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Show UTAli STATE NEWS Odin Johnson, who was killed in 9 motorcycle accident at Cincinnati, vaj a resident of Salt Lake City. It is predicted that between 400 and 500 carloads of peaches will be shipped from Utah county this year Representative Johnson has intro. ductd a bill appropriating $55,000 fDr the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building at Ephraim. Nick Kronobic, charged with assaul-upon assaul-upon a fellow countryman at Lu-in' has been sentenced to pay a fiue 0( $100 or serve 100 days in the county jail. Salt Lake City has been chosen as the next meeting place of the Paciac Coast Freight Agents association, which has just closed its convention at Seattle. George Morton, aged 21, who was badly mangled when he was caught in a flywheel at the Kaysville Brick works at Kaysville, died at a Salt Lake hospital. Wheat and other grains are being harvested in the Brigham City section. The season has been ideal for the diy farmers and large crops are reported from all quarters. Von Kirkham, aged 19, who received serious injuries at Lehi while attempting at-tempting to follow an automobile on his bicycle, is in a serious condition at a Salt Lake hospital. Caught by a high tension wire carrying car-rying 4,000 volts of electricity, while on the crossarm of a pole, Leo s. Baumgart of Salt Lake received burns of such serious character that his death is expected. Suspected of being George Arthur Harper, wanted in Caliente, -Nev., for shooting to death two men and wounding wound-ing a third in a saloon row on the night of June 30, R. F. Spencer has been arrested in Ogden. That Logan citizens are determined to have a water system which will supply pure water was evidenced by a 'meeting last week when a large number num-ber gathered to discuss the ways and means of obtaining the same. Wiliiam WTolf, a German, 30 years ol age, attempted suicide in the boys' w-ard of the city jail at Salt Lake by hanging himself to the bars of his cell with suspenders, but was discovered and cut down by the other prisoners. Henry J. Woebke, 38 years of age, Salt Lake sales agent for the American Ameri-can Steel & Wire company, was fatally fatal-ly injured and O. W. McGill was seriously seri-ously injured when McGill's automobile automo-bile wpnt over an embankment in Sal) Lake City. J. Edward Taylor, state horticultural commissioner, has returned from a general inspection trip in Cache county. coun-ty. Ha declares that the prospects for a good commercial crop of fruit in that district are better -'than they were ?. year ago. Death claimed a pioneer resident o( Weber county last week, when Andreas An-dreas Peter Mortensen died at his home in Huntsville of general debility. He was 91 years old, having been born in Sollerod, Copenhagen county, Denmark, Den-mark, July 14, 1822. In despair over domestic troubles, Mrs. Mildred Mann, said to be a daughter of a wealthy banker in Seattle, Seat-tle, took a hypodermic injection ol morphine at her room in a Salt Lake hotel, but was discovered in time tc pre-vent her death. Leo Takko, charged with stabbing Andrew NemI, a Finlander, was discharged dis-charged at the conclusion of his hearing hear-ing at Park City. The dismissal was made on the grounds of unsufficient evidence. Nemi is at the Miners' hospital, hos-pital, where he is slowly recovering. When Roy, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Warner, who live rear the Spanish Fork power plant, got up one morning last week he found that he had been sleeping with a huge rattlesnake that had crept into his bed.- lie immediately killed the snake. The total tax of Ogden city property prop-erty for the year 1913, according to the levy made by the county and citycum-missioners, citycum-missioners, is 35,495 mills, which is a decre-ase of '2.105 mills under - last year's tax levy, which was 37.C mills. hi the county outside the city tie tax will be 24 mills. Wr. J. Parker, who is interest,! I" several canneries in Weber coui:J'. predicts this year to be the banner year for the tomata crop. With the present price and demand he says that there is no reason why each farmer farm-er r.hould not have his entire crop sold before it reaches the canuer. In spite of :i prediction by a Lake woman that the Saltair pavilion would collapse Pioneer day, the resort did not fall in. However, many persons per-sons who had plannel to spend the day there were prevented from taking their outing at the lake, by the prediction. predic-tion. John W. Hill, SO years of age, a resident res-ident of Vtah since 1S74 ni knowu in railroad circles, died W 27 in Chicago, of apoplexy. Mr. " formerly worked on the old 1'tah Central Cen-tral railroad and helped build the roa from Lehi to Provo. Another murder was committed in Salt Lake city last week, according'0 the verdict of a coroner's jury SUD1; moned to inve.-ligate tho cause 0 the death of the familiar police ctinr character knowu as "Johnnie E"1 ho was bealen to death by mi""0" persons. W. II. Bywater, chief of ",e Sa" I Lake lire department, has been roi stated after being suspended fr . lime pending investigation fl'"0W irl 1 tho running down and killing o( S 1 while he was on his way to a 8 ' mi automobile. |