Show ri UTAH STATE NEWS N mrs P F P roach ot of ogden made mad an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide ill III health Is riven given as the reason the democratic state central committee has fixed september 8 as the date for holding the democratic state convention bert luller juller a salt lake chauffeur has challenged barney oldfield the world beater lor for a one mile auto mobile match race fred C jensen of ephraim ephraem has harvested vested his honey secured nearly seven tons the crop this year is finding a ready market at good prices A toquerville dispatch says it is at al most impossible to take care of th tho fruit for drying is out of the question and it cannot be marketed during the act wet season under the supervision ot of the relief society the old folks of to the number of sixty five were en tallied with a banquet and entertainment on the 3rd ard after september 1 Kays kaysville ville will have a rural free mall mail delivery route no 1 having been located and an order received from washington tor for the services to be established an ephraim Ephr alm correspondent writes that the crops in that vicinity are the largest in the past ten years second crop lucerne is exceptionally good and the yield will break all previous records mrs mary morton ot of salt lake city is in jail charged with setting fire to her husbands barn destroying property to the value of 0 the couple had bad separated and a suit tor for divorce Is pending there are school children in the american fork school district between the ages of G and 18 they are very evenly divided there being just one more boy than there are girls hoys boys and girls it Is claimed salt lake city has the highest birth rate and the lowest ideath death rate of any city in the united states the death rate for july was only 78 per cent there were births in the city during the mouth month that the population of salt lake city Is steadily increasing inci easing is shown by the last school census just completed the returns show a net increase in the school population children ranging in age from 6 to 18 years of two mashed men entered a saloon in ogden and held up the occupants besides taking all the money from the till after which they made their escape there is no clue to the identity of the men and but little hopes of 0 their capture the 12 year old son of waldemar lubberts a farmer living at naples was riding a horse when the animal suddenly reared and fell backward upon the boy one of the hames of the harness passing through the lads ads head killing him instantly elner sorensen aged 11 was accidentally shota bile ai at tb tha old arm chair summer resort near salt lake city his bis injuries proving fatal some of the guests were firing at a target when einer ran across the firing line and was struck in the neck the ogden authorities may have a deportation case on their hands it if a certain young hollander now in the jail does not soon recover his bis reason the young mans name Is F C bruin and he be arrived in ogden recently apparently parent ly mentally unbalanced according to reports thus far received by the state board of equalization iza tion there is an increase in the assessed valuation of taxa taxable ate property in the state or of the total valuation this year is against tor for the year 1903 A move Is on foot in mantl looking to the erecting of a cold storage plant in town where ice fee can be manufactured the object will also be to purchase eggs during the season when they are low in price keeping them until they are arc more valuable in price figs pomegranates almonds and many varieties of peaches prunes and apricots apri cota do well near st george at the experiment farm near that place an effort Is being made to ascertain which of the varieties are the most suitable and prosperous for the state in playing around a washtub filled with boiling water ruth the 18 ciontea cion tha old daug daughter of mr and mrs P A christensen Chrls teneen of ephraim Ephr alm came near betag being fatally scalded tho the child tipped the tub from a chair pouring the hot water over its face arms and back fire among the haystacks belonging to edward steed of farmington in g ton destroyed a barn full of lucerne ne SO 00 tons of timathy hay bay two wagons and harness and some sheds the loss will amount to 1200 1200 with no insurance ance the fire was started by a passing engine on oil the experiment farm near st george where about forty varieties ot of grapes mostly foreign are bel being ng tested it has haa been found that th at the he t thompson th orn P seedless does doe well and the state tat board Is making great exertions to have the horticulturists take hold hoh ot of this variety |