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Show UTAH STATE NEWS More school children are enrolled In the Murray schools than ever before be-fore in the history of the town. Six Utah men have been appointed delegates to attend the National Good Roads convention to be held at Cleveland, Cleve-land, O., September 21 to 23. The residence of James Owens ol Ogden was set on fire by a bolt of lightning, but the building was saved by the prompt arrival of the firemen. Ogden is said to be infested with a gang of pickpockets ana crooks, who prey successfully on passengers and tourists arriving and assembling at the Union depot. The city council of Ephraim has decided de-cided to construct sidewalk crossings at all places where the streets intersect inter-sect with the sidewalks running north and south on Main street. Thomas Sandy, a jockey, lies in a critical condition in an Ogden hospital as a result of injuries sustained during dur-ing a; race at the fair grounds, his horse stumbling and tailing upon him, Nick Vacos, the self-confessed murderer mur-derer of John Contos, a fellow Greek at Ogden,. will escape the hangman's noose, he having been permitted to plead guilty to murder in the second degree. A large cheese factory has just been completed at Junction. Equipped with the most modern apparatus and machinery that money could buy, it is expected to turn out a first class article. A small boy in some manner set fire to a barn owned by Karl Kawal-lis, Kawal-lis, at Logan, and the building and contents were totally destroyed. The barn was a new one, having been completed only this week. The Bennion flour mill, situated on the banks of the Jordan river, near Murray, was completely destroyed by fire on September 8. The origin of the fire is unknown, but is believed to have been the result of lightning. Salt Lake City's schools opened for the school year of 1909-1910 Tuesday morning, Septemoer 7, with an attendance at-tendance of 14,008. This is an increase in-crease of 956 over the attendance for the opening day of the school of 1908-1909. 1908-1909. Detective Wardlaw, the Ogden man who shot and killed Dominick Virgil while the latter was resisting arrest, has been exonerated by the coroner's jury. Virgil shot ; the officer through the arm before the fatal shot was fired. Aaron D. Thatcher, one of the best known men in Utah, and a brother of Moses Thatcher, who died a short time ago, passed away at his home in Logan, September 8, following a protracted pro-tracted illness from stomach and kid-ned kid-ned trouble. Mrs. Edwin Harman of Salt Lake City died on September 8, as a result re-sult of injuries sustained when her clothing became ignited from a bonfire. bon-fire. Mrs. Harman's burns extended from her ankles to her knees, and her hands and arms were also severely blistered. The month just ended shows the heaviest death rate for August in the history of Salt Lake City. There were 114 deaths this August, as against only 75 last August, and the average death rate for each 1,000 population based on actual residents was 1.09. Clarence Ernst, the Ogden negro charged with the murder of Charles Staples, colored, will be allowed to go at liberty until his case comes up for trial, $20,000 bail being exacted. The shooting occurred last May when the men became involved in a dispute over a card game. Lightning struck the house of A. L. Blaylock in Harrisville. The bolt went through the wall of the house and struck within half a foot of the baby, who was asleep on the bed. A horse belonging to Mr. Blaylock was struck and died instantly. George Kaltz, a French cook who was picked up on the streets of Salt Lake in a supposedly intoxicated condition con-dition and placed in jail, was really suffering from an epileptic fit, and died the next mofning. A proper diagnosis of his case might have resulted re-sulted in saving his life. Now is the time that Incorporations are due to pay their annual license fee to the secretary of state, and many notices are being sent out. All of the notices will be out by October 15, and taxes become delinquent af ter November 15. Many of the substantial sub-stantial companies have already paid their tax for the year. Verne Van Wagner, aged 33 years, employed as an electrician in the United States smelter at Midvale, was electrocuted while at work in the arsenic bins at the smelter. Van Wagner was repairing some electrical machinery when he unwitttingly took hold of a heavily charged wire. Land in San Juan county covering 125.000 acres was opened to entry last week under the enlarged homestead home-stead bill, and the selections are now on file at the United States land office of-fice in Salt Lake. This is the largest single tract opened to entry in years. Walter Hill, 12 years old, is in a Salt Lake hospital with the sight ot his right eye entirely destroyed, and facing a critical operation to save the other eye, because a crowd of boy Idlers thought it fun to shoot at him with "flippers" when he drove by in a delivery wagon. As the result of a fight between Italians in Ogden. one man was killed and another probably fatally wounded, wound-ed, while an officer who interfered in the flight was shot in the arm. The nfflcer shot one of the men. killing i m instantly. |