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Show UTAH STATE NEWS SpiroR Condas, a P.Ingham dairy man, has been fined $50 for puttint water In tho milk he supplied bh customers. Tho official call for the Republicar State convention, to ho hold in Sail Lake City, Thursday, September 5 has been lHsued. Of the three buildings damaged by Die ut Park City to the extent o; about $S,000, loss of only one was cov-Bred cov-Bred by insurance. The laying of tho cornerstone of tho now $35,000 ward tabernacle was the central feaiture of a very successful success-ful celebration of Pioneer day at 'Kays-ville. 'Kays-ville. Whllo working on a building at Og-tlcn, Og-tlcn, John Van Enrich, painter, fell twenty feet and sustained bruises about tho head and body. It is' not thought tho injuries will proveserious. The carcass of a large bear is tho trophy which Joo Harris is proudly exhibiting to his friends as the re-Bult re-Bult of a hunt which he led In the vicinity vi-cinity of Gold Water canyon," neai Ogden. A contract providing for the rendition rendi-tion of the famous "Ode to Irrigation" at the opening session of the National Irrigation congress, September 30, has been approved by tho Utah board of control. The Box Elder county commissioners commission-ers appropriated $800 to the Transmis-Biss.ippi Transmis-Biss.ippi Commercial congress and the National Irrigation congress to be held in Salt Lake during August and September. Sep-tember. An amount which is an increase of approximately $113,000 will be paid Into the coffers of the city by the taxpayers of Ogden this year as the result of an increase of two mills in tho levy. I Colliding with a cross beam while - crashing down the last lap of the scenic railway at Lagoon on Pioneer day, Stephen Bateman, aged 22, of Murray, received inuries which may m-ovS fatal. J Ti, JV'.rZ ' LJHl2.iirs drowning accident of the eeason"bocurred at Ogden Tuesday, when Clyde Jarman, aged 9 years, lost his life while swimming in the Weber river. It is supposed that the lad was a victim of cramps. Alleged shortage in funds of the Helper State bank at Helper has led to tho arrest of the cashier, Clyde Jackson. Jackson, it is said, admits a shortage and has turned $7,000 worth of property over to the bank officials. Ten pounds of poison milkweed from Diamond valley, Utah division of Dixie forest, Is to be ofrwarded to the government chemist at Washington Washing-ton to find something that will kill the weed. This weed has killed considerable con-siderable stock. Homer P. Burt of Salt Lake City will head the ballot on the Socialist state ticket as candidate for governor ut the election next fall. This was ilecided by delegates of the Socialist party of Utah at a state conveption n Salt Lake on the 24th. Vi Despondent because of failing haHh, Mrs. IJllianpeaii Allen, aged 32, colored, wile of Rev. John H. Allen, pastor of Calvary Baptist church, committed com-mitted suicide at her home in Salt Lake. She locked herself in a bathroom bath-room and tuTned on the gas. ' ' Pioneer Sky, July 24. was appropri-uteJy appropri-uteJy celebrated in almost every com-Snoiinity com-Snoiinity in the state. In Salt Lake a ;arge nurnber of the original pioneers were in the "parade, riding In automobiles automo-biles instead of ox-carts, as they did upon their entry into this state. ' . 'John" Cornelius Edwards, veteran traveling salesman representing Walker Brothers' dry goods store and the Z. C. M. I. for thirty years, died at his home in Salt Lake on Pioneer day. The cause of death was stomach stom-ach trouble of which he had suffered njjn'y months. ' r In the plans for 1912-13 in the school of home economics of the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college, material alterations r ill make the work more effective even than it has been in the past. Miss Florence May Brown, graduate of the University of Wisconsin, will have charge of the school. The superintendent of parks has submitted to the commissioners of Salt Lake a semi-annual report of his ilepartment, showing the total cost of operation for the past six months to have been $:i".50S.01, of wlncn ?1C,-191.05 ?1C,-191.05 was expended for salaries and $2l,;'.lt).!G for improvements. About 100 enthusiastic supporters oE ihe National Progressive party met in Salt Lake, Tuesday night, to take ad-,iiiona ad-,iiiona steps to perfect the local organization or-ganization and to listen to an address by Henry J. Allen of Kansas, one of Ihe Roosevelt floor leaders at the Republican Re-publican national convention. A new suit has been filed by tie rovernment against the Telluride power plant. The government alleges Ihe Telluride company has built and operated a plant en Logan river in "ache county on government preserves pre-serves without asking permission. Complaints have been received by Ihe Ktatn hoard of health, from ihe au-Ihorities au-Ihorities of Wellington and Woodside, Kniery county, who declares that the Price river is being contaminated by the sewage deposit of Price, and that the h faith of both towns and the surrounding sur-rounding ountry is endangered. |
