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Show UTAH STATE NEWS There were twenty-eight births In Ogden last week. Boxelder county's grain harvest this year will eclipse any previous record. The 2-year-old son of Louis Addle-son Addle-son of Ogden was run over by a Bamberger Bam-berger train at Ogden and fatally injured. in-jured. Salt Lake now boasts one of the most modern and up-to-date fire and police signal rooms in the United States. Every dollar Utah has spent at the two California expositions is bringing in a ten-fold return, according to Governor Gov-ernor William Spry. The Bonneville club will have as its guests at Salt Lake on August 20, William Wil-liam Howard Taft, foimer president of the United States. By August lnth the Utah-Idaho Sugar, Su-gar, company will decide whether to start work on its Salt Lake county factory fac-tory this year or not. Edmund . Dugdale, while unloading huy at his place near Provo, fell from the wagon and fractured both bones of the left arm above the eibow. It has been ascertained by the officers offi-cers of tUah nunty that the automobile automo-bile i extensively used in the traffic and sale of liquor in dry territory. JjOuis YorJ;. a leader in western German aft .irs and for sixteen years a promi..eat resident- of Salt Lake, died August 1 at his home in Salt Lake. Assessed valuation of property In Salt Lake county for 1915 totals $97.-017,432, $97.-017,432, an increase of $3,833,544 over the total valuation of the county for. 1914. Sixty five steamfitters and helpers, employed in the construction of tho big sugar factory at Layton. went on strike August 1 over a question of wages. The California tour of the high school cadets, the expositions commission, commis-sion, and the Ogden Tabernacle choir have given the state valuable advertising, advertis-ing, it is claimed. Joseph Hillstrom, convicted of the murder of J. G. Morrison at Salt Lake, must face a firing scfuad at the state prison next October 1. Hillstrom was re-sentenced on August . Zelma Hughes, aged 5 years, daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hughes, of Salt Lake, received painful injuries when her father's automobile ran away and crashed into a curb. Ten thousand ears of corn have been ordered to feed the 5,000 people who are expected to attend the annual outing ot the Ogden Retail Merchants' association on August IS. Liability of a company for acts of its agent does not ccv. r his acts independent inde-pendent of his capacity as agent,, according ac-cording to an opinion of the supreme court handed down last w-eek. Following a decisicn reached by the officials of the road several weeks ago, announcement is made that the Southern Pacific company will open an uptown office in Ogden In the near future. This week wall mark the addition of another factory to the list of Ogden's industrial institutions, -when the fruit and vegetable evaporating plant of the Everfresh Food company is placed in operation. Strict compliance with the weights and measures law regulating the size of berry boxes will be insisted on by officials of the , state dairy and food department. The law became effective effec-tive August 1. i The treatment of seed grain to prevent pre-vent smut, which has been done by several Utah county farmers this year under the direction of County Agriculturalist Agricul-turalist A. B. Ballantyne, has proven very beneficiaL Mrs. Sarah Jane Wade Atwood, for many years a resident of Murray, was found dead in the basement of her home, where she had gone to freeze cream for the midday meal. Heart trouble is thought to have brought about death. Myron Nilson. 12 years of age. is In a critical condition in the county hospital hos-pital at Salt Iake. Ho full from an apple tree at his home a distance of about twenty feet, and it was thought at the hospital that his spinal column was dislocated. Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Sanford White, who is free after nine years' battle In the courts of New York on murder and insanity charges, will come to Salt Iake by auto on his way from the east to the Pacific coast during dur-ing this month. Instructions to prepare an ordinance regulating the service and rates of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Tele-graph company, or any other telephone tele-phone company that may operate in Salt Ijike county, have been given the county attorney's office. Cache county Is profiting by the new state law that permits of maintenance of roads by the state at the difcere- , tion of the state road commission In co-operation with county officials. The work of keeping the roads in repair in Cache county has proved a sucessrul and paying experiment this summer. The mammoth salt beds in western Utah, which have been practically unmolested un-molested for centuries, are now being put to commercial use. After many years of litigation the title to the tract has been settled and a company 1 now putting on the market about one carload of crude salt daily. What the police deem conclusive evidence that Robert Davis, alleged bandit, cracksman and highwayman arrested in Ogdeu a week ago, was implicated in the daring daylight robbery rob-bery at Salt Lake three weeks' previous pre-vious has. been uncovered. |
