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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The new block system between Salt LAke City and Ogden on the Oregon Bhort Line railroad, was put in commission com-mission last week. Jacob Jacobson, who was mn down by a street car near Murray and severely se-verely Injured, has lost his reason as a result of his terrible experience. Governor William Spry will be kod to declare G. A. R. parade day, ' AuguBt 11, a holiday, according to a resolution adopted by the G. A. R. committee. In a fit of despondency John Ingo, a Finn living in Bingham, placed the muzzle of a .32 caliber revolver between be-tween his teeth and sent a bullet crashing into his brain. Tne examinations of school teachers teach-ers for state certificates anil diplomas will be held at Salt Lake City, Logan, Provo and Mantl Friday and Saturday, Satur-day, September 3 and September 4. Until the location for the new $100,000 freight depot is definitely settled, the work of rearranging the Ogden railroad yards of the Harri-man Harri-man roads will be held In abeyance. There are to be no more bicycle races In Ogden this season. Owing to the bad financial condition at the Glenwood saucer track, the rest of the series of bicycle events has been called off. It is probable that airship flights and trained lion exhibitions will be among the most attractive show features fea-tures at the big Inland Empire fair to be given in Salt J,ake City this fall by the Utah State Fair association. A feature of the musical arrangements arrange-ments for the national encampment of the Grand Army will be the massing of all the visiting bands Into one gigantic gi-gantic organization, if present arrangements ar-rangements can be consummated. A company has been organized In Salt Lake City which will make and manufacture moving pictures of exclusive ex-clusive western subjects. This will include objects of natural beauty and the making of real western dramas. Suit has been filed by the government govern-ment against the Denver & Rio Grande railroad to recover $700 for violation of the safety appliance act. The suit is instituted at the request of the interstate commerce commission. commis-sion. Thornwell Anderson, 45 years of age, a rancher who lived a hermit's life, blew off his head with a shotgun at his home on the Uintah reservation. reserva-tion. He had evidently been dead several sev-eral days when his body was discovered. discov-ered. While a "lookout" watched on the outside, expert safe-crackers entered the store of the E. D. Pidge Produce company in Salt Lake City, cracked the safe, scattered the contents over the floor and left the premises with $200 in currency and $000 in checks. At the Utah State Retail Merchants association's convention at Logan, a number of leading members of the Utah State Manufacturers association earnestly discussed the problem of how to lower the percentage of loss between the manufacturer and the consumer. The state horticultural inspector and the several county inspectors throughout the state, are busily engaged en-gaged putting into effect Section 14 or the new horticultural law passed by the last legislature, which pro-' pro-' hibits the sale of wormy or scale-infested fruit. William Ford of Midvale has been seriously injured by being thrown from a horse. Ford had just been tc the pasture and was astride the animal, ani-mal, when it made a leap to clear a ditch, upsetting the rider and throwing throw-ing him violently to the ground. isabelle Jackson, 8-year-old daughter daugh-ter of M. R Jackson, a farmer living between Sandy and Murray, was badly injured and had a miraculous escape from death when she fell out of a car on the roller coaster at Wan-damere Wan-damere park, near Salt Lake City. Several lawyers who have looked Into the laws passed by the last legislature leg-islature relating to a state capitol have decided that the law is mandatory manda-tory and that the governor must under un-der the law proceed with the preliminary prelimi-nary work looking to the erection ot a state capitol. The following Increases in the salaries sal-aries of postolfice employes of the Ogden postofflce was authorized last week: Four clerks. $900 to $1,000 per annum; five, from $1,000 to $1,100; two, from $800 o $900; seven, from $1,000 to $1,100. Utah is planning p-n exceptionally 6trong representation at the Seventeenth Seven-teenth National Irrigates congress to be held at Spokane from August 9 to August 16 this year. Delegates to the congress have been appointed by Governor Spry and by several civic bodies in the state, and it is expected 100 delegates will attend. A. B. Carstensen. of Salt Lake City, has been selected by the governor to succeed Lester D. Freed as a direc tor of the Utah State Fair association. X Freed resigned after a disagreement with President McDonald, of the association, asso-ciation, as to the conduct of the races. Laughing bitterly at death, Mtnn ( Miller, wife of J. W. Miller, of Salt Lake, died from the effects of a dose of carbolic acid which she took with suicidal Intent LaugLing at the wotu en surrounding her bed attempting t( save i:er life, she died beiore medica attention could be summoned. I |