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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Reports from Cove, In Sanpete pounty, are to the effect that the Smallpox epidemic is abating. 1 The first meeting of the Gunnison jelty council was held last week, the town having recently been incorporated. incor-porated. Fire, which started In the mill of the Granite Lumber company, In Salt Lake City, caused damage of $60,000. J. L. Petersen of Smithfield, has exhibited at Logan twelve apples grown In his orchard that measured 60 Inches. Salt Lake City was selected as the place for the next convention of the Utah Medical association, at the meeting In Ogden. The Utah Medical association met In its fifteenth annual convention in Ogden on September 21, with a large number of delegates present. The western wheat belt of Cache county produces about one-tenth of all the wheat raised in Utah. The crop In the state last year was 5,600,000 bushels. William Johnson of Glenwood, while hardlng sheep near Cold Springs, had hla right arm broken in two places, caused by the kick from a horse which he was driving. Walter Royal, a special officer in the employ of the Denver & Rio Grande at Salt Lake City, accused of robbing a couple of Greeks of $100 on August 13, has been acquitted. James Spencer was seriously injured in-jured at Scotteld when his term became be-came frightened at a train and ran away. Spencer was thrown under the wheels, which passed over his head and chest. For the first time in the history of the state, Angora goats will be entered en-tered this year in competitive showing show-ing at the Inland Empire exposition of the Utah State Fair association, October 4 to 9. The Utah state board of sheep commissions com-missions has sent out an urgent call to every sheepman in Utah, asking that all persons interested in sheep raising meet with the board, October 4, in Salt Lake City. This year's crop of dry farm wheat in the vicinity of Kephi reached the total of 75,000 bushels. This is considered a good Showing in view of the fact that where dry farming now succeeds, Ihe sage brush flourished a few years Hgo. All meats except veal slaughtered on the farm and sold or offered for sale in Salt Lake City after October 1 must bear either the government Or the city's stamp of Inspection. This Is the announcement issued from the offices of the city food and the city meat inspectors. Francis Robinson, a negress, was beaten and robbed by two masked men in a roomirlg house in Salt Lake City. After beating the woman into an almost insensible condition with bis gun, one of the men shot her, the ball striking her in the cheel; asd glancing off the cheek bone. Fearing seizure of the product by government pure food, inspectors, manufacturers of bleached flour in Utah have stopped shipment out ol the state. No bleached flour will be shipped out of Utah until the test case now on trial in the United States court of Minnesota is decided. John Parry, an electrician, was found dead last week in the power pow-er house at Helper by a Japanese laborer, who was going through the building in the discharge of his labors. la-bors. The position of the body showed that he had been caught in s one of the hugh nywheels of the ma , chinery. The city council of Ephriam has passed the ordinance to compel the saloons to pay a license of $2,000 a year, commencing Jan. 1, 1910. The license will be collected in advance. The saloons must close at 9 p. m. and all pool tables must be removed. Patrick Hurley, aged 35, one ol the best known residents of Park City, is dead of miner's consumption, superinduced by an attack of typhoid fever some time ago. Mr. Hurley was a resident of Utah for twenty-six twenty-six years. Last fall he was elected sheriff, but resigned two months ago because of failing health. The jury hearing the case brought by Mrs. Emma Maud Terry against Frank Peterson and Charles Creigh-baum Creigh-baum to collect $1600, alleged to have been lost by her husband, Paul Terry, in the gambling house conducted by the defendants in Ogden, brought in a verdict of "no cause of action." A. C. Hargrove, a railroad brake-man, brake-man, was caught between two cars a; Bingham and badly hurt. His breast was crushed and several bones were broken, due to a misunderstanding of signals by the engineer when Hargrove Har-grove was between two of the cars making a coupling. Five doctors, attending the meeting of the Utah Medical association were Injured in an automobile accident in Ogden canyon, the machine striking an obstruction and pitching into the river. None of the men were dangerously dan-gerously hurt. Otto Olson of Provo Bench has produced pro-duced a peach that is probably the largest ever grown there. It weighs one pound and five ounces, and is thirteen Inches in circumference. It Is not the only big peach in his or chard, but is a sample of what may be realized in fruit culture. |