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Show UTAH HKDJITAKHS: Reports from the county agricultural agents concerning the number who will attend the farmers' summer encampment, encamp-ment, to be held at the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college at Logau from August 2 to 5 inclusive ,are encouraging, according ac-cording to Dr. II. J. Evans, director of tne extension division of the college. From fifty to seventy-live persons are expected from some of the counties, while the agents from Weber, Davis, Salt Lake, Utah and Sevier will probably prob-ably send from seventy-live to one hundred, according to Professor J. C. Hogenson, in charge of institutes and schools extension division. Tooele will probably have thirty and Sanpete approximately ap-proximately fifty representatives. Not all the official reports are in yet and It is likely these numbers will be exceeded ex-ceeded in some cases. The college is preparing for a large enrollment of farmers and their families. Assistant District Vocation Officer 1. M. Ristine from the U. S. Governmen? office at Denver, and Training Officer H. E. Thompson of the Salt Lake office of-fice were in consulatlon with President Frank S. Harris of the Brigham Young university at Provo Thursday relative to the establishment of a station at the school for the rehabilitation of disabled disabl-ed soldiers. Te facilities of the B. 1. XT. for this line of work were founa highly satisfactory, and a contract was entered into between the government and the school for that purpose. Training Train-ing will be offered in the College of Commerce and Business Administa-tlon, Administa-tlon, in teaching, and in the various lines of agricultural and mechanics. George Burdick of Ogden was awarded awar-ded the contract to build the county infirmary by the board of county commissioners com-missioners Wednesday. The bid was $2S,810. The Utah Plumbing and Heating company, on a bid of $9393, took the contract for plumbing and heating. The structure will be rebuilt re-built upon the site of the old infirmary at Roy. Work will start at once and an effort will be made to have the building completed in November. Dr. Christian Nephi Jensen, former president or the Brigham Young college col-lege at Logan and during the last year assistant professor of botany at Cornell Cor-nell university, Ithaca, N. Y., is expected ex-pected to receive the appointment as state superintendent of public instruction, instruc-tion, to succeed Dr. George Thomas, who resigned to accept the presidency of the University of Utah. The general mid-year meeting of the American National Livestock associa tion will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, August 26 and 27, according to a call for the convention issued at headquarters of the association at Denver. Questions of vital interest to the livestock producers thoughout the United States will he discussed. Citizens of Utah are urged by Governor Gov-ernor Mabey, in an appeal sent out from his office, to cooperate in the better health campaign inaugurated from the traveling clinic that engaged In a tour which is to include every town and district in Utah, and is under un-der the auspices of the Utah Public Health association. Judge Le Grand Young, pioneer railway rail-way attorney of Utah, died early Monday Mon-day at his mountain home on the headwaters head-waters of the Weber river. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon af-ternoon at 1 o'clock in the chapel of the LeGrand ward, named in his honor. hon-or. Judge .Young was nearly 81 year of age. The state rested Thursday in the preliminary hearing of Zuro Yamashlta accused of the murder of Oscar Yaichts whose body was found In a vacant lot near the O. S. L. depot at Salt Lake on the morning of July 2. Japanese witnesses were on the stand Thursday and an interpreter was required. James Johnson's attempt to sell a pint of moonshine Whisky to Detectives Detec-tives Everett Noble and Edward But-terfield But-terfield in City Hall park at Ogden Monday cost him $299 or 180 days when he appeared in police court to answer to a charge of having hav-ing liquor in his possession. The annual convention of the Utah State Federation of Labor will be held in Price, September 12th, 13th and 14th Inclusive. The sessions will be at Notre Not-re Dame Hall on North Ninth street. Very large crowds from all over Utah are expected. Production of ore of Park City mines decreased from a total of 1475 tons to 1273 for the week ending Monday, Tonnage was as follows : Silver King Coalition, 556 tons; Judge Allied Com. panion, 390 tons; Ontario 318 tons. Sliding down a steep embankment of snow for 3X feet to rocks belows, O. D. Richardson of Seattle, Wash., and Mrs. Leonard Fish, his sister-in. law. residing in Salt Lake, were painfully pain-fully bruised Sunday afternoo'.i while trying to negotiate the Alta divide, above Twin lakes, in the head of Big "Cottonwood canyon. They lost theii footing at.the top of ttie divide. Roth survived trie experience, though both 'were severely bruised and for a time I It appeared that Mrs. Fish was inter : nally Injured. j |