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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The Utah Fruit .'tibllcity league has requested the publicity bureau of the Salt Lake Commercial club to assist in advertising and disposing of Utah's fruit crop. The Utah Chautauqua association meeting at Ogden was not a financial Buccess, the directors reporting a loss of $500. Last year the expenditures exceeded the receipts by $300. Thirj president of tho Box Elder stako has decided to discontinue Sunday Sun-day services in the tabernacle for the month of August. Meetings will 'be bold in four city wards instead. J. C. Aubeg, a pioneer well driver ot I'ayson, died last week from injuries received in a runaway. Aubeg came to this country from Germany about forty years ago. Ho was unmarried, i Fire at Midvale partially destroyed 1 a frame house belonging to Mrs, Thomas Ie Tage. The fire Is sup-1 sup-1 posed to havo started from sparks , Irom a passing Rio Grande locomotive, By a -voto of 115 to 16 taxpayers o( Coalville decided to bond the city for tem. A large spring west of the city will be utilized. Work will be started at once, Clyde W. Jackson, formerly cashier rf tho Helper Stat bank, accused of embezzling and arrested July 20, was sentenced to serve two years by Judge A. II. Chnistcneen of the district court at Price on Thursday. Harold Stevens, two-year-old son of Georgo Stevens of Burch Creek, We.ber county, was severely bitten by a bulldog. The baby's face was torn, several sitches being taken by the attending surgeon. While attempting to -extract a shell from a 22-caliber rifle, Vinson Porter of Ogden accidentally shot hlmserr in the right foot. The bullet entered the top ot the foot and ranged downward, breaking two small bones. With reservations already made at local hotels for 250 delegates, there Is every promise of a record attendance attend-ance at the annual convention of the American Institute of Banking, which opens at Salt Lake City, August 21. 1 Armed with the first search and i 6eizure warrant issued in Ogden, under un-der the niw liquor law, Chief of Police Po-lice W. I. Norton of Ogden raided an ostensible grocery store and confiscated confis-cated $1,500 worth oi malted and spirituous spir-ituous liquors. The greenhouse being erected at the state school for the deaf and blind at Ogden will be completed in about three weeks and will be 'One of the most modern in the Btate. It will cost $1,500, is 22x55 feet, and divided Into three separate rooms. Frank Colclough, eight marshal at Midvale, was killed, .one man fatally Injured and (two sKghtly wounde-d, when two masked men attempted to hold up a saloon in Midvale, one of the robbers being shot by Colclough after he had been fataHy 'injured. Utah, as a state, will spend the sum rf J-oU.OQO in advertising her resources thia year. Of this sum the business interests of Salt Lake City are subscribing sub-scribing $10,000 for convention work and $15000 for publicity. Salt Lake Oity herself Is subscribing the turn of 15,000. The disappearance of Joseph Melo-gram, Melo-gram, of Ogden, who narrowly escaped drowning at Lagoon July 2S when his campanion. Miss Emma Youngquist, was drowned after the accidental overturning of a boat, leads his friends to believe he has become men-tolly men-tolly deranged- Notwithstanding the decrease in taxes the Utah county commission plans an active road compaign this fall. The first piece of work t.0 De taken up will be from the Timpanogos meeting house through to the road running by the Edgewood farm and onto the east bench-Having bench-Having traveled 3,000 miles on foot ind with only such equipment as can be put on the backs of two burros, S. L. Couro, his wife and his 7-year-old son, arrived in Salt Lake Thuroday, bound for Brigham City, whence they went into Tdexico as Mormon colonists col-onists seven years ago. Miss Dorothy Drexel, who came to Eureka in company with Alex Mc-Chrystal, Mc-Chrystal, died under circumstances which aroused the suspicion of officials. offi-cials. McChrystal and Dick Campbell Camp-bell were placed under arrest. Tn 'girl died from an overdose of laudanum. laud-anum. E. T. Jones, who lived north ol Helper, was struck by a train while driving across the track, his lifeless body being found beside the track some time later. The mangled horse and broken buggy were discovered on the cowcatcher when the train puliea Into Price. Walls of the new concrete barn being be-ing built by the boys of the State in dustrial school at Ogden are nearly Sompleted. The barn will be quite an Addition to the school and will cost $4,000. When completed the barn caD be figured at a valuation of $7,000. The police are now reasonably certain cer-tain that Roy Carpenter, the young man lying in a Salt Lake hospital with a bullet wound through his hip, was Ehot either by a policeman or a railroad rail-road detective while trying to make his way out of the Oregon Short Lint 1'ards on a freight train. |