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Show UTAH STATE NEWS LeRoy Smith, 27 years old, was killed while repairing a line of the Telluride Power company in North Logan, his wire witnessing the accident. acci-dent. A floral company of Farmington Is erecting largo conservatories and hot houses. When completed, It Is said, they will be the largest west of Denver. Den-ver. II. F. Daniels, night mill foreman of the Consolidated Mercur gold mine, was killed at Mercur when his clothing cloth-ing caught in a rapidly revolving shaft line. Afternoon and night sessions of the Transmississlppi Commercial congress will be held at Saltair August 28; the second day of the congress, as part or tho "See America First" program. In celebration of their first crop, tho former dwellers of Philadelphia and New York who make up the Jewish Jew-ish farm colony near Gunnison, Sanpete San-pete county, held a harvest festival at . he project Sunday. 1 ' ' Terence Rooney, a daring steeplejack, steeple-jack, with a reputation for having performed per-formed the duties' of his dangerous calling on some of the highest buildings build-ings in the world, has been engaged to gild the cross on St. Mary's cathedral in Salt Lake. Affairs In the Carbon county muddle mud-dle came to a climax Thursday .when Ave taxpayers swore out warrants for tho arrest of G. Jones, county clerk, and R. W. Snyder, county treasurer, the former for a felony and the latter for embezzlement. Whitney D. Ensign, the 12-yearold sou of Bishop D. H. Ensign of the First ward, Ogdcn, was fatally injure-. by being run over by a gravel wagon. The boy was riding on the wagon and fell under the wheels, a rear wheel passing over his chest. Ollie Burns, colored, 36 years of age, who was taken to a hospital and operated oper-ated upon after being shot in the abdomen in a quarrel with two women in Salt Lake on the night of. August 10, is dead. Annie Mitchell, a white woman, wom-an, is charged with the shooting. According to the state treasurer, the balance on hand June 30 was $2,460,-S71.39, $2,460,-S71.39, which added to the receipts for July, amounted to $163,646.39, totaled $2,642,517.75... The disburse ments amounted to $S03,979.77. Th balance on hand on July 30 was $1,820,-638.01. $1,820,-638.01. Twenty million cans is the estimate made by William Craig of the Salt Lake Valley Canning company on the amount of tomatoes that will be packed pack-ed by Ogden canners this season. He declares that this season will produce the greatest crop of tomatoes in the history of the state. Mrs. C. P. Overfleld of Salt Lake who was a member of the committee which notified Governor Woodrow Wilson Wil-son of his nomination as Democratic candidate for president of the United States, is the only woman who has ever served on a committee of this kind. Preparations are being made for Labor La-bor day celebration, Monday, September Septem-ber 2, by the Ogden Trades and Labor assembly. A parade will, be held in the morning, when a full representation representa-tion of organized workers will be shown. Sports and outdoor amusements amuse-ments will take place in the afternoon. after-noon. At a recent meeting of the county commission the tax levy for Sanpete county was set at six mills. Lt year it was seven. A special road tax of five mills was levied on all districts through which the state highway passes. William H. Bridge, aged 34, attempted attempt-ed to drive across the "Jordan river at Salt Lake and was dxown, his team also being drowned. Bridge drove off the ford into deep water and was carried down the stream by . the Current. Ollie Burns, 36 years of age, s. negro ne-gro waiter employed at the Salt Lake Commercial club, was shot in the abdomen ab-domen in a quarrel which seems to have been between him and two women. wo-men. A woman has been held on suspicion of having done the shooting. shoot-ing. Mrs. Lena Negley, Mormon rerugee from Colonia Dublan, is suffering from nervous prostration at a hospital in Salt Lake, having been sent there from El Paso by Bishop O. P. Miller, for treatment. Her two daughters, aged 6 and 4 years, accompanied her to the city. - . Sevier county is to be displayed, at its best at the big irrigation congress con-gress to be held in Salt Lake City during the latter part of September. She is to have. a float in the magnificent magni-ficent parade and this float is to represent rep-resent the county's . resources and industries. in-dustries. Comfiig to Eureka in response to telegrams sent to her home in Seat-tie, Seat-tie, Wash., Mrs. Frank Eames received receiv-ed the saddest blow that can come to a mother the news that her daughter committed suicide to end a lire of "waywardness. Mrs. J. W. N. Whitecotton, wife of n prominent local attorney and Mrs. A. F. Palm suffered severe cuts and bruises when the horse they were driving became frightened at a steam roller at Provo, and bolting, tipped over the bugsy, throwing them to the pavement. , |