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Show UTAH STATE NbWS The three-yeai-old son ot George J. Reeder, of O-den, was badly bruis-ed bruis-ed when he was attacked by a cow" Good roads meetings are being held throughout Salt Lake county for the purpose of inciting interest in tne proposed milUou-dollar bond issue According to the best obtainable reports from the sheepmen, there will be over 250,000 lambs marketed ' from the Uintah national forest this year. Health conditions in Salt Lake are as near perfection as may be expected, expect-ed, according to opinions expressed at a meeting held of the board of health. It is announced that the Denver & Rio Grando freight station at 0"-deff 0"-deff will cost in the neighborhood of $G0,000, notwithstanding the contract I price was $33,000. Pleasant Grove supplied the Utah I fruit exchange with the first car of pears marketed by it this year. The -car was sold at Minneapolis for little more than $1,000. Frank F. Merrill, former guard at the state prison, has been bound over to the district court on the charge ot ' aiding the convict, George W. Parry to escape from the prison. W. A. Fisher of Denver is In Ogdea In the interest of eastern markets and has got several carloads' of peaches and apples. He also is pur-. pur-. chasing potatoes for the winter market mar-ket Forty earshot Weber county peaches peach-es were shipped to the eastern mar t ket from Ogden, and it is expected V from the present demand that a like number will be loader daily for some time. For the first time since the enaction enac-tion of the new state law regulating conditions in butcheT shops, the state dairy and food department last week used its new power to close a butcher butch-er shop. On the Weber County poor farm this year it is expected to harvest about 175 tons of hay, about 50 tons-of tons-of tomatoes and more than 800 bushels bush-els of peaches. In quality the fruit" "as never better. There are about thirty-five young women employed at the two fruit packing houses at Pleasant Grove, wrapping fruit and putting it in cases, while more than half as many i men are busy with the heavier work. A railroad to open the rich Kamas dairy country and give the farmers there a chance to expand and grow In keeping with the remainder of the state, will soon be built according to the plans of several capitalists of Salt Lake City. Fanners owning wuter logged and alkali land between Salt Lake and Ogden and near Riverton will form drainage districts and drain the water from their valuable fatms within a ' month or more, If the plans of the federal fed-eral drainage investigation bureau are oarried out. The reforestation of several Hundred Hun-dred acres in Big Cottonwood canyon can-yon has been decided dn by the forest for-est service and Supervisor E. H. Clarke of the Wasatch national forest for-est will send the forest working force, about twenty men, up the canyon can-yon at once. A contest-to decide the all-around old-age athletic championship of the world will be staged in Ogden if Pat-rick Pat-rick Hanley, who declared that he is j 97, can force Captain Tanner of San Francisco to accept his challenge. The Californian, who is 91, lays claim to the distinction. The Utah archaeological exploring expedition hjs returned from its bIi weeks' trip of exploration In Arizona and southern Utah. The expedition was in charge of Dean Byron Cum-mings Cum-mings of the state university and was composed of fifteen people, its own customers. Oscar Hugo Kister, 00 years of age, for many years manager of the big Tanches of the Salina 6tocfc company in southern Utah and regarded re-garded one of the ablest cattlemen in the intermountain west, died at a Salt Lake hospital last week, after an illness of nearly three months. The plans of the governing board of the publicity bureau of the Salt Lake Commercial club regarding '1 am for Utah" buttons call for the most extensive campaign ever at tempted in the state. " No one shall ! escape, is the determination of the finance committee of the bureau. Making the first flight of Its kind in the history of the state, Silas C'hristofferson, by aerial highW5-made highW5-made a journey from Salt Lake to Provo last week in thirty-eight minutes min-utes actual tinie aloft, somewhat better bet-ter than seventy miles an hour speed-The speed-The flight was punctuated with to stops. A rigorous campaign to abolish tW roller towel nuisance in the hotels o the state Is .being planned by J-Meyers, J-Meyers, state hotel inspector. Although Al-though most of the hotels have w plied with the law iu this a"1"6' some have not. Interest in the coming fasb' show at Ogden now centers in selection of queen to he .hosen , popular vote. Whoever is ch0s will bo supplied with costly P and ride iu an elaborately dor'fjl automobile float in the elwt ' pageant. f. iMe-mbors of the Utah Fruit W ors association will Prob"bl1'ol urate a movement for the P5" j a new state law iiroblbiting ,.( growers from shlpplns ' t(Jt peuehe-s out of the state, at th session of tho legislature. |