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Show FAIR WILL BE . CLOSED TODAY I Coriime Man Wins Awards For Rams; Ute Indians Attract Attention. SABT LAKK, Oct. 7 Special features fea-tures marked ".he activities at the Utah ytate fair yesterday, tho day belne; set aside na governor's day. Go -ernor Mabey was honored by H salute of 17 guns upon !ils arriv al at tho j grounds and the '--xecutlvo party was escorted to t)i grJindstand to witneja a special program of events. Prize horses pascd in review bo-1 fore thf stand and the winner of the. frovernor'a race was presented with a larife floral wreath. P)llowihg tho races the members of battery, HTth field artillery', gave a demonst.-atlon Ol artillery going Into action. Awards were made ycsteiday In the sheep department J. I. Cranei of Corlnne won sc'ond place for ram two years and over .md third ana fourth place for ram o..t one year and under two. Today is the last day of the forty-founh forty-founh annual state. f ji. Tho main feature of today's program Is the health snow to bo given by tho children chil-dren of the Jackson school; under the direction of Chow-Chow, the health clown. The children will ,'elifesent animals and characters of children's story books and will parade over tho jrroun.ls bforo the show. Today li also Box Elder and Cache counties day. The oxhibition of handwork brought by the Ute Indians from Tu-chfsn- county is one of the unique features, of the fair. However, everyone every-one is not fort if nat- enough to see this display The Indians a::: wear-i wear-i k miny of the elaborate pieces most Of the tim. and it is only during their performances that this bead work may be examined. The Indian bridal dress 1 pmade of doe skin open on one side, and hangs Straight from the shoulder. The waist of the drens is l eaded solid in many colors and artistic patterns. The modern butterfly butter-fly style was copied from it Most of the clothing is frlngl 1 at the bottom and decorated with bills. Among the novelties is a hi c ist;l ito made of bone, which has been hollowed hol-lowed out and carved A silver oelt made of money. Is a good example of the work done in the forgo in Tu-chesnc Tu-chesnc reservation. There are many beaded saddle blankets, vests, gloves and leggfna, but there is but one! "Apache coin" on exhibit. The "Apache coin" is the Indian baby arrlape, and, though It is not as brightly colored as the saddle blankets, blan-kets, it is beaded at both top and bottom. The top Is f-in??ed to keep j the insects away from tho baby |