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Show UTAH STATE NEWS A Japanese named Nakagaa was seriously injured in a stalling affraj Bt Price. IILs assailant, N'akamara, is under arrest. The hoy scout movement has been taken up in Urigliam City and four separato organizations perfected, each ward having a company. Tho next session of the Utah legislature legis-lature will he asked for an appropriation appropria-tion to cover expenses of surveying and marking tho old Pioneer Trail Into Salt Lake. Carl Warr, who nearly blew up the police station In Los Angeles, was formerly for-merly a re.sldent of Salt Lake and at one time was a bicycle rider at the Salt Palace saucer. Bear River valley apples will be placed on the foreign markets thie year for the first time. An experiment experi-ment consignment of twenty-five carloads car-loads la to be shipped to Germany. Not within ten years have deer been so plentiful within a radium of foui miles around Bingham as they have been tho past season. Over thirty deer have been killed 'by the hunters. Utah cattle entered In the Pacific International Dairy show at Portland took three firsts, three seconds, two thirds and a number of lesser prizes for Individuals In the Jersey division. Surveyors representing a Los Angeles An-geles company are making plans for pumping the water out of Provo bay into Utah lake to reclaim the largo tract of farming land now covered by water. Despite reports that indicate that the war against Turkey has passed the crisis, parties of Greeks are leaving leav-ing Salt Lake every day and the movement move-ment from Utah to date is estimated at more than 1,500. Daniel King, one of the first rest dents of Spanish Fork, died on tl 19th. He was born in England and was 83 years old. He came to Utur. in 18T4 and resided In Spanish Fork for fifty-four years. Joseph Irons, a farmer living two m miles south of Nephi, lost 2,000 bushels V of wheat by fire. The fire was caused la spark from a threshing machine, Jeh was also badly burned. The loss estimated at $1,500. After considering propositions from f the Utah-Idaho Sugar company and a f new company headed by Jesse Knight ' of Provo, the members of the Commercial Com-mercial club of Payson voted in favor of Mr. Knight's proposal. B. G. Titus, entomologist from the state agricultural college at Logan, departed de-parted for California a ifew days ago, where he will attempt to induce the California horticultural inspector to raise the quarantine on bea. Work has so far progressed on the state canal that the twenty-two miles covering the Sevier "Valley Canal company's holdings from Joseph to , three miles north of Richfield will be finished and ready for fall irrigating. William Bone, one of Lehi's oldest and most prominent citizens, died on the 20th after a lingering illness caused caus-ed by heart trouble. Mr. Bone was born in Bedfordshire, England, November Novem-ber 6, 1S41. He came to Lehi in 1S61. Found guilty of violating the hours of labor law by allowing the employees to work, in one instance, twenty-four hours a day, the San Pedro, Los Angeles An-geles & Salt Lake railroad was fined $200 in the federal district court ai Salt Lake. James Hickman was convicted at I Nephi of murder in the second de1 gree for the killing of a man named Hutchinson at Eureka. Hickman cut Hutchinson in the neck with a pocket-knife. pocket-knife. The jugular vein was severed and Hutchinson died. Harry Kendall, aged 7, was seriously seri-ously injured at Nephi by the explosion explo-sion of a giant cap he had found. The cap exploded in the little fellow's face, inflicting numerous wounds and blowing the thumb and first two fingers fin-gers off his left hand. The board of health of Brigham City has authorized the purchase of garbage gar-bage cans for use on Main street and west on Forest to First West. This is the first time that an effort has been made to care for rubbish that is otherwise thrown in the street. Summarizing its work for the past year the state road commission shows that it has worked in every county, built permanent works and has let contracts con-tracts for nine steel bridges. It has built a mile and a half of concrete road for experimental purposes in Box Elder county. The annual report of the state board of equalization is being compiled, in com-pany with the reports of other state offices, and it is expected that the assessable value of the state will be more than $200,000,000 this year when it is all totaled, as against $192,424,105 last year. November 20 was Old Folks' day at Fillmore, and 200 residents of that section were given a splendid treat. The guests, ranging in age from 50 to 96 years, were taken in automobiles and carriages to the Relief society hall, where a banquet was served. A recommendation will probably be made by Dr. S. G. Paul to the city commission com-mission of Salt Lake that a bounty be placed on dead flies in the capital city. It is suggested that a regular receiving place be ,named, where fly-ewatters fly-ewatters may take their trophies and be paid by the pound. |