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Show A norse fell on George Duoll, aged 17, at Salt Lake, both the boy's legs being broken. Mrs. Lucy Pratt Russell, 68 years of age, one of the first white children born in the Salt I-ake valley, died at Salt Lake last week. Organization of a chorus of 100 voices for the united Christian revival re-vival to be held at Ogden during March has been undertaken. Peter Raty, SO years of age, a resident resi-dent of Weber county for nearly fifty years, died at his home in Marriott, death resulting from general debility. The Western Pacific railway has property valued at $2,272,635 in the state of Utah, as shown by the schedules sched-ules furnished the state board of equilization. Shooting a dog after the animal has bitten you is not a basis for conviction convic-tion on the charge of cruelty to animals, ani-mals, according to a decision rendered ren-dered at Salt Lake. The X. P. Stathakos company at Salt Lake failed for liabilities approximately approx-imately $117,000 in excess of its available avail-able assets, according to the report of the receiver, filed in the Third district court. Several contracts have been signed with Wfher county farmers during the past few days to grow wax bean seed (luring the coining season. The contracts call for a price of from $70 to $S0 per ton. Some 2U0 residents of Salt Lake and vicinity have filed applications within the past thirty days for petroleum pe-troleum and hydro-carbon locations in Tooele county along the line of the Western Pacific. Marked decrease in the number o! cases of contagious and infectious dis cases in Salt Lake, as compared with conditions existing one year ago, is shown in the weekly report of the city hoard of health. A Salt Lake real estate company has offered the use of two tracts of land within a few minutes' ride of the central portion of Salt Lake for the proposed government army munitions plant and supply station. An unidentified laborer, said to he a Norwegian, who was until recently employed at Evanston, Wyo., was instantly in-stantly killed near Devil's Slide in Weber canyon, when he fell beneath the wheels of a Union Pacific freight train. Seated in a chair, Frank Larson, formerly manager of the Salt Laks Scavenger company, was found dead at Salt Lake. The end came apparently appar-ently from a sudden attack of heart failure, there being no indications of st'.ggle or suffering. Utah has been declared hy the federal fed-eral government to he the best state in the Union in the registration of sickness. In the completeness of its registration of all diseases and als? registration of births and deaths Utah leads all the states. An increase of not less than 50 per cent, and possibly 75 per cent, is the estimate placed by officials of sugar companies on the amount of acreage that will he devoted to the growing of sugar beets in northern Utah and southern Idaho for the coming season. A $50,000 plant for the production of potash from the waters of Great Salt Lake is to he erected by the Diamond Dia-mond Match company, the biggest match concern in America, at Grants, Utah, about thirty miles west of Salt Lake City on the line of the Western Pacific. On the ground that he displayed poor judgment in arresting a hank director di-rector and several other prominent citizens while carrying out orders to clear the sidewalk of loiterers, Patrolman Patrol-man John Russell was summarily dismissed dis-missed from the police department at Ogden. The Western Retail Lumbermen's association, in session at Portland, adopted resolutions calling upon members mem-bers of congress to support President Wilson's program for national preparedness prepar-edness and pledging the undivided support of the organization for adequate ade-quate measures of defense. With the assurance that the beet acreage would be materially increased throughout the territory in which the company operates, directors of the Amalgamated Sugar company at a meeting at Ogden, decided to spend from $150,000 to $200,000 increasing the capacity of the Ogden factory. A condition that betokens a. big year for the Utah canuers and western west-ern manufacturers in general is reported re-ported by H. L. Herrington, secretary of the Utah Canners' association, who has returned to Ogden, after attending attend-ing the annual convention of the national na-tional association in Louisville, Ky. Francis Sawyer, aged 7, and George Jensen, aged 8, are dead from exposure expos-ure suffered Sunday night when, with three other hoys, they became lost in the salt marshes west of Salt Lake City, near the Saltair tracks, from which they strayed while walking bock from a trip to the resort earlier In the day. |