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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Charles Silver, a Salt Lake carpenter, carpen-ter, sustained a fracture of the skull and another of the left arm in a fall of twenty feet from a scaffold. The Utah Baptists held their twenty-ninth twenty-ninth annual convention in Ogden last week, a large number of delegates from churches throughout the star.e being be-ing present. Harry Thorn was executed at the stat prison at 6:34 Thursday morning, morn-ing, for the murder of George Fassell. a Salt Lake grocerymah, on the night of March 4, 1910. Fay Whitney was thrown during the bucking contest at the fair at Logan and no hope is entertained for his recovery. re-covery. His mount ran i-sto a fence and fell upon Whitney. , Work on the eight story Eccles . structure at Ogden will be started with-! with-! in a few days. When completed the j pew building will he the largest and most modern In Ogden. I The jury In the case of John Zeora,' charged with murder in the first degree de-gree for ithe killing of Eli Gravich n Bingham, returned a verdict of involuntary in-voluntary manslaughter, There 'are nienty-eight barber shops, 257 barbers and seventeen apprentices ' In Salt Lake, according to a report is-! is-! sued by the secretary of the state board of examiners of barbers. Several thousand dollars was. sub-Scribed sub-Scribed by the Salt Lake Jewish business busi-ness men last week toward the development devel-opment of the Jewish colony on the Piute project near Gunnison, Utah. The second annnal fair of Cache county was favored with perfect weather. There was a record attendance attend-ance on the opening day, it being estimated esti-mated that 2,000 people passed the gate. Jack Murphy, charged with ithe murder mur-der of Night Marshal Frank Colclough cf Midvale, was arraigned last week at Midvale. He was held for the district dis-trict court without bail. Murphy was captured at Butte, Mont. ' The Hand Cart Pioneers, those hardy veteran, who crossed the mountains moun-tains to Utah, will hold their annual meeting in Salt Lake on October 3. It is estimated that about 350 of the 4,000 pioneers are alive today. The state fish and game commissioner commis-sioner has received reports from game wardens in various parts of the state that the duck disease prevalent in the marshes and along streams last summer has been completely wiped out. The State Fish and Game department depart-ment has announced that a strip of land at the mouth of the Provo river will .be .set aside for a Hungarian partridge par-tridge reserve. The reserve will he a half mile wide and a mile and a half long. Clad in male attire, Miss Leonora Murdock, aged 16, was arrested in Salt Lake. The girl had escaped from the state industrial school at Ogden. She has twice been paroled from the school, and has run away each time. Notwithstanding the approach of winter, free employment agencies of Salt Lake are receiving no greater number of applications for work than have been coming in during the summer, sum-mer, indicating good labor conditions in the capital city. The three express companies operating operat-ing in Salt Lake have notified the city attorney that they would not further contest the vehicle tax imposed by the city on all business vehicles operating operat-ing there. This means that the com panies will pay the city about $350 a year. The closing session of the annual convention of the Utah Medical asso-ciatin asso-ciatin at Ogden on Wednesday was marked by a spirited contest for the presidency. Dr. A. L. Hosmcr of Salt Lake was finally chosen. The convention con-vention next year will be held in Salt Lake. A telegram from Phoenix, Ariz., announces the death of Andy Peterson, Peter-son, a well known resident of Park City. Miner's consumption was the cause of death. He was 50 years old and a native of Sweeden..At one lime he was foreman of the American Flag mine. Apples will rival peaches in point of a profitable crop this year, according accord-ing to the manager of the Utah Fruit x exchange at Ogden. The county north of Weber county will contribute very largely to the state's production. Tho prices will range from 75 cents to $1 25 per bushel. While crowding around a wagon loaded with fire clay upon which ho ind his companions were attempting to climb, Reed Poulson, aged 7, of Pleasant Grove, was shoved under the rear wheel of the wagon. The wheel passed over his head, crushing the kull and killing him instantly. Sitting upright In tho corner of a foal house with glazed eyes turned toward the door, "Tom" Tsiogas, tho Creek who shot to death Mrs. Mary Theodorson in the street at Salt Lake Tuesday night, was found dead at (J o'clock Wednesday morning. Weber county canners believe tbnt the total loss resulting from the injury in-jury to the tomato crop by frost will reach a qtiarter of a million dollars. The continued cold had prevented the tomatoes from ripening until, it is believed, be-lieved, little more than half of the original crop will reach the factories. An increase of $10,000,000 In wealth and 10,000 people for Utah will be the result of the Hammond Canal deal. The canal gets its water supply from Bear river, and extends southward through the Brlghara City region for nbout fifty miles. |