The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-02
WEBER COUNTY
AWARDED BEAUTY
CONTEST PRIZE
Miss Beatrice Brewer of Og-
den Selected as Most Beau
tiful Queen in State Fair
Carnival of Counties.
TASK OF JUDGES
A DIFFICULT ONE
Utah and Cache Counties Sc
cure Second and Third
Places; Maids of Honor
Are Chosen.

Miss Beatrice Brewer Of Ogden,
queen of the Weber county delegation
in the state fair beauty contest, was
last night selected as the most beau
tiful queen in the Carnival of Coun-
ties. This was the erowning feature
of Weber County day. The scores of
visitors from that section of Utah
returned home last night happy. They
had captured the big prize, the beauty
prize.
Miss Salena Farrer Of Utah county
was declared second among the queens
and Miss Tirzah Korupkat of Cache
county was third of the queens.
Sewer county captured first prize
among the maids Of honor, Miss Ivie
Maglesby being the choice of the
judges. Miss Eva Bonner of Wasatch
county was second, Miss Mearle Ashton
of Uintah was third, and Miss Rather
Inc Gillispie OF Tooele county fourth
among the maids Of honor.
Judging Difficult.
That it WAS no easy task for the
judges to pick the three most beautiful
queens from among fifteen charming
young ladies and four most beautiful
maids of honor from among fifty-threc
handsome representatives, was indicated
by the duration of the conference. The
judges, after viewing the galaxy of
beauty lined up on the stage of the
coliseum retired and debated on the
awards for nearly an hour and half
before presenting their decisions to
Governor Spry.
The following acted as judges: 2.
j. Moran Of Salt Lake, Moroni Skeen
of Ogden, Mayor Fl, G. Heyball of
Logan, Preston G, Peterson of Provo
and r. D. Young Of Richfeld. That
their decisions were popular was in
dicated by the enthusiastic applause
that greeted the governors announce
ment of the winners.
The attendance both in the after.
noon and evening yesterday was ma
terially larger, probably due largely to
the reduction in the price of admission.
The influx OF out-ofatown visitors for
conference was also considered rs one
of the causes for the increase. 1t is
believed that it will grow daily.
Two More Accidents.
Two more hair-raising accidents
a!
Walter Barker, the daring diver who
narrowly escaped death Tuesday even
ing, had a more serious mishap yester-
day afternoon. Stiff and not altogeth
er recovered from his shocking e1pe-
rience of the night before, he came
down the incline, and just before be
left 1t his roller skates went from I'M
der him, hurting him on his back
against the heavy timbered edge Of
the tank. He then fell over into the
water and disappeared A hand strug-
gled up above the surface just before
his rescuers reached him. indicating
that ne had not met instant death from
a broken back, as many OF the hun
dreds OF onlookers first believed.
AT this moment his wife, Annette
Barker tainted on her high tower, sixty
feet above the tank. Had it not been
for the presence Of nm assistant with
her OH top Of the tower she would have
fallen into the water in which her hus-
band was vainly trying TO rise. Po.
icomen and spectators quickly pulled
Barker from the water. He displayed
the same grit that characterized his
quick recovery the night before. He
stood on his feet urassisted, though in
rreat pain, and called to his wife above
% dive. But she was weak from the
shock and shook her head. Barker
insisted. and then tho crowd set up
shout for her not to dive. She gave
Up the feat.
Exhibition Stopped.
The fair management would not per.
nit Barker to perform last night, but
lis plucky wife made her sensational
,uman torch dive into the tank with
IS surface covered with flames.
The other accident occurred in the
rena during the wild west show last
light. Miss Theo Hampshire, Salt
AXE girl, was dashed against the brick
vail at the southeast side of the arena
While attempting to ride a bucleing
roncho. The girl was riding the bron
no bareback with nothing to cling to
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