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Show 1 News Notes j fa From A 11 Parti of g j UTAH J ESIpnaiPrPjaijPlPliaiaial Salt Lake City. Death made its second dramatic entry at the Utah State Fair grounds as an accompaniment accompan-iment to roundup thrills, when Roy Kivett, a rider in the steer roping contest, was almost instantly killed when his horse rolled on him. Kivett is the man who shot and killed Harry Edward Bowles at the first frontier roundup, August 29, 1924, within 200 yards of where he was killed. A large crowd of spectators looked on as the steer came to the end of Kivett's rope, throwing the steer in a headlong jerk, while at the same time horse and rider sprawled in a cloud of dust, the horse rolling completely over Kivett, Kiv-ett, breaking his neck and crushing his skull. Logan. A question thought settled when City Judge Preston sustained the demurrer in the case of the state vs. George W. Thatcher, B. G. Thatcher That-cher and William Specker, charged under an obsolete state law as owners own-ers of the Capital theatre, with conducting con-ducting picture shows on Sunday, was revived when Judge Harris of the district court rendered his decision on appeal, reversing the decision of the. lower court and reopening the case for prosecution. Logan. A special meeting of the board of county commissioners has been called to consider the error made in the county tax levy which was brought to light when state officials of-ficials notified the commissioners that the levy of 2.05 mills for the general fund exceeded the state limit lim-it of 1.8 mills. Salt Lake City. While there was some interruption in the honey flow in Duchesne county this year, with the result that it will not be quite so large as was anticipated, that in Uintah county- has continued steadily stead-ily throughout the summer, it is reported re-ported by D. H. Hillman, state apiarist, apiar-ist, who has just returned from a ten-day trip into the Uintah basin. He reports the proportion of disease among the bees diminishing, though not yet entirely eradicated. Salt Lake City. Gasoline taxes on July sales have already been reported to the secretary of state, H. E. Crockett, Crock-ett, totalling $133,333.13, and it is anticipated an-ticipated that the total collected for the month will run about $140,000. One of the larger companies still has to report, as well as a number of the smaller distributors of imported gasoline. gas-oline. Salt Lake City. Executives of the National Wool Growers' association predict this year's national ram show and sale, August 31 to September 2 at. the Salt Lake Union Stock Yards, will constitute the finest lot of flock sires ever assembled in the United States. The show this fall is the 10th annual event. Payson. The final step for the better lighting of Main street has been taken and the "White Way" is now assured. At the meeting of the city council last week, from one mile of property affected but one protest was registered, and that protest covered cov-ered only nineteen feet of ground. Salt Lake City. With a rating of 105 per cent normal, Utah ranges generally are better than usual at this season and stock on summer ranges are in extra good shape, observes ob-serves George A. Scott, regional livestock live-stock statistician with the department depart-ment of agriculture, stationed at Salt Lake, in a report just issuett. Last month, the report notes, the condi-ion condi-ion of ranges was ninety-six per cent and a year ago seventy-three per cent. Salt Lake City. Herman Witter of Columbus, Ohio, director of the Ohio department of industrial relations, was elected president of the Association Associa-tion of Governmental Labor Officials the closing session of the twelfth annual an-nual convention at the Hotel Utah. He succeeds George B. Arnold. Eureka Llewelyn Mclntyre, a miner min-er engaged at the Empire Mines of Mammouth, is the hero of the hour in the Tin'-ic district for a display of nerve seldom heard of outside of fiction. fic-tion. Mr. Mclntyre was working alone in a part of the mine some distance from the shaft when he drilled in a missed hole. The usual explosion followed and he received the full force of the blast. He was thrown some distance from the face of the workings and was blinded and cut terribly. In spite of these wounds and the loss of his sight he made his way to the shaft alone and unaided crawled onto the cage and gave the signal to be hoisted to the surface. Price. With the examination of three witnesses, bringing the total number interrogated to more than 120, the Carbon county grand jury, in session here since July 2S, rested with the investigation of the lynching episode on June 18. The jurors did not return a single true bill, reporting report-ing to Judge George Christensen that despite the most diligent effort, they were unable to secure sufficient information in-formation against any person, or persons, per-sons, believed to have been connected connect-ed with the affair to charge '.hem with participation. |