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Show UTAH STATENHW American Forks' new high 1 s,, , was thrown open to the public at doS catory exercises held on November Salt Lakers will not want for w skating facilities this winter, Thr public ponds will be ready within th9 next week or ten days. Formation of a commercial clut, Taylorsville was practically OecidM upon at a meeting of about twenu live of the leading citizens of place last week. 1 Logan will not get a reduction m the passenger rate to Salt Lake, spite completion of the Ballard ciitoj which shortens the distance from thai city to the state capital. Apple day was observed at ProVI by a generous display of fine fruit in the windows of many business house? and a discussion of apples and appii products in homes, hotels and restaurants. restau-rants. Otto Hoeft, aged 29, an electrical engineer, died alone in the had lands northeast of Vernal some time las-week. las-week. His body was found by bis father, William Hoeft, a well know'a contractor, who led a searching nim- Two school districts on the former Uintah reservation have just comply, ed new -buildings. The Bennett district dis-trict has erected a $2,000, and the Hayden district a $4,000 school bund, ing. . Stockmen, who run stock on the forest ranges at Wasatch, Pleasant Grove, Alpine and American Fork are jubilant over the condition of cattle as they have come from the mouo-tains mouo-tains for the winter. Samuel' Padfield, pioneer coal miner I of this state and resident of American Fork for a great many years, died at the family home Wednesday of last week of dropsy. Ho was in his seventy-eighth year. If you are a depositor in the postal savings department of the govern-nient govern-nient and want to exchange your funds for bonds, you must make application at the office issuing your certificates on or before December 1, 1913. As the result of what is said to have been a feud between two Japanese Japan-ese of Upper Bingham, G. Ogata is in the hospital suffering from three bul. let wounds, while his alleged assailant, Daido Sanai, is in tho county jail. Daniel Zundell of Willard is in the Ogden hospital suffering from serious injuries sustained when an Oregon Short Line train crashed into his wagon wag-on as he drove across the tracks directly in front of the Utah Hot Springs hotel. Investigation into the cause of deathi to Otto Hoeft, the young Telluride engineer en-gineer whose body was found at Island Park, thirty-five miles noitheast of Vernal, has disclosed the fact that heart failure and not foul play was responsible re-sponsible for his death. Professor John T. Caine, III, of the Utah Agricultural college, has returned re-turned from a trip through the middl9 west for the purpose of purchasing blooded livestock for the college herd and for a number of prominent stock breeders in Cache valley. Miss Dot Wiright of -Richfield received re-ceived two painful but not serious wounds on her forehead when the motorcycle which she was riding (a company with Mr. White of the Telluride Tellu-ride Power company went over an embankment em-bankment in Clear Creek canyon. W. L. Cummings, arrested last July by fedei-al authorities, charged with sending blackhand letters through the mails, was indicted by the federal grand jury at Salt Lake last week. Cummings eent a letter to Miss Dorothy Doro-thy Bamberger, demanding $1,000, Startled by screams, Mrs. George Douglass went to the front porch of her home in Ogden and found her little lit-tle daughter impaled upon a hook used to suspend a hammock. It is thought the little girl while climbing had fallen. Her injuries are not serious. seri-ous. George Sano, alleged keeper of a "blind pig" at Alex station in Carr Fork, B'ngham Canyon, discovered a few days ago that two depuy sheriffs were among his customers. He was arrested and a case of beer from which the officers had been served was confiscated. Governor Spry received a box from the Santaquin Commercial club as a memento of Apple day. The shipment contained just one -Rhode Island Greening, but made up in size what it lacked in number. The apple is four, teen inches in circumference and weighs as many ounces. Education was disseminated to tbe children of Salt Lake City, throu?h the public school system, at a per capita cost of $-38,485 during the school year of 1912-13. This is shown in a detailed report by Superintendent Christensen, the first of its kind ever issued in Salt Lake, to the board of education. One of the best methods for advertising adver-tising Utah apples in connection with the recent Utah Apple day, was the method used by the Alia club of Salt Lake. Each member of the club sent two apples wrapped in cotton and inclosed in-closed in a substantial cardboard box, 'o some friend in the United States or in foreign countries. With the assurance from the hospital hos-pital attendants that the man in a" probability will recover, there seems lo be little prospect at this time that Mrs. Phoebe Yoshikawa, otherwise known as Grace Murray, will he prosecuted pros-ecuted for the shooting of her Japanese Japan-ese husband, at Ogden. Utah holds the record for the smallest small-est number of federal appointments under the new administration. Thus far. President Wilson has made only tour appointments for Utah, an4 . these are aU iu the postofflc depart-I depart-I .uent |