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Show THE UTAHJUDGET The value of Utah's farm product this year it is estimated will be 34S.000. . . The value of Utah's six principal products this year will total $2-1,-47S.00O. Ogden's third annual fashion show will be held Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26. The public schools of American Fork will open the 1914-15 school year I on Monday, September 7. Under the laws of the state, every school district must provide at least twenty-eight weeks of school each year. . With the pear crop in Utah cotnty about half over and the peach crop just commencing, all of the farmers in that section are decidedly husy. Four prisoners escaped from the Davis county jail at Farmington, it being be-ing charged one of the prisoners stole the key to their cell from the sheriff. Gordon Schoher, 12 years oW, of Salt Lake, was crushed to death when his body became wedged between an old water wheel and the cement base, on the Jordan river. Norris Deakin, aged 2, was poisoned at Bingham, it is believed, as the result re-sult of eating a piece of meat which had been prepared with the intent of poisoning dogs. The child will re-cover. re-cover. The Utah legislature of 1915 will meet in the new state house, or, at least, the legislative chambers will be ready for the meeting, according to the superintendent of construction on the capitol. Jokn Hord, a negro Pullman porter, was shot through the right lung and probably fatally wounded during a drunken brawl Jn Salt Lake. J. C. Pugh, colored, has been arrested, charged -with the shooting. Thrown beneath the feet of two frightened horses near the Dilley ranch, five miles east of Snowville, Lee Van der Hoof, 10 years of age, sustained injuries from which he died before medical aid could be secured. A hospital for Price is the latest proposition for the building up of the city. Drs. R..E. Cloward, F. F. Fisk and B. C. Chamberlain are the promoters. pro-moters. The company will be capitalized capi-talized at ?25,000 with shares at l each. Frank Quinn, aged 30, a freight conductor employed by the Oregon Short Line, was instantly killed at Collinston when he slipped from the pilot of his locomotive and fell under the engine wheels. He was terribly mangled. The body of Virginia Brunsen, 2-year-old daughter of Richard Brunsen Brun-sen of Tooele, was found floating in the West Jordan canal near Salt Lake. The child met her death by drowning when she fell into the canal about two miles above. E. B. Priest of Denver, in company with Ira R. Browning of Castle Dale, has been in Price the past week trying to interest local capital in the gypsum beds of Emery county. It is the Intention In-tention of the promoters to establish a refining plant at Price. Sixty bushels of wheat an acre is the mark set on the Knight dry farm west of Eureka during the season just ended. This was from a small tract of this farm, and other portions of tne farm averaged forty-five bushels. The entire farm comprises about 450 acres. For the first time in the history ol Sanpete county it has been decided to have a fair. Enough work has been done to insure its success and the whole county will get together for a big time. The dates are September 23 to October 1 inclusive and the fair is to be held at Mriti. Not long ago a resident of Logan was reported to be suffering from acute hookworm. The report was duly investigated, as also was the state of the reported victim's health, and Dr. T. B. Beatty, secretary of the state board of health, said that the report was founded upon error. Peter Miiier, superintendent of the Pacific Leasing company, at the Blue Rock mine in American Fork canyon, killed a 300-pound bear last week. For a number of nights the miners had been missing meat from the grub shack near the cabin, and Mr. Miller decided to wait for the intruder. John Murray, engineer at the Silver King Consolidated, at Park City, arose as usual for duty at about 5 o'clock, and seemed in his usual health. At 6 o'clock, when the whistle should have blown and failed, the watchman went to the engine room and found Mr. Murray lying on the floor dead. Determined to show his fearlessness fearless-ness of water, 7-year-old Dale Peace ventured into the depths of a swimming swim-ming hole in the Ogden river at Og-den, Og-den, despite strenuous protests of his sister Doris, 11 years of age. He was caught in the current of the stream, drawn into water fifteen feet deep and was drowned. When the state school for the deaf and the blind at Ogden opens for tho fall team August 9, 8,000 quarts of rruits and vegetables will have been put up in the school kitchen and stored iu the cellar for the consumption of the students during the year, according accord-ing to Superintendent F. M. Driygs. The pumping plant at the head of Jordan river, which contains tho largest pumps in the world, started operations August 21. So far this season, owing to the unusual amount of water in I'tah lake, the mummoth "imps lrn: remained ldla. |