| Show farmington FRACTIONS thomas higham of salt lake city has applied for the school I 1 in north farm farmington in 0 ton in that dis brict the school populate population ion has been diminishing for the past two or three years jed abbott charged with man slaughter had a preliminary 1 hearing on saturday before the justice of the peace who took the matter under advisement Afat matthias thias udy returned last friday from C hurch church island where he be has been running n a threshing 0 machine tor for the island improvement company abeck A week or so before they had some queer experience with a J J case thresher the machine was new and had L just been taken over on the island P and run one day when on the afternoon terno oll of the second day while the machine was running as usual all of a sudden the whole interior or seemed to be ablaze the fire spread so rapidly that it was only with difficulty that the horses could be unhitched from the horsepower horse power five stacks of grain estimated to contain about bushels and one straw stack were coaum costumed ed before the angry 43 games flames could be subdued by water from the lake which had to be hauled about a quarter of a mile there was no insurance on either machine or stacks so it is a complete loss which is estimated at from to they donot do not know how the fire got started but think it must have been a dust explosion yet there was no loud report but the grain they were threshing was very smutty which is believed by the thresh ers was the cause of the th sion matthias udy jr is attending the university and arthur barber is also atten attending din 0 school in j salt lake city |
