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Show PRACTICING FOR GAME WITH OGDEN The East Side high school is playing hard in preparation for the first of the games with the Ogden high school, which takes place next Saturday. Little Lit-tle can be learned about the play of the Ogden team except that in the play with the two teams of the Agricultural college the Ogden boys showed up in good shape. Their forte seems to be In running the ends and this wiir make an open and pretty game to watch., The Salt Lake high school has been playing, good ball and without doubt is the peer of any of the high school teams of this city. . AMERICAN" FORK. AMERICAN' FORK, Oct. ' 26.-Hyrum Huggard, Jr., of this place was killed by a construction crane while engaged in assisting as-sisting the erection of the sugar factory at Sugar City, Ida. The company agreed to pay the funeral expenses, but when the expenses were figured at 3500 the company refused to pay moro than 3200. Suit will be entered against the company to recover funeral expenses and damages. The Clipper and Silver King Consolidated, Consoli-dated, located in American Fork canyon, is within three feet of striking a contact vein, for which it has tunneled 130 feet. At present the property will turn out 60 ounces of silver per ton and runs out 70 per cent lead.- George and Francis Tyng completed the shipment of their second carload of ore to the smelters from their recent strike in the. Wyoming, on Miller hill, located In American Fork canvon. A report comes from the canyon to the effect that the Whirlwind operators have struck a nice streak of ore. Considerable excitement was created here over a strike In the Pacific, also a canyon mine. The Goodsell Mining company, operators of the Goodsell mine In American Fork canyon, is reported as anxious to receive contracts for the sinking of ,a shaft on the property. Eddie Nordstrom, a young man from Fairview. was killed late Friday evening in a coal mine about ten miles east of that place, bv a cave of rock, lie was the son of a widow. The accident happened in the Bradley mine. This year, for the first time in nearly ten years, the mine was entered and worked. Nordstrom, with some other hoys, hadgone up for coal and they had been amusing themselves watching the miners at work. A shot had j-.ist been fired and the boys had go in ahead of tho miners to see the effect. They were standing near the car. when a huge rock, weighing about ten tons, fell, striking strik-ing Nordstrom and killing lilm instantly. The car was crushed to pieces and one of the other boys was injured, though Hot seriously. The funeral of Samuel Barratt of Provo Bench, who died in Salt Lake at the Holy 'Cross hospital, of typhoid fever, was held yesterday. Mr. Barratt leaves a widow and five children. |