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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Thirty former residents of Nebraska held a meeting In Ogden last week and formed the Ogden-Nebraska club. Utah delegates to the dry farm con Kress at Lethbrldge, Canada, lert Sail Lake in two special cars on Thursday of last week. Stephen Latham, aged 60, was caught underneath a falling adobe wall at Salt Lake, but escaped with a broken rib. Adolph Gilbert, 40 years of age, suffered suf-fered a bad bruise to the right leg and a broken nose when tsruck by a Btreet car In Salt Lake. H. H. Cluff was terribly burned on the face and body while at work on the roasters at the Park City Mines and Development company's mill, at Park City. After lingering for several months, John B. Miller, one of the best known characters in the state, died at his home In Provo on the 17th. He taught the first school in Provo. The Brigham Young university celebrated cele-brated founders' day at Provo on the 16th with a parade in the morning, athletic sports in the afternoon ana a grand ball in the evening. Benjamin Shepherd was found dead beside a load of hay in his field near Gantaquln. Death was caused by heart failure. He was 57 years old, and leaves a wife and five children. A permanent organization of business busi-ness men for holding of a fashion show In Ogden each spring and fall has been effected and will be known as the Ogden Fashion Show association. Fifty -convicts from the state prison will probably leave the last of the week for Washington county, where a convict camp for construction work . will be established for the next seven N months. The roadbed of the Ogden, Logan, Lewiston & Northern electric interur-ban interur-ban has been established through Og-den Og-den canyon, by way of Eden and Liberty, Lib-erty, thence over the divide into Cache valley to the Temple city. Loured by a fall from a wagon near DevnU Slide, while deer hunting, Cor-neliuJi Cor-neliuJi Hunt, well known in mining circlesjTdied later at Henefer. Mr. Hunt was one of the original owners of the Mayflower mine at Park City. Twenty-four prize-winning Jerseys exhibited at the recent state fair are being quartered at Logan, under direction di-rection of the Utah Jersey association, tt being the intention to exhibit them at the Pacific Intermountain Dairy Bhow in Portland, Ore., Nov. 18-22. About forty manufacturers and jobbers job-bers of Ogden attended a luncheon at (he Weber club one day last week for the purpose of discussing the best means of making Ogden the buying center for Weber and neighboring counties. Damage of more than $2,000 resulted re-sulted from a terrific dynamite explosion explo-sion on Wtednesday at the Chief Consolidated Con-solidated mine at Eureka. The tremendous tremen-dous shock shook the town to its very foundations. Several persons were slightly injured. Knowing, as lie delivered tne speecn he had promised to make, whether he was wounded fatally, but accepted as a matter of course that he should go on until he had finished, if his strength held out, but when it was all over, an? he had turned away to go to the hospital, hos-pital, he said, he found it difficult to keep his temper when a half a dozen men scrambled over the edge of the platform and asked him to shake hands. The Ogden Trades and Labor as-Berft-S-Jyayits regular .meeting last Teek passedv"feesoln.tions condemning the action of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in attempting to have liquor advertisements removed from telephone directories. The State Humane society has reported re-ported an unusual case of animal abuse to Dr. T. B. Beatty, secretary of the state board of health. A man In Box Elder county has been charged with having pulled out the tongue of his horse by vicious pulling on the bit. It is announced that within one week construction work will begin on the interurban electric railroad between be-tween Salt Lake and Payson, a distance dis-tance of sixty-five miles, through some of the richest farming and fruit-growing land in the intermountain country. The closing day of the nineteenth annual convention of the Utah Federation Fed-eration of Women's clubs at Spring-ville, Spring-ville, was marked by a loud demonstration demonstra-tion of approval when Mrs. A. J. Gor-ham Gor-ham of Salt Lake was unanimously reelected re-elected president of the organization for another year. Eight counties out of the twenty-seven twenty-seven in the state are delinquent in making their annual report on assessments assess-ments to the state board of equalization. equaliza-tion. The county auditors are supposed sup-posed to have this report ready on the first Monday in October, which fell on October 7 this year. Pursuing the plan to consolidate all of the independent electric power Interests In-terests of Utah, representatives of the Utah Light & Power company are reported re-ported to have closed a deal whereby the new company takes over all of the stock of the Merchants Light & Power company at Ogden. Approximately twenty-five per cent of the tomato crop of Weber county is yet to be gathered. The crop is almoist harvested in the southwestern part of the county, and with continued warm weather it is thought most of the tomatoes will be saved. After deliberating for one hour, the lury in the libel suit of the state against George Wilson, publisher of the Weber County Citizen, at O-gden, which contained an alleged libelous article against former Chief of Po'.ice Browning, returned a verdict of not fullty. |