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Show UTAH STATE NEWS David A. Johnson hns been appointed ap-pointed postmaster at Motib, Grand county. Mndgo Hamilton, a denizen of Salt Lake's half-world, suicided Saturday, taking morphine. The thlrty-Blxth annual conference of tho Methodist missions was held In ASalt Lake City last week. fr Harold Jones, aged 10, of Salt Lake i City, Is dead from lockjaw, caused by a small splinter In his foot. Grasshoppers nro doing considerable consider-able damago to the second alfalfa crop In the fields near North Ogdcn. Work on tho waterworks system for Monroe is progressing rapidly, tho last carload of piping nrrlving last week. Tho United State Ozokerite company com-pany has purchased 1,015,000 feet ot lumber on tho Uintah rcscrvo in tho vlclnttyi of Colton. Tho public schools of Salt Lako City will begin a week later than tho usual tlmo this year, tho dato set being be-ing September 17. It is expected that 1500 delegates will be present at the annual meeting of tho National Wool Growers, which will bo held In Salt Lako City in January. Jan-uary. Wholesale dry goods men say tit fall deliveries will bo heavier In spite of tho fact that prices nearly all round are higher than at this season last (lyear. ' ' Tho fall campaign In Utah will bo I formally opened this week, when the Btato committees will meet and issue calls for their respective stato conventions. conven-tions. Abo Jones and Royal Hanson, Provo lads about 11 years of ago .wore severely se-verely scalded through tho explosion of a can of boiling water with which thoy wero experimenting. Becauso tho Garfield smelter required re-quired 5,000,000 moro brick In tho construction con-struction of tho plant than was at first calculated upon, there Is n serious brick famlno in Salt Lake. Tho threatened troublo between the employes and tho officials of tho Utah Independent Telephone company at Ogdon Is likely to bo averted and the demands of tho men granted. While returning from a visit with neighbors, Gcorgu Wnhlen, about 35 years of age, dropped dead Sunday at noon Just as ho was entering tho gate to his own residence at Ogdon. fTho Kaysvlllo Canning company has pocn making a successful run on beans and fruits during tho last two months, and last week tho first carload shipment was made to a Bolso, Ida., firm. Theslxth annual meeting of tho Utah State Pharmaceutical association associa-tion was hold nt tho Hermitage In Ogdcn canyon last week, pharmacists being In attendance from all parts of tho stato. While painting n smokestack at tho Inland Crystal Salt company's works near Saltnlr beach, John White, a painter, fell a dlstanco of twenty-five feet, sustaining Injuries which may provo fatal. Councilman A. H, Moycs and Robert Rob-ert Paine presented tholr resignations resigna-tions to the Ogdcn city council at tho regular meeting last week. The res-Ignations res-Ignations wero accepted and tho men wero re-elected. Tho coininltteo appointed by the Miners' union has succeeded in raising rais-ing sufficient, funds to guaranteo n big celobratlon at Park City on Labor Ada. Addresses will bo inado and nil ; kinds of sports pulled off. Whllo mixing n combination of liquids li-quids and powders for tho manufac- turo of flroworks, K. Sauaw, a Jap-nncso Jap-nncso restaurant keeper of Salt Lake, was badly injured and tho room wrecked, tho chemicals exploding. Joseph Marker of Huntsvillo, who owns ono of tho biggest privnto fish hatcheries In tho mountain country, received last week 100,000 trout fry from the Amethyst fish hatchery In Colorado, to bo planted at his hatch- I cry. Burglars entered tho West Jordan meeting house- Wednesday night of last week and stole three quilts mado by tho Ladles' Hellof society. Tho quilts aro ot ornamental design, with a picture of tho tcmplo worked into tho goods. Information has been filed In the djstrlct court at Provo against Gcargo Forre, charging assault with n deadly dead-ly weapon with Intent to murder. Fcrro Is tho man who stabbed young Wright with a pocket knife on tho evening of July 24. ' J'il)ert Hogan, aged 18, a dairy wagon drlvor, who lived nt Bountiful, Bounti-ful, was drowned In tho swimming pool ut Beck's Hot Springs whllo In company with his two younger brothers. Hogan could not swim and got Into doop water, With the gravel taken from tho now Snnd nidgo cut-off, the Union Pacific Is grading for a double track boween Ogdcn and Uintah, six miles east ot Ogdon. It Is figured that with this plcco ot doublo track the lqcal yards will bo greatly rollovcd i 4 |