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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Fong Joe, an almond-eyed Chinese, arrested at Bingham several days ago for violating the Chinese exclusion act. is to be deported. Gus Gustason, about 40 years of age, killed himself at Eureka, using a razor and slashing himself about the throat, abdomen and wrists. Dr. E. G. Gowans, state superintendent superinten-dent of public instruction, has been appointed a vice-president of the National Na-tional Education association. Secretary of State Mattson last week ordered 1,500 more automobile license plates for 1917. This makes the total order for next season 14,000. Denvil Stewart, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stewart of Tooele, was drowned while swimming in the mill pond eight miles from Tooele. The plans for the fall festival to be held in Salt Lake, September 11, 12 and 13, are rapidly being whipped into shape by the committee in charge ot affairs. While taking medicine at her home in Salt Lake, Mrs. Clara Miller drank laudanum by mistake, and while her condition is serious, it is believed she will recover. Matthew Henry Walker, banker, capitalist and one of the most prominent promi-nent citizens of Utah for more than I i half century, died at his home in Salt Lake on July 28. While attempting to turn around with his buggy at Salt Lake, Joseph 'potts suffered a broken leg when his ieg caught caught in one of the wheels as it turned over. A state survey of the feeble-minded children and adults of Utah will be started the middle of August under the direction of a commission created creat-ed by an act of the last legislature. The final report of the Utah Exposition Expo-sition committee has been filed with Governor William Spry. The cash balance on hand is $7,078.49, according ac-cording to Secretary A. G. McKenzie. The Oregon Short Line has passed another year without having killed a passenger in a wreck. It has been eleven years since a passenger was killed on the Oregon Short Line in a wreck. Harry Bryan, a well-known resident of Tooele, was seriously, but not fatally fa-tally burned by an explosion of gasoline gaso-line In his garage. He lit a match to see if gasoline was leaking from his car. Bernard Evans, 28 years of age, was killed and Virgil Harris, 21, was seriously se-riously burned at Garfield when the slag train they were runn:Ft was precipitated pre-cipitated into the molten! when the slag pile caved in. I . Alfred A. Carlson, Jr.. I of i " " i T of lues Ibers lured ly an I the dead. I first I it ia Ick ex-lecords ex-lecords foduced -eceived --TSnIc;Utle. t ailing from the roof of the Bingham Bing-ham & Garfield -railroad station at Magna, while at work, Karl A. Ander-berg, Ander-berg, aged 47 years, a carpenter, revived re-vived a fracture of the spinal column, col-umn, which together with other injuries, in-juries, resulted in his death. Only thirty-three families in the state of Utah, so far as can be discovered dis-covered by the committee of the Rotary Ro-tary club, are in need of assistance on account of the head of the family or the bread winner going to the border bor-der with the National Guard of Utah. In his annual report to the commissioner commis-sioner of the general land office for the fiscal year ended June 30, Surveyor Survey-or General I. C. Thoresen makes note of 756, 2S6 acres surveyed during the past year, with 21,131,714 acres yet to be surveyed In various parts of the state. Levi Young, professor of American history and head of the department of archaeology at the University of Utah, reports the discovery in a boy canyon can-yon in San Juan county of a pueblo containing seventeen rooms and five khivas, or ceremonial rooms, not previously pre-viously visited, so far as is known, by white men. The maximum state levy of 4.4 mills was authorized at the meeting of the state board of equalization last week-It week-It is divided as follows: Two mills, state general fund; 2.2 mills, state school fund, and .2 of a mill, state high school fund. Receipts from National Forests for the fiscal year 1916 reached the high-water high-water marked of approximately $2,-S20.000, $2,-S20.000, according to figures just compiled com-piled at Ogden. This is $341,000 above the 1915 total, which in turn exceeded exceed-ed any previous year. Struck by lightning on his right side, his shirt and trousers torn to ribbons, his glove split in several places and a large hole cut in his shoe as if it were the work of a razor. Frank Fenstermaker, of Sandy, still lives to tell the tale. Two norses were killed at the time. |