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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Statistics gathered by the railroad! Show that Utah's wool crop will this year amount to about 18,000,000 pounds. According to unofficial returns. Salt Lake City's school population is at present 21,490, an Increase of 3,000 over last year. Fred Fournier, who tried to suicide by throwing himself In front of a train at Tucker, lias been sent to the Slate Mental hospital. John NIelson was accidentally shot in the leg by his son at the Nielson home in North Ogden. The boy was unloading his rifle- when tho accident occurred. Jens C. Folster, one of the pioneer residents of Ephralm, was killed Wednesday afternoon In falling from a tree while trimming the limbs from the tree. T. II. G. Parks, of Nephl, reports that he has had better success at dry farming this year than ever before. Eighteen stacks of wheat will thresh out about 2,700 bushels. Governor Spry has been asked by relatives of Mathias Gunderson, who was foully murdered at Santaquin, to use his influence to bring about a thorough investigation of the matter. William A. Williams, a well known rancher on the Uintah reserve and a former resident of Kamas, died at his home near Ioka from a dose of strychnine administered by his own hand. Bicycle thievery has become a common com-mon practice in Ogden, and scarcely a day passes but that a half dozen complaints of stolen wheels are registered reg-istered with the desk sergeant at the city jail. Charles A. Bauer, charged with "salting" the Golden Rule mine near Ogden with high grade ore to deceive persons who purchased stock from him, has been bound over to the district dis-trict court for trial. The first live stock shipment over the Salt Lake Route since the wash-oat wash-oat last winter, was moved on July 27. The train consisted of twenty-four twenty-four carloads of sheep from Lehi and Milford for Los Angeles. The assessed valuation of Utah county for 1910, including the property prop-erty assessed by the state board of equalization, is $16,213,410, aji increase in-crease over the assessment of 1909 of nearly two million dollars. Investigation of the clogged sewers In Ogden revealed a number of dead v- dogs, cats and other domestic ani mals that evidently had been emptied into the sewer through street manholes. man-holes. The matter has been placed in the hands of the police for investigation. inves-tigation. S. L. Chipman, of American Fork, who has a big dry farm at Fairfield, reports that, without a drop of rain since March, a crop of from fifteen to twenty bushels to the acre of turkey red wheat has been harvested. It is now in the stack and will be threshed next week. Prof. L. A. Merrill, dry land expert, declares that the reported heavy loss of crops on the dry farms of the state has been far overestimated. He states that he has received a number of letters from various representative dry land farmers which prove the truth of his declaration. Declaring that a precedent had never been established in the police court of Ogden by which a man could be convicted of stealing anything valued as low as 10 cents, Judge Murphy dismissed the case of the city -I-' against M. Henry, a negro. Henry was arrested for stealing twenty pounds of ice from the railroad yards. Elbert W. Gose, a railroad postal clerk running between Salt Lake City and Marysvale, has been placed under un-der arrest on the charges of theft and rifling the mails. It is charged that he has taken about $200 from the mails. Four months' imprisonment in the county jail and a fine of $250 was the sentence imposed on Hoken Olsen, the "blind tiger" king of Huntsvllle. -v Olsen's attorney gave notice of an appeal which will be taken to the su preme court in an effort to reverse the judgment of the lower court. Amateur cracksmen made a bungling bun-gling attempt to get into the safe in the Berry brothers' livery stable in Park City. The dial of the safe was knocked off by the marauders, but they had evidently been frightened away while at their work, so that the contents of the strongbox was not reached. Utah's grain, vegetable and fruit crops will show a considerable falling off this year as compared to 1909, on account of the long continued dry spell, amounting almost to a drouth. Of the grains, only oats vill show an Increase. Improvements involving an expenditure expen-diture of $100,000 to enlarge the Ogden Og-den waterworks system to double its present capacity, will be made within the next few months, if the intentions of the mayor and city council are successfully suc-cessfully carried out. The state board of equalization held its last summer session on July 20, and adjourned. All county auditors au-ditors are supposed to notify the board of the assessments made In their counties before October 1, and then the board will prepare a report for the state legislature. I |