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Show UTAH STATE NEWS There are fourteen candidates in thd field for municipal offices in Ogden this campaign. Victor MeCakey. who plead guilty at Salt Lake to having stolen an automobile, auto-mobile, was given an indeterminate sentence in the state prison. A "straw vote' for candidates at the coming city election in Salt Lake is being taken by some of the moving picture houses in tlie capital city. Automobile thieves put in an industrious indus-trious Sunday in Salt Lake City. Three cais were reported to the police as stolen during the afternoon and early evening. Rigid and frequent, inspection of butter and cheese is to be carried out by state and federal pure food authorities, author-ities, according to arrangements completed com-pleted last week. In the death of Mrs. Caroline Pratt Van Cott, at Salt Lake, the state loses one of its pioneer educators. All of her children have taught school and are graduates of seme university. uni-versity. The Armours have contracted for the greater part of the output of the Mineral Products company, which has started its plant at Marysvale for tlie reduction of alunite ores into potash. The home of S. D. Coffeman, a Rio Grande section hand of Springville, was destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon. after-noon. His wife, who was in bed with a 5-days-old baby, was forced to flee to the home of a neighbor. Reports from the Clarion colony, six -miles south of Gunison in Sanpete county, are to the effect that the crops were not very good this season, largely large-ly due to water conditions. A supply sup-ply was not available when needed. The Utah Manufacturers' association, associa-tion, which has been largely responsible respon-sible for the chamber of commerce exhibit of Utah's resources displayed in 'Salt Lake, iwill withdraw December Decem-ber 1 from all connection with the exhibit, ex-hibit, it is announced. Shortly after the $10,000 breach oi promise suit brought by Miss Mabel Brown against Abram Higgs of Davis county was called at Ogden, a recess was asked and at its conclusion counsel coun-sel for both parties anounced a settlement set-tlement had been made. Failure of coal dealers to store coal this summer for the winter has brought about a congestion in transportation trans-portation facilities from the Utah mines in the fuel and which 'may result re-sult in a serious condition should there be a sudden change in the weather. It will require four weeks more of work before the extensive second track improvements being made by the Union Pacific just east of Ogden are ended, railroad officials announce, and upon the completion of the job tlie railway company will have spent about $750,000. O. N. Hilton of Denver, attorney for Joseph Hillstrom, convicted murderer mur-derer of J. G. Morrison and his son J. Arling Morrison at Salt Lake, has been in Washington in conference with W. A. 'F. Ekengren, minister of Sweden to the United States, con-cernir con-cernir the Hillstrom case. The jury at Ogden in the case of Manuel Garcia against the Union Pacific Pa-cific road, for $2o,000 damages for alleged al-leged personal injuries, returned a verdict for the railroad, holding that there was no cause of action. Garcia hac1 both legs cut off when he fell from a train while stealing a ride. t Hearing in the suit filed in the United Unit-ed States district court some time ago to test the validity of the trading stamp laws enacted at the last session ses-sion cf the state legislature has of necessity gone over without date on account of the vacancy in the United States judgeship lor the district of Utah. Roy Collins, recently arrested in Butte on a charge of kidnaping little Beulah Swartzauer, in Portland, and alleged to have deserted her at a Denver Den-ver hotel, appeared with the child in Brigham City. Payson and Provo before be-fore taking her to Denver, according to information received from those places. Mrs. Albert Bullock of Coalville had a narrow escape when an automobile automo-bile in which she was seated awaiting await-ing the return of her husband, who had gone back to pick up his hat which had blown off, suddenly began to move and went over an embankment. embank-ment. She escaped with slight bruises. Five dollars is all the damages to which Albert Arnold, a tailor, is entitled en-titled for a beating administered to him by V. A. Bettilyon, a real estate dealer, according to judgment of a jury at Salt Lake. Arnold had sued for $3,0(i(p. Injuries received when he fell between be-tween the cars of a Union Pacific freight train near Gateway, Weber canyon, resulted in the death at Ogden Og-den of Frank Kocher. a transient laborer, la-borer, who was beating his way east. Twenty members of the National Guard of Utah under command of Maj. W. G. Williams of the First, infantry, in-fantry, make up the rifle team which will represent the state of Utah at the national rifle competition to be held at Jacksonville, Fla., October 15 to 22. Plans for maintaining the Utah chamber of commerce and its extensive exten-sive exhibits at Salt Lake by the various vari-ous counties of the slate were practically prac-tically perfected at a meeting last week of nearly a score of county commissioners. com-missioners. 4. |
