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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Ir the last six weeks more than sixty home buildings have been erected erect-ed at Milford. The annual outing for the old folks of Ogden and North Weber stakes will be held at Lagoon on Thursday, June 17. Henry Jolad, an employee of the Daly-Judge mine ai Park City, was painfully injured by a cavein, while at work on one of the levels of that property. One hundred and fifty descendants of Brigham Young and his five brothers met at the Lion house in Salt Lake on June 1, to commemorate the birthday of the Mormon pioneer. Flags on the Utah buildings at the San Diego and San Francisco fairs were at half-mast on June 3 out of respect re-spect for Prof. Lewis A. Merrill, who died as the result of an automobile accident. Mrs. J.. B. Waldrun of Salt Lake suffered painful if not serious injuries injur-ies when her husband's motorcycle, on which she was seated, skidded on the wet pavement and threw both t the street. W. H. Chamberlin, 68 years of age, who wandered from his home in Mill Creek Friday afternoon, was found late Sunday in an orchard near his home. Death had resulted from a strike of apoplexy. The frost has done no damage to the fruit in the Green River valley. Although the cantaloupes are not as far on as at this time last year, there is every prospect of a big yield of peaches, pears, apples and plums. James B. Simpson, aged 62 years, who won fame as a hunter of outlaws during the early mining days of Nevada, Ne-vada, died last week at his residence in Salt Lake. He had been in ill health nearly a year. Thomas Tomlison, aged 13, fell off a westbound freight near Mounds and had his right arm badly crushed by the car wheels, amputation being necessary. The boy was beating his way from Arkansas to Salt Lake City. Within eight hours of the time that their cases were called in the district court at Ogden, John Beck and Harry Sanders had pleaded guilty to felony charges, were sentenced and entered at the state prison for indeterminate sentences. The Milford, Beaver county, high school is nearing rapid completion. The cost of the school completed is f 52, 000; the cost of seating and furniture, furni-ture, $4,500; the cost of sewer and water system, $3,500, making ?60,000 in all. L. N. Rynders, a messenger at .the National Copper bank at Salt Lake, stopped in a cigar store on his way back to the bank after making some collections, was jostled by two strangers, stran-gers, and lost a bank book containing $198 in currency. Ned F. Burt, aged 6, whose home is in Ogden, has been presented with a Ralston-Purina Hero commission medal for his act of heroism on January Janu-ary 13 last, when he rescued two playmates, play-mates, Roland and Stanley Taylor, from the water of Ogden river. Ogden women who find pleasure in spending a few minutes in Central park will no longer be disturbed by the presence of an undesirable who may elect to occupy the same bench, new benches having been provided which are for use of women only. Maude S. Bridson, IS years of age one of a trio of Chicago girls who are walking from Chicago to San Francisco, is in a Salt Lake hospital suffering from a severe attack of ton-silitis. ton-silitis. The girl was found near Vernal Ver-nal by an automobile party on its way to Salt Lake. Another governor of the east is to pay an official visit to Salt Lake. This time it will be Governor William Ralston Ral-ston of Indiana and a distinguished company of prominent Hoosiers. The party is scheduled to leave Indianapolis Indian-apolis on a special train on June 14. The year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. H. Terrill of Salt Lake, was found dead beside his bed. It is thought the infant became entangled in bed clothing in such a manner that his breath was shut off and that he fell from the bed in an attending struggle. That the protracted stormy ptriod of the past two weeks is costing the alfalfa raisers dearly is generally reported. re-ported. For more than a week the weevil has been gormandizing upon the alfalfa crop. The only way to save the crop is to cut it, it is claimed. Because farm demonstrators are in such demand at salaries considerably larger than it will be possible to pay there, the director of extension work in the Utah Aricultural college has notified no-tified the commissioners that a demonstrator demon-strator for Weber county has not yet been engaged. After lying in the bathroom of a barber bar-ber shop at Copportield since Saturday night, with a current of electricity running through his body, the charred remains of Alex Kothautos, a Greek employee of the establishment, was found by the proprietor four days later. The Greek had suicided. Sixty convicts, who worked during the early spring on fifteen miles of state roads running between Bellevue and Black Ridge in Washington county, coun-ty, have been brought to Davis county bo start work on the proposed concrete stretch between Layton and Clearfield. Clear-field. George Paulos and C. Manos. Greeks, are in the county jail at Ogden, Og-den, facing a charge of grand larceny: following the discovery by the sheriff of the carcasses of several sheep alleged al-leged to have been stolen by the two iwu. |