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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE The state of Utah, the governor has announced, is ready to accept the provisions pro-visions of t )i e federal vocational rehabilitation re-habilitation act. This act is designed to take persons, who by reason of accident or of disease are totally or partially incapacitated for remunerative remunera-tive occupation, and to train them, when found capable, so that they may return to civil employment as self-sustaining citizens, H. A. Gravell. one of the Sugar-house Sugar-house 'bank bandits, has agreed to plead guilty, and will be sentenced within a few days, lie first entered a plea of not guilty. He was the driver of the auto in which the four men attempted to make llieir escape, but contends that he acted only as driver. Killing frost with unusually low temperatures tem-peratures visited some of the middle and southern counties Saturday and Sunday mornings, destroying a small amount of alfalfa seed that remained in the fields and terminating the growing grow-ing season for numerous other crops though without important damage. Christopher Rastnussen, 51 years of age, of Salina, is dead as the result of an automobile accident, lie was riding rid-ing on a truck which contained a number num-ber of timbers. In passing a wagon the timbers side-swiped the vehicle and Mr. Kasmussen was thrown to the ground, receiving fatal injuries. Convicted of stealing an automobile at Alpine last June, which he drove to Twin Falls, Idaho, where he was arrested ar-rested while attempting to dispose of it, Elden M. Hunger of Lebi was last week sentenced to serve from one to ten years in the state prison. Deer-fly fever, a strange malady known among human beings only in Utah and hitherto in only two isolated isolat-ed sections, one in Box Elder and one in Millard county, has been discovered in a third locality, in Uintah county, in the vicinity of Vernal. All but a small percentage of the Gl,-500 Gl,-500 sheep which have grazed on the Wasatch national forest range this year have been moved down on the fall ranges in anticipation of the closing clos-ing of the forest reserve grazing sea-sop sea-sop William J. Startup of Provo cranked his Ford while it was in gear, the machine ma-chine ran over him, and be is now suffering suf-fering from a fractured breast bone and left leg, the machine dragging him for about a rod along the street. Miss Mae Franklin, 20 years of age, was killed near Salt Lake wdien tin automobile in which she was riding swerved from the road and plunged into a wire fence. Three other occupants occu-pants of the car were injured. Robbers who broke into the First National bank at Morgan recently carried car-ried away $11,499.33 in currency, diamonds dia-monds valued at $4600 and Liberty bonds, the amount of which has not been determined. Thirty-five gallons of whisky, new from the still, was found on the Rick-enberg Rick-enberg farm, near Granger, and Henry Rickenberg will have to explain why he had the liquor in his possession. Thomas Casiere, aged 14, was seriously seri-ously injured when he was run down by an automobile at Ogden, being dragged several feet, his left ear being be-ing clipped off close to the head. The Weber county irrigation district will be cast in bas-relief and exhibited exhibit-ed at the state fair, according to plai being worked out by a committee from the Weber county farm bureau. Louise Moore, aged 10, of Park City, lost the thumb and three fingers of her rignt hand and suffered severe lacerations lac-erations on her left hand while playing play-ing with a blasting cap. School lunches and how they are be ing put to practical use in the schools will be one of the exhibits which the Weber county farm bureau is planning upon for the state fair. When lightning struck in a herd of 1400 cattle which were grazing at the head of Weber river recently, 250 head were killed. The cattle belonged to Judd Bros, of Upton. Dynamite cached last fall by miners in Little Cottonwood canyon proved fatal to six head of cattle last week, the animals unearthing the dynamite and eating it. The body of William James Mc-Comb, Mc-Comb, the first of the American dead to be brought to Spanish Fork from across the seas, arrived last week. Between 700 and 800 delegates at- tended the convention of the Brotherhood Brother-hood of American Yeomen of Utah, held in Salt Lake last week. Wr. Earl Conley is to be brought back from Denver to Salt Lake to face , a charge of passing a forged check. j An epidemic said to resemble the foot and mouth disease has broken out I among the cattle at Fort Duchesne. J Members of the Rotary club at Salt Lake have renewed their pledge to ; finance the Boy Scout movement. The poultry display at the Utah 1 state fair will be 40 per cent larger than it was last year. In spite of the rough usage given i the automobile stolen from Ogden and j used by the four bank robbers in custody cus-tody in Salt Lake, the car is in good i shape, according to the announcement of the owner, to whom the car was returned. re-turned. Farm Bureau day was observed Saturday Sat-urday at Spanish Fork, when the farmers farm-ers from all parts of the county met for a day of entertainment and sports, luncheon being served by the women's organization. The sports consisted of horse racing, broncho busting, roping coiitestH and a football game. |
