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Show UTAH STATE NEWS! Excellent results in the trapping and poisoning of coyotes have been secured se-cured in Box Elder county.. Seventeen mills is the tax rate foi Washington county outside of incorporated incor-porated town and cities this year. Beulah Branca, who hA-s filed a suit at Salt Lake for divorce from her husband, hus-band, declares she is but thirteen years of age. John B. Taylor, aged G8, a plasterer, was fatally injured at Salt Lake when a scaffold collapsed, causing him to fall thirty feet. An estate valued at $750,000 was left by the late Matthew Walker, banker, according to a petition for letters of administration filed at Salt Lake. A cache used by burglars for drugs stolen from Salt Lake stores within the last three weeks was discovered by six boys on the banks of the Jordan Jor-dan river. Farmers in the region about Butler-ville Butler-ville in the southeast -part of Salt Lake county on the east bench have been growing Sudan grass this year with wonderful results. Six Utah station agents showing an Increase of business ranging from 12 to 107 per cent are listed on the honor roll for the month of July by the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande. An outbreak of rabies in a band of seventy-five sheep grazing in Cassia county, Idaho, near the Utah boundary line, opposite Box Elder county, was reported last week. The second annual Bible Institute of the intermountain country will be held on the campus of Westminster college at Salt Lake, beginning August 23 and ending August 30. The Carbon stake is making arrangements ar-rangements to hold a carnival to raise funds to complete the interior of the tabernacle. The dates of the carnival will be from September 25 to 30. A building in Vernal is being erected erect-ed of brick manufactured in Salt Lake and shipped to Vernal by parcel post, reports C. M. Christiansen, postoffice inspector, working out of Salt Lake. Through the construction of traps, Ogden valley farmers have caught nearly two tons of grasshoppers, swarms of which recently invaded the district and threatened ruination of the crops. "Curley" Carter, alias R. Cunningham, Cunning-ham, recognized as "king of confidence men," who escaped from the city jail at Salt Lake, simply walking out when the jailer was not watching, has been recaptured. Accidents in Salt Lake and vicinity Sunday resulted in six persons being taken to the hospital. In only one instance in-stance was the injury of a serious nature, Mre E. H. Mason, a visitor from Wyoming, being the victim. Beginning Monday, August 21, County Coun-ty Agent Heber J. Webb will conduct public field demonstrations in the po-ato po-ato fields in various parts of Salt Lake ;ounty for the purpose of studying diseases dis-eases and selecting seed from the eld. Premiums ajproximating $5,000 will be given at the third annual fair of Sanpete county, which will be held at lanti September 21, 22 and 23. More than 100 persons are now working and planning to arouse interest in the affair. af-fair. While homeward bound on a speeder on the Ogden, Logan & Idaho railroad, rail-road, four men out of eight comprising the section gang, were badly injured when the car jumped the track at Smith's siding, between Willard and Perry. An appeal has been sent to officers of the Utah national guard who are on the border by the local national guard relief committee in an effort t learn what families of nation guardsmen from this state may be in need of assistance. Fifty-three years behind the scenes in one playhouse is the remarkable re-markable record of Thomas F. Manning, Man-ning, who has just retired as stage carpenter from the Salt Lake theater. thea-ter. Mr. Manning is now 73 years old. He came to Salt Lake when a boy. All Weber county canneries are getting get-ting their plants in shape for the toma-ta toma-ta packing campaign which will begin early in September, according to present pres-ent weather and crop conditions. Once the tomato season is under way the Weber canneries will pack about 20,-000 20,-000 cases daily. Steps to arouse every school board in the state to the Importance of proper prop-er lighting in the schools by placing before them data from Germany regarding re-garding the prevalence of weak eyes among the children of that country are to be taken by R. C. Watson, state advisory school architect. As showing the extent of parcel post business into the Uintah basin Postal Inspector Christiansen says the total parcel post matter carried into the basin from Mack, Colo., last month weighed 207,000 pounds, while the average weight of parcel post matter shipped into the basin from Helper each month is 140,000 pounds. Irvine Dewey Johnson, employed as a teamster on the Strawberry canal, met with a serious accident. While underneath his wagon, which was loaded load-ed with gravel, fixing the reach, the team attached started and the wheel of the vehicle passed over his leg, tearing the flesh from the b;me. Leon H. Radmall, aged 20 years, caisson driver of the Utah battery and son of Joseph Radmall, mill operative oper-ative of Pleasant Grove, died at the base hospital. Nogales, Ariz., August 19, from Injuries sustained when ha aa kicked by a horse. |