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Show I THE BEE HIVE STATE A call has been Issued to all Labor parly branches for a state convention, to be held at Salt Lake on Saturday, July 21, for the purpose of nominating candidates nie various stale oiflcos to be voted for at the general elections elec-tions held .November 2. A ninety days' sentence in the county coun-ty jail was the sentence imposed upon two 1 'gdenites, when they were found guilty of intoxication after having been in the court on the same charge on previous occasions within six months' time. Official census figures sent out from Washington give Provo a population of 10,303, an Increase of 1.37S since 1810, or 13.-1 per cent. In 1010 the population was S,92-1 and iu 1000 it was 0,183. In 1S0O it was 3,130. After fighting a liquor case for more than a year, James H. Roberts, former hotel man of Ogden, has decided to cease the contest, and last week began be-gan nerving three months in jull as part of the sentence imposed. Lieutenant Asa Hall Hancock, 43 years of age, of the Salt. Lake fire department Is dead as a result of a collision between a fire truck and a street car, never having regained consciousness con-sciousness after the acccident. Sugar beets, potatoes, truck and fruits have been favored by the warm weather. Streams are holding up well and Irrigation water continues ample, although it is waning cast of the Wasatch mountains. Solemn ceremonies of the Ute Indian In-dian sun dance took place last week at the Uintah reservation. These rites are engaged In annually, when the Indians In-dians pray to the spirits for the health of the community. A forest fire which broke out on the rim of Bryce canyon, the origin of which Is believed to be Incendiary, was extinguished by the members of the last contingent of Boy Scouts to leave the canyon. Twenty-six high schools of Utah, carrying an aggregate of fifty courses in vocational agriculture, under the Smith-Hughes act, will receive a total of $10,000 from the federal vocational education fu.ud. Because six youths, all less than 10 years old, pulled potato plants from his garden, Alex. Jesperson, a gardner 1$ the northern portion of Ogden, had tlje boy arrested by the juvenile court aithorltjes. Suddenly overcome with an attack of the hert, Joseph Crump, Jr., 26, of Palmyra, fell in an irrigation ditch and was browned at his farm while jngaged lu' watering a section of his acreage. Assessed valuation of Sevier county, subject to fliHd revision by the state board of equazatlou, Is this j,'ear $13,-251,400, $13,-251,400, as compared with $12,596,720, on which the aounty paid taxes last year. The Salt Lake county chapter of the Red Cross will cease activity as soon as it is possible t- look after the needs of former soldier- and sailors. accord-In accord-In to an announcement by the chairman. chair-man. Salt Lake will he one of the six relay re-lay stations in the 100-iuiie per hour movement of mafls by airplane from New York to San Francisco which will commence early hi September. News comes from Winthrop, Mass., That George T. Stanbridge of Parowan, a first-class private at Fort Banks, fell under a train and had both his legs severed at the knees. t Tliea Porter, 18 years of age, suffered suf-fered a fracture of the jaw In a collision col-lision in Logan cunyon between a motorcycle mo-torcycle on which she was riding and an automobile. John E. Weston Is In jail at Salt Lake, charged with shooting and killing kill-ing his father, John Weston, at Randolph. Ran-dolph. A series of petty quarrels led to the tragedy. Methods of stabilizing the business of growing swine In Utah were considered con-sidered at the meeting of the Utah State Swine Growers, held at Salt Lake, July 15. The $123,000 addition to the Dee Memorial hospital in Ogden is near-lng near-lng completion and from present indications indi-cations will be ready for occupancy August 1. The state inspector of apiaries, says that present prospects are that the honey production of Utah this year will run between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 pounds. Definite plans for a drainage district dis-trict to take care of the flood waters of the Provo river during high water time are being made. Brighain Young university and the Provo Commercial club announce the annual Timiwinogas hike to take place July 23 aiui 24. Ole Oleson, aged 27, of Murray, is dead as the result of injuries received when bis motorcycle collided with an automobile. The Utah Association of Life Underwriters Under-writers will hold a congress at Salt Lake, July 22. |