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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The total valuation for the state is placed this year at $53,705,101, as against $47,315,433 for 1512, or an advance of $C,3.S'J,i;8. Jolin Thompson, who was convicted convict-ed of highway robbery at Price, was sentenced to not less than five years in the penitentiary. Under the new law this may mean a life sentence. iln the tabernacle at Salt Lake on the afternoon of Thursday, July 10, a public meeting of the American School Peace league will tie held, with Governor William Spry presiding. presid-ing. The Ogden Automobile Racing association as-sociation is planning a big celebration at the fair grounds July 24. The committee com-mittee in charge is arranging for auotmbolle races as one of the features. fea-tures. At the special liquor election on June 24, the citizens of Green River decided 1n favor of alcoholic beverages bever-ages by an overwhelming vote. The final returns were 176 for the "wets" and 57 .for the "drys." W. J. Halloran, a prominent financier finan-cier of Salt Lake, has received a Black Hand letter demanding $1,000 In gold, under penalty of having all his family murdered. Detectives are working on the case. Druggists from all parts of the Btate arrived in Provo on the 25th for the opening session of the thirteenth thir-teenth annual convention of the Utah Pharmaceutical association. About 200 members were present-Death present-Death claimed one of the best known railroad builders of the entire west when Thomas J. Fitzgerald, a continuous employee of the Southern Pacific company for nearly fifty years, died at Ogden last week. Retail jewelers of Salt Lake met last week and perfected an organization organiza-tion with Mayor Samuel C. Park as president. Prominent jewelry establishments estab-lishments of the city were represented represent-ed and the organization was made permanent. The Utah Motion Picture Exhibitors' Exhib-itors' league was organized last week t a meeting in Salt Lake City of motion mo-tion picture men from all parts of the state. The league is similar to organizations or-ganizations of .moving picture men in (cther states. -W. E. French of Pocatello suffered two fractured ribs, and Patrick Wych-ley, Wych-ley, Salt Lake, was rendered unconscious uncon-scious when an automobile, driven by Louis Reese of Logan, turned turtle In the streets of Salt Lake while being be-ing driven forty miles an hour. Abner Richins, prominent -horseman of Uintah county, has finished a sircular race course seven-eighths of i mile long, on his ranch three miles from Vernal. The course will be open to public racing, hut Is built primarily for Mr. Richin's own use. Utah marble has awakened the interest in-terest of eastern architects and importers im-porters and the question of freight rates alone now stands between the shipment of all that the local quarries quar-ries can produce, according to the manager of a Salt Lake marble company. com-pany. Logan is to be the 1914 convention lity for the Utah State Dental so-;iety, so-;iety, and that town also secured the president and secretary of the state organization at the annual election ivhich concluded the business transited trans-ited at the 1913 convention, held at Salt Lake last week. Prof. William M. Stewart, dean of the normal school of the University f Utah, director of the University summer school and one of the most widely known educators in the inter-mountain inter-mountain country, died at his home In Salt Lake, June 26, from neuralgia of the heart. P. W. Bruner, a brakeman employed em-ployed on the Denver & Rio Grande, was instantly killed at the Lehi sugar works, when he was struck by a passenger train, running at about forty miles an hour. Bruner had stepped upon the main track and did not see the approaching train. Patrolman Thomas F. Griffiths, aged 47, was shot four times and al-uost al-uost instantly killed by Giovanni An-selmo, An-selmo, aged 25, an Italian whom the INrticeman had arrested for assaulting assault-ing another Italian, neglecting to lisarm him. Anselmo was later shot down by pursuing officers and is now In the prison hospital. At the ninth annual convention of the Utah Retail Merchants' association, associa-tion, held at Ogden last week, Fred H. Weight of Salt Lake was elected president; D. F. Steele of Ogden, vice-president; J. S. Carver of Ogden, vice-president; O. M. Lees of Salt Lake, vice-president; L. M. Blackmar of Salt Lake, treasurer. J. Parley White has been appointed by the governor as state fcank examiner. ex-aminer. The appointment Is made under the law passed by the legislature legisla-ture creating a state bank commis-6ioner commis-6ioner and authorizing the appointment appoint-ment of one or more bank examiners. Crazed with excitement and exhaustion ex-haustion following their five days' dancing ceremonies in the observance of the sun dance, three hraves leaped Into the flames of the Immense bonfire bon-fire near Vernal. They were rescued, res-cued, but not before one of the lancers had been terribly burned. |