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Show Farmers of Salt Lake county have lost at least 1,500 hogs this year from hog cholera. The new telephone exchange at Brigham City has been completed at a cost of $50,000. Fred Ferguson, aged 15, of Provo. lost his right hand through the accidental acci-dental discharge of a shotgun. Three men entered the home of Mrs. L. Baum. at Salt Lake, and robbod her of money and jewelry valued at $1,600. The Springville cannery commenced running on tomatoes Saturday, and will continue until frost comes or the crop is harvested. Utah county, now that it has an assessed as-sessed valuation of more than $39,-000,000, $39,-000,000, becomes automatically entitled to a county auditor. At the Uintah and Ouray Indian agency at Fort Duchesne on September Septem-ber 12 an Indian fair will be held. II will continue three days. The Dixie Fruit festival at SL George will be held September 7 and 8. Grapes, melons, oranges and like tropical fruits will be served the visitors. visi-tors. The Salt Lake Federation of Labor has passed a resolution commending President Wilson for his stand for the eight-hour day in the present railroad negotiations. The honey crop of Emery county is threatened by an insect that seals the nectar in the flowers in such mannei as to make it inaccessible to the bees, it is asserted. Sanpete county is enjoying an era of unparalleled prosperity. In addition addi-tion to fair crop conditions, the sheep industry was never before in such excellent ex-cellent condition. Arrangements have been completed for an educational excursion of Weber county farmers into Utah county on September 4 and 5. The trip will ba made by automobile. William Edmonds, aged 30, fell under un-der a street car at Salt Lake and suffered suf-fered injuries which will necessitate the amputation of his left leg below the knee and his right foot. Glenwood park, an Ogden resort that had ups and downs under private ownership, has come into the possession pos-session of Ogden city through a trade and will be improved for city park purposes. Business men, public officials and various organizations of Ogden have united in a vigorous campaign to have the federal land bank for the inter-mountain inter-mountain region located at the Junction Junc-tion City. Mrs. Alice Butterworth, 76 years old, one of the most prominent pioneers pio-neers of Salt Lake, and mother of Clara B. Kimball, the famous actress, died at Salt Lake, August 25, from a complication of diseases. . The Utah Agricultural college, through President E. G. Peterson, has tendered to Adjutant General E. A. Wedgwood the college library for the use of the Utah national guard organl-cations organl-cations on the Mexican border. George Moore, who was sentenced on November 21, 1914, to an indeterminate indeter-minate term in the state prison as a result of the death of Mrs. Sadie Wil-kins, Wil-kins, who met death while on a joy ride at Salt Lake, is to be liberated. Plans for an "open house" at all manufacturing plants in Ogden on Friday, Fri-day, September 8, were announced aa a feature of the fifth annual harvest -festival and fall fashion show ajv ranged by the manufacturers' committee. com-mittee. That by properly using the available avail-able water supply as it exists today Utah can irrigate, eight acres, aa against one, and secure the same result re-sult in quality of crops, was the statement state-ment made last week by a well known irrigation engineer. . Alfred Bliss, a small boy, was killed by an automobile driven by William N. Gardner, at Delta, and Mrs rjarH. ner, who was riding in the car with her husband, was severely injured when the machine crashed into a tree in attempting to avoid the boy. The Utah county farmers and others who made up the automobile excursion party to Cache valley last week are highly pleased with the trip, which proved both interesting and profitable. There were 216 members in the party, which traveled in forty-four cars. P. W. Wilson, a blacksmith, 35 years of -age, was struck ver the head with a club in a saloon in Salt Lake by L. A.- Wilkinson, owner of the bar, and died a few minutes later. The trouble which culminated in the killing kill-ing of Wilson arose over payment for a glass of beer. More than 215 fanners from Utah county, traveling in forty-four automo-miles, automo-miles, made a trip to Cache vallev last week, attending a number of lectures at the Agricultural college and inspecting in-specting the experiment farms. The thirty-seventh annual session of the Utah missioj of the Methodist Episcopal churc.) was held at Salt Lake City, August 24, 25 and 26. Jonis Olson, a leaser in the south-frn south-frn end of the Tintic district, was arrested ar-rested in Silver City on a charge of jelling intoxicating liquors to minors. :n Judge Cronin's court at Silver City He was fined $50 and sentenced to thirty days in jail. Harry Brewer, characterized aa Dtah's most daring prisoner, for the lecond time has been sentenced to b ihot in expiation of the murder of Eu-Cf-ne Allen in the Highland Boy store, Bingham canyon, on April 15, 1914. The executiin will take place Septem-er Septem-er 28. |