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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE A call has been issued to all Labor party branches for n state convention, to be held at Salt Lake on Saturday, 1 July 24, for the purpose of nominating candidates for Ihe various stale offices to be voted for at the general elections elec-tions lipid November 2. A ninety days' sentence in the county coun-ty jail was the sentence imposed upon two Ot'deniles, when they were found guilty of intoxication after having been in the court on the same charge on previous occasions within six months' time. Official census figures sent nut from Washington give I'rovo a population of 10W3, an Increase of 1,878 since 1910, or 15.4 per cent. In 1!H0 the population was 8.925 and in l!)O0 it was 6,185. In 1800 it was 5.150. After fighting a liquor case for more than a year, James II. Roberts, former hotel man of Ogden, has decided to cease the contest, and last week began be-gan serving three months in jail as part of the sentence imposed. Lieutenant Asa Hall Hancock, 43 years of age, o the Salt Lake fire department is dead as a result of a collision between a fire truck and a-street a-street car, never having regained consciousness con-sciousness after the acccident. Sugar beets, potatoes, truck and fruits have been favored by the warm weather. Streams are holding up well and irrigation water continues ample, although it is waning east of the Wasatch mountains. Solemn ceremonies of the Ute Indian In-dian sun dance tool; place last, week at the Uintah reservation. These rites are engaged in annually, when the Indians In-dians pray to the spirits for the health of the community. A forest fire which broke out on the rim of Bryce canyon, the origin of which is believed to be incendiary, was extinguished by the members of the last contingent of Boy Scouts to leave the canyon. Twenty-six high schools of Utah, carrying an aggregate of fifty courses in vocational agriculture, under the Smith-Hughes act, will receive a total of $10,000 from the federal vocational education fund. Because six youths, all less than 10 years old, pulled potato plants from his garden, Alex. Jesperson, a gardner In the northern portion of Ogden, had the boys arrested by the juvenile court authorities. Suddenly overcome with an attack of the heart, Joseph Crump, Jr., 2G, of Palmyra, fell in an irrigation ditch and was drowned at his farm while engaged in watering a section of his acreage. Assessed valuation of Sevier county, subject to final revision by the state board of equalization, is this year $13,-251,460, $13,-251,460, as compared with $12,500,720, on which the county paid taxes last year. The Salt Lake county chapter of the Red Cross will cease activity as soon as it is possible to look after the needs of former soldiers and sailors, according accord-ing to an announcement by the chairman. chair-man. Salt Lake will be one of the six relay re-lay stations in the 100-mile per hour movement of mails by airplane from New York to San Francisco which will commence early in September. News comes from Winthrop, Mass., that George T. Stanbridge of Pa rowan, a first-class private at Fort Banks, fell under a train and had both his legs severed at the knees. Tliea Porter, IS years of age, suffered suf-fered a fracture of the jaw in a collision col-lision in Logan canyon between a motorcycle mo-torcycle on which she was riding and an automobile. John E. Weston is in jail at Salt Lake, charged with shooting and killing kill-ing his father, John Weston, at Randolph. Ran-dolph. A series of petty quarrels led to the tragedy. Methods of stabilizing the business ot growing swine in Utah were considered con-sidered at the meeting of the Utah State Swine Growers, held at Salt Lake, July 15. The $125,000 addition to the Dee Memorial hospital in Ogden is Hearing Hear-ing completion and from present indications indi-cations will be ready for occupancy August 1. The state Inspector of apiaries, says that present prospects are that the honey production of Utah this year will run between 3,000, 0(H) and 4,000,000 pounds. Definite plans for a drainage district dis-trict to take care of the Hood waters of the Provo river during high water time art" being made. l'.rigl,.im Young university and the Provo Commercial club announce the annual Timpanogas hike to take place July 23 and 24. Ole Oleson. aged 27, of Murray, is :load as the result of injuries received when his motorcycle collided wilh an automobile. The Utah Ass,,, iai ion of Life Underwriters Under-writers will bold a congress at Salt Lake, July 22. Davis county, subject to final action by the state board, bus an assessed valuation this year of .S1Si.257.G15. as compared wilh S17." I2.3S 1 last year. Cache county, which paid taxes last year on $82,580,725. is this yr;.r assessed as-sessed at .S37.3G7.S01. George McBride and K. S. Barton were badly burned about the face when a solution of sulphuric acid with which they were burning the terminal of an electric battery exploded, the accident happening at Salt Lake. Fortunately For-tunately both escaped without loss of eyesight. |