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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Spiros Condas, a Bingham dairyman, dairy-man, has been fined $50 for putting water in the milk he supplied his customers. The official call for the Republican state convention, to be held in Salt Lake City, Thursday,. September 5, has been Issued. Of the three buildings damaged by Ore 'at Park City to the extent or about $8,000, loss of only one was covered cov-ered by insurance. The laying of the cornerstone of the new $35,000 ward tabernacle was the central feature of a very successful success-ful celebration of Pioneer day at Kays-ville. Kays-ville. While working on a building at Og-den, Og-den, John Van Enrich, painter, fell twenty feet and sustained bruises about the head and body. It is not thought the injuries will proveserious. The carcass of a large bear is the trophy which Joe Harris is proudly exhibiting to his friends as the result re-sult of a hunt which he led in the vicinity vi-cinity of Gold Water canyon, neai Ogden. A contract providing for the rendition rendi-tion of the famous "Ode to Irrigation" at the opening session of-the National Irrigation congress, September 30, has been approved by the Utah board of control. The Box Elder county commissioners commission-ers appropriated $800 to the Transmis-sissippi Transmis-sissippi Corhmercial congress and the National Irrigation congress to be held in Salt Lake during August and September. Sep-tember. An amount which is an increase of approximately $113,000 will be paid into the coffers of the city by the taxpayers of Ogden this year as the result of an increase of two mills in the levy. Colliding 'with a cross beam while crashing down the last lap of the scenic railway at Lagoon on Pioneer day, Stephen Bateman, aged 22, of Murray, received inuries which may prove fatal. The first drowning accident of the season occurred at Ogden Tuesday, when Clyde Jarman, aged 9 years, lost his life while swimming in the Weber river. It is supposed that the lad was a victim of cramps. Alleged shortage in funds of the Helper State bank at Helper has led fo the arrest of the cashier, Clyde Jackson. Jackson, it is said, admits a shortage and has turned $7,000 worth Df property over to the bank officials. Ten pounds of poison milkweed from Diamond valley, Utah division of Dixie forest, is to be ofrwarded to the government chemist at Washington Washing-ton to find something that will kill the weed. This wee1 has killed considerable con-siderable stock. Homer P. Burt of Salt Lake City will head the ballot on the Socialist date ticket as candidate for governor at the election next fall. This was decided by delegates of the Socialist party of Utah at a state convention In Salt Lake on the 24th. . Despondent because of failing health, Mrs. Lillian Dean Allen, aged 32, colored, wife of Rev. John H. Allen, pastor of Calvary Baptist church, committed com-mitted suicide at her home in Salt Lake. She locked herself in a bathroom bath-room and turned on the gas. Pioneer day, July 24, was appropriately appropri-ately celebrated in almost every com-mounity com-mounity in the state. In Salt Lake a large number of the original pioneers were In the parade, riding in automobiles automo-biles Instead of ox-carts, as they did upon their entry into this state. John Cornelius Edwards, veteran traveling salesman representing Walker Brothers' dry good3 store and the Z. C. M. I. for thirty years, died at his home In Salt Lake on Pioneer day. The cause of death was stomach stom-ach trouble of which he had suffered many months. In the plans for 1912-13 in the school of home economics of the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college, material alterations tvill make the work more effective even than it has been in the past. Miss Florence May Brown, graduate of the Vniversily of Wisconsin, will have charge of the school. The superintendent of parks has submitted to the commissioners of Salt Lake a semi-annual report of his department, showing the total cost of operation for the past six months to have boon $3? S0S.01, of whicn $16,-191.05 $16,-191.05 was expended for salaries and $21,316.9(1 for improvements. About 100 enthusiastic supporters of Hie National Progressive party met in Salt Lake. Tuesday night, to take additional ad-ditional steps to perfect the local or- unitization and to listen to nn audrcss liy Henry J. Allen of Kansas, one of !ho Roosevelt floor leaders at the Re; publican national convention. A now suit has been filed by tie ;ovcriimeiit against the Telluride power plant. The government alleges the Telluride company has built and operated a plant on Logan river in Cache county on government preserves pre-serves without asking permission. Complaints have been received by the slate board of health, from the au-Ihortties au-Ihortties of Wellington and Woodslde. Emery county, who declares that the Price river is being contaminated by the sewage deposit of Price, and that the health of both towns and the surrounding sur-rounding country is endangered. |