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Show UTAH STATE NEWS There will be a grain crop harvested harvest-ed around Delta this year of approximately approxi-mately 310,000 bushels. It is estimated 250.000 sheep will winter in eastern Utah, between Green River and the state line. Salt Lake will entertain between 1,200 and 1,500 members of the National Na-tional Association of Master liakcrs next year. Curtis B. Blanihard, well known in mining circles of the west for over thirty years, dropped dead on Main street in Salt Lake. Richardson is to have its first school. The' people are to erect the building, which will be ready soon, and school will last seven months. The office of the attorney general was last week moved to the state Capitol. Cap-itol. This is the first of the s.ate offices to be installed in the new state house. John Ladson, aged 45 years, was found dead in his room at a lodging house in Salt Lake. Examinations showed that he had died of natural causes. George F. Brown, aged 68 years, a former resident of Ogden and past master of Weber lodge, F. and A. M., died suddenly in Los Angeles from heart failure. Damage that will require more than $100 to repair resulted during a severe se-vere electrical storm, when a bolt of lightning struck the .postoffice building build-ing at Ogden. Henry M. Royle, Sr., who held the distinction of being the first white boy born in Lehi, died September 2t, from the effects of cancer. He was born June 22, 1851. There have been 25,275 persons sign the register in the Utah state building at the Panama-Pacific exposition since the opening up to and including the week just ended. Charles A. Robb, aged 40, a railway conductor' whose home was in Salt Lake, was instantly killed while switching cars at Lehi. No one witnessed wit-nessed the accident. Angelo Reanaldi of Garfield, 23 years of age, until last week assistant foreman of the repair crew at the Arthur Ar-thur mill, is on his way to taly to join the king's army. Mumps was the prevailing ailment in the county schools inuhe Granite district last week, according to the weekly report of the school nurses of the county health department. On- the Heber Harrison farm near Lehi a. yield of 500 bushels of Turkey Red wheat was garnered from ten .acres. Julius Otterson, near by, threshed eighty bushels from two acres. Mary Susanna, the 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wellington Woods, Jr., died at Spanish Fork from blood poisoning resulting from a broken wrist received about a week previous. Progress is being made on the new steel bridge at Dewey, north of Moab, to span the Dolores river. The' bridge will ibe of one span and will cost $20,-000. $20,-000. t is figured it will double Moab's business. Shot accidentally by her 3-year-old grandson at Garfield, Mrs. Elmira Sickenger, aged 59, has sucurubed to her injuries. The child found a pistol and, pointing it at his grandmother, pulled the trigger. Max Seiberg was arrested in Thompsons, charged with insanity. He had ibeen in Thompsons for some time and it is said that worry over relatives rela-tives fighting for Germany in the European war drove him insane. Gregoris Bitsakis, who is alleged to have shot John Seitz at Bingham last spring, must stand trial on a charge of murder. A jury in the district court at Salt Lake declared him sane, after deliberating for two hours. There is a little honey plant in operation oper-ation near Tremonton, Box Elder county, which is shipping the product from 700 hives of bees. Only the comb honey is being canned this season. sea-son. Two carloads will ibe shipped this fall. Death claimed a widely-known resident resi-dent of Ogden last week when Lorenzo Lo-renzo Farr, 56 years of age, son of the first mayor of Ogden, died at Ta-hoe Ta-hoe tavern, Lake Tahoe, Cal., while on his way to Honolulu to recuperate his health. The completion of the Mack-Grand Junction end of the J. N. Corbin telephone tele-phone line from Mack to Cisco last week witnessed the first telephone conversation between the Colorado terminal of the Uintah railway and Cisco, Utah. Near Vernal, on the George W. Perry farm, 1.5S0 bushels of grain were threshed from twenty-four acres. His wheat totaled 775 bushels from thirteen and a half acres, and from ten and a half acres he threshed 805 bushels of oats. Three days of enjoyment marked the Sanpete county fair last week. ; Every day was full of interest, owing to the excellent races that were held. 1 Some of the best horses in the state were on the track and good purses given, totaling $1,300. Frank Knox, who organized the National Na-tional Bank of tlte Republic at Salt Lake in 1890, becoming president of the institution, which position he held for twenty-five years, died September 25, from a complication of ailments from which he had suffered for almost a year. Arthur Lewis, who has been work-i work-i ing with the rope gang at the snie!-' snie!-' ter at Tooele about two years, wai ' badly crushed la:;t week. The wnrk-1 wnrk-1 men were dissembling a slag st ttler when one of the slides fell on Mr. Lewis, striking him in the chest. |