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Show UTAH STATE NEWS It. is estimated that between 7,000 and 10.009 persons visited Brigham City on Peach day, tile IXth. J. O. Ouderdonk, aged f5, slipped in front f a rapidly moving street car In Salt Lake City and was instantly instant-ly killed. The Uncles intraurban line between Logan and Hyde Park was formally opened o the 17th. Over 1,000 people gathered at Hyde Park to celebrate. The Ogden factory of the Amalgamated Amalga-mated Sugar company will be placed In oimration Monday morning if there Is a sufficient quantity of beets on band at that time. The annual fair at Cedar City has been a fireat success, the weather being idoal and the attendance all that conld lo desired, while the exhibita were the host in the history of the fair. Tho barn and 100 tons of hay owned own-ed by Stephen Kllis of South Bountiful Bounti-ful were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $2,000, with no insurance. insur-ance. Hoys started the conflagration by playing with matches. Arnold Deardall, the boy shot at Helper by Edward B. Johnson, is rapidly improving. Several bone splinters have been removed from the wound. It Is not thought that amputation ampu-tation of his leg will be necessary. The police of Logan one day last week raided two hotels, a cafe and a livery stable, twenty-one barrels of beer and a considerable quantity ot whisky being confiscated, while the proprietors of the places were arrested. arrest-ed. The police have been asked to investigate in-vestigate tho circumstances connected with the explosion of a kitchen range at tho Ihome of Mrs. Alice Emerson, at Ogden. It is believed 'that the explosion ex-plosion resulted from dynamite placed in the ooai. There were forty-nine more deaths reported last month than during July, according to the monthly report ol the Utah state board of health for thq month of August. The deaths last month totalled 281. During July they totalled 232. Miss Jeanette Patterson of Kelton was thrown from an automobile three miles south of Brigham City and her shoulder broken. The car tipped over when the driver steered the machine into the electric line tracks to avoid collision with a buggy. Christopher Diehl, for forty years grand secretary of the grand lodge of Utah, Free aid Accepted Masons, and the oldest Masonic grand lodge secretary secre-tary in the world in point of years and service, died at his home in Salt Lake, September 17, at the age of 82. The state game warden declares that the early cold weather has brought about great improvement in the health conditions of ducks, and that the sport of duck hunting this , season will be as good as that of the best seasons heretofore experienced. Beet growers of Weber county have been notified to start digging the Ibeets this week and transport the same to the loading stations as soon as possible. The company officials believe that the crop in Weber county is so heavy this year that it will require re-quire a long factory run to dispose of the beets. The rainfall in Utah varies from six to twenty-five inches annually at stations between 2,800 and 7,000 feet, and it is probable that as much as thirty inches or more falls at some places at the higher levels. The stations sta-tions on the western slopes receive more moisture than those on the eastern east-ern slopes. ' Electric lights were turned on In Morgan City and vicinity for the first time oa September 11. . The Como Light Development company, to fulfill ful-fill their contract with residents of Morgan City, were compelled to erect a temporary plant which is generating generat-ing power at the present time. More than 25,000 acre-feet of water will be stored in the Piute reservoir next spring, accoding to Joseph Jen sen, engineer in charge of construction construc-tion work of the Piute dam. He says the dam will be ready next spring and will store 15,000 more acre-feet than the reservoir contained last year. Convinced by the dying statement of Brigham Taylor, the eighteen-year-old boy who was shot by former Deputy De-puty Sheriff E. B. Johnston near Helper, Help-er, that the killing was lacking in provocation, the county attorney at Price is preparing to charge the slayer with murder in the first degree. Next Christmas day will mark the one hundred and fourth birthday ot Mrs. Margaret Burch Goff of Spring-ville, Spring-ville, one of the o.dest surviving pioneers pio-neers of Utr.h Mrs. Goff was born at Unidella, Del., December 25, 1S0S. Since the opening of the Weber academy at Ogden for the school year of 1912-13, the total registration for the week shows an increase of more than fifty students over the number enrolled during the first week of last year. The horticultural insnec'or for Weber We-ber county is very optimistic regarding regard-ing the fruit situalicn m li s U it. ,ory ind denies that the high wind of the paBt few days caused any grea,. amount of damage. In fact he believes that :o 'the extent of thinning out the fruit, tho wind was beneficial. |