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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Robert Johnson, aged 9, fell under-neat under-neat li a freight train In Salt Lake and was cut In two. An Improvement Involving the expenditure ex-penditure of $00,000 is to be made In tbe Ogden gas plant. Utalins of San Diego, Cal., have organized or-ganized a Utah State society, with a charter membership of 100. Slxtyfour marriage licenses were issued is-sued by the county clerk of Salt Lake county on October 2. This ties the previous high record. Handcart pioneers who came to Utah In 1850 and up to 1SC0, held their annual an-nual reunion in Salt Lake on Wednesday Wednes-day of UiBt week. Jim H. Koetley, one of the old-time mining men of the west, died at his thome in Salt Lake, October 2, of heart troublo at the age of 71 years. The Progressive state ticket was filed last week with the secretary of state, and in the absence of protest will be given a place on the official ballot. Edward M. Allison, a prominent resident resi-dent of Ogden, and one of the early builders of the state, died October 2, following an illness of two weeks of pleurisy. While boat riding near Charleston, W. Va., Royal D. Oldbara of Paradise, was drowned. The boat was accidentally accident-ally capsized, Oldham failing to reach the bank. The Davis & Wcber Counties Canal company's plant at Riverdale Is near-lug near-lug completion and is expected to be in, readiness to turn over to the owners within ten days. From present indications of the canvas can-vas being conducted by the political parties of Weber county the vote this year will be much, greater than two or four years ago. A thief entered the rooms of Captain Cap-tain C. W. Knapp of the Salvation army at Ogden and robbed him of $35, while the Captain and Mrs. Knapp were holding services in the street. With the completion of the new four-room four-room addition Roy, in Weber county, has one of the best country schools in the state. The improvements cost $11,000, including a steam heating plant. Secretary of State Knox has written writ-ten to Avard T. Fairbanks, Salt Lake's 15-year-old sculptor, requesting some of the youth's work in plaster with which to ornament his office in Washington. Wash-ington. Daniel Dilovitch, a Slav miner employed em-ployed by the Silver King Coalition company at Park City, was instantly killed, when he fell more than 100 feet in the shaft on the Alliance ground of the mine. Protest to the railroads that Utah and southern Idaho flour millers are being discriminated against in favor of Denver mills was framed by the Utah-Idaho Millers association, which melt in Salt Lake last week. Warren, Weber county, is alarmed over the presence of diphtheria. One death has resulted from the disease, three homes have been placed in quarantine quar-antine within forty-eight hours, and the district school ordered closed. ' Vail Wightman, a wealthy young rancher of Ouray, Uintah county, shot Belle Brown, aged 18, near Provo, and then suicided. The girl may recover. The shooting was the result of a quarrel quar-rel between the two, who had been engaged. The monthly report of the board of health of Salt Lake for September shows a total of 207 births to have been reported, 107 males and 100 females. In the same period there were 92 deaths, 57 males and 35 females. Morris Knowles of Pittsburg, a sanitary sani-tary engineer of national reputation, speaking at the Salt Lake Commercial club, said he did not believe sheep tracking around the sources of Salt Lake's water supply transmitted typhoid ty-phoid fever. As authors of the best essays on "Why Utah Is a Good Place to Live," Spencer Ure and Kathleen Bagley of Granite high, school and Raymond Smith and Lillian Lewis of the Salt Lake high school have won free scholarships schol-arships in the University of Utah and the State Agricultural college. Salt Lake is to have a permanent naval recruiting station from which the navy's enlistments in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and part of Nevada will be directed. The office is to be opened it once and is a sequel to the action )f eonsress in authorizing an increase jf 5,000 men in the navy. It is declared by P. V. Cardon, gov-irnment gov-irnment expert in charge of the dry 'arm investigation in Utah in co-oper-ition with the Utah Experiment station, sta-tion, that 20,000,000 acres of land as ret uncultivated can be made to yield jood crops Mr. Cardon say,; cultivation cultiva-tion of the unfilled area must come by Iry farming. Because of lack of ore on which to keep the furnaces running the Tooele smelter shut down four McDougal furnaces fur-naces and one reverberator)- furnace on Wednesday. It had shut down two of the former and one of the latter on Tuesday. The Twin Peaks Canning company'9 factory at Murray was practically destroyed de-stroyed by fire Saturday night. The loss is variously estimated at between $30,000 and $40,000. The destruction of the plant will work a great hardship hard-ship to the farmers of the Murray .. i section. |