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Show UTAH STATE NEWS September 22-30 will be the dates tor the Four-State Fair and International Interna-tional Shep show at Ogden this year. The little city of Midvale is to have t new city hall, costing about 4,000, If plans now under way are fulfilled. E. V. Higgins, a Salt Lake attorney, and formerly judge in the Fifth judicial judi-cial district, has been appointed deputy dep-uty attorney general. The Salt Lake tabernacle choir has been selectd to sing at the American Land and Irrigation exposition to be held next November in New York. By April 15 double tracking of the Southern Pacific railroad between Ogden Og-den and Little Mountain will begin. Surveys for the additional track have been completed. A number of new cases of smallpox have appeared at Norm Ogden and Burch Creek, in Weber county. Nine members of one family have contracted contract-ed the disease. Gladys Whitney, who has been held In custody as one of the principals in the alleged $10,000 diamond robbery In Salt Lake last fall, has been released re-leased on bonds. Dr. F. 9. Bascom was re-elected president and Dr. T-. r. Beatty secretary sec-retary of the state board of health at the meeting of the board held in Salt Lake last week. Members of the Western Federation of Miners for this district met in convention con-vention at Park City last week to discuss general matters relating to the employment of miners. Beoause officials of the Silver King Coalition mill at ParK City refused to grant a demand for eight-hour shifts the thirty employes of the mill walked out one day last week. Both word painters and sign painters paint-ers will participate in the campaign to be waged by the prohibitionists in an effort to vote out saloons in Ogden at the special election June 27. A report is current in Logan that the Oregon Short Line railroad is contemplating con-templating the commencement of work on the Utah-Idaho line, which will run from Logan to Soda Springs, Idaho. In point of business transacted during dur-ing the first two months of its existence, exist-ence, the postal savings bank in Pro-vo Pro-vo stands nineteenth m the list of all the postal banks established in the country. .A special officer was shot by a hold-up in Salt Lake one night recently, re-cently, the bullet passing through the officer's hand. The robber evidently evi-dently mistook the officer for a private pri-vate citizen. John McDermott, who passed a worthless check on an Ogden merchant mer-chant on the eve of his wedding, has been convicted of forgery. On top of his other troubles, his bride has begun suit for divorce. At a meeting In Salt Lake last week of the state food and dairy bureau, bu-reau, the bureau was organized for the ensuing year. J. S. Carver was reappointed chairman and Willard Hansen secretary. Thomas Beager, an Austrian, was killed in a cave-in at a stope of the Highland Boy mine at Bingham. A large rook, together with a mass of dirt, fell from the roof, fracturing the man's skull. The convention of the Intermoun-taln Intermoun-taln Photographers' association was held in Salt Lake last week, delegates dele-gates being present from Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada and Idaho, besides nearly every town in Utah. Charles A. Roberson, who committed commit-ted suicide in a Denver rooming house, April 2, was bom in Moab, and is of a prominent family. His brother, John J. Robertson, was formerly for-merly assessor of Grand county. Dr. John D. Carnahan, a resident of Ogden since 1877, and a prominent Confederate veteran, died in his home Thursday morning of blood poisoning. About five years ago Dr. Carnahan retired re-tired from the practice of medicine. Logan is to be designated as one of the cities of the nation which will have a postal savings oank In an order or-der that will soon be issued by Postmaster Post-master General Hitchcock. This will be the third postal savings bank in Utah. The prospects for a "bumper" fruit crop in Utah county was never brighter, and the only drawback is the impending frosts. The farmers are, however, alive to the danger and they are making preparations to. counteract the cold by artificial heating. heat-ing. The farmers in Sevier county have 6igned a contract with the sugar company com-pany binding themselves to cultivate 6,000 acres of sugar beets at the contract con-tract price as agreed upon for the next two years of $4. HO per ton, f. o. b., and when delivered at the factory the beet raisers receive $4.73 per ton. R. A. Irvine, secretary of the order of Moose in Ogden, has been arrested on a warrant charging embezzlement. The complainant, a trustee fo- the lodge, says the shortage will amount to $900, but. Irvine insists that it will not reach more than $000. Utah's wool crop this season will amount to about 15,uU0,000 pounds, according to the estimate of C. li. Stewart, secretary of tne Utah Wool Growers' association. Of this amount 4,000,000 pounds have been promised for storage in Boston under the arrangements ar-rangements of the association. |