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Show UTAH SIATE NEWS It is said that Vtah consumes 1.S0O barrels of gasoline daily. The annual convention of the Utah Christian Endeavor was held at Salt Lake last week. George Everett, ag&d 73, who had been a grocer of Salt Lake City for more than thirty-six years, died last week. Worry over financial matters caused Ernest Bult, of Ogden, to Are a bullet into his brain. He leaves a wife and two children. The postoffice department has appointed ap-pointed Henry A. Allred. postmaster at Tintic, Juab county, to succeed James M. McShane. resigned. Sheepmen in Garfield, Wayne, Piute and Sevier counties made more money from their flocks during the present season than for several years, it is reported. re-ported. November 15 was payday for the farmers, of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company com-pany at Lehi, and $-125,000 was paid to them for the beets delivered in October. Oc-tober. A Park City correspondent says that with 300 men now in service, the Silver King Coalition Mines company is doing almost as much work as before be-fore the strike. Tillman D. Johnson, recently appointed ap-pointed federal judge, was tendered & banquet by the Ogden Bar associa-. tion, Friday night of last week, prior to his removal to Salt Lake. Mrs. Kjerstine Sinnett, who had been a resident of Spanish. Fork for Arty-three years, died last week at her home, of old age and general debility. Sh had been ill only a few days. Edward Davis was killed and Gladys Mitchell probably fatally injured when they were struck by an automobile driven by Jesse Gesas, as they stepped from a street car in Salt Lake City. A coroner's jury has decided that David J. Barker, 6 years of age, came to his death, near Salt Lake when he was accidentally knocked from his tricycle tri-cycle by an auto truck driven by Andrew An-drew Savos. Jesse Smith, one of Lehi's early settlers and leading citizens, died at his home November 13, at the age of 79. He had been ailing for two years, but began failing rapidly about ten days previous to his death. Plans for handling perishable shipments ship-ments under the heater system during the winter months were outlined by officials and representatives . of the Pacific Fruit Express company at a conference held at Salt Lake. Lyman Carter, an invalid, was saved from certain death at Milford when his son, who had been sitting up all night with his father, carried the helpless man from the burning house. The house was reduced to ashes. With the benefits to the crop that resulted from late September rains and warm weather in October, Weber county's tomato pack for the season of 1915 will show 50 per cent of normal nor-mal instead of the anticipated 33 per cent. Ralph Wassmer, 14 years of age, son of William Wassmer of Hunter, is in a critical condition from tetanus. The boy's left arm was badly lacerated lacer-ated a few days ago by the accidental discharge of a shotgun, after which tetanus developed. Rev. Dr. S. E. Wishard, long a resident resi-dent of this state and prominent in the work of the Presbyterian church, died suddenly of heart disease at the home of his daughter, Miss Hattie Wishard, at Los Angeles. He only lacked a little more than a month of being 90 years of age. Weir Reed, 20 years of age, the escaped es-caped student of the Utah Industrial school who was arrested at Garfield, has not only confessed to the theft of a horse and buggy from Lawrence Brown, but also to the robbery of the Crartu s.ore at Pleasant View. . Niels Hansen, a baggageman at the Union station at Ogden, lost both htnds, except the thumbs, when he failed to observe the approach of a train into the Ogden yards. He was struck in such a manner that he fell with his hands grasping the rail. Any financial depression that may have existed in Ogden was dealt a knockout blow Monday when nearly $400,000 was put into circulation by reason of payments for sugar beets and the monthly pay roll of the Southern Pacific company shopmen. The taxpayers of Green River are jubilant over the showing made by the municipal electric light and power plant installed a few months ago. The monthly reciepts are now almost $300 a month and the residents are rapidly installing heating stoves and ranges, which will materially increase the income. in-come. An Agricultural college student at Logan has just sent $300 to Kussia to pay for a substitute in the Russian army, which his family is compelled to furnish, and is now working in the college cafeteria to pay his waj through school. This student, Sam uel Brenner, a Russian Hebrew, came to America fOu- years ago from Kiev Mrs. Agne3 M. Jones, 8S years ol age and resident of Salt Lake sine she walked there from the Missour i river in 1860, was burned to deatt i when her clothes caught fir'e from s i stove in her daughter's home whi! i the other members of the family wert away. Every county in the state is to hav bird and game sanctuaries, where i will be unlawful to hunt and kill, ever i during the "open season," accordinf i to an announcement made by Fred W i Chambers, state flsh and game com j missioner. |