Show STATE NEWS it Is believed that the tomato blight has destroyed at least halt of the utah crop about forty doctors from utah are taking in the portland exposition this week davia county farmers will lose between 25 and 30 owing to the tomato blight the moab citizens will concentrate their energies on celebrating the awen ty fourth pioneer day salt lake business houses have agreed to decorate their windows in honor of the elk s purple day july 7 utah has twelve new doctors as 9 result of the meeting of the state board of medical examiners during the bast week the richfield driving association has filed articles of incorporation and birchfield Bich field will in the future have aoma good racing meets judge thomas D dee one of weber county s most prominent citizens died at his home in ogden sunday morn ing after a brief illness fifty members of the southern call lornia editorial association were en by the salt lake press club the latter part of last week there will be a fair crop of apples pears and small fruit in huntington and vicinity but the peaches apricots and plums are almost a total failure the total valuation of all of the tax able property of grand county this year Is this is an in crease over last year of 00 patrick mullen a miner who has worked in park city for a number of years tell from a flight of stairs at the silver king mine and was killed the report of the city health depart ment shows that there were thirty eight deaths in salt lake city during the month of june the smallest num her since 1899 the young son of samuel stark of american fork while playing on a porch railing slipped and fell alight ing upon his head causing a concus slon of the brain lester malan aged 12 of ogden got his hand caught in the cog wheels of a spraying pump the member being so badly lacerated that amputation may be necessary one hundred boys representing the Y M A of salt lake the future mens club and the ogden sunday school are on a two weeks camping trip in weber canyon hans peter ivansen the first male child born in richfield passed away a few days ago after an illness of a couple of weeks from typhoid fever he was bora january 4 1866 weber county is to be consolidated into one school district with five sep arate sub divisions each to furnish cne member of the board of education which shall manage school business william dunnigan of alpine acci dentally shot himself while endeavor ing to pull a six shooter from his pocket the bullet entering his hip and passing out of his lag near the knee rastus johnson of monroe while working in the timber in ten mile canyon was caught underneath a log two ribs being broken and torn loose from the backbone and his hip badly crushed james H hayford 29 years of age formerly editor of a weekly per at sanday and later steward at the salt lake county infirmary sui aided in salt lake last week taking a dose of morphine it Is altogether probable that a year hence weber will be in a position to become a county of the second class an increase of less than in the assessed valuation of the country s property will make the total valuation 15 david ingersoll of american fork Is suffering very severely from what Is supposed to be sunstroke he went to bed as usual after a v ery hot day s work and went into a long sleep from which it was impossible to arouse him tor two nights nad a day verne gardner of richfield went to sleep at the noon hour under a load of hay his brother in law thinking the boy was elsewhere hitched up and drove off the wheels passing over the boys back beyond a tern horary shock he was uninjured walter taylor aged 12 of provo is dead at the result of an accident while riding a horse the horse falling upon the lad fracturing his skull the accident happened on monday and the boy continued to improve until wednesday when he died suddenly mrs caroline mills died at joseph a few days ago as the result of blood poison which originated from a slight scratch on her foot the poison in evaded the whole leg and involved the entire body she suffered a great deal of agony before death kindly relieved her the baptists of moab have bought the former residence of F mond and have remodeled and fitted up the same for a church percy berke ley of salt laap city has taken the position of pastor tor the next three months he is the first resident pastor the baptists have had william hobbs a huckster and his small son were injured in a runaway in salt lake city by being thrown from a wagon in which they were rid ing in attempting to save his two children who were riding with him hobbs lost his balance and fell with ono child to the ground |