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Show UTAH SM MEWS Tin- school ecu -us fur 1 ! 1 .". sIjukH an in-T''a.-'- r,f ;;hi.ut ?."') in tip- s-bool population of S;i:t Lake. Tlie V. Ur Ci.iiniy .MfUIcal i'-iay lias appointed a committee of t'.e iii.'inlx-rs :) tarry .n the work of tin-.ui'i-ri- an Ic.-ti Cross in Witliir couniy. Harry (!. Iloiitz, who adii.itn-cl that J;.: wrecked a Denvl-r Ac Hio tiraii'le CUt-fi-iiKfr train near Sp. illKVilif on Ann-t 'I. has bi-uu '(jmu.ilttrd h) the grille Mental hospital. Practically all of those who were in a! i i-nihi ihi; at the convention at Salt L:ikc of the Anicri'-an liar association li'I'l the cily for a visit tu the I'aci-li'- coast ex nosi i ions or for their homes on Friday. i;iia Iturgess Young, last survivor of lirighatn Voting's wives. d:et,l at her home in Salt Lake last week. She was a nalive of Lancashire, Knglantl, and had lived In Utah siuce ISIS. She was S7 years o'.'l. l-'eai' of a shortage of tomatoes throughout the United States during the coming year as a result of unfavorable unfa-vorable weather conditions is expressed express-ed by I. N. 1'ierce, president of the Utah ('aimers' association. C. A. Branch of lidna, Texas, was rohbetl hy a pickpocket of his wallet tonlalnlng in currency and a letter let-ter of credit on the Victoria National 'hank of Victoria, Texas, while standing stand-ing on the street iu Salt Lake. It was deckled at a meeting of the commerce committee of the Suit Lake Commercial club last week to hold Lho trade extension excursion into the Uintah basin early iu September, Sep-tember, but a definite date was not lixed. Invitations have been sent out by the St. George Commercial club, inviting in-viting all Utahns and visitors to attend at-tend the annual fruit festival to be held at St. George on September 9 and l.tl. Two days of real enjoyment are promised. With no apparent abatement in the passenger traffic resulting from the California expositions, the railroads tittering Ogden are fast approaching a " condition bordering on congestion as a result of the rapidly increasing freight traffic. Concerted legal action to stop the practice is threatened by the farmers of Ogden valley unless hunters cease the re-ckless and dangerous shooting that is now going on, according to the statements of prominent residents of the valley districts. That a syndicate bigger and stronger stron-ger than the Standard Oil company exists in America for trafficing iu girls was one of the sensational statements state-ments of Dr. F. H. Essert of Denver, speaking on the subject of "white slavery" at Salt Lake. In spite of the commissioners' recent re-cent decision to appropriate $500 for a Weber county exhibit at the state fair this fall, developments at the meeting or the board last week indicate indi-cate that this county may still be unrepresented un-represented at the annual show. Jlore than 1,000 babies between the ages of 6 months and 5 years, and representing rep-resenting almost every nationality to be found in Ogden, will be inspected and scored at the "better babies" examination ex-amination to be held under the auspices aus-pices of the Children's Aid society. Work on the Salt Lake and Ogden highway being done by state convicts is progressing with great rapidity. More than one and a half miles of concrete road has been finished and is now in use. Upward of five miles will be completed before the end of the summer. More than 150 defective scales are la the hand of Heher C. Smith, state food and dairy commissioner, waiting for condemnation. This collection of irregular weighing machines is the result re-sult of a campaign that has been conducted con-ducted by the state for the benefit of the consumer. The Salt Lake valley peach crop will be ready for shipment between the first and third of September, according ac-cording to W. H. Garvin, manager of the Utah Fruitgrowers' association. It is expected thai about 400 cars of fruit will be moved out of this territory terri-tory to Omaha and Chicago markets. Comparative costs of state governments, govern-ments, use of the budget system- instead in-stead of the legislative appropriations appropria-tions system and the increasing demand de-mand for more efficiency in the handling of state affairs were the topics discussed by the conference of st.te auditors and comptrollers, held at Salt Lake. Fred A. E. Meyer, one of Salt Lake's veteran business men. who for thirty-seven thirty-seven years was buyer for the clothing cloth-ing department of Z. C. M. I., died August Au-gust 19 at the family residence in Salt Lake. Bankers in Utah and all parts of the west have been appealed to by police authorities to assist in stamping stamp-ing out the well-organized gang o: bunco men which has been reaping a harvest during recent months. ' rs in the Cache valley are all a.-ur over the prospect of discovery discov-ery of oil in their lands. KITorts are being made by the members mem-bers of the Mormon Battalion Monument Monu-ment commission of Utah to gain the consent of Ihe family of the late Maj. Gen. St. George Cooke to have his body brought west from its resting place in Michigan and be placed under un-der the proposed monument to the Mormon battalion to be erected on the capitol grounds. William Doxy of Bountiful was elected president of the Utah State Firemen's association at the closing session at Spanish Fork of the annu al convention of the organization. |
