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Show I UTAH STATE NEWS Work on (ho now Hlo Grande depot de-pot In Salt Lake City Ih now progressing pro-gressing rapidly. August 20 has boon sot npart ns Utah day at the Alnska-Yukon-Pnclflc exposition at Seattle. The tabcrnncle choir Is expected to be present at that (tlmo. An Italian succeeded In paslng a Confederate $100 bill nt Helper ono day last week, but the man who took tho bill soon noticed his mistake nnd had the Italian arrested. The secretary of stato received In fees for the quarter ending .lime .'10, the total or $29,0SS.9I, which Is threa times ns much as tho office receipts of tho corresponding quarter last year. From nlmost every agricultural dia. trlct In Utah there comes a call t'oi help In garnering this year's crop, the general cry being that it Is almost al-most Impossible to secure farm laborers. la-borers. The people of Sandy are discussing the proposition of buying the waterworks water-works system, tho control of which is owned by Salt Lake people It Is proposed pro-posed to bond tho city in order to raise the money. I Three men caught shooting fish in Silver lake have been lined $100 each, "while four boys who were arrested on suspicion of having been watchers for tho law-brenkers were released for lack of evidence. A man whos name is supposed to ho Riley, was picked up on the Btreets of Snlt Lake while suffering from acuto alcoholism and taken to tho police station where he died a few hours later. Morris Ueckstcad, a former resident resi-dent of South Jordan, was crushed by a tram car in the gll3onito mine at Dragon, last, week, succumbing to his injuries -after being taken to the hosp'tnl at Grand Junction. Tho business men of Ephralm aro advocating n half holiday each week, when nil places of business will bo closed nnd employes given a rest, band concerto and ball games to be provided for their amusement. Tho war against Salt Lnke's stock-ndo stock-ndo seems to have resulted In a victory vic-tory for the west-siders, nnd the I buildings Intended for use of women of tho underworld are to be torn down I and a hotel erected on tho site. Former United States Senator Frank J. Cannon, who Is now employed em-ployed as an editorial writer on a i Denver nowspnper, was married in Denver on June 2!), the bride being Miss May Anderson Drown of Ogdon, Parley Giles, tho holder of rive worlds bicycling records, died nt nib homo In Salt Lake City, Juno 28, from henrt trouble caused, t.ie doctor be Moved, by the strain of h-s track work. Giles was but 22 years or age. As tho result or a light between two colored men in Salt Lake City, Harry Weaver had his noso slashed half In two and his lip nlmost severed sev-ered and camo near dying from loss of blood, his nssallant using a pocket pock-et knife. t Wallace Johnson, aged 10, and his brother Douglas, aged 8, were dro-i-ned while bathing near Salt Lake In n pool by tho sido of the Jordnn river. Tho older boy was drowned while en- deavorlng to save tho Hfo of his brother. Tho plumbers of Salt Lake City have gono on a strike, demanding an lncreaso In wages from $5.20 to ?C a day. Tho employers declare the wage asked Is entirely too high and will ros'st tho demands or tho men to their utmost. Jack liny wood and George Sprat-ing Sprat-ing or Murray came near being killed in Big Cottonwood canyon whllo driving, driv-ing, tho horse becoming frightened and crashing into a boulder, the rig being demolished, both men injured, and tho horse killed. I Tho Ogdon sugar factory has com- pleted the work at trnim'ormlng 5,000,000 pounds or molasses Inta 5 brown sugar, and has closed down for K tho senson. Tho brown sugar will i be refined into white suear during w the regular beet season, j A grnss iiro in the hills back ol Fort Douglas camo near causing n serious conflagration nt tho fort one I day last week, 200 solders being en- gnged in lighting tho ilnmes ror sov- eral hours beroro they succeeded in B getting tho lire under Control. Solma Murphy, the elghteen-months- old dnughter of William Murphy, a i promlnont merchant of Green Illver, I whllo playing besldo tho gravity canal I fell Into tho canal unnoticed and wasl I drowned. Tho mother rescued hor a babo'a body half an hour later. |