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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The new motor car service was inaugurated in-augurated on the Oregon Short Line between Salt Lake City and Hrlgham City last week. When the first good autumn rain has fallen In Utah the forest service will commence transplanting several thousand thou-sand young trees in P,ig Cottonwood canyon. Brlgham City is freer from contagious contag-ious diseases now than for many years. There is not a single case of disease of a contagious nature existing within the city limits. The enrollment for the opening day of the public schools in Salt Lake how-ed an enrollment of 15,646 pupils, pu-pils, against! 14,939 on the corresponding correspond-ing day last year. Mrs. Reed Smoot, wife of Utah's senior senator, was operated upon in Salt Labe last week for the removal of a tumor, which formed some few fears ago as the result of a bruise. Ten carloads of peaches a day now ire being shipped from Ogden, and at the rate the orchard men are gathering gath-ering their crops the average will be raised soon to fifteen carloads a day. Having been granted space at the Fair grounds during the coming fair, the city health department of Salt Lake Is preparing to install a very complete and Interesting health exhibit. ex-hibit. Four more inmates of the State In-Sustrlal In-Sustrlal school at Ogden made their escape Wednesday evening, making a total number of fugitives now at large Df six, who left the institution within & week. Fire, caused by a spark from an engine en-gine falling on a freshly-painted roof, totally destroyed the Denver & Rio rande depot, baggage room and eating eat-ing house at Thistle. The loss was near $25,000. J. J. Morris, who shot and killed Joseph W. Axtell in Salt Lake City, has been sentenced to be hanged at the state prison on Monday, October 9. Morris chose hanging as the method of execution. Morgan, Summit, Sevier, Uintah, Washington, Cache and Iron counties have all completed arrangements for county fairs to be held this month. The county fairs thus far arranged will last from three to six days. Suffering from injuries by being run over by a wagon which may develop Into paralysis, Frank Venenga, aged 14, of Ogden, is in a critical condition. The boy fell underneath the wheels while endeavoring to climb on a load-sd load-sd wagon. When President Taft visits Salt Lake, October 5, his entertainment while he is within the city will be in the hands of a committee of 200 prominent prom-inent Salt Lake business men, to whom will be delegated the task of properly doing honor to the nation's chief executive. ex-ecutive. Joseph Clan, fifty years old, one of the best known Italians in Salt Lake, committed suicide at his home Thursday Thurs-day night by discharging a double-bar-re Ishotgun aimed under his chin. The shot entered his brain. It is thought Insomnia had made him temporarily insane. A photograph of a mortgage and promissory note reproduced on the back of a postal card and sent through the mails to the giver of the mortgage mort-gage constitutes a criminal violation Df the postal laws, according to the ;ase made out against Levi O. Sco-Beld Sco-Beld of Eureka. The institution of the postal sav- ings department of the Salt Lake postoffice has brought to the attention Df the state board of equalization the auestion as to whether deposits in the "national" bank of Uncle Sam ;an be entered in the tax list and taxed by the state. Within eight months the mammoth waterpower plant of the Davis k. Weber Counties Canal company will be completed and ready for operation, according to the terms of the contract, con-tract, which has been entered into between the canal company and the successful bidder. Because of the alleged refusal of the foreman to expend 50 cents toward to-ward prevention of another tragedy similar to that in which two men recently lost their lives in the Dab-West Dab-West mine, thirty men employed at the Ontario darin tunnel at Park City on Wednesday went out on a strike. The infant daughter of Mrs. G. W. Wurtzbach of Salt Lake swallowed an open safety pin, which lodged in the: child's throat. A surgeon extracted ex-tracted the pin and the child has fully ful-ly recovered. Purchasing two cartridges on the pretense of shooting at the targets, in a shooting gallery in Ogden, Bert Bates of Salt Lake suddenly turned the rifle on himself and fired a bullet bul-let into his brain. The Southernn Pacific shops at 0-den 0-den have resumed their former schedule sched-ule of nine hours a day and six days a week, the change, according to the local officials, having been made possible pos-sible by an Increased amount of repair re-pair work to be done. John W. Seeley, aged 26, was found lead in Salt Lake, it being evident that he had suicldeif. Six weeks ago a young woman to whom Seeley had been paying attentions unexpectedly married another. The shock was too much for Seeley, and he began drinking |