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Show UTAH SfflE NEWS; Bounty on six bears killed in City Creek canyon, near Salt Lake, was collected col-lected last week. A natural bridge larger and higher than any other known in Utah has iust been discovered in Iron county, it is reported. Twenty thousand spectators witnessed witness-ed the parade held in honor of No-Ni-Shce, princess of the Salt festival, at Salt Lake City Monday night. Utah's postmasters will hold their annual convention in Provo Wednesday, Wednes-day, October 5, according to announcement announce-ment sent out by the association. While walking on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad track, John Wood-house, Wood-house, a pioneer of Lehi, was Instantly In-stantly killed when a train struck liim. ) Despite a shortage of funds for road purposes, more than thirty-two miles of public highway in Weber county have been improved during the present pres-ent year. According to the farmers' organization, organiza-tion, only 2.300 acres of land in Weber county are devoted to fruit raising, while 4.5,000 acres are devoted to other farm crops. Owen William Owen, 95 years of age, probably the oldest miner in Utah, died at his home in Salt Lake on September Sep-tember 11. Infirmities incident to old age were the cause of death. A two-quart bottle of preserved straw-berries brought twenty days in the city jail for James McNally, 62 years of age, when he was convicted at Ogden of having stolen the fruit. The 12-year-old daughter of Mavis Baker, a dairyman of Ogden, sustained a fracture of her right leg above the knee when the team of horses attached to her father's dairy wagon ran away. As part of a national movement, backed by many Napoleons of industry indus-try throughout the United States, to electrify America, Salt Lake City is to have an electrical celebration this fall. A permanent county farm bureau was organized at Murray when farmers farm-ers from all parts of the county assembled as-sembled to consider plans for the promotion pro-motion and the welfare of the agricultural agri-cultural industry. Stricken with heart failure while traveling by automobile from Salt Lake to Ogden, Wesley Dockstader, aged 45 years, of Brigham City, was dead nearly an hour before his companions com-panions knew of it. Benjamin H. Allen, an electrician, was instantly killed at the substation at St. Joseph, near Salt Lake, when a pole with which he was juggling jug-gling came in contact with a high tension ten-sion wire carrying 44,000 volts. While the canning season in Utah has begun one-fourth of the canneries are at this time unable to get enough tomatoes to keep them running, ac cording to information received at the office of the state dairy and food department. de-partment. As a means of further emphasizing the work of the United States forest service, the ranger station float built for the annual fashion show parades of last week at Ogden is to be. used for exhibition purposes at four fairs within the next few weeks. Ferdinand Rodriguez, Jose Francone and Aquiline Arcantz were sentenced each to an indeterminate term in the state prison, after they had withdrawn their pleas of not guilty and pleaded guilty to robbery of the Highland Boy Mercantile company at Bingham Con-yon, Con-yon, on August 8. Homer Plake, an employee of the Utah Power & Light company, had a narrow escape from death when a car he was riding plunged over the Sioux road near the Iron Blossom mine. Mr. Tlake suffered several bad cuts and bruises around the head. Joseph Reddick, aged 47 years, mill man employed by the Opbir Hill Consolidated Con-solidated Mines company, and wen known in Salt Lake by union mill men, shot and instantly killed his wife, Mary Evans Reddick, aged 42, and turning the weapon, an old fashioned pistol, on himself, committed suicide at Ophir, Tooele county. Andrew Frederickson, a farmer of Lehi, had a narrow escape from being killed by lightning while working in Lis field on Lehi bench. He was .-lowing with three horses on his farm, when a thunder storm came up and a bolt of lightning killed two of his horses and knocked him unconscious. uncon-scious. A loss estimated at several hundred dollars resulted when the old North Ogden canning factory, a frame structure, struc-ture, was totally destroyed by fire. For the past several years the building build-ing had been usei for a fruit warehouse ware-house and at the time of the fire it contained a large quantity of ripe fruit, ready for packing and shipping. To assist in the development of southern Utah and in making Little Zion valley accessible to tourists, the federal government has appropriated $15,000 toward the construction ot a highway through Mukuntuweap national na-tional n rniimeut of which Little Zlon valiev : "t. |