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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Fong Joe, an almond-eyed Chinese, arrested at Bingham several days ago tor violating the Chinese exclusion act, is to be deported. Ous Gustason, about 40 years of age, killed himself at Eureka, using a razor and slashing himself about the throat, abdomen and wrists. Dr. E. G. Gowans, state superintendent superinten-dent of public instruction, has been appointed a vice-president of the National Na-tional Education association. Secretary of State Mattson last week ordered 1,500 more automobile license plates for 1917. This makes the total order for next season 14,000. Denvil Stewart, 20-year-old son of Mr. and, Mrs. Walter Stewart of Tooele, was drowned while swimming in the mill pond eight miles from Tooele. The plans for the fall festival to be held in Salt Lake, September 11, 12 and 13, are rapidly being whipped into shape by the committee in charge of affairs. While taking medicine at her home in Salt Lake, Mrs. Clara Miller drank laudanum by mistake, and while her condition is serious, it is believed she will recover. Matthew Henry Walker, banker, capitalist and one of the most prominent promi-nent citizens of Utah for more than i half century, died at his home in Salt Lake on July 28. While attempting to turn around with his buggy at Salt Lake, Joseph Potts suffered a broken leg when his leg caught caught in one of the wheels as it turned over. A state survey of the feeble-minded children and adults of Utah will be started the middle of August under the direction of a commission created creat-ed by an act of the last legislature. The final report of the Utah Exposition Expo-sition committee has been filed, with Governor William Spry. The cash balance on hand is $7,078.49, according ac-cording to Secretary A. G. McKenzie. The Oregon Short Line has passed another year without having killed a passenger in a wreck. It has been eleven years since a passenger was killed on the Oregon Short Line in a wreck. Harry Bryan, a well-known resident of Tooele, was seriously, but not fatally fa-tally burned by an explosion of gasoline gaso-line in his garage. He lit a match to see if gasoline was leaking from his car. Bernard Evans, 28 years of age, was killed and Virgil Harris, 21, was seriously se-riously burned at Garfield when the slag train they were running was precipitated pre-cipitated into the molten mass when the slag pile caved in. Alfred A. Carlson, Jr., 14 years of age, died at Salt Lake as the result of injuries received when a heavy automobile auto-mobile truck laden with sand ran over him. The boy was riding a bicycle when the accident occurred. As the result of a campaign inaugurated inaug-urated by the Ogden publicity bureau, the business men of that city are preparing pre-paring to greet all promoters of questionable advertising schemes with a cold and unfriendly stare. Samuel Shartino, of Eureka, was fatally fa-tally injured and four other members of an automobile party were injured when an automobile was struck by an interurban car at Salem, when the engine of the automobile went dead. Basing the estimates on the first six months of the present year, it Is declared by mining and live stock experts ex-perts that Utah will break all records for the value of minerals produced and for the amount of money received from sheep, horses and cattle. Falling from the roof of the Bingham Bing-ham & Garfield railroad station at Magna, while at work, Karl A. Ander-berg, Ander-berg, aged 47 years, a carpenter, received re-ceived a fracture of the spinal column, col-umn, which together with other injuries, in-juries, resulted in his death. Only thirty-three families in the state of Utah, so far as can be discovered dis-covered by the committee of the Ro-.ary Ro-.ary club, are in need of assistance m account of the head of the family -r the bread winner going to the border bor-der with the National Guard of Utah. In his annual report to the commissioner commis-sioner of the general land office for the 'fiscal year ended June 30, Surveyor Survey-or General I. C. Thoresen makes note of 756,286 acres surveyed during the past year, with 21,131,714 acres yet to be surveyed in various parts of the state. Levi Young, processor of American history and head of the department of archaeology at the University of Utah, reports the discovery in a box canyon can-yon in San Juan county of a pueblo containing seventeen rooms and five khivas, or ceremonial rooms, not previously pre-viously visited, so far as is known, by white men. The maximum state levy of 4.4 mills was authorized at the meeting of the state board of equalization last week It is divided as follows: Two mills, state general fund; 2.2 mills, state school fund, and .2 of a mill, state high school fund. |