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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The lamb crop in Utah this season was 2,000,000. a large portion of which were marketed at an average of $4.50 ?ach. A barbecue has been decided on as one of the features of the annual Fashion show to be held at Ogden, September 24 and 25. I Old Folks' day of Tooele county was celebrated on September 2. being the anniversary of the first settlement of Tooele county in 1853. Peter Frakos, a young Greek merchant mer-chant at Garfield, is accused of killing kill-ing William Albert Chapland, aged 5, who was shot by a stray bullet while playing at his home. Fourteen million pounds of wool were produced in Utah this year, 90 per cent of which was sold from 20 to 24 cents a pound, bringing to the growers nearly $3,500,000. Benjamin L. Yourdan, aged 59 years, a city "white wing," received fatal injuries at Salt Lake, when he was struck by an automobile which skidded on the wet pavement As the result of a raid on a house in Salt Lake occupied by negroes, three white women, aged from 16 to 22, were found who declared they had been drugged and held in the place. About $2,000 worth of goods, includ ins clothing, hats, Jjewelry, two pistols, shoes and even cigars, were taken by thieves at the Racker Mercantile company's com-pany's department store at Lehi, one night last week. Sevier county will hold its annual fair September 16, 17 and 18, at Richfield. Rich-field. It promises to be the best ex hibition ever held in the history of Richfield. More than $3,000 will be given away for prizes. Samuel Simmons, age 18 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ammon Simmons of Spanish Fork, was shot accidentally in the right arm while hunting in Spanish Fcirk canyon, receiving a wound which nocessitated the amputation of the arm. Although fears have been expressed that pollution of Big Cottonwood canyon can-yon stream might result in an epidemic epidem-ic of typhoid fever in Salt Lake there ease reported to the city board of health for the week ending September Septem-ber 4. ' For the first time in years the union labor organizations of Salt Lake failed to formally celebrate Labor day with a parade and out-door sports, the members being left free to celebrate the holiday in any manner they pleased. The services of the Hammond canal which supplies water to a large number num-ber of farmers on the east side of Bear river will be Increased so that not less than 10,000 acres of sugar beet land will be supplied with water from it, Plans are beiag made by the people of Parowan to make the annual home coming week, to be held in connection with the Iron county fair, September 12 to 18, the biggest and most elaborate elabor-ate celebration of Us kind ever held in the district. Mrs. Alice Miller, aged 33 years, made an ineffectual attempt to end her life last week by drinking poison in her rooms at Salt Lake. The screams of the woman aroused neighbors, who telephoned the police. Ill health is given as the cause. Benito Rob'es, the Mexican accused of attempt to wreck a Salt Lake Route passenger train near Lake Point, about four weeks ago, and Jose Gomez, also a Mexican, in jail on a charge of attempted assault, es caped from the Tooele jail. The directors of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Su-gar company last week declared a regular quarterly dividend of 2 per cent and a special dividend of 1 per cent on the capital stock of the company, com-pany, payable September 15. The company com-pany will distribute about $283,000. The importance of Salt Lake as a national motion picture center has been further emphasized as the result of the establishment there of the central cen-tral headquarters for the entire west-em west-em and northwestern territory of the Universal Film Manufacturing company. com-pany. The announcement is received in Salt Lake that Postmaster General Burleson advises that he has suspended suspend-ed the order for an increase in parcel .lost rates from Salt Lake and Provo to Vernal and other points in the Uintah Uin-tah basin from 54 cents to $1.05 per fifi.y pounds. Stockmen and farmers of northern Utah report that recent rains have been worth thousands of dollars to them in improved range conditions found in starting anew the growth of white sage, bunch grass and other fall and winter forage held valuable for grazing purposes. Members of the I. W. W. and other labor organizations of Australia have, by resolution, demanded the "instant" release from prison of Joseph Hill-strom, Hill-strom, sentenced to be executed October Oc-tober 1 for the murder of J. G. Morrison, Morri-son, and declaring a boycott on all American-made goods until he Is released. re-leased. William Albert Chapland, aged 5 years, son of William and Alice Chapland Chap-land of Pleasant Green, died at a Salt Lake hospital as a result of a bullet wound directly beneath the heart The wound was received when the child was playing in the yard, and it is not known whence it came. Acting favorably on a petition from a delegation of farmers in Cedar valley, val-ley, Utah county, members of the state land board will visit the northern north-ern part of the valley to f elect a site for drilling another experimental well. |
