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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE In the Victory exhibit which the government will show at the coming Utah slate fair there will be not only the fighting equipment of the army and navy shown but also displays of the improved farming melhods which enabled American farmers to work toward to-ward maximum food production to help feed a large part of the world. The annual lamb and sheep movement move-ment to the east will start this week, according to advices received from the general freight department of the Denver Den-ver & lido Grande. It is expected that the shipment will he exceptionally large this year. About SOI) to l(H)ll cars a're expected from Heber and Colton alone. Utah county will this year have 250 carolads of apples, Davis county 125 cars, while Weber, Box Klder and Cache will each ship less than fifty cars. The crop of Jonathans, which is one of the leading varieties, is reported re-ported very light. T. W. Peterson of Logan, former member of the stale legislature, bagged four bears, while his brother, Ernest, felled one. This fact was disclosed dis-closed when the bounty of on each animal was demanded of the state auditor last week. Contracts have been let for five miles of concrete road eighteen t'c-i wide between the south side of Pro.o and the northern limits of Spring"ille and from the south limits of Sp'ring-ville Sp'ring-ville to the north boundary line of Spanish Fork. The county commission has rejected ed all bids for construction of the North Cache High school. The board had expected that the building could have been erected for $100 000. but the lowest bid received was for .$283,-000. .$283,-000. A saving to Utah employers of approximately ap-proximately $95,000 a year will be effected ef-fected through a reduction in working-men's working-men's compensation insurance rates, announced in schedules being filed with the state industrial commission. George MeldruYn was drowned in Bear river at a point east of Tremon-ton. Tremon-ton. Mr. Meldruin was fishing and swimming in company with his son and others, and stepped into a deep hole in the river and went under. Hog cholera broke out in the Denver & Rio Grande stock yards at Price, and Dr. H. W. Hoggan, state live- stock inspector, who visited Price, found seventy-one hogs dead in the yards as a result of the disease. When coated rice is sold in Utah it must he labeled as such or the persons selling it will -be subject to prosecution prosecu-tion under the state food laws, according ac-cording to Walter M. P.oyden, state dairy and food commissioner. Six boys who, it is alleged, stole an automobile and ran down Mrs. Marion Bronson, at Monticello, severly injuring injur-ing her, have been located by he county attorney and will be prosecuted. prose-cuted. Governor Emmet D. Boyle, of Nevada, Ne-vada, has recovered from an attack of ptomaine poisoning which confined him to his room at Salt Lake. Tlie governor gover-nor was taken ill while visiting Salt Lake. This army recruiting district, embracing em-bracing all of Utah and part of Idaho, stands fifth in the United Slates in the proportion of men enlisted per 10,000 population. - Three more school districts have reported census returns for the year ending July 31, all three showing a less number of children of school age than last year. Austin Alonzo Perry, 59, an oil distiller dis-tiller at the. Magna copper mills, was fatally injured when an ore car struck him. He died within a few minutes of the accident. The owner of the hotel at Duchesne which was destroyed by fire June 15, has completed plans for a new structure struc-ture to replace the old building on the same site. Utah's apple crop this year indicates indi-cates a fairly light yield or about 83 per cent of last year, according to the August, report of the bureau of crop estimates. The people of Brigham 'City are actively engaged in preparing an elaborate elab-orate program for the celebration of Peach Day, Wednesday, September 3. Moderate temperatures and light rains have brought about a general improvement in agricultural and range conditions during the past week. Utah is spending more money per capita on good roads this year than any oilier stale in the union, accordiic to figures compiled recently. Work for the siaie commission for the adult blind was launched at a meeting of the commission held in the en pitol. Myton has won out in its efforts to have the Kllinglon fieki I e Ilaviland plane flyers slop o.er in the Uintah basin. E. N. Webb, of iyehi, suffered a broken arm when bis automobile back- i fired while he was turning 'be engine over. Miss Louise (looctie, of l',righam City, was injured when her right hand was mangled in a washing uuHiEne wringer while she was i ) : 1 1 ir the family fam-ily washing. She was laken i a local hospital, and it required twenty-five twenty-five stitches to sew up the woiir.-.l. The city council of li'ehfield has entered into' a contract with the Tel, uride Power company to install an elect rie street 1;:. tiling vt"iii. with ornamental iron polos and -htn candle power lamps. For the present the lighting will be confined to Main street. |