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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Mr3. Charles W. Lamb of Mapleton, who was Injured In runaway accident acci-dent at Ileber a wern previous, died August 1C. Eugene Kelser, aged 21, while riding rid-ing a motorcycle in Salt Lake, collided collid-ed with a wagon, his machine being wrecked, while bo sustained serious Injuries. Following a lingering illness, Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, wife of M. O. Taylor, Tay-lor, who crossod the plains with the original pioneers in 1S47, died at her home In Salt Lake, August 17. Wiih 10J charter members, the largest number ever taken in at an Jnttlal meeting of a local union, the Brotherhood of Firemen and Engineers Engi-neers was organized in Bingham last week. A new club has been organized in Balina which will be known as the Eallna Social Literary club, the objects ob-jects of which will be to afford intellectual intel-lectual entertainment of a good order for Its members. Stella Carlson, a six-year-old Salt Lake girl, who was bitten by a Scotch terrier about a week ago, it is feared has the dread hydrophobia, a disease, according to the medical profession, which is rare in the west. Murray may soon have a plate glaSH and cut glass factory. A bed of Band in Big Cottonwood canyon has been a-rnalyzed Riid found to be composed com-posed of 97 per cent silica, with a light trace of potash and some mois- Mrs. Mary McCallister, one of the best known women of the neighborhood, neighbor-hood, died of old age at Logan, August Au-gust IS. Mrs. McCallister was born In Scotland In 1826 and came to Utah In 1803, walking from the Missouri river to Salt Lake City. Mrs. Electa Bullock, one of the pioneers pio-neers and well known throughout the state, died August 15 at her home in Provo. In 1893 she was called by the committee in charge of the Utah exhibit ex-hibit at the World's fair to act as one of the fire lady managers. Mrs. Sam Goodmanson was seriously serious-ly hurt la a runaway at Springville. She was driving a single rig near town when a motorcycle frightened fright-ened her horse. The horse ran away, tearing up the buggy and throwing Mrs. Goodmanson to the groumd. The report comes from Provo that a syndicate of French capitalists has offered to finance the big irrigation project which will take the waters of Weber river for the Irrigation ot the northern part of Utah valley, Cedar Ce-dar valley and the west side oi Salt Lake valley. For fifteen years the harvest day of Wlllaru City each year has been celebrated and on September 16 the day will again be observed. The day will be given up lo the rendition of a general program of feasting, speech-making, speech-making, music and song and in outdoor out-door sports. William Tame, aged S5, of Murray, and John Wilson, aged 27, were killed at the new factory of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, near Elsinore, on Wednesday. The two men, who were structural Iron workers, fell from a beam being hoisted to the top of the two high smokestacks. i Bud Litchie of Cleveland was instantly in-stantly killed at Christianberg by being be-ing kickeu by a horse. He was leading lead-ing his horses to water when one of the animals began to run and Jump and before Mr. Litchie could get out of the way he was kicked in the forehead fore-head and instantly killed. The tax levies fixed by the Utah county towns and precincts are as follows. For each city and town, the state and state school, county and connty school are the same, 8 mills each; making a total of 16 mills for state, county and school; the city levy ranges from 5 mills to 20 mills. The Utah Development League has announced a photograph competition In connection with plans for the issuance issu-ance of a new and attractive booklet descriptive of the resources and advantages ad-vantages of Utah. Prizes aggregating $100 are to be given for photographs to be used in illustrating the booklet. A party of railroad and business men, which returned last week from an automobile trip through northern Utah and southern Idaho, reports that crop prospects this season are excellent. excel-lent. The condition of wheat, oats, barley, potatoes and sugar beets is said to be phenomenal. - For the purpose of reclaiming thousands of acres of land, which at present it is impossible to cultivate on account of scarcity of water, a high-line high-line irrigating ditcn will be built in the near future along the soulhwest-ern soulhwest-ern portion of the Salt Lake valley. Mrs. John H. Clifford, while driving driv-ing to Logan with a load of fruit, met with a painful accident when her carriage collided witn a telegraph pole, throwing her violently to the ground and bruising her face and head. St. George is preparing to entertain enter-tain 1.000 Dixieites and their friends, September 13, 11 and 15 In commemoration commem-oration of the fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of St. George valley. Invitations have been sent to all old eettlers who have removed from the valley. |