The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1912-07-26
UTAH STATE NEWS
coALVtLLE

million dollars represents Utah's con.
iributlon 10 the wealth 81 tho world IN
he year 1912
Ten counties are tardy In making
their reports to the state board OF
equalization. and as a result tho re-
port Of The board viii be late.
Seven great divisions Will comprise
tho electrical parade with which tho
National Irrigation congress will bo
ppened September 80. IN salt Lake.
Julius Taylor OF parowan. a popu.
lar student at the state Branch Nor.
nal school met bis death by drown.
ng In Coop valley. about nine miles
sast Of Parowan. while bathing
one day Of tho Trans MlssIppi
Commercial congress In salt Lake
viii probably be- devoted 20 tho topic.
see America First" ono OF tho orIgl.
pal propositions Of tho congress
Between 1000 and 5000 excursion.
lists boarded tho cars for ogden can
fon during the day on July ~. TO par.
licipate In the annual outing Of tho
Ogden merchants at the Hermitage
Otto Peterson IL serving a sixty day
sentence In tho city iall at Provo for
telling a hiltpint Of whlskcy 10 a
Stranger for 81, lie was also given a
tne Of $50. and Will probably have 10
serve this.
Nature has como TO the relief Of tho
bathcrB at the Great salt Lake by
sending a now bird 90 rid the lake Of
thousands OF gnatH that have made
bathing almost impossible In the last
Few years
a mass convention 10 organize tho
National Progressive party iu Utah
has been called 10 meet 40 Provo, July
a. Officers Of the Roosevelt club Of
Utah issued tho call. A state uckct
u projected
J. a. Mahnn and Mrs J. L. Thomas.
father and mother OF James Mahnn /
who committed suicide at springylllr /.
have been found The father Is In .
Ontario. Cal. and the mother In Skull .
Valley. Arizona.
ono million ono hundred thousand |
dollars worth Of new equipment foi /
the Denver a Rio Grando Railroad |
company has been ordered and con
tracts signed. all TO be delivered with |
In ninety days
Selling strap suspended from an
auto truck. Kenneth william wincott, |
y-eru Old. ot a~l,I ,.Nke. Rt,amptaa
90 steal ride. but Tell undor the
wheels OF the truck and received In
jurica which may prove fatal.
Two more boys have succeeded 10
escaping from tho state industrial
school. making three for the last
month. They were Howard Young
aged n ycara. and Lawrence Dlundcll
aged II years. both from Salt Lake.
A force OF men Is at work In BoS
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 cightinch
line viii bo replaced by u twelve inch
pipe.
The finishing work Ia being rushed
on the double track between Salt
Lake and Ogden ON tho Oregon Short
Line. To date II Is complete from
Salt Lake TO Layton. and this small
strip Is expected TO be finished Au,
gust I.
Automobile races are TO be Tea. |
ture at Provo on the Gath Approx T,
mately $500 will be given away In
purses a feature will be- twenty
hyemllc pursuit race for ears carry. |
lng twenty-five horsepower engine |
or less
While John Musselman was walk |
Ing under q dark bridge on tho way /.
from Upper bingham to bingham, a
man armed with pistol appeared |
from ambush and told Mussolman to
put up his hands, Musselman did 80.
The hlghwayman got S275
Robbed and bleeding from half
aozon wounds In his head. inflicted by |
the metal end ~ railroad cat air
hose In the hands OF thug, Sylycs,
tro Leppi, an Italian laboror was
found In a patch OF weeds In the out
skirts OF Salt Lake City Leppl 10 ser
lousy injured,
The Murray FRO department was
called upon to eNtlfgulsh flames
which threatened to destroy tho Muir
ray power plant The hro started In
the fuel room, but first originated
from grass nrc outside tho plant
The loss to the power plant ls esti-
mated at 500.
The handsome gold witch. "A birth,