entertain entertain- ment of or the Grand Army veterans veterans' during their visit to Utah next month It is announced that a wireless telegraph telegraph tele tele- gr graph ph station may soon be established established in Salt Lake as a link In the connection between San Francisco and New York and part of the great transcontinental transcontinental trans trans- continental system The retail merchants of Ogden are advocating the closing of all stores at in the evening and It Is probable an nn agreement will be reached making maltIng malt mak ing this the closing time for all the stores in that city Upon the report of certain officials of or the Harriman lines depends whether or not oil-burning oil engines TV wilL ill m e t for coal burners burners burn burn- ers oh on on the entire Salt Salt Lake division n of the Southern Pacific The year two daughter of Augustus Augustus Augus Augus- Reeves of Salt Lake swallowed a nIckle one da day last week the coin lodging In her throat a surgical operation oper- oper atlon nUon being necessary to recover the coin and save the childs child's life Ute After cleaning a skirt with gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line Mrs A. A Bong of Salt Lake City attempted to press it using an electric electric electric elec elec- iron The explosion that resulted resulted re re- re- re suited set her clothing on fire and her tier arms were badly burned Steve Ste Linowitz was stabbed through the heart and almost instantly killed by John Abramovitch after he had Inflicted fatal dagger wounds in the latter's back during a fight over a game of ot cards at Silver City on July 5 J. J A A. Palmer about 45 years of age who had been following the raco race horses borses around the circuit ended his life In a a. a slough west of the tho race track at Ogden last week taking inking car can belle bolic acid add Nothing is known of his relatives A lone robber walked into a saloon C In Ogden picked up a tin box which contained from behind the bar and disappeared There were a dozen z men men en In the place at the time but they all t thought ought the man had a right to the box R. R D. D Bvans the millionaire landlord landlord land land- lord of President Taft Tart who died July a fortune estimated at 12 12 was one of oC the pioneers in the gold dredging Industry and was Interested in In- in various Utah and other western mines While playing at the home of oC C. C E E. Street in Salt Lake City Loretta Gil Gil- lispi lisp I aged 7 was seriously burned and Mr Street while attempting to save the childs child's life Ufe was badly burned about both hands It Is supposed the child dropped a lighted match on her dress Four deaths and a score of or acci dents more or less serious and some somo may yet et prove fatal is the total ot of Utah's Forth of oC July casualties casualties' Tho The deadly firecracker was the principal agent ent of ot destruction although there were several stabbing affrays with two deaths S I f j 3 |