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Show UTAH STATE NEWS M. E. Shontloy, a liquor dealer of Parownn, was last wcok fined f 150 for soiling liquor to a minor. At tho present tlmo 5,200 tons of coal nro being shipped out of Sco-Hold Sco-Hold every twenty-four hours. Mrs. Mablo QiistaVeson of Salt Laka City Is In a critical condition as tho result of eating canned tomatoes. As tho result of tho explosion of a Kasollno stove, tho home of Peter KngBtrom of Ogden was destroyed by 11 ro. A bnnklng Institution bneked by Ogden Og-den cnpltnl will begin business In Hy-rum, Hy-rum, Utah, August 1C, with a capital stock of $25,000. Tho school consus of Salt IjxVo shows that thero will bo 714 moro children attending tho public schools this fall than last year. Qoorgo Field, who yeiirs ago wns a resident of Salt Lako City, wns struck by a street car at Crccn Day, Wis., on July 20 and Instnntly killed. ChnrloB Owen, a 15-yoor-old Salt Lnko boy, Is dead as tho result of attempting at-tempting to dlvo in tho shallow wator at Saltatr. Ho struck a stone, breaking break-ing his neck. Captain W. II. Gloro, for many years at tho head of tho flro department depart-ment of Covington, Ky., has been appointed ap-pointed chief of tho Salt Lako City flro department. Utabns Interested In Irrigation nro raising a fund by popular subscription subscrip-tion to tnsuro a crcdltablo exhibit from Utah at tho sixteenth national Irrigation congress. As tho result of a quarrol, Kmma Branch, a nogross, shot Mary Oarrott, also colored, at tho homo of tho latter In Salt Lake. Tho Injured woman Is !n a critical condition. Superintendent Chrlstenscn ot tho Salt Lako public schools has recom-monded recom-monded to tho board of education that bnth rooms bo Installed In tho school bulldlngs-rona at each building. Boforo tho summer of 1009 opens, it is. highly probnblo that tho Ogden Itapld Transit company will havo ox-tended ox-tended Its car lino through the Ogdon canyon as .far as tho Oaks resort. Fifteen of tho Austrlans, Greeks and Sorvlans who participated In a riot at Oarflold, In which eovoral shots woro fired and a number Injured, but no ono killed, havo boon lodged in tho county Jail. ( Tho state board of land commissioners commission-ers has mado a loan of $15,000 to Carbon Car-bon county for tho purpose of building build-ing a court houso. Tho monoy will bo repaid when tho taxes nro collected collect-ed this fall. Wllford H. Osgood ot tho Natlonnl Biological bureau Is Just now In tho district In tho vicinity of tho Sovlor mountains, whoro ho will study Utah animal llfo for tho bonoflt of the biological bio-logical bureau. An effort Is being mndo to interest tho fruit growers of Wobor county in tho advantages to bo derived from n membership in tho Ogden Fruit Growers' Grow-ers' association and to lncrcuso the membership roll. According to tho supreme court tho word "street" means a highway In a town or city used by tho public for travel by means of vehicles or on foot, and embraces all tho area between be-tween tho lots on cither sldo. Christopher Anderson, formerly of Snowvlllo, committed sulcldo at Twin Falls, Idaho, on August 5, shooting himself through-tho brain with a rlllo. Anderson had boon drinking hoavlly and had threatened several times to tako his own llfo. John Itollon, n young man who recently re-cently enmo to Utah from Arkansas, was drowned while bathing lti tho roEorvolr of tho Utah Copper company's com-pany's mill nt Garfield. In dlvlng.it is thought ho fell bo hard that ho wa3 stunned. Harroll, tho sovon-yenr-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Young or Mammoth, Mam-moth, secured possession of n giant cap and proceeded to hit it with n rock, causing lt to oxplodo, with tho result that ho Is minus tho thumb and two flngors ot his loft hand. Gorald Maxflold, aged 17, of Dutlor-vllle, Dutlor-vllle, vns carrying a bottlo of carbolic car-bolic acid in his hip pocket when tho bottlo broko, as ho was stooping over, and ho was'so badly burned about tho Bido and limbs that death resulted at-tor at-tor a few hours of horrlblo suffering. Monday, August 3, was tho biggest day In tho history of tho alato board of land commissioners, so far as tho virtual salo of lands was concerned. During tho day applications woro mndo for tho purchase of nproxlmato-ly nproxlmato-ly 100,000 acres or land at $2.50 an ucro. Salt Lako City's chain gang of about twenty members la constructing on excellent boulovard for automobiles and carriages upon tho county road j betweon Whito's hill, nt tho Salt Lako and Davis county line, and St. Mark's hospital, a dtstanco ot about four miles, Members of tho Utah Statu Wool Growors' association and tho sheep men of the Btato at largo are much interested In tho adjourned meeting of tho National Wool Growers' association's asso-ciation's commlttco on tho storago plan to bo held In Suit Lako City on August 25. It Is announced that within the present pres-ent year oftlclals ot tho 'Stilt Lako Ilquto will Issuo a new folder containing contain-ing n great deal of valuable and practical prac-tical Information concerning hydro-graphic hydro-graphic and agrarian conditions In tho old Lako Bonneville basin, which Is traversed by (lint road. When a Salt Lako pollcoman 11 red a shot at a man who declined to bo placed under arrest, tho bullet missed ts Intended mark and struck nn Innocent In-nocent by-stnnder, Dr. 13. W. Bmed-ley Bmed-ley of Bountiful. Tho bullot struck tho uiitoitunnto man In tho leg, Inflicting In-flicting a painful wound. |