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Show THE UTAH BUDGET The union electricians of Salt Lake went out on strike September 22. The eleventh annual convention of the Utah Postmasters' association was held in Ogden ou Friday and Saturday. Sat-urday. Porgrams have been issued for the first annual fair of scattered Indian bauds of the state, which will take place at Skull valley, September 28, 29 and 30. Leland Hays, aged 15, of Magna, was run over by the auto truck which carries the students of the Granite high school from the school to Garfield, Gar-field, and seriously injured. A Chinaman who conducted a laundry laun-dry in Salt Lake died from burns received re-ceived while endeavoring to save some horses from a burning barn located lo-cated adjoining his laundry. Registration at the Logan Agricultural Agri-cultural college is heavier this fall than ever before in the history of the institution. It is expected the student stu-dent body will number more than 1,200 this winter. More than 300 students are no" enrolled en-rolled in the Jordan high school. At present they are quartered in ten different dif-ferent buildings scattered through Sandy. They will be removed to the new school building early in October. Mr . Josephine Pacioni, 21 years of age, died at a Salt Lake hospital of burns received at her home in Garfield Gar-field when kerosene in a can exploded. explod-ed. She was making a fire in the stove and poured kerosene on the kindling. Charges that the state of Utah has been defrauded of a large sum of money due under the inheritance tax law from the estate of the late John E. Dooly, capitalist, are made in an action filed in the district court at Salt Lake. Gus Mutort, who shoved a gun through the window of a house in Bingham where half a dozen men were playing poker and demanded the pot and all the other ftjney in sight, has been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. Dr. T. B. Beatty, secretary of the state board of health, is exhibiting a cluster of six apples borne by a tree on his Tremonton ranch. The apples weigh more than six pounds and measure from three and a half to five inches in diameter. George Wawson, 79 years of age, the oldest member of the Ogden Veteran Vet-eran Firemen, died September 22 of general debility at his home in Kanes-ville. Kanes-ville. He was one of the first residents resi-dents of Ogden and until recently made his home in that city. After many trials and tribulations, with her life frequently endangered, Miss Romania Hyde, well known Salt Lake musician, who has been studying study-ing in Germany, has got away from the war stricken nation and will soon be back in Salt Lake. Additional information received by Salt Lake friends of Lieut. J. A. Early, Ear-ly, who was drowned while hunting in a rowboat near Gallup, N. M., states that the army officer's body has been found. Lieutenant Early was formerly stationed at Salt Lake. When the tomato canning season closes after October 1, nearly 700,000 cases of tomatoes will have been packed, according to an estimate made by H. L. Herrington, vice-president of the Utah Canning company. His estimate includes the products ot all factories of the state. J. C. Jensen of Heber City has been awarded the contract by the state board of examiners for transcribing all the records of Wasatch county pertaining to the new county of Duchesne, Du-chesne, which will come into existence exist-ence on January 1. The estimated cost of the work is $3,000. President Wilson has signed the bill introduced by Senator George Sutherland a year ago, giving Salt Lake absolute title to all lands within with-in the Salt Lake watershed. This gives the city complete control over the watersheds which are the source of Salt Lake's water supply. Zebulon Jacobs, a pioneer of Utah and a veteran of the Black Hawk Indian In-dian war, died September 22 at Salt Lake. He was 72 years of age. Death was indirectly due to injuries he received re-ceived during the sensational outbreak out-break of convicts at the Utah state prison while Mr. Jacobs was employed there as a guard. Lambs from the Uinta national forest for-est have reached the highest price that have ever been paid for range lambs shipped from that section. Two thousand head, owned by one man, were sold last week for $13,494. Lieutenant Colonel Allen Aliens-worth, Aliens-worth, the only man of the negro race to rise to the rank of lieutenant colonel col-onel in the United States army, who died recently at Monrovia, Cal., was at one time stationed at Fort Douglas. Doug-las. Hyrum N. Winter, former clerk of the Granite school district, is charged with embezzling about $3,000 of the school funds in a complaint issued last week. Winter is also charged with attempting to burn down the pchool building. |