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Show UTAH SIATE NEVIS John Aiello, an Italian, was drowned drown-ed while bathing in the Jordan river near Suit Lake City. Two new sugar factories are to be put Into operation near Smitbfleld in time to handle the 1917 beet crop. Dr. Alva Lewis, 56 years of age, one of the best known physicians of Salt Lake, is dead at Ocean Beach, Cal. The county commissioners are contemplating con-templating the building of a stretch Df concrete highway between Wil-lard Wil-lard and Hot Springs. A steel bridge of sixty-foot span has just been completed over the Sevier Se-vier river between Richfield and Glenwood, in Sevier county. Certain lands in the Uinta basin that formerly formed a part of the Strawberry valley reserve will be thrown- open to entry, probably in August. Au-gust. Due to the fact that the number of saloon licenses now in force in Ogden is up to the limit, anofher application for license was turned down last week. The recent increase In the price of 50 cents a ton on sugar beets means an addition of about $450,000 to the farmers who are raising sugar beets in Utah. Henry V. Cox, a pioneer resident of Salt Lake and the man who helped lay the first line for the Deseret Telegraph Tele-graph company in Utah, died of dropsy July 17. Bert Cross, aged 35, attempted suicide by shooting at Ogden. He has even chances for recovery. Despondency Despon-dency over failure to secure employment employ-ment led to the act. In the Utah crop forecast of July 1 the potato crop takes front rank. The estimate is 3,030,000 bushels as compared with last year's final estimate esti-mate of 2,500,000 bushels. At the last meeting of the state board of insanity, Dr. Leroy C. Potter of Payson was appointed assistant superintendent su-perintendent of the state mental hospital hos-pital at a salary of $250 a month. Leonard A. Peterson, a private in troop E of the Utah First cavalry, is in a serious condition at the county hospital in San Bernardino, Cal., suffering suf-fering from a-disease of the spine. Fifteen carcasses of veal and 2,000 pounds of beef brought to Salt Lake markets last week by farmers were condemned as unfit for food by meat inspectors of the city board of health. Mrs. Delia Wbeeler of Salt Lake has unexpectedly fallen heir to $10,-000, $10,-000, which was left to her in his will by a man who remembered a kindness extended him more than thirty years ago. Mary Cappuccio, 15 years of age, was thrown from an automobile driven by her father, at Salt Lake, and seriously injured. The steering gear locked and crashed the car into the curbing. Although the required number of 500 recruits for the citizens' military training camp at Salt Lake has been secured, the active campaign for recruits re-cruits will be continued for at least two weeks longer. A combined effort on the part of the youth of Salt Lake to give its aid to the cause of temperance was manifested mani-fested Sunday night at a joint meeting meet-ing of young peoples' societies of the evangelical churches. More than 600 persons, many of whom are converts to the chiropractic doctrines, attended the annual convention con-vention of the Utah Chiropractors' association, ' which was held in Ogden the first of the week. The Greater Utah Business League last week placed in the mails more than 5,000 letters outlining the attitude atti-tude of the league on prohibition and appealing to the members to fight state-wide prohibition by legislative enactment. The inheritance tax on the estate of the late William H. Bancroft, who was vice-president and general manager man-ager of the Oregon Short Line railroad, rail-road, was paid into the state treasurer's treas-urer's office last week. It amounted to $1,843.00. The reprieve that saved Frank de Pretto from being shot on June 9 for killing Eugene Allen at the Miners' Mercantile store in Bingham Canyon, April 15, 1914, was extended by the state board of pardons until the regular regu-lar meeting of the board in September. Septem-ber. Railroad tickets must be presented by the purchasers within the lime limit specified by the carrier to be honored, according to a decision given by the interstate commerce commission in the case of W. A. Curl of Salt Lake against the Salt Lake Route. September 11, 12 and 13 will be three gala days in the year's history of Salt Lake, according to plans which are being promulgated by the merchants of the city to stage a fall fashion festival which is to he one of the most attractive and unique events ever held in the state. |
