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Show UTAH STATE NEWS A movement is afoot to have Ogden thrown open and keeping saloons open until mldoight. Nearly one hundred and ninety million dollars represents Utah's contribution con-tribution to the wealth of the world in " the year 1912. Ten counties are tardy in making their reports to the state board of equalization, and as a result the report re-port of the board will be late. Seven great divisions will comprise the electrical parade with which the National Irrigation congress will be opened September 30, in Salt Lake. Julius Taylor of Parowan, a popular popu-lar student at the State Branch Normal Nor-mal school, met his death by drown-i drown-i tag in Co-op valley, about nine miles jast of Parowan, while bathing. One day of the Trans-Missippi Commercial congress in Salt Lake will probably be devoted to the topic, 'See America First," one of the origi-aal origi-aal propositions of the congress. Between 4,000 and 5,000 excursionists excursion-ists boarded the cars for Ogden can-eon can-eon during the day on July 17, to participate par-ticipate in the annual outing of the Ogden merchants at the Hermitage. Otto Peterson is serving a sixty-day sentence in the city jail at Provo for selling a half-pint of whiskey to a svranger for $1. He was also given a Bne of $50, and will probably have to serve this. Nature has come to the relief of the bathers at the Great Salt Lake by sending a new bird to rid the lake of ;housands of gnats that have made bathing almost impossible in the last lew years. A mass convention to organize th National Progressive party in Utah bas been called to meet at Provo, July 27. Officers of the Roosevelt club of Utah issued the call. A state ticket is projected. J. A. Mahan and Mrs. J. L. Thomas, father and mother of James Mahan, who committed suicide at Springville, have been found. The father is in Ontario, Cal., and the mother in Skull Valley, Arizona. : One million one hundred thousand dollars' worth of new equipment foi the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad company has been ordered and contracts con-tracts signed, all to be delivered within with-in ninety days. . Seizing a strap suspended from an auto truck, Kenneth William Wincott, 6 years old, of Salt Lake, attempted to steal a ride, but fell under the wheels of the truck and received in juries which-may prove fatal. ...Two inure boys have succeeded in escaping from the state industrial school, making three for the last month. They were Howard Young, aged 17 years, and Lawrence Blundell, aged 14 years, both from Salt Lake. A force of men is at work in Box Elder canyon making surveys for the new pipe line which will be built this year to increase the city water supply at Brigham City. The old eight-inch line will be replaced by a twelve-inch pipe. The finishing work is being rushed on the double track between Salt Lake and Ogden on the Oregon Short Line. To date it is complete from Salt Lake to Layton, and this small strip is expected to be finished August Au-gust 1. Automobile races are to be a feature fea-ture at Provo on the 24th. Approximately Approxi-mately $500 will be given away in purses. A feature will be a twenty-five-mile pursuit race for cars carrying carry-ing a twenty-five horsepower engine Dr less. While John Musselman was walking walk-ing under a dark bridge on the way from Upper Bingham to Bingham, a man armed with a pistol appeared from ambush and told Musselman to put up his hands. Musselman did so. The highwayman got $2.75. Robbed and bleeding from half a dozen wounds in his head, inflicted by the metal end of a railroad car air nose in the hands of a thug, Sylves-tro Sylves-tro Leppi, au Italian laborer, was found iu a patch of weeds in the outskirts out-skirts of Salt Lake City. Leppi is seriously ser-iously injured. The Murray fire department was called upon to extinguish flames which threatened to destroy the Murray Mur-ray power plant. The fire started in the fuel room, but first originated from a. grass fire outside the plant. The loss to the power plant iB estimated esti-mated at $700. The handsome gold watch, a birthday birth-day present to Governor William Spry from other slate officials, which was stolen from the executive's residence resi-dence by burglars recently, was found last week in Springville. where it had been pawned by two young men whose Identity is uknuowu. N L. R. Martineau of Salt Lake City has addressed a telegram to President raft at Washington, complaining ol what he terms a lack of decisive action ac-tion towards insuring the lives ami -property of Americans in Mexico from molestation by the fighting factions. The Spanish Fork Commercial club, which carried to a glowing success the Strawberry project celebration July 2, 3, 4, is now planning to fur ther its activity by inviting citizens to join the club, thus swelling its membership to possibly double It: present enrollment. |