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Show UTAH STATE NEWS During the past three months the poor department of Weber county cared for 238 persons at a total cost of $4,368.44. A crowd estimated at 25,000 to 35,-000 35,-000 people viewed the 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 Utah has now been suppressed. W. O. Lindsay of American Fork suffered a broken leg by his horse falling upon him. The horse shied at a piece of paper which blew across the street in front of him. Willard W. 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 hign schools, a battalion of four companies and a band, numbering in all 340, have left the capital for a seventeen-aay trip to the two California expositions. Three youths were painfully and 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 many birtLs as deaths occurred in Salt Lake during the past week, according to tin we.ekly report of the city board ol health. There were 49 births agalns 14 deaths. Because of the success attained hi Salt 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?ia Junction City. The Huntsville extension of tht Ogden, Logan & Idaho Railway com pany is so near completion that paa senger trains may now be run fron Idlewild, the terminal of the canyon line, into Huntsville. Governor and Mrs. William Spr) celebrated the twenty-fifth anniver sary of their marriage, the silver wed ding, with a large reception and dance at Salt Lake on June 10. Five hun j dred invitations were issued. That ranching-stockraising is a profitable prof-itable industry in Utah these days is illustrated by a report from the northeast north-east corner of the state where Wy ming buyers last week paid as high as $38 a head for yearling steers. George C. Johnston of Salt Lake, Xor 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 them to give the young sters a good time. 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 the 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 Ihe business section of Beaver destroyed almost completely the New "Vo.'l: store, owned by M. Papkin, and greatly damaged Limb's barber shop. Both were frame buildings, build-ings, and the jue occupied by the svore was almost demolished before the re hose could bs brought into play. Between ten and fifteen thousand persons were at Cache Junction to greet the Liberty bell, which stopped there about fifteen minutes. There were 400 automobiles from all around Cache 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 have shot Andrew Miller, 14 years of age, 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 tbe water system of Bingham are to be made as a result of the bond election held July 12. The proposition to issue is-sue $17,000 in bonds to be used for tbe improvement and enlargement of the water system was carried by a vote of 68 to 10. Some estimate the Utah wheat yield of 1915 at 8,000,000 to 9,500,000 bushels. bush-els. The yields run from ten to twenty-five bushels an acre on virgin lands, and twenty-five to forty, fifty and in particular cases at Monticello and Ne-phi Ne-phi exceeding sixty bushels to the acre. The erection of a modern skyscraper sky-scraper costing approximate $1,200,-000 $1,200,-000 on the site now occupied by the Utah State Natlcnui bank at Salt Lake (s to be begun within the nxt few months by the Salt Lake Security A Trust company |
