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Show UTAH STATE NEWS 'l'ho post oltleo nl Croydon, Morgan couniy, will be discontinued .September .Septem-ber lid. Mrs. Dura llrown, n widow SI years I age sul'lered a broken log when sho was run down by a reckless bicycle rider in Salt Lake. Three men arrested at Ogden aro believed to bo members of a "chloral Kang." who iiiake a pruclieo of drugging drug-ging their victim and then robbing them. An experiment In development for water that has been In progress at Pleasant (irovo for fifteen years is up. parently about lo prove highly successful. suc-cessful. The first step to bo taken In the matter mat-ter of Increasing ihe water supply for Hrigham rity w ill be the building of a new reservoir at a high point on reservoir reser-voir hill at an early dale. With a total or S.r,:i7 children of school age residing In Cgdcn, 2,"iJ7 are either attend, ng private schools or or are out of school, according lo a report submitted to the board of education edu-cation by Ihe clerk. Govei nor Spry has accepted the presidency of the Montana Sugar company, com-pany, a concern Incorporated at Stilt l.ako City, some time ago, according to an announcement made from Hie company's headquarters. At a mass convention of Socialists of Clah county, held at Spring', llie, candidates lor Ihe lower house of the legislature and for county olllees were nominated and a campaign cuminitlee for l'tah county was n. lined. Gram C. l'.aglcy, weil known atlor my and highly-respected citizen of 1'rovo for lite ;iasi twenty live years, died September -11 from an affection of the heart, which had confined him to Ins home lor about three weeks. W.th the head and face battered almost al-most lo a pulp by blows from a Hat iron, believed to have been wle'd d by a num. the body of P.laiiche '1 err-, about il." years of age. was found in a rooming house In Salt Lake City. The l'tah guardsmen on the Mexican border are missing no opportunity to bring honor to the state or to tell the militiamen from oilier states just what a grand old state l'tah Is, accorolng to reports that come from that section. Utah county farmers will commence digging sugar beets October 'J. As soon as a sufficient amount has be-on delivered the factory at Lehl will commence com-mence converting them Into sugar. This will probably be Wednesday, October Oc-tober 2. Lavina Krossche, 17 years of age, the girl who told the Salt Lake police a tale of how she had been kidnaped at night and taken to Ogdn In an automobile by two men, now admits the story was a fabrication of her Imagination. Hans Browning, 24 years of age, a farmer In the Roy district, eight miles southwest of Ogden, was instantly killed when struck by lightning, and Peter Jetninga, his companion, was rendered unconscious, but escaped other injury. The state is now in a position to guarantee Jl a day to the family of any wife deserter as soon as he is sentenced to a term in the county jail. The prisoner will be compelled to work on the roads and $1 a day will be given his family. All over the country plans are maturing ma-turing for the celebration of America's Electrical week, December 2 to 9. and to conform with the other big cities of the United States Salt Lake is making mak-ing arrangements for participating in the nation-wide movement. The Salt Lake & Ogden and the Salt Lake & Utah electric railroads, known better as the Bamberger and Orem lines, are now using their new terminal termi-nal station in Salt Lake, on the site of the old Valley house, at one time the leading hotel of Salt Lake. Harry Brewer confessed on .September .Septem-ber 2:1, in the presence of four witnesses, wit-nesses, that he shot and killed Eugene Allen at Bingham, on April 15, 11)14, and that Frank De Pretto was innocent. inno-cent. He declared he thought Allen was armed, and shot to save his own life. Capt. W. C. Webb, commander of the Utah' battery in service on the Mexican Mexi-can border at Nogales, Ariz., has returned re-turned to Salt Lake on special leave ot absence, granted by the secretary of war, to enable him to organize the cadet corps of the Salt Lake high school. Arrangements are being formulated to hold a big celebration in Pleasant Grove in honor of the establishment ol two new industries the sugar beet slicing station and the canning factory. The latter is already in successtul opera! op-era! ion and the former will be running about October 14. George E. Holman of Pleasant Grove, in charge of the United States biological biologi-cal survey, and w ho has charge of the destruction of predatory animals, in an interview says that since (no government govern-ment started its war on coyotes last fall his men have killed more than 3,500 of them in L'tah alone. |