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Show UTAH STATE JEWS More than 1,000 old folks of the Hyrum stake, in Cache valley, visited visit-ed Lagoon on July 1'T, on their annual outing. An increase of $12,037.47 is shown over the previous year's business in the annual report just completed b Ogden 's postmaster. Counties in Utah which have no railroads and which collect no i a i I-road I-road tax include San Juan, Kane, Washington, Garfield and Wayne. The tax levy for Ogden city municipal muni-cipal purposes this year will be the same as that of last year 12 mills according to a decision reached by the commissioners. An elaborate pageant depicting the arrival of the first party of settlers in the Great Salt Lake valley was the big feature of a Pioneer day celebration cele-bration in Hunstville. Another thirty-day continuance has been granted the trial judge in which to prepare and file a bill of excep. tions in the case of Joseph Henry Martin, the convicted Ogden blackmailer. black-mailer. Peter Kladis, a laborer employed by . Pa'.t Lr.ke contractor, probably was fatally wounded when he was shot in the abdomen by one of three highwaymen high-waymen who held him up, taking 113.50 from him. The town board has decided to make an effort to reincorporate Bingham Bing-ham as a city of the third class. If this is accomplished, it will enable the board to make improvements, levy taxes and elect officers. Due to the increased amount asked by the county board of education for the erection of new schoo: buildings, there will be an increase of 2.4 mills i;i the total tax levy in Weber county outside of Ogden city this year. flarley Mewhinney will be shot to death between the hours of sunrisf anf sunset, September 1G, for the murder at Salt Lake of C. L. Erick-son Erick-son unless the United States supreme court or the state board of panlons Intervenes. The controversy that has existed heretofore between the cattlemen and the sheepmen regarding the ranges on the Uinta forest reservation has been settled, an agreement having been reached at a conference held in Heber City. Louis Gnech, an Italian 26 years of age, was instantly killed by electricity elec-tricity at the Bingham & New Haven mill at Bingham. No one saw the accident, but as Gnech's hand was badly burned it is believed he grasped grasp-ed a live wire. Because he testified that he was justified In administering a whipping to a boy who had called him a vile name and thrown rocks as he passed, Marlin Berrett, Jr., of North Ogden, was released pending a further investigation in-vestigation of the case. It is said that eastern mall order houses plan to establish small offices in Ogden to which goods and catalogues cata-logues will be shipped by freight and express, to be sent out of Ogden in turn by parcel post to the cities In the first and second zones. Frank De Pretto, who was brought to Salt Lake from Thompson Falls, Mont., early in July to answer to the charge of killing Eugene Allen, a bookkeeper in the Highland Boy store in Bingham, has been held to the district court for trial. Withdrawing his former plea of not guilty, Frank F. Merrill, one time guard at the state penitentiary, charg ed with aiding and abetting a prisoner prison-er to escape, has entered a pica of guilty. Merrill aided George W. Parry in escaping from the penitentiary. Hifiled several feet down an embankment em-bankment near Promontory point when the driving rod of the gasoline speeder upon which they were riding rid-ing broke, throwing the machine from the rails, C. H. Barrett and William Labbo of Ogden were seriously Injured. In-jured. Mystery still surrounds the disap pearance of D. C. Hickman, his wit', and seven children, who left Mammoth, Mam-moth, Utah, for Blackfoot, Idaho, two months ago, traveling overland. One report is that they may have been victims of a wagon accident in tbc-Bear tbc-Bear river. Indeterminate sentences of from one to ten years in the state prison were pronounced when Jack Smltli and Grover Poulsen, charged witt grand larceny, were arraigned at Og den and pleaded guilty. They con fessed to the officers to having robbed Leon Joe, a Chinese Garden er, of $300 recently. While Constable Zach Lowe of West Weber and his wife were attending attend-ing the funeral, their sons Charles, 8 years of age, and Daniel, 6 years of age, played sheriff and tramp with a large revolver they had taken from the house. During the game Charles accidentally shot Daniel in the shoul ner. |