The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-11-14
UTAH STATE NEWS

among the miners.
The proposed annexation of por.
ton OF Davis county to Weber county
was defeated by an overwhelming ma.
jority at the recent election.
A difference of only $4,000 In the
amount of taxes collected to date In
comparison with last year is reported
by the treasurer of Weber county.
A loser on the recent election was
compelled to wheel the winner through
the street of Salt Lake on a wheelbar-
row and auction off sack of flour
Determined Efforts to gather to-
gether food supplies for the suffering
refugees of Belgium and other belliger-
ent countries are being made in Salt
Lake.
John p. Mollos is charged with muir.
der in the first degree for the shoot.
ing and killing of Spinos Seamontopo.
los, in a complaint issued at Salt
Lake.
h. l.. Krieder, a travelling salesman
Tor seed company OF San Francisco,
committed suicide Ivy shooting him.
self through the head in his room at
Salt Lake.
George w. McGregor, SO years OF
age, died at Salt Lake City. November
g, of injuries suffered in an automo.
bile accident near Park City on DC.
tober 20.
Unrequited love caused Roy Peter
son, aged 2S, to commit suicide in
Little Cottonwood canyon, near Salt
Lake. on Monday. The young man
drank quantity OF acid
Injuries which he sustained by
thirty-foot fall from tree at North
Ogden resulted in the death of George
Edward Folkman, son of State Repre-
sentative George ID. Folkman.
Mrs. Margartt Money of Spanish
Fork met with an unusual accident
that may cost her the loss OF an eye.
The point of her glasses struck her
In the eye, which became very sore.
Nearly 500 men were temporarily
thrown out Of employment when an
order was issued Dy the Southern
Pacific company 10 close down its ma.
chine shops at Ogden until Decem.
| Der l.
Seven persons were injured, none
seriously, in an automobile accident
near Clinton, when a car driven by
Archie Corey OF ogden, collided with
a car driven by Mari Child OF Davis
county.
In the short space OF three months
the demands upon the nursery OF the
! Martha society, located at Ogden. have
outgrown the capacity OF the home
and the Railways are soon to be par.
titioned into bedrooms.
The Thomas ID. Dee Memorial hospi-
tai at Ogden will not be closed on No
vember 10, as recently announced by
the association, arrangements having
been made to keep Ogden's only hos.
pital open to the public.
A Plain City division has been add.
ed to the Weber county chapter OF the
Daughters of the Pioneer. The Plain
City members propose TO take i'm.
mediate steps to reserve a number
of the relics of pioneer days.
At the meeting OF the state board
of pardons November "a, Frank r.
Merrill, former guard at the peniten.
tiary. now serving u sentence for hay.
ing aided George Parry TO escape from
the prison, will ask to be pardoned
The Salt Lake Commercial club will
send delegation to Denver To pro-
test before the examiner for the inter.
state commerce commission against
the closing of the ogden gateway TO
passenger traffic by the Union Pacific
railroad.
Death claimed two OF Pleasant
Groves early settlers on November g.
They were Carl Anderson. who came
to Pleasant Grove from sweden In
1873. and Mrs. Albert Harris. who has
made her home there for more than
forty years
Utah is importing at the present
time annually nearly as much poultry
and eggs as is produced In the state,
which amounts to about sl,OOO,OOO a
year Thus the farmers OF Utah are
losing 100000 and that amount OF
money is leaving the state.
Within the next few weeks a spe'
cial meeting OF the commercial clubs
of Salt Lake county will be held 10
discuss the problem of drainage. II
is planned to organize a cooperative
campaign with view TO reclaiming
several large tracts OF water-logged
land
Virginia Markham, the 2Oyear'old
Leland girl whose account OF how she
had been gagged, bound and assault
ed by trio OF men, caused posse
to spend hours securing the surround
ing country for the supposed assail'
ants. now admits that her story was
a myth.
Following a plan that was success
fully carried out by the students OF
the University of Utah a few years
ago, the students of the Weber aead'
envy in ogden are at work ON mon
ster wv" which is 10 adorn con
sricuous sDot ON the mOuntalnsids