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Show MfM news A special train consisting of forty-two forty-two cars of onions passed through lalt Lake from California last week. Beaver county held a big celebration on Olober 1. in honor of the comple-iion comple-iion of the Delta branch line of the Bait I-ake Route. On recommendation of the commit-'.ee commit-'.ee on teachers eight additional teachers teach-ers have been appointed by the Ogden ooard of education. James Cavanaugh, an assistant motormau at the Boston mine, at Bingham, was Instantly killed when he fell under a train of ore cars. Salt Lake City's postofftce band was the big hit of the ninth convention of :he National" Federation of Postofflce Clerks, recently held in San Francisco. John a Egbert, aged 73, former bishop bish-op of the Mormon church and a retired re-tired farmer, was struck by an Orem train at West Jordan and instantly killed. Whether W. C. Ayres of Salt Lake was murdered or is wandering about in an unbalanced condition his distracted dis-tracted wife has asked the police to determine. The Amalgamated Sugar company sxpects to produce approximately 44,-000 44,-000 tons of sugar at its Ogden, Logan, Lewiston and Burley factories during the fall season. Sam Moisivich, a Servian employed at the copper furnaces of the' International Interna-tional smelter, at Tooele, was instantly instant-ly killed when he came in contact with a 500-volt trolley cable. The late Frank Knox, Salt Lake banker and capitalist, left an estate consisting of personal property valued at $270,000, according to a petition for appointment of administrators. During September 274 pupils were excluded from the Salt Lake City schools because of various infections, as shown in the report of the school inspection department of the city board of health. Harold Greenwood, 12 years of age, a memiber of the Boys' Pig club, Jordan Jor-dan school district, has the distinction distinc-tion of raising a. Berkshire boar which has won the championship ribbon over all Berkshires exhibited. The city commissioners of Provo have fixed the annual salaries for the ensuing two years at the following annual an-nual amounts: Mayor, $1,200; commissioners, com-missioners, each, $1,000; auditor, $900. This rate has been in effect four years. Two representatives of the Russian government, Peter Shcheet, chief horticulturist hor-ticulturist of agricultural extension 'or in south Rdssia, and F. B. Zwo-linski, Zwo-linski, mechanical engineer, visited the agricultural college at Logan recently. re-cently. . , John Theodore Abrahamsson, aged 20 years, who received a compound fracture of the skull September 18, when a runabout driven by J. V. Bern-strom, Bern-strom, his cousin, crashed into a telegraph tele-graph pole at Salt Lake, died October Oc-tober 3. Telegraphic business in the inter-mountain inter-mountain region shows a greater proportionate pro-portionate increase than in any other part of the United States, according to U. G. Life, superintendent of the second district of the Western Union Telegraph company. Not discouraged by past failures to obtain military drill at the Ogden High school, a committee of pupils, who were former officers in the battalion bat-talion of cadets, is again seeking to have military training made a part of the school curriculum. Bones and clothing of an unidentified unidenti-fied man who has been dead perhaps six months, together with a .32-calibre blue steel revolver, with one discharged dis-charged cartridge, were found a few days ago on a mountain ridge seven miles east of North Ogden. Complaints against Albert Peterson nnd James Peterson, brothers, were dismissed in the municipal court at Ogden, and the two brothers were exonerated ex-onerated of any wrongdoing in connection con-nection with the loss of cattle from Wheeler .basin three weeks ago. For the purpose of aiding in building build-ing a railroad from Salt Lake into the Uintah basin, the president of the Salt Lake Commercial club has appointed a committee to work with the regular regu-lar railroad committee of the club and with the business men of Utah. Forty-three births were reported to the Salt Lake health department during dur-ing the past week, as against forty-eight forty-eight the same week last year; four teen deaths as against seventeen for the same period in 1914, and thirteen cases of contagious diseases as against twenty-seven for the corresponding week the last year4 Ditch diggers in Salt Lake uncovered uncov-ered the bones of an adult Indian, who had evidently been buried wrapt in his blankets in a sitting posture many years ago. Some pieces of pottery pot-tery were found at a depth of ten feet. Among the students registered at the U. A. C. at Logan is Rafael Minoz from Bolivia, who comes seeking knowledge concerning dry farming and irrigation. A young man from Persia has also become a student this year. Construction of new car barns and repair shops at Uie estimated cost of $140,000, a passenger station at Logan to cost about $30,000, and freight yards in Ogden to cost about $40,000, nro on the immediate program of the Ogden, Logan Idaho Railway company. com-pany. After thorough examination by Dr. T. H. Ueatty, secretary of the state iioard of health, into the cause of the reient cases of typhoid at Manti, it lias been learned that the disease did not orginate there, but that two men brought the disease into Manti. |