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Show : UTAH STALE NEWS A postotflce has been established at Vivian Park in Provo canyon. Arbor duv was observed at the Capitol grounds Saturday afternoon bv the planting of trees. The old police station building at Salt Lake will be the new home or the Charity organization and other societies. so-cieties. n unidentified man found on the streets of Salt bake, supposedly in an intoxicated condition, died in the emergency hospital. Blight- free seed potatoes ordered from Colorado through the Weber County Farm Bureau for local farm-ers, farm-ers, have arrived in Ogden. Nearly three hundred horses were purchased by a French veterinary hoard in the Ogden stockyards during a three-days' sale last week. MrsT Clara Treadway Weir, 61 years of age, wife of Thomas Weir, prominent promi-nent mining man and capitalist, died at Salt Lake after a long illness. If Salt Lake is able to raise $100,000 before autumn, the National Wool-growers' Wool-growers' association will hold its annual an-nual ram sale and sheep show in the capital. The city council at Farmington has practically granted a franchise to the Utah Light & Power company for fifty years to operate an electric lighting system in Farmington city. An unidentified man about 40 years of age was instantly killed seven miles north of Ogden, when his body was ground to pieces under an Oregon Ore-gon Short Line freight,, train. Old folks' day was observed in Sandy on April 10. The ladies representing rep-resenting a committee from all churches and orders, prepared a hot dinner for more than 400 persons. Salt Lake capitalists have closed a deal for the purchase of aboot 2,000 acres of land in Millard County, and will proceed at once to enter upon a campaign of improvement and development. devel-opment. Henry Seeger, of Tremonton, has roCeived a letter from Germany teljip that his nephew, AlfuriS beeger, has been awarded a silver service medallion medal-lion for bravery in the service of the emperor. Estimate of the enrollment for active ac-tive attendance at the Citizens' Military Mili-tary Training camp, to be established at Fort Douglas from August 21 to September 16, is placed at a minimum of 500 and a maximum of 1,500. Jack Harbertson, the Ogden wrestler, wrest-ler, his wife and son and two other people were slightly injured near Lay-ton Lay-ton when a high-power automobile crashed into their machine, putting the machine out of commission. The big sheep shearing plant at Bonanza, seventeen miles from Watson, Wat-son, the terminus of the Uintah railway, rail-way, is in full swing, and it is estimated esti-mated that at least 90,000 head of sheep will be shorn at the plant. After a brave struggle for life during dur-ing and illness extending over a period pe-riod of more than eighteen months, Josephine Chambers, one of. the best known and most beloved teachers in the Salt Lake city schools, died April 16. The huge "U" on the hill behind the University of Utah campus was cleaned of Us winter collection of debris by the men students of the institution in-stitution last week, and the eleventh annual coating of whitewash was administered. ad-ministered. Preparations have been completed by the Salt Lake Route for surveying survey-ing a line from Provo to the Uintah basin and W. A. Maguire, chief engineer engi-neer of the road, will arrive from Los Angeles this week to start the engineers to work. Losses of livestock from disease and exposure during the past year were somewhat smaller than the ten-year-average of such losses, and the condition as to health and flesh of animals ani-mals on April l was slightly better than average, according to reports. Resolutions calling upon the county commissioners to see to It that the ordinances or-dinances designed to prevent the spread of obnoxious weeds be enforced en-forced were adopted unanimously by the directors of the Weber county larm bureau at a meeting at Ogden. During an intense moment of the ball game at Salt Lake Gerald Kinney, Kin-ney, aged 28, lost his- balance in the top of a high tree on the south side of the ball park and went crashing through the limbs to the ground, twenty-five feet below. He will be in the hospital for some time. Left alone and unguarded in his room at a hotel in Salt Lake. John Gu, a farmer of Huntington, who was to have been taken to a local lo-cal hospital to determine if an operation opera-tion on his skull would restore his health, threw himself from a fourth story window and was dashed to death on the pavement, Lynn and Stanford BoUcock 14 and 0 years old. respectively, sons of Runts Ru-nts Babcock of Vineyard, wore hurt f rll"away accident, being thrown under a beet drill. |