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Show Ono hundred Mormon elders and visitors In Fngland sailed for America from Liverpool on tho 18th. Hoy Low, nged It, Is dead as a ro-sult ro-sult of being run down by an automobile automo-bile In tho streets of Salt Lake. Plans for tho observation of Apple day on October 20 aro being discussed dis-cussed by tho Salt Lako Commercial club. A flro of unknown origin burned 201) tons of bay, barns and other buildings on tho farm of Thomas A. Hunt of HoosevclL Tho per capital cost of oporatlng tho public schools of Salt Lako during tlio 1013-H period was fl.OG leBs than for tho previous year. Mrs. Myrtlo Willis of Monroo was seriously Injured iu n runaway accident, acci-dent, ono rib being broken and sho sustained other Injuries. Tho Lohl sugar factory has begun Its twenty-fifth campaign. Tho bostr now coming In would Indicate n much higher per cent of sugur content than they had lust year. hTo soventcen-inonths-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hub Warren was drowned at Prlco by falling Into s tub partly filled with water that bad boen used for watering horses. While showing a group of friends how his revolver worked, Dick Sovn-slan, Sovn-slan, an Armenian employed by tho Utah Copper company at Copporfleld, shot himself through tho stomach. In a fit of despondency Mrs. Plop enco Allen, wlfo of William Allen of Kureka, took her llfo by shooting herself her-self through tho left breast with a 38 caliber rovolvcr, death resulting almost al-most instantaneously. George C. Hewes, a member of the Salt Lako Commercial club party of "YellowBtono to tho Grand Canyon" scouting party, painfully Injured in an automobile accident near Cedar City, Is reported out of danger. Lambs from tho Uinta national forest for-est havo reached tho highest prlco that havo ever been paid for rango lambs shipped from that section. Two thousand head, owned by ono man, were sold last week for $13,494. Lieutenant Colonel Allen Aliens-worth, Aliens-worth, tho only man of tho negro raco to rise to tho rank of lieutenant colonel col-onel In tho United States army, who died recently at Monrovia, Cal., was at ono time stationed at Fort Douglas. Doug-las. Hyrum N. Winter, former clork of tho Granite school district, Is charged with embezzling about $3,000 of tho school funds In a complaint Issuod last week. Winter is also charged with attempting to burn down tho school building. With n view of Increasing tho area watered by tho Strawberry projoct from 60,000 to 85,000 ncres, tho United States reclamation service proposes to spend approximately half a million dollars In tho construction of now irrigation ir-rigation canals. Tho first degreo murder charge against fitovo Zlgtch, who shot and mortally wounded his friend, Mike Claich, at Bingham, November 17, was reduced to involuntary manslaughter man-slaughter and Zlglch was sentenced to threo months in tho county Jail. Abscess of tho lungs, caused by the Inhaling of n particle of foxtail grass, resulted In tho death of Klorenco Mc-Cuno Mc-Cuno Lunt, 18-monthsold daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Lunt of NepUl. Tho grass iu supposed to havo be-como be-como lodged In the child's lungs lust June. Frank F. (Merrill, a former guard at tho state prison, has been Bentonccd to servo an indeturniinato scntenco In tho prison for niding George Parry to escape on August 1, 1913. Parry was recaptured. Morrill, under the sentence, must not servo more than threo years. Louis Lauber, 7-year-old son of L. A. Lauber of Price, died ns tho result re-sult of being run over by a train. Both his ley- wero so badly crushed .hat they hud to bo amputated above tho knee. Alreudy weakened by loss f blood nnd suffering, tho operation sapped his strength. Births tripled tho death rate, less one, In Salt Lako for tho week ending September 18, nccordlng to the weekly week-ly report of tho city board of health. During tho week sixty-eight births wero reported with tho sexes evenly divided. A total of twenty-three deaths wero reported. Ono hundred and fifteen members of tho Salt Lako Rotary club. Including Includ-ing two former governors of tho stato of Utah, spent tho day on Soptcmber 18 In Silver Creek canyon building roads. All put in six hours of hard labor and mado a passable highway whoro formerly a dangerous trail existed. For a consideration said to bo approximately ap-proximately $17,000,000, tho Utoli Light & Traction company has purchased pur-chased tho property of tho Utali Light & Hallway company and Dm Salt Uiko Light & Traction company. com-pany. The transaction is ono of UP largest of its kind over consummated In tho intcrmountalu wost. Tho report of tho stato board of health for August shows that tho total of deaths from nil causes in thb itato during thnt month was 2S0. or "03 districts 120 reported no deaths. " a windstorm at Cache valley played havoc with the fruit crop, stripping many treos. It Is estimated many thousands of bushels of apples havo been rendered unfit for market. Based on figures complied by tho city engineer, tho average dally con-sumption con-sumption of water for each man, woman wo-man nnd child for the month of Au-Jus Au-Jus 19H. was more than W SnUons. |