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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Salt Lake City is now free from smallpox, for the first time In many months. The 1909 directory of Salt Lake City shows that there are 116,230 people peo-ple residing in the capital city and its suburbs. It is believed that the work on the Ogden High school building will be completed In time for the opening of school In September. Governor Spry has named twenty-three twenty-three delegates to the twentieth session ses-sion of the Transmississippl congress to be held at Denver August 16 to 21. There are 21,017 boys and girls of school ago in Salt Lake City, according accord-ing to the report of the school census enumerators made to the clerk of the board of education. The State Fair Association has let a contract for an $8,000 poultry building, build-ing, exclusive of equipment. To equip the building and set the egg makers up in housekeeping in proper style will cost $1,300 more. Frank Hoffman, a pioneer lawyer of Utah, died at his home in Salt Lake City on August 4. Mr. Hoffman was an old soldier, and had been a resident resi-dent of the capital city for nearly forty years. Judge Ritchie of the Third district court has issued a temporary restraining restrain-ing order enjoining the striking plumbers of Salt Lake City from interfering in-terfering with the non-union workmen employed by local firms. It is expected that Utah's irrigation projects will be well represented at the great United States Land and Irrigation Ir-rigation exposition to be held at the Coliseum, in Chicago, from November 20 to December 4 of this year, The first annual gathering of the firemen of Utah was held at the Lagoon, La-goon, August 4. The affair was held under the auspices of the Utah Firemen's Fire-men's association, of which every fire department in Utah is a member. Dr. S. G. Gowans of Salt Lake City has been selected as superintendent of the State Industrial school, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Superintendent Heber H. Thomas. Mrs. Gowans will be the new matron. Stephen Tyne, a stonecutter, 58 years of age, was struck by a falling block of marble, weighing nearly three tons at the new Denver & Rio Grande depot in Salt Lake City, and usstained injuries which resulted in his death. After brooding for three years over the death of his wife, Edward Gul-branson, Gul-branson, a well-known resident of Salt Lake, committed suicide by hanging. His body was dispovered, banging in a buggy shed, by his 14-year-old granddaughter. N Governor Spry has sent a communication communi-cation to the director general of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle urging the changing of Utah day at the fair from August 25 to August 26, as the tabernacle choir will not be able to be present until the later date. - Mrs. Hannah K. J. C. T. Young, familiarly known as "Aunt Twiss" Young and, a wife of the late President Presi-dent Brigham Young, died August 5 of old age and general debility at her home in Salt Lake City. Mrs. Young was SS years old at the time of her death. What has proven to be a banner crop for a dry farm is that which is now being harvested on the Cedar Valley dry farm of James H. Clarke. The crop of wheat is being harvested with a combined reaper and thresher, and the yield is averaging better than twenty bushels to the acre. Patsy Scarapani and Pat Felion, two miners, were overcome by the deadly afterdamp following the firing of a shot in the Ontario drain tunnel at Park City, and as a result, the for-mer for-mer is dead and the latter seriously ' 111. While riding through the railroad yards on the rear footboard of a Denver & Rio Grande cog-wheel engine, en-gine, at Bingham, Theodore Sealas, a Greek track repairer in the employ of the company, 19 years of age, lost his footing and the engine, which was backing up, struck him down and ran over him, killing him instantly. The days of the coal-burning engines en-gines on the Sparks division of the Southern Pacific railroad company are numbered. Following an investigation investi-gation into the feasibility of the plan to use oil burners on this stretch of the Southern Pacific line by officials detailed for that purpose it has been decided to adopt the oil burners exclusively. Seven out of nine samples of meat collected in. Salt Lake City by the state food and dairy commissioner last week and tested by State Chemist Chem-ist Herman Harms, showed preservatives, preserva-tives, and prosecution of several meat dealers is threatened. Salt Lake City's new meat ordinance ordi-nance has gone into effect and from now on every piece of meat, outside of veal, sold or offered for sale within with-in the city or for one mile outside the city limits will have to be inspected by government or city inspectors. Edwin Lawson Davis, one of the pioneer mining men of the Rocky Mountain region, died at his home in Salt Ike City, July 30, death being due to Bright's disease. Mr. Davis, with his brother, founaed the city of Telluride, Colo., and later was engaged en-gaged in business in Utah. |