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Show UTAH SfflE MEWS Xorval Watkins, aged 4, was run down and killed by an automobile at Salt Lake. There are S.000 German speaking persons in Utah, and of these most have become naturalized. At a meeting of practically all the shoe dealers of Salt Lake it was decided de-cided to close at 6 o'clock. The Rag day committee of the Og-den Og-den lodge of Elks is already at work making up a program for the celebration celebra-tion Monday, June 14. ' Mrs. Lilly Lewis, aged 54 years, a tourist from Manhattan, Mont., was struck by an automobile in Snlt L.ke and sustained fatal injurie-. Nearly 100 Utah dentists will attend at-tend the Panama-Pacific Dental congress con-gress to be held in San Francisco from August 30 to September 9. That Bingham will have a modern fire apparatus was the decision reached by members of the city council coun-cil following a session with a committee commit-tee from the Bingham fire department. A two days' celebration at Eureka, to be held on June 15 and 16, is planned by the Elks of Utah, the occasion oc-casion being the second annual meeting meet-ing of the Utah Association of Elks. John Sax, manager of the Western Union uptown office and Wells Fargo express agent at Price, shot himself through the left forearm while examining exam-ining a revolver, inflicting a severe wound. Two are dead and one is dying, while two others are suffering of serious seri-ous injuries and may he maimed permanently per-manently as the result of three automobile auto-mobile accidents in- Salt Lake one evening last week. Ogden valley farmers who were induced in-duced to plant sugar beets for the Amalgamated company promise to harvest an excellent crop, according to John F. Barton of the sugar company's com-pany's field department. The annual inspection of sheep-shearing sheep-shearing corrals oi the state by A. F. Grow, humane officer, reveals the fact that the sheep are well handled in c!"au corrals and that the animals do not suffer at all from the shearing. With the conclusion last week of sheep shearing operations in many sections of the state, Utah will have inaugurated the most successful year in its history since the wool industry first grew to proportions of notable size. Beer and whisky ran like water in the principal street of Huntsville one day last week, when the sheriff destroyed de-stroyed the liquor confiscated at the time Hoken Olsen was arrested on the charge of violating Weber county dry laws. J. Draw Allen of Chicago, a representative repre-sentative of the Pennsylvania Steel company, whose skull was fractured when a crowbar fell on his head while he was superintending the unloading of steel rails at Salt Lake, die-l from his injuries. As a result of an extensive investigation investi-gation made by the Salt Lake County Dental society of the condition of the teeth of the pupils of the Salt Lake public schools, statistics have been compiled showing that at least 80 per cent of the school children have defective de-fective teeth. With material purchased by the pupils, pu-pils, the manual training boys of the Lewis junior high school have made a model bird house with apartments for seventy-to birds, to be placed in a secluded spot in Lester park, at Ogden, Og-den, which was recently dedicated as a bird sanctuary, By means of an appropriation of $7,000 granted the Wasatch national forest by the government for road improvement im-provement within the forests more than thirty miles of road between Kamas, in Summit county, and Stock-more, Stock-more, in Duchesne county, will be opened for traffic this year. It is estimated that 15,000,000 pounds of wool were sheared in Utah by the end of last week and in the territory immediately surrounding Utah the number of pounds sheared together with the output for this state will reach a total in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of 25,000,000 pounds. Despite reports which have been circulated cir-culated to the effect that the route of the Lincoln National highway from the Wyoming-Utah line to Salt Lake through Coalville, Echo. Silver Creek and Parley's canyons was in an almost al-most Impassable and dangerous condition, con-dition, it has been found that the road is in good condition. Present unmistakable evidence of an exceptionally dry summer, with a shortage of water for irrigation purposes, pur-poses, has led the city commission of ! Ogden to give up the idea of driving j experimental wells on city property in Ogden valley. Instpad the well i driving machinery will be used to sink I average depth artesian wells. With the opening of the season next fall Salt Lake patrons of the drama r will be offered an innovation in the form of a stock company, which will aim to produce high-class plays at prices of admission ranging as low as a dime, and at matinees at just half that price. Guilty of murder in the first degree was the verdict returned by the jury at Salt Lake in the case of the state against Henry Davies. for the killing Df C. Arthur Davis. September 11. 1914. The jury recommended life im-nrisonment im-nrisonment at hard labor. |