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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Flag day was generally observed throughout the state on June 11. The Ogden Ninth ward or the Mormon Mor-mon church will erect a $20,000 chapel. In a collision on the road In Bingham Bing-ham canyon, Joe Mellch had his arm broken. The waiters of Salt Lake City have '. taken steps to organize a union, about 150 having agreed to become charter members. The extension of the Logan street car system to Providence, a town lying ly-ing about two miles to the south of Iyogan, is being seriously talked of. Edward Jones, a gambler, was so badly injured by Joe Pache, who attacked at-tacked him with a knife during a quarrel in Ogden, that he may die. Seven graduates wore given diplomas diplo-mas from the state deaf and blind institution in-stitution at the commencement exercises ex-ercises held in Ogden on June 13. Two thousand minors from the different dif-ferent camps of the state attended the annual outing on June 13, the meeting place being Salt Lake and agoon. Coalville enjoyed a "heme-comlng" day on the 14th. Nearly 400 former residents resi-dents were there and enjoyed a day full of appropriate exercises and hospitality. hos-pitality. The annual convention of the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Association of Sheriffs was held in Salt Lake City on June 15 njid 16, about 200 members of the as-toclatlon as-toclatlon being present. Nearly 250 relatives and descend-inta descend-inta of Heber Chase Kimball celebrated cele-brated the one hundred and ninth anniversary an-niversary of his birth, in Salt Lake City, June 14, with a family reunion. Ogden was unanimously chosen as the place of meeting' for the 1911 session ses-sion of the grand council of the United Unit-ed Commercial Travelers of Montana, Idaho and Utah at the meeting in Helena. Two youths, each 19 years old, giv-, giv-, ... Ing the names of James Eberhardt and Karl Kennedy, have been arrested in Ogden, charged with holding up the Japanese mission, killing one man and wounding two. Spanish Fork now has a good, lively, live-ly, energetic Commercial club organized organ-ized and. under fairly good headway. They now have an enrollment of about seventy-five, with prospects of a good number more. Salt Lake citizens are to celebrate the Fourth of July In a safe and sane manner. The city council has appropriated appro-priated $2,000 for the celebration committee, com-mittee, and the business men are responding re-sponding with liberal contributions. With mayor, members of the city council and prominent citizens of Ogden Og-den present, water from the Ogden river was turned into the newly completed com-pleted $40,000 reservoir, built in the foothills east of the city, on Tuesday. The retail merchants of Salt Lake held their sixth annual barbecue at Saltair Wednesday, June 15, and upwards up-wards of 9,000 person atended. These 9,000 persons or more ate six beeves, 2,500 loaves of bread and five barrels of pickles. Thomas PWey, alias James Hayes, is on trial in Salt Lake City for the murder of George W. Fassell on the night of March 26. Fassell, who was a groceryman, was killed when holdups hold-ups entered his store and attempted to rob him. Gerald W. Evans, who was arrested In Salt Lake for using the mails to defraud and who got about $10,000 from unsuspecting southerners through a glowing whiskey advertisement, advertise-ment, has been sentenced to eighteen months in the Atlanta, Ga., penitentiary. peniten-tiary. D. H. Christensen has been re-engaged as city superintendent of the Salt Lake schools at a salary of $4,800 a year for the next two years, and George A. Eaton was chosen as principal prin-cipal of the High School for another year at $3,600. An explosion of gasoline occurred at a laundry In Logan, resulting in the burning of two employes' and the loss of property to the ' value .of $1,000. Ernest Beckert was terribly burned about the head, back and arms, and John Erickson, foreman., was severely burned about the head. Reeso Edwards, aged 74, who has lived a hermit's life near Huntsville, Weber county, was found on the banks of the river In a dying condition on the 14th, death resulting an hour after the aged recluse had been taken to his mountain home, where everything possible was done for him. While swimming in the Green river Saturday afternoon, a short distance from his home, Emmett, the 10-year-'" old son of Mr. "and Mrs. A. R. Anderson Ander-son of Green River, was drowned. The bay had been forbidden to go into the water and was alone at the time the accident occurred. All hope of recovering apy of the bodies of the ill-fated powder crew which met death in the quarries of the Union Portland Cement company at Devil's tflide, when 450 kegs of powder exploded prematurely June 1, has been abandoned. Work on the power plant at Belknap, Bel-knap, in Sevier county, has been begun be-gun by the Belknap Power company. The plant, when completed, will gen-prate gen-prate 9,000 horsepower. Its lines will ultimately extend throughout the county, with rumored intention V. reach Salt Lake City. |