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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Payson's apple crop is nearly gathered. gath-ered. This has been one of the best years this locality has had for this fruit. Excavating on the new High school at Psiyson has been completed and work on foundation will be pushed while the weath permits. Utah sheepmen are jubilant over the outlook for winter grazing and declare de-clare that the recent storms will be oi great value to the Utah flockmasteis Joseph Smith lioren, a resident ol Provo sinco 1851 and one of the early residents of Nauvoo, died November 7, following a severe attack of heart failure. Salt Lake may get a low rate on oranges and lemons from California if efforts to reopen the tariffs on citrus fruits before the interstate commerce commission are successful. Six incites of snow in HuntsviJle valley has put an effectual stop to the county road building operations in that vicinity and it is probable that work cannot be resumed until spring. Mrs. Ellenor Schrepel, aged 73 years, a member of the original handcart hand-cart party which crossed the plains in 1S57, died November 7 at the family fam-ily residence in Salt Lake as a result of general debility. Leroy F. Hobbs, a resident of Park City since 1S78, was found dead in a building at the rear of the Park City hotel, by a man who had called to borrow Hobbs' tools. Heart trouble was the cause of death. Following an illness of nearly five months, Brunson T. Young, aged 6C years, a thirty-second degree Mason and known throughout Utah and Idaho as a bridge and railroad carpenter, died Wednesday at Salt Lake. Hunters from Provo still are going to the hills in search of deer and from the reports coming in almost daily almost al-most thirty of these animals have been shot by the sportsmen from Provo since the 15th of October. In support of the striking shopmen in their fight for a recognition of the federation, the Ogden cigarmakers union has elected to tax each member of the organization 50 cents a week, as a contribution to the strike fund. Smallpox has broken out again in Weber county, Richard Bates, a resi-1 resi-1 dent of Plain City being now under a strict quarantine with the contagion. Every effort will be made by the Plain City authorities to prevent a spread of the disease. Seven miles of completed double track between Ogden and Farmington is nearly ready to be turned over to the operating department of the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line company. A thousand men are at work on the extension ol the double track. H. T. Haines, state commissioner oi immigration, labor and statistics, has gone to Washington to attend the, initial in-itial meeting of the immigration commissioners com-missioners of the various states. Mr. Haines will endeavor to land the 1912 meeting for Salt Lake. William H. Crosby, pioneer of 1848, " " who had enjoyed the personal friendship friend-ship of Joseph Smith, the prophet, died in a Salt Lake hospital Thursday, Thurs-day, death resulting from injuries sustained a month ago when he was run down by an automobile. Ephraim A Nye, who was sentenced to serve a year and a day in the federal fed-eral prison at Leavenworth has been paroled. Nye. who was a livery mar at Garfield, was charged with knowingly know-ingly and fraudulently concealing property from the trustee in a bankruptcy bank-ruptcy case. The lifeless body of Michael Ho-gan, Ho-gan, one of the oldest railroad men in Utah, was discovered in his room in Ogden. The body was seated in a chair, the feet resting on the floor, the lips still gripping a pipe, when the discovery was made. Death was due to heart failure. Robert Zaffey and Frank Romeo, two of the three Italians charged -with the murder of Albert V. Jenkins Jen-kins at Sunnyside on February !, and the attempted murder of George Bentley, weve found guilty of murder In the first degree by a jury in the district court at Provo. Some improvement is shown in the scorings of dairies supplying Sail Lake with milk and cream in the latest lat-est inspection of the state dairy and food department. These dairies, numbering num-bering about thirty-five, have an aver age score of a little more than seventy points out of a possible 100. Praises ai showered upon the Utah farmers by D. W. Working of the United States department of agriculture. agricul-ture. Mr. Working has spent considerable consid-erable time in Utah the past year in vestigating matters coming under the head of farm management, the division divi-sion of which he is in charge. Mrs. Mathias Martin, a pioneer resident res-ident of that section of the state, dropped dead at Richardson. Apoplexy Apo-plexy is given as the cause of death. She was playing with her little granddaughter grand-daughter when seized with the attack. at-tack. Grover Kopp, aged 18, of Salt Lake, accidentally shot himself while rabbit shooting near Great Salt Lake Both barrels of a ten-gauge shotgun discharged squarely into the instep, the loads penetrating directly through the foot and shattering all the bones and tendons, of the ankle. X A |