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Show THE GVNNISON GAZE t IE i i by Nephi (lledhill & Son. I GUNNISON .... UTAH UTAH STATE NEWS Richfield schools have opened with an estimated enrollment of 7U0 in the grades and a good attendance in Lhe high school. Under the new commission form of city government the mayor of Provo will receive an annual salary oi $1,200, according to an ordinance just Introduced. A pouch of United States mail, en route from Fort Douglas to the Salt Lake City postoffice was stolen one day last week, there being apparently no clow to the thief. Positions are still open for twelve qualified teachers in the schools of the state, according to the announcement announce-ment of A. C. Nelson, state superintendent superin-tendent of public Instruction. Evan Johnson, aged 23 years, was run over by an engine at Elsinore and died at Gunnison as he was being be-ing rushed to a hospital In Salt La'kt City in an effort to save his life. A good roads movement has struck Emery county. The enterprising residents resi-dents of that part of the state want better roads, and if hustling can do anything they are going to have them. The long fight over the appointive offices of I-ogan seems to have ended by the resignation of Ezra Earnea, who has been acting as marshal. The fight has been in court since January 1, 1910. Mangled beyond all recognition, tne body of a man about 35 years old, weighing 250 pounds, was found on the Oregon Short' Line railroad track near Ogden. There Is no clue to his Identity. Preparations for Peach day are tinder full blast at Brlgham City. Everybody Is working overtime to get ready for the big event, which it is claimed will eclipse anything of Its kind ever held anywhere. The pear crop of Utah county Is three or four times as heavy as In 1909 and 1910. About thirty cars of pears will be shipped from the county for which the growers will receive from $25 to $50 a ton, according to the quality. In the year of 1911 there will bj shipped from the state approximately 1,000 cars of peaches, 700 cars of apples, ap-ples, 50 cars of pears and 50 cars ot plums and prunes. These will bring to the people of Utah about one million mil-lion dollars. Reports thus far received from the larger producing belts of the state, warrant lhe as-sertion that this year's fruit crop will be about up to the normal, with better prices prevailing and a production of better quality in many sections. Steps are being taken by the friends of Lothair Packard, an Ogden boy 18 Sears of age, to present his claim for a hero medal before the Carnegie hero medal commission. Young Packard Pack-ard Baved a girl from drowning m Ogden canyon. With an average daily output of 20,000 cans of fruit to each factory, ten canneries are now In full operation opera-tion in Weber county. Over 500 people peo-ple are being given employment in the ten factories, most of them being women and children. Although the season is not yet far enough advanced for fruitmen to form an absolutely correct estimate of the peach crop this year, yet they all agree that the harvest will fall far short of that of last year. . This refers to the entire peXch crop of Utah. An information charging Henry Southworth with murder in the first degree has been filed at Ogden. Southworth shot and instantly killed E. L. ("Ned") Hanks, manager of the Don Philippint baud, at Glenwood park, Ogden, the evening of August Aug-ust 12. A terrific hailstorm was experienced at Plain City one day last week, the tomato and fruit crops being considerably consider-ably damaged. The storm contiaued for twenty minutes, hailstones as large as hickory nuts falling and covering cov-ering the ground with ice to a depth of several inches. During the present year, according v to the report of the fruit tree inspector, inspec-tor, about 3,000 young peach trees have been set out in Cache valley. The yield is larger this year than it has been on account of the increased number of new trees that are just beginning to bear. The state capitol commission has decided to invite twenty-two Utah architects, twenty of whom have offices in Salt Lake, to compete In furnishing plans for the new capitol authorized by the last legislature. Seven architects' firms from outside the state have already been selected to receive invitations. The Utah State Federation of Labor, at the convention at Ogden. unanimously endorsed the Socialist party and pledged itself to use every available means to disseminate the socialist propaganda into every affiliating affili-ating labor union in the state. After fleecing Salt Lake business men out of more than $300, it is al- j leged, by the issuance of bogus drafts Arthur G. Root, until recently a trusted trust-ed traveling agent of the firm of ' Judd & Root of Hartford, Conn., deal j ers in wool, has disappeared and is being sought by the police. (. i |