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Show ! THE BEE HIVE STATE The mystery surrounding the death of Joe Ross, a miner, whose body wa. found in the river west of Helper recently, was partly solved when the coroner's jury returned a verdict finding find-ing that Koss came to his death from three bullet wounds in the back inflicted in-flicted by a gun in the hands of Tony Ferrarra. The body of Adaloyd Wajinan, 1 years, of Ilolllday, was found in a sprinkler stand tank near the Way-man Way-man farm. It is supposed he was taking tak-ing a plunge in the tank and that he slipped and humped his head, rendering render-ing him unconscious and unable to protect himself from drowning. Mount Pleasant was the host of tha aged veterans of the Walker, Tintic and Black Hawk war during last week, there being a four-day celebration celebra-tion held which will long be remembered remem-bered by the veterans as well as the hundreds attending. Mrs. Ollie Clough, 40 years of age, who is Bald to have confessed to prompting her 14-year-old son, Ray, to murder his father, James Clough, at Ogdeu, was committed to the state mental hospital after a jury had found the woman insane. Mayor L. J. Muir of Bountiful has resigned his office because his duties as state superintendent of public Instruction In-struction prevented him from giving the time to the office of chief executive execu-tive of the Davis county city that the post demands. Heavy rains in Washington county caused a flood in the Virgin river with the result that a bridge crossing the stream between Itockville and Virgin City, recently completed at a cost of $7,000, has been washed away. The forty-second annual conference of the tJtah mission of the Methodist Episcopal church was held in Salt Lake last week, the opening session being held on Wednesday, the conference closing Sunday evening. The state road engineer has recommended recom-mended that the road commission place the road between Sigurd and Iilchfield on the 1921 paving program, and the road from Salina to Sigurd on the 1022 program. Bert Sharkey, convicted at Brigham City of having stolen a Ford and eig--sacks of wheat, disposing of the grain at Tremonton, has been sentenced to forty-five days in the county, jail and fined $25. Davis county officials are waging a war upon auto speed demons, more than 100 arrests for speeding along the Salt Lake to Ogden all-cement highway high-way having been made in the past week. George Hondropoulos, an employee of the Montanu-Bingham mine, died after being struck on the head by a rock. At the time he was struck lie was assisting carpenters on the ore bin. Damage amounting to about $700 was done to a number of camps and the county road and store at Wild-wood Wild-wood in Ogden canyon by a cloudburst cloud-burst on the north side of the canyon. Every child of school age in Kane county can read and write and thefe are no blind or deaf mutes in the county. This fact is disclosed by the census returns of school children. It is twenty years since the legislature legisla-ture of Utah enacted the inheritance tax law and during that time there has been paid into the state treasury more than four million dollars. The forecast of 1020 sugar beet production pro-duction of Utah, made by the United States bureau of crop estimates, is 1,338,000 tons, as compared with 1,-016,000 1,-016,000 tons in 1919. The city administration of Brigham City has inaugurated a movement to float a bond issue of $200,000 for the purpose of rebuilding the municipal electric light plant. Itocco Brosi, aged 40, is in jail at Ogden, charged with having attempted to kill his wife and three young daughters, daugh-ters, while ho was under the influence of bootleg liquor. General coal mine safety orders were passed by the industrial commission commis-sion of Utah on August 2G and become be-come effective September 1. The school census for Kane county th'is year shows a population between the ages of 6 and 18 years of 610, of whom 327 are boys. Franklin D. Hoosevelt, Democratic nominee for vice-president, spoke at the Tabernacle, Salt Lake, on the evening eve-ning of August 20. Bids have been received for the grading of the 10.45 miles of road between Price and Castlegate in Carbon Car-bon county. The harvesting of grain in -Utah is nearing completion, with crops fair or good to excellent. More than twenty contractors in the western states have submitted inquiries inqui-ries at the office of the Ogden arsenal, seeking information regarding the sixty buildings which the government will build at Sunset. Representatives from sixteen cattle associations of Wasatch, Juab and Utah counties met at I'rovo last week and registered a protest against the proposed closing of forest reserves to cattle up to May 16. beginning next year. The quality of tomatoes in Weber county is better this year than any time heretofore, due to the fact that the farmers tire co-oporatJng with the farm bureau and cunning company experts ex-perts have found a tomato of superior quality which can be harvested before 'he first killing frost. |