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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Preliminary work on the Brigham City drainage distriot is progressing as rapidly as the drainage law will permit. The twenty-third annual reunion and campfire of Utah county Indian War Veterans will be held at the Utah lake resort, August 8, 9, 10 and 11. Three companies of the coast artillery artil-lery will be ordered to Fort Douglas to help at the training camp and will arrive within the next ten days, it is said. Bitten by a rabid coyote, W. M. Pennington Pen-nington of Keltoa made application last week to Dr. T. B. Beatty, state health commissioner, for pasteur treatment. treat-ment. Charles Evans Hughes, presidential nominee of the Republican party, wiil surely visit Salt Lake on his pre-con-vention swing through the west, it is announced. Authority was granted last week by the war department for the establishment establish-ment of recruiting stations for the or ganized militia and the regular army at Lehi and Murray. As compensation for a fractured leg and shock to her nervous system. Alice E. Teague has petitioned the Salt Lake City commission to be awarded $20,000 damages. Becoming suddenly enraged at hei husband when he criticized a meal she had prepared, Mrs. John E. Crites shot Crites at their home in Salt Lake It is believed he will recover. Out of a total of six districts thai have voted on the proposition, four districts of Weber county have so far declared in favor of the two-mill special spe-cial tax for road improvements. Utah's alfalfa crop is damaged to the amount of $3,000,000 annually by the alfalfa weevil, according to the latest lat-est bulletin issued by the United States department of agriculture. Seven hundred feet of retaining wall will be built this summer in Box Elder canyon to protect the county road from early spring washouts when Box Elder creek is on the rampage. Tintic district is now full of auto hacks and jitney busses. At present there are ten busses and "auto for hire" autos being operated between Eureka, Silver, Mammoth and the valley val-ley towns. Three Salt Lake High school girls and forty-eight boys have qualified as junior marksmen in the contest of the National Rifle association, conducted under direction of the United States war department. Ruth Heather, 2 years and 6 months of age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Heather, of Salt Lake, was bitten on the forearm by a snake while playing in City Creek canyon. It is believed the child will recover. Hans Sorensen, 74 years of age, a city street cleaner, and his wife, Maria Sorensen, 64 years of age, were struck and seriously injured by an automobile au-tomobile while they were crossing the street in Salt Lake City. Utah's pioneers of 1847 were honored hon-ored on July 24 by thousands of citizens citi-zens throughout the state who spent the annual commemorative holiday either in public observance or private ly at the many pleasure resorts. The state board of equalization has notified the board of county commissioners commis-sioners of Box Elder county that the tax valuations of Box Elder county will be increased 20 per cent on horses, cattle and Improvements. Mack Robinette met with a serious atocident at the cement works of the Ogden Portland Cement company in Bingham while examining the coal feeders in front of the burning kilns. His left hand was almost pulled off by getting caught in a conveyor and carried into the cogs. A cloudburst breaking in Dry canyon, can-yon, near Salt Lake, during the electrical elec-trical storm of July 24, emerged from the ravine a solid ten-foot wall of rushing water, carrying with it eight head of cattle and rocks weighing from 1,000 to 1,500 pounds swirling them along as lightly as feathers. By means of a leoture course, Dr Samuel G. Paul, county sanitation of fleer, proposes to conduct a campaign of education along modern lines of health and sanitation throughout Salt Lake county this summer. The $68,000 bond issue of Seviel county drainage district No. 1 having been sold over par, owners of waste and water-logged land below Richfield are looking forward to the prospects of reclaiming this territory. A great glass ball which may be Illuminated Il-luminated will be placed on the dome of the state capitol at the earliest possible pos-sible date in accordance with a decis-,on decis-,on made at the meeting of the state Doard of capitol commissioners. Mrs. Louella Jones of Spanish Fork roke her right arm above the wrist while attempting to turn on a hy-'.rant hy-'.rant In her yard. The work of building three miles of concrete road between Riverdale and Roy. in Weber county, has been completed com-pleted by the stale prisoners. Losses by fire per capita in Salt Lake City for the six months ended June ?.0 of the current year, based on a population of 120,000, were only 36 cents, the lowest per capita lo?s ol any city of the same area in the UnitPd Stales. Some one throw a lighted match in a waste paper box at Salt Iake, and it cost the city approximately S'"i to put the fire out. The entire fire Ugh' ing er;ui;nient and every fireman on duty with the exception of those at t!ir(-e sul.'str.tions responded to the alarm. |