Show UTAH STATE NEWS mrs F P roach of ogden made en successful attempt to commit sui cide health la given as the reason the democratic state central corn has fixed september 8 as the date tor holding the democratic state convention bert buller a salt lake chauffeur has challenged barney oldfield the world beater tor a one mile automobile match race fred jensen of ephraem has har vested his honey secured nearly seven tons the crop this year Is find ing a ready market at good prices A dispatch says it is al most impossible to lake care of the jault for drying is oui of the question and it cannot be marketed during the wet season under the supervision of the re alef society the old folks of caronan to the number of sixty five were en talked with a banquet and entertain ment on the 3rd after september 1 kaysville Kays ville will have a rural tree mail delivery route no 1 having been located and an or der received from washington for the services to be established an ephraem correspondent waitea that the crops in that vicinity are tha largest in the past ten years second crop lucerne Is exceptionally good and the yield will break all previous records mrs mary morton ot salt lake city la in lall charged with setting fire to her husbands barn destroying prop erty to the value of 3 the couple had separated and a suit for divorce Is pending there are school children in the american fork school district between the ages of 6 and 18 they are very evenly divided there being just one more boy than there are girls boys and girls it Is claimed salt lake city has the highest birth rate and the lowest death rate of any city in the united states the death rate tor july was only 78 per cent there were in the city during the month that the population of salt lake city Is steadily increasing is shown by the last school census just corn plated the returns show a net in crease in the school population ahll dren ranging in age from 6 to 18 years of two masked men entered a saloon in ogden and held up the occupants lies ldes taking all the money from the till after which they made their es cape there Is no clue to the identity of the men and but little hopes ot 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 tell backward upon the boy one of the harnes ot the harness passing through the lad a bead killing him instantly einer sorensen aged 11 was acci dentally shot while at the old arm chair summer resort near salt lake city his 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 if a certain young hollander now in the jail does not soon recover his reason the young man s name Is F bruin and he arrived in ogden recently apparently patently ly mentally unbalanced according to reports thus far received by the state board of equal there is an increase in the as messed valuation of taxable property aln the state of 4 the total evaluation this year is against corthe year 1903 A move Is on foot in manti looking to the erecting of a cold storage plant in town where ice can be aured the object will also be to purchase eggs during the season when they are low in price keeping them until they are more valuable in price figs pomegranates almonds and many varieties of peaches prunes land apricots do well near st george at the experiment farm near that an effort is being made to as certain which of the varieties are the most suitable and prosperous tor the state in playing around a washtub filled with boiling water ruth the 18 months old daughter of mr and mrs F A christensen Chrls of ephraem came near being fatally scalded the child tipped the tub from a chair pouring the hot water over its face arms and back fire among the haystacks belong ing to edward steed of farmington destroyed a barn full of lucerne 30 tons of timothy hay two wagons and harness and some sheds the loss will amount to 1 with no ansur the fire was started by a pass ing engine on the experiment farm near st george where about forty varieties of grapes mostly foreign are being test aed it has been found that the thompson seedless does well and the state board Is making great exertions to have the horticulturists take hold of this variety pete carrier is under arrest at sun on a serious charge john dechery a miner claims he was enticed by garbler to a secluded spot where be was knocked down and beaten end also stabbed in the hip with a leto dechery will probably be crip pled tor alle about sixty out of the men on the payroll at the grand central mine at mammoth were ladd off last week this reduction in the working force la only temporary the shaft will be put down a couple of hundred feet and as soon as possible the working force will be increased |