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Show WwiL HEWS I i Pelican Point onyx may be used to decorate one of the largest office buildings in Csicago. About 400 teachers attended the Utah and Juab county teachers' institute insti-tute at Spanish Fork. Nurses in the public schools of Salt Lake made a total of 14,140 inspections inspec-tions for the week ended October 9, 1914. A tentative program for the coming annual meeting of the Utah Education association in Salt Lake November 23, 1 24 and 23, has" been completed. Leo S. Baumgart, aged 30, suicided at Salt Lake, inhaling gas from a kitchen range. As the result of an accident he had become a cripple, ana this preyed upon his mind. Albert Woodward of Corrinne is dead from the effects of being shot in the abdomen while duck hunting, the accident occurring when a companion was handing him a shotgun. Miss Ruth Bybee, 14 years of age, of West Point, Davis county, has been selected as state sweepstake champion cham-pion from among those girls who had won first prizes in the boys' and girls' club work. Lamar Johnson, 18 years of age, o( Provo, lost three fingers of his right hand. The hand caught in. a small press in the laboratory of the Utah Sugar company's auxiliary station at Lake View. - Edward Frampton, aged 30, of Fillmore, Fill-more, was accidentally shot and killed while deer hunting. The fatal shot was fired by Elmer Hatton, a hunting companion of Frampton. 'Hatton mistook mis-took his friend for a deer. Entrants in the state high school speaking contest to be held in Salt Lake next spring will face a hardei test than ever before, according to D. G. Hunt of the University of Utah, who is directing the contest. Holding that the shooting was accidental, ac-cidental, the coroner's jury in the case of John Cowlinshaw returned a verdict exonerating Ronald Hallstrom from the possible charge of having deliberately deliber-ately murdered his playmate at Ogden. In commemoration of the discovery of America by Columbus the Salt Lake council of the Knights of Columbus gave a brilliant annual banquet at Salt Lake, October 12. About 150 ladies la-dies and gentlemen were at the tables. George D Ward, charged with having hav-ing used the mails to defraud H. Gil-reath Gil-reath of Yankton, S. D., out of $1,300, changed his plea of not guilty to guilty in the federal court at Ogden, and was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment. imprison-ment. At a meeting of the charities endorsement en-dorsement committee of the Commercial Commer-cial club in .Salt Lake it was shown that the work of the committee had reduced the overhead waste in Salt Lake charity work $90,000 in the last two years. Indications that 500 deeer have been killed in Utah since the opening of the deer season October 1, may cause the state fish and game commissioner to ask the next legislature to shorten materially the deer season in Utah. The deer season in the state lasts fifteen fif-teen days. The Utah Federation of Women's clubs, which held a three-day session in .Salt Lake last week, went on record as opposed to militarism by condemning condemn-ing the purchase of toy firearms, military mili-tary uniforms or anything which would stimulate fighting instincts in youthful minds. Argument for and against the poll tax law of Utah will be heard by the supreme court on October 26. The . case is one that is of special interest tc every male citizen of the state, between be-tween the ages of 21 and 50 years, who is not exempt by law from the payment of this tax. Ten tons of clay are being molded into a map of the state of Utah at the Utah Agricultural college. The work on the immense relief map was commenced in June and is nearing completion. The finished article will be displayed at the San Francisco exhibition ex-hibition and is one of the largest ever made. As the result of a gasoline explosion explo-sion believed to have been caused by an electric spark, Mrs. Heber Oborn, of Ogden, sustained painful burns about the hands and arms. She probably prob-ably saved her own life by promptly wrapping herself in rugs when the Barnes were rapidly spreading to her slothing. Associated Canal companies of Salt Lake county will commence the con-struction con-struction of a $25,000 concrete dam in, the Jordan river at the Narrows. This may mean the ultimate transfer of the mammoth pumping plant from its; present site at the outlet of Utah lake to where the first canals are taken out of the river seven miles below. The body of Peter R. Shupe. 53 years of age, a resident of Ogden nearly all his life, was brought to that city Tuesday following his death at Huntsville. Death resulted from a complication of diseases. Frank F. Merrill, former guard at the penitentiary, and under sentence of a penitentiary term for allowing George Parry, moral pervert, to es-cape es-cape over the walls of the institution more than a year ago, was granted an indefinite reprieve by Governor William Spry. With the track completad anf. much of the overhead wiring in readiness readi-ness for service, General Manager P. D. Kline announced last week that cars would be operated over the . Wellsville-Lewiston extension of the tyogan electric line about December 1. |