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Show ! UTAH STATE NEWS i Four girl inmates of the Utah State Industrial school at Ogden who escaped es-caped were captured alter a few hours of liberty. A net Joss of $3,000 was sustained by Superintendent John M. Mills of the Ogden city school system when his large dairy barn and dairy were completely destroyed by tire. The machinery for the cement-pipe factory just completed at Brigham City has arrived and a force of men is now engaged in placing the mill in running order. Salt Lake contractors have been awarded the contract for construction ol seven new bridges on state roads, four of which will be built at once and three of which are merely planned. plan-ned. It is probable that Mrs. Jessie Sweeney will not be prosecuted for the murder of her husband, S. J. Sweeney, whom she stabbed to death in a quarrel at their home in Salt Lake. Thomas F. Thomas, chairman of (he Salt Lake county Democratic committee, commit-tee, has been appointed collector of customs for Utah and Nevada, succeeding suc-ceeding J. J. Greenewald, who died recently. re-cently. Arrangements are being made to hold a church fair In American Fork, September 24, 25 and 26. It will be under the supervision of the Mutual Improvement associations of the Alpine Al-pine stake. Charles Taylor, charged with conducting con-ducting a gambling game, designated In the complaint as "stud poker," was found guilty before Judge N. H. Tanner Tan-ner in Salt juake City. He was sentenced sen-tenced to pay a fine of $50. The annual outing of the Pacific islanders in Utah, which includes former natives of the islands and Mormon Mor-mon missionaries who have served in the islands, will be celebrated at Wandamere on August 5. Willard Hansen, Jr., state dairy and food inspector, will appoint a state flour mill inspector, at the direction of Governor William Spry. Increase in the flour industry in Utah is said to demand a flour mill inspector. If the coming Peach day celebration at Brigham City on September 9 does not score the greatest success in the history of the town, it will not be because the committee in charge of the affair has not done its utmost. General progress among the scattered scat-tered bands of Indians in Utah is shewn in the annual report of Lorenzo D. Creel, Indian agent of Utah, which has been forwarded to the commissioner commis-sioner of Indian affairs at Washington. Washing-ton. A. Oldennette, a plumber 28 years of age, committed suicide in his room in a Salt Lake hotel by drinking carbolic car-bolic acid. Despondency over his inability in-ability to obtain employment is thought to have been the cause of his a result of the action of the state board of equalization in ordering an increase of one-half mill in the tax levy, the property owners of Ogden will pay their 1914 taxes on the basis of 35.3 mills, as compared with 35.5 mills in 1913. Painfully injured by a fall into a beet silo at the Garland sugar factory, fac-tory, George Austin, general agricultural agricul-tural superintendent of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company and president of the Utah Woolgrowers' association, is ia a Salt Lake hospital. Probably more than 200 persona 'ram Utah will be affected by a general gen-eral deportation order for all foreigners foreign-ers in Germany and Austria. While this order has not been issued, it is expected hourly, and those from Utah are Drerjarine to leave. People of 'Salt Lake are rapidly taking tak-ing hold of the clean town movement and if plans now under way are car:. ried out this city stands an excellent chance of winning first prize m Its class in the contest being waged in practically every city in the state. . J. F. Morgan is under arrest at Ogden and the police are searching for a man who is believed to have been the partner of Morgan in an attempted fake horse race game in which they are supposed to have picked pick-ed H. Gierly, a Hollander, as their victim. The 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Anderson of Bingham is in a critical condition as the result of irinking a quantity of ammonia. The tittle boy's mother had been using the ammonia for cleaning purposes and .eiC a partly-filled glass of the liquid in the bathroom. William Bingley, better known as 'Bill" Bingley, who for the last twenty twen-ty years has ueen a prominent deputy ?ame warden in Utah on account of .he number of arrests and convictions .hat he secured has lost the fore-inger fore-inger of his remaining hand, the result re-sult of blood-poisonin ;. Bingley had already lost one arm and a leg In a mine accident. The Utah National Guard, consisting consist-ing of 420 men and thirty officers, will start on its annual encampment on August 2. Companies from throughout through-out the state will assemble at Provo, from which point a series of maneuvers maneu-vers will begin on the march back toward Fort Douglas. Arrested while in possession of a written statement thai he was a deaf mute, Frank Golen, IS years old, con fessed to an Ogden officer that he is. In possession of all his faculties, bui had hoped to obtain a livelihood at the "Danhf.inilitig" game. |