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Show UTAH SffiTE NEWS Fanners of Salt Lake county have lost at least 1 , o 1 0 hogs this year from hog cholera. The new telephone exchange at Brighum t'ity has been completed at a cost of J.".!'. Ot'O. Fred Ferguson, aged 1."', of Provo lost liis right hand through the accidental acci-dental discharge of a shotgun. Three men entered the home of Mrs. L. Hauni. at Salt Lake, and robbed her of niouey and jewelry valued at Jl.tico. The Springville ctinnery commenced running on tomatoes Saturday, and will continue until frost comes or the crop is harvested. I'tah county, now that it has an as sessed valuation of more than $110. tKiO.000, becomes automatically entitled to a county auditor. At the Uintah and Ouray Indian agency at Fort Duchesne on September Septem-ber 11' an Indian fair will be held. It will continue three days. The Dixie Fruit festival at St. George will be held September 7 and 8. Grapes, melons, oranges and like tropical fruits will be served the visitors. visi-tors. The Salt Lake Federation of 1. ahot lias passed a resolution commending President Wilson for his stand for the eight-hour day in the present railroad negotiations. The honey crop of Emery county is threatened by an insect that seals the nectar in the flowers in such mannei as to make it inaccessible to the bees, it is asserted. Sanpete county is enjoying an era of unparalleled prosperity. In addition addi-tion to fair crop conditions, the sheep industry was never before in such excellent ex-cellent condition. Arrangements have been completed for an educational excursion of Weber county farmers into Utah county on September 4 and 5. The trip will be made by automobile. William Edmonds, aged 30, fell under un-der a street car at Salt Lake and suffered suf-fered injuries which will necessitate the amputation of his left leg below the knee and his right foot. Glenwood park, an Ogden resort that had ups and downs under private ownership, has come into the possession pos-session of Ogden city through a trade and will be improved for city park purposes. Business men, public officials and various organizations of Ogden have united in a vigorous campaign to have the federal land bank for the inter-mountain inter-mountain region located at the Junction Junc-tion City. Mrs. Alice Butterworth, 76 years old, one of the most prominent pioneers pio-neers of Salt Lake, and mother ot Clara B. Kimball, the famous actress, died at Salt Lake, August 25, from a complication of diseases. The Utah Agricultural college, through President E. G. Peterson, has tendered to Adjutant General E. A. Wedgwood the college library for the use of the Utah national guard organi-eations organi-eations on the Mexican border. George Moore, who was sentenced on November 21, 1914, to an indeterminate indeter-minate term in the state prison as a result of the death of Mrs! Sadie VVil-kins, VVil-kins, who met death while on a joy ride at Salt Lake, is to be liberated. Plans for an "open house" at all manufacturing plants in Ogden on Friday, Fri-day, September 8, were announced as a feature of the fifth annual harvest festival and fall fashion show arranged ar-ranged by the manufacturers' committee. com-mittee. That by properly using the available avail-able water supply as it exists today Utah can irrigate eight acres, as against one, and secure the same result re-sult in quality of crops, was the statement state-ment made last week by a well known irrigation engineer. Alfred Bliss, a small boy, was killed by an automobile driven by William X. Gardner, at Delta, and Mrs. Gardner, Gard-ner, who was riding in the car with her husband, was severely injured when the machine crashed into a tree in attempting to avoid the boy. The Utah county farmers and others who made up the automobile excursion party to Cache valley last week are highly pleased with the trip, which proved both interesting and profitable. There were 216 members in the party, which traveled in forty-four cars. P. W. Wilson, a blacksmith, .'15 years of age, was struck over the bead with a club in a saloon in Sait Lake by L. A. Wilkinson, owner of the bar, and died a few minutes later. The trouble which culminated in the killing kill-ing of Wilson arose over payment for a glass of beer. IMore than 215 farmers from Utah county, traveling in forty-four autorno-miles, autorno-miles, made a trip to Cache valley last week, attending a number of lectures at the Agricultural college and inspecting in-specting the experiment farms. The thirty-seventh annual session oi il'.e Utah mission of the Methodist Episcopal church was held at Salt Lake City, August 24, 25 and 20. Jonis Olson, a leaser in the south-,-rn end of the Tintic district, was arrested ar-rested in Silver City on a charge of selling intoxicating liquors to minors. :n Judge Cronin's court at Silver City ae was fined $50 and sentenced to '.hirty days in jail. Harry Brewer, characterized as "tail's most daring prisoner, for the lecond time has been sentenced to be (hot in expiation of the murder of Eugene Eu-gene Allen in the flighland Boy store, Bingham canyon, on April 15, )914. The executiin will take place Septem-Jer Septem-Jer 28. |