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Show UTAH STATE NEWS President Taft will probably visit Salt Iake City In September. Sam Tout, of Ogden, is In a precarious precari-ous condition as the result of colliding collid-ing with a dog while riding his motorcycle. motor-cycle. Jacob J. .lacobson, a bricklayer, was struck by a street car in Salt Lake City, receiving injuries that may result In his death. Utah has 21,900 farms, covering a combined area of 2,114,364 acres; this is out of an approximate cultivable area of 20,000,000 acres. In the year 1 !)08 Utah had 27,668 acres of, land devoted to horticul' ture, with a product valued at $1,693,-O00, $1,693,-O00, or an average of $61.16 per rcre. At present there is more than $20,-000,000 $20,-000,000 private capital invested In irrigation ir-rigation works in Utah. This does not take account of the government projects. The depot at Devil's Slide, Weber county, was burglarized one night last week, but little of value taken, the robbers being unable to force entrance en-trance to the safe. In an effort to save her baby from death by Are, Mrs. Peter Affenberger, of Salt Lake City, was so badly burned tbat she may die. The child was fatally burned. For the fiscal year ended June 30 the total business done in the Salt Lake land office amounted to $312,000. That is more than double the amount of any previous year. Ixretta Gillispie, aged 8, is dead as the result of burns sustained on the Fourth of July. She and some other children were playing with fireworks, when her dress caught fire. Utah dairy products in 190S exceeded exceed-ed $2,000,000 in value; dairy farm property exceeds $5,000,000; annual butter product, 6,000,000 pounds, and cheese, 2,000,000 pounds. The value of farm, fruit and garden gar-den crops in Utah in 1908 exceeded $30,000,000; in addition to this, the wool clip and range stock sold realized real-ized more than $7,000,000. During the past eight years $1,736,-000 $1,736,-000 has been expended in the state of Utah for new school buildings; build-ings; the valuation of public school property in 1908 was $3,398,565.89. State Chemist Harms has recently vsiade a chemical analyses of the drinking water furnished by the city waterworks of Salt Lake City, and finds the water absolutely pure. Two thousand dollars had been raised by the people of Ogden at the close of last week for the entertainment entertain-ment of the Grand Army veterans during their visit to Utah next month. It is announced that a wireless telegraph tele-graph station may soon be established estab-lished in Salt Lake as a link in the connection between San Francisco and New York, and part of the great transcontinental trans-continental system. The retail merchants, of Ogden are advocating the closing of all stores at 6:30 in the evening, and it is probable an agreement will be reached making mak-ing this the closing time for all the stores in that city. U.pon the report of certain officials of the Harriman lines depends whether or not oil-burning engines will fce Vbstituted tfor coal burners burn-ers on the entire Salt Lake division of the Southern Pacific. The two-year-old daughter of Augustus Augus-tus Reeves of Salt Lake swallowed a nickle one day last week, the coin lodging in her throat, a surgical operation oper-ation being necessary to recover the coin and save the child's life. After cleaning a skirt with gasoline, gaso-line, Mrs. A. Bong, of Salt Lake City, attempted to press it, using an electric elec-tric iron. The explosion that resulted re-sulted set her clothing on fire, and her arms were badly burned. Steve Linowitz was stabbed through the heart and almost instantly killed by John Abramovitch, after he had inflicted fatal dagger wounds in the latter's back, during a fight over a game of cards at Silver City on r ! July 5. J. A. Palmer, about 45 years of age, who had been following the race horses around the circuit, ended his life in a slough west of the race track at Ogden last week, taking carbolic car-bolic acid. Nothing is known of his relatives. A lone robber walked into a saloon In Ogden, picked up a tin box which contained $505 from behind the bar, and disappeared. There were a dozen men in the place at the time, but they all thought the man had a right to the box. R. D. Evans, the millionaire landlord land-lord of President Taft, who died July 7, leaving a fortune estimated at $12,-000,000, $12,-000,000, was one of the pioneers in the gold dredging industry, and was interested in-terested in various Utah and other western mines. . While playing at the home of C. E. Street, in Salt Lake. City, Loretta Gil-lispi, Gil-lispi, aged 7, was seriously burned, and Mr. Street, while attempting to save the child's life, was badly burned about both hands. It is supposed the child dropped a lighted match on her dress. Four deaths and a score of accidents, acci-dents, more or less serious, and some may yet prove fatal, is the total of Utah's Forth of July casualties. The deadly firecracker was the principal agent of destruction, although there t were several stabbing affrays, with |