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Show UTAH STflTE DEWS F. D. Alien, convicted at Salt Lake, of forgery In connection with taking orders for portrait enlargements, wns sentenced to an Indeterminate term In tiie state prison. J. V. Palmer and J. H. White, charged with burglarizing the O. s. u depots at Hrlgtinri City and Iogun, were captured at Ogdcn and taken back to Logan for trial. The residence of Thomas Jenkins, throe miles west of Vernal, n landmark land-mark of thnt section, was destroyed by flro last week, tho household effects ef-fects being saved, however. ! Kicked by a horso while on a narrow nar-row roadway In the mountains, M. K. ' Onvenor of Morgan was knocked over I nu enilmnUnient, sustaining a broken leg and a dislocated shoulder. To bo knocked unconscious by hold-! j tips nnd relieved of cont, pants, watch J and $2 In silver, was tho experience of Stanley Unbuild, an employee of the Southern Pacific shops at Ogdcn. Utah will produce 15 per cent of the sugar beet crop of the United States this year and 335,000 tons more beets than wVro produced last year. Tho crop Is now estimated at 1,311,000 tons. Tho new cement Intake to the Vernal city waterworks, In Ashley Creek can yon, twelve miles from the city, has been completed at a cost of $0000, nnd has added lminensurably to the value of the water system. Tho average cost to tho state and federal government for tho destruction destruc-tion of predatory wild anlmnls the pnst year has been estimated at' $18.-10 for each animal killed. Tho averngo hunters' dally wage was $3.78. Hunting by automobile Is now practiced prac-ticed as a more or less regular thing by hunters and trappers working for the state und federal government In the co-operative campaign against predatory wild animals In Utah. Tho new reservoir which Is being built for Eureka to replace tho tanks that have been In use for so ninny! years Is being constructed In a very thorough and rapid manner and within with-in a very short time will ho ready for UFO. In what Is believed to have boon n fit of despondency, Joseph Covington, It years of age, n tinsmith, shot him-' self through tho forehead with a 32-1 calibre revolver at tho family garage I In Ogdcn, death resulting a few hours, later. . i Dan Hlllman of Vernal wns painfully pain-fully Injured when he was caught be-, tween two automobiles as the result j of a third automobile colliding wlthj his machine just as lie was getting l out, crushing him between tho two machines. ma-chines. Extenslvo preparations ore being mnde for the Boy Scout leadership course to be held by the Salt Lake council on October 25 to 30. Games, flag exercises, roll call, Invocation,! songs, cheers and stunts will be re-j hearsed Just us the boys would give them. Five ncres of ground In the northeast north-east part of Eureka hove been selected se-lected for a park and within a few days tho work will he started. The ground will be plowed and fenced this fall and a great many of tho trees ncc-j essary to beautify u park also will I be planted. Tho annual convention of the Ainer-, lean Institute of electrical engineer will he held in Salt Lake beginning June 20 next, according to announcement announce-ment mnde last week. This convention conven-tion will bring together from COO to 700 of the world's leaders in electrl-cut electrl-cut engineering. Blinded In both eyes as the result of nu accident in a mine at liinglinmj February 27, 1018, Gust Boniues Is to be sent back to his home In Greece, , where he will be paid $10.50 a week' for tho remainder of his natural life,, according to a decision of the Indus-1 trial commission. j Mrs. O. J. Harmon of Price raised, 100 bushels of potatoes on nn acre of j ground this year. Last February, whenj seed potatoes were quoted at $10,, Mrs. Harmon had recourse to, the method of tho pioneers In cutting out the eyes of the tubors she used for the family table. This was the seed sho used. When Floyd Florence, 20 years of, age, son of F. S. Florence, pronil-( nwit sheep owner nnd rancher of Morgan, Mor-gan, Investigated his rlflo with a vlow to learning why It wns not operating nntlsfnctorlly, he received the bullet In tho upper portion of his thigh. The wound caused the deiith of the young uinn. Ariel Hansen, who wns Injured June 10 lubt, while working ns a painter for George Betts, of Salt Lake, and who hns been totally disabled ever Mnce, Is deprived of the benefits of tho workmen's compensation act of thlB Btato, because Betts does not havo three or more workmen "regularly "regu-larly employed" hi his service. A quantity of clothing and merchandise merchan-dise was taken from tho Golden Rule store at Garland one night recently and a grocery storo In Blnghnm lost tho Ford belonging to tho firm tho bhiiio night, both robberies being chnrged to the same parties. Tho Munlclpnl League of Utuh, composed com-posed of officials of Utah cities, held a meeting In Salt Lako last week, engaging en-gaging In a discussion of pending legislation leg-islation which will effect city government, govern-ment, n number of city officials from different sections of tho state being present. |