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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Fire supposed to have been started by sparks from a passing locomotive, destroyed the home of George Harris Har-ris at Midvale. Nearly 200 teachers who will be employed em-ployed in the public schools of t"g-den t"g-den City during the year 1915-16 have signed contracts. In attempting to ford the Weber river near Ogden, John Maw, a Plain City farmer, drowned two work horses that he valued at $-100. j Two paroles, one commutation of sentence and the termination of four indeterminate sentences were granted by the state board of pardons on the 19th. Eugene Dodge, 21 years of age, was caught in one of the rollers of the Utah Ore Sampling mills at Eureka, and his right leg was fearfully crushed. A flourishing condition in the lumber lum-ber industry as carried on by the government forestry department has been noted In sections of the Wasatch national forest in Utah. Millard county is enjoying an era of growth and development in agriculture agri-culture which stamps that section as one of the most prosperous and rapidly rap-idly growing in the state. A fire of unknown origin totally de stroyed the principal business block of Myton. The loss is estimated at $30,000. The fire is supposed to have originated in the rear of a saloon. The Park City Elks and the Park City people in general are all very much elated over the fact that the next B. P. O. Elks state association meeting will be held in that city. Miss Alice Gould of Price, while horseback riding through the town of Helper, was thrown from her horse and very seriously bruised. The horse fell and broke its leg and was shot Work of assessing the property of Utah, which has been reported by the county assessors at a total valuation of $173,827,623, was begun last week by members of the state board of equalization. Elizabeth E., the 15-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver R. Meredith, was killed when she was thrown, with her mother, from an automobile au-tomobile in Big Cottonwood canyon, near Salt Lake. The plan for the annual summer encampment en-campment of the National Guard of Utah has been completed. The first camp will be held at Fort Douglas, July 18 to 21, and the second from July 22 to 24. Whether Albert Geddes, minor son of Margaret Geddes of Salt Lake, is' a son of David Eccles, the late Ogden multimillionaire, is the question at issue in the case to come up for hearing hear-ing in Ogden during the week. Joseph Henry Martin, who is serving serv-ing five years in the state penitentiary penitenti-ary for having shot Dave Edwards, will be taken to Ogden June 28 to be tried in the district court on the charge of having robbed Mrs. Isabella Royle Wallin. Hyrum H. Homer, a Park City ranchman, died from the effects of a kick from a horse he received three days previous. He was taken to a local hospital, where an operation was performed in the hope of saving his life. Fishermen of Utah are reported to have paid for about 17,000 fish and game licenses this year, and ft is expected ex-pected that before the grouse and duck season closes this fall the number num-ber of licenses will have passed the 30,000 mark. It is estimated by officials of the Cgden tabernacle choir that the number num-ber of members and others directly connected with the organization's management who will make the Pacific Pa-cific coast trip next month will not be less than 205. Logan, Provo and Farmington will hold local option elections June 29. Copperfield will also, if the supreme court of the state decides that the pe-tions pe-tions which have been filed are sufficient suffi-cient and that the new town is entitled en-titled to an election. With a poulation of 600 people and only 13 opposing a voting proposition to raise it into the third class of Utah cities, Roosevelt is about to enter on a splendid era of progress with a fine waterworks system as one of the first improvements. While definite information is nui given as to the reason for gathering the information, all members of the medical reserve corps in Salt Lake have received letters of inquiry from the office of the surgeon general of the United States army as to whether they would be available for active duty. Resolutions setting forth that Utah veterans of the Spanish war are as ready and willing now, as they were in 1898, to serve this country should there be need, were adopted by delegates dele-gates to the ninth annual encampment encamp-ment of the United Spanish War Veterans, Vet-erans, department of Utah, held at Cgden. Dr. W. F. Holland, head of the research re-search department of the Carnegie museum at Pittsburg, Pa., paid Vernal and vicinity a flying visit last week. He was returning from the expositions and stopped off to make an inspection of the famous dinosaur quarry at Jensen. John Cronin, 7 years of age, son of Mrs. Frank Cronin, a widow of Eureka, Eu-reka, lost the thumb and the first two fingers of his right hand through the explosion of a riant cap. The child found the cap while playing around a mine. |
