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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Vaughn Young, 6 years of age, son o Lettie Howard Young, died at Brig- ! ham City as the result of eating bread : containing arsenate of lead. William j Young, .'! years of age, died and seven ! others are ill as a result of the poison- j lug, which occurred when the lead was sprinkled on u bread board in mistake of f fin-. Iteprosontaiives of the press associations as-sociations and newspapers, who covered the Republican national eon-ventiou eon-ventiou and who were en route to nr-port nr-port the San Francisco eonvenlioli of Ihe Democrats, paused in Salt Lake on June KJ long enough to get acquainted with the city and some of its attractions. attrac-tions. George II. Watts, for himself and 27". others, has filed a petition with the public utilities commission of Utah, protesting against the "zone" system, as applied to Murray, as being in contravention of the franchise under which the L'lah Light & Traction Trac-tion company is operating in Murray. Figures which are now available show that the taxpayers of this state pay $2.42 for every $1 spent in actual labor on roads. In other words it is charged that the "overhead" expenses ex-penses are eating up ail of the road money and leaving but little with which to buy labor. Utah business men will vote on the twelve principles of industrial relations rela-tions recently prepared by a special committee of the United States Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce. This platform is intended by the committee to Include the fundamentals of employment relations. rela-tions. The third trial of Dennis F. Terrell for assault with intent to commit murder mur-der and assault with a deadly weapon in the alleged shooting of Ray Cowan on the night of May 17, 1018, when the youth was found on Terrell's premises, is to be held in Salt Lake this week. Taxation Inheritance taxes, Income taxes, federal taxes, mine taxes, problems prob-lems of the local assessor taxation in Its many phases, will be thoroughly discussed by experts from the United States and Canada, meeting in Salt Lake September G to 10 next. Permission to pay Immediately to the depositors of the Merchants bank, at Salt Lake, a dividend of 15 cents In addition to the 50 cents that has been thus far paid, Is asked of the Third district court by Stephen 11. Lynch, receiver for the bank. While working with an emery wheel weighing twenty-two pounds and about ten Inches in diameter, Franklin N. Lohr, of Salt Lake was painfully cut in the head and bruised iu the stomach when struck by pieces of the wheel, which broke. Mrs. Louis Dobbs may lose an eye as the result of an accident at her home In Bingham. While burning some waste paper in a range an explosion ex-plosion occurred, presumably caused by a giant cap in some way getting into the waste. News has been received at Salt Lake of the accidental death at Col-onia Col-onia Juarez, Mexico, of Alma Platte Spillsbury, 70 years of age and a pioneer of Utah. Mr. Spillsbury came to Utah with his parents in 1850. Heavy shipments of steers are reported re-ported by the La Sal national forest supervisor, and cattle, sheep and swine shipments from Price have been heavy. The range was never better and stock are fine at Laketowu. A restraining order has been issued forbidding the Providence town board from proceeding with the construction construc-tion of pavement, which it is alleged by T. G. Rowland, local contractor, was fraudulently awarded. Thomas Dugger, who has been located at Fort Douglas war prison since the military authorities learned he was wanted In Nebraska by Sheriff Morrill on a charge of cattle stealing, escaped from the sentry. Fall wheat on dry land has been cut at St. George and the irrigated crop is ripe; fall wheat is coming into head and thriving in the more northerly valleys, val-leys, though showing the drought effects ef-fects on Levan ridge. Plans are in the making to transform trans-form Antelope Island, the largest in the Great Salt Lake group, into the finest cattle growing and cattle-fattening ranch in the entire western country. I At their convention, held at Salt Lake, the Utah Elks went on record as favoring Eureka for the next meeting meet-ing place. This means that the l'J2f convention will be held in Eureka. While engaged in cleaning windows. James Harrison, aged 48, of Salt Lake, fell 25 feet when the hooks on t Inside In-side of the scaffold broke, and escaped with a broken arm. Motornien ami conductors of th-Ogden th-Ogden street railway system have bee' granted an increase in wages. Fifty boys base left Ogdon for Mn pan county to aid the fanners in ttv n'-ng sugar beets |