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Show 11 STATE im An Increase of .10 cents a tun in the price to be paid tor su;.ir beets will mean I'.'.'.iKni for Cache valley farmers. Approximately 200 new classrooms are. being hullt for the put'l'c schools of I'tah ouUhle or Utlcs of the llisi Hid second classes. Salt lake's holiday week ot Chautauqua, Chau-tauqua, given under the auspices ot Salt Lake lodge 'o s;,, n. p. o. K.. opened .Monday. Australians residing lu Salt l.ako have- organized a society for fra'ernal and social purposes, and last e"'-held e"'-held their first outing. A total of $.:i.9i;s.7r. has been mild into tile office ot the secretary of state lor motor vehicle lie, uses lu the halt year ending June HO, li'lt!. The total valuation of trackage of the Oregon Short Line railroad in I'tah Is J."i.."i2l,S40. according to a statement tssied last weeK. Prosperity In I'tah Is shown In the fact that business failures during the first six months of UHG totaled ouly 13, a decrease of 4 from last year. 'Mulcom E. Keeter. aged 24. was fatally injured at Ogden when his team was frightened by the elephants in a circus parade and ran away. Keeter being thrown from the wagon. Directors of the Ogden Harvest Festival Fes-tival and Fashion Show association have fixed Sepienuer 14, 13 and 16 as the dates for the fifth annual celebration. celebra-tion. Clyde P.allinger and William S-iiiti). believed to be the men who engi-I engi-I neered several jewelry ronberles at Salt like. vave been captured at Hurley, Idaho. Installation of the lighting system on the capitol grounds Is under way. The system will include seventy-four lamp posts, all of Iron, set upon concrete con-crete foundations. Ninety-seven bank reports have been received by the state bank commissioner com-missioner under his receM call for a report showing the condition of the several institutions. In addition to an elaborate pageant that will show the progress cf I'tah. the Pioneer day program at Ogden will include a baby buggy parade and a fireworks celebration. The residence of Bishop Alma Keyes of Vintah was destroyed by fire with an estimated loss of tU.OeO. Sparks from a Vnion Pacific locomotive are thought to have caused the J;re. Pacific island missionaries will hold a reunion at Spanish Fork and Piv-eon Piv-eon July 22. 23 and 24. Islanders from Laie. Samoa, Tahiti and New Zealand will be in attendance at the reunion. There are four new flags in the state capitol. They are of the standard stand-ard battleship size, l."x23 feet. They cost $125. They were originally purchased pur-chased for the opening of the state capitol. Announcement was made last week that the retail merchants or Salt Lake have decided to hold two fashion shows each year, beginnl." with a three days' fall fashion show on September Sep-tember 11, 12 and 13. Assesed valuation of property in Tooele county as reported to the state board of equalization is $14,742,0S1, of which real estate is given at $2,122.-260. $2,122.-260. The amount assessed by the state board totals $6,407,264. ' Sixty Vte Indians have left the Vte reservation and are now in the southern south-ern part of the state below Monticel-lo, Monticel-lo, at Navajo Springs, where they will conduct the annual Vte Indian sun dance in the very near future. The government crop report issued July 7 shows the. greatest gain for Vtah in potatoes. The July 1 forecast gives the state a crop of 3,030,000 bushels as compared with last year's final estimate of 2,500,000 bushe'v In response to an inquiry by Airs from Washington, Dr. T. B. Beatty, secretary of state board of health, was able to report officially to headquarters headquar-ters that there are no existent cases of infantile paralysis in Vtah at the present time. Two well-dressed robbers held up the Granger station of the Orem inter-urban inter-urban railroad company, taking $21.21 from the till and minor valB'bles. The holdup occurred at midnight, William Wil-liam Finley, station agent, was aloae in the building when the robbers entered. en-tered. Harry Brewer, convicted of first degree de-gree murder for complicity with Frank DePretto in the killing of Eugene Allen Al-len at the Miners' Mercantile store, Carr Fork, Bingham canyon, April 15, 1914, was refused a new trial in a decision de-cision handed down by tne supreme court. Increased prosperity of Salt Lake City is reflected in the enlarged output of the Vtah Gas company. Reports of the company show large Increases over last year. Salt Lake bakers have practically completed plans for the national convention con-vention of the Master Bakers' association associa-tion which meets at Salt Lake August Au-gust S. The total assessed valuation of Washington county is given at $1,996,-2S9. $1,996,-2S9. The items are: Real estate, $S4S,-S45; $S4S,-S45; improvements, $36S,410; live stock, $490. 6S0; personal property, $264, S50, and property assessed by the state board of equalization, $23,404. Due to the frequent damage resulting result-ing from motorists who drive their machines ma-chines into the safety zone markers In the business district at Ogden, an ordinance is to be enacted providing for a maximum penalty of a fine of $25 or twenty-live days in jail for such uiisd ;mcanor |
