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Show IFslE NEWS V. S. Dalton, proprietor of a restaurant rest-aurant at Castle Rock, was held up and robbed of $1,600. Between Cisco and Green River, the boom in oil investigation seems to ba on the increase. Robbers broke into the Boyd Park Jewelry store at Salt Lake and stole silverware, Jewelry and watches val-usd val-usd at $1,600. Peter Kaelekahomui, a Hawaiian musician, was burned to death when a hovel In which he lived in Salt Lake 'was destroyed 'by fire. Theodore Sclinnsenbach, aged 64 years, closely associated with the mercantile progress of northern Utah and especially of Ogden, died at Og-den, Og-den, July 2. One thousand feet of motion pictures pic-tures of the scenic atractions in Ogden Og-den canyon, Ogden valley and Weber canyon were taken last week to be shown in the east. Jack Johnson, white, who attempt-ed attempt-ed to tear down the county Jail, at Ogden, when locked in the padded cell, was adjudged Insane by a board of medical examiners. Nick Paputsakis, the convict who escaped es-caped from the state prison road gang near Riverdale, Weber county, was captured in Morgan by a deputy sheriff sher-iff of Morgan county. Plans for the development of the Blue Creek country in Box Elder county coun-ty to make it one of the best wheat growing sections of the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain country are under way. Although the cost of installing the new telephone system in Green River will be about 50 per cent higher than It would have been three years ago, the financing of the system has been suc-essful. suc-essful. William D. Owen, aged 72 years, connected with the early theatricals of Salt Lake and for many years a member mem-ber of the Tabernacle choir, died at Salt Lake, July 1, of infirmities attending at-tending old age. Henry A. Ruple, convicted of perjury per-jury in one of the most sensational pensions fraud cases ever tried in Salt Lake, has been sentenced to serve fifteen months in the Federal prison at Leavenworth. Colonists of the Mormon church in Mexico, it is said, will not be asked to leave their farms by the church iauthorities, although the administration administra-tion in Washington is advising Americans Amer-icans to leave Mexico. In letters sent to Ogden bankers, the Weber County Farm bureau suggests sug-gests that local banks adopt the method meth-od of encouraging the dairying industry in-dustry which the bankers of southern Illinois are following. Under protest tie Western Pacific Jtailroad company, the corporation which has taken over the line of the Western Pacific Railway company, has paid the state a fee of $18,750 for the filing of its articles of incorporation. Elmer A. Rose, 47 years of age, residing re-siding at Warren, Weber county, was Instantly killed when he was crushed under a falling wall of the Burcn creek school house. Rose, with other men, was engaged in razing the building. build-ing. In the business session of the sixth annual convention, the Greeters of America at Salt Lake last week, selected se-lected Boston as the place of gathering gather-ing in 1917, and chose E. E. Pitts of the Liberty Park hotel of Detroit, Mich., president for the ensuing year. Realizing the need of equipment should troop B, First cavalry, National Nation-al Guard of Utah, be called to the Mexican border, a dozen Ogden business busi-ness men and firms have pledged contributions con-tributions sufficient to purchase a motor mo-tor truck and equip it for military service. Governor William Spry is a candidate candi-date for a third term as governor. Before Be-fore a meeting of business men of Salt Lake and Ogden at Salt. Lake on June 30, he made the announcement that he would be a candidate on the Republican ticket for the nomination -to succeed himself. August 22, 23 and 24 have been set as the dates for the eighth annual convention and tournament of the Utah State Firemen's association at Salt Lake. The convention proper will occupy the first two days, while the third will be devoted to the competitive com-petitive drills. Captain W. B. Wallace, U. S. A., mustering officer of the National Cuard of Utah and former instructor- inspector of the Utah militia, has received re-ceived authorization from Brigadier General H. P. McCain, adjutant general gen-eral of the United States army, to serve as major of the second squadron squad-ron of the First cavalry of Utah. Three corps of engineers who are In the Uintah basin making surveys for the proposed Salt Lake Route line into that section, have reported the grade is much better than anticipated and that the construction cost will be within the estimates furnished by the Union Pacific system engineers who have made surveys during the past five years. That they were being left without means of support because of the calling call-ing of their sons to the colors as members mem-bers of the national guard, was the story told by three widowed mothers who called on the chairman of the committee on health and charities at Salt Lake last week. Officials of the United Commercial clubs of Salt Lake county and of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Tele-graph company have announced a final fin-al settlement of the controversy over telephone rates in the southern part of Salt Lake county. |