The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-09-26
UTAH STATE NEWS


visitors in England sailed for America
from Liverpool on the 18th.
Roy Lew. aged II, is dead as a re-
suit OF being run down by an automo-
bile In the streets of Salt Lake.
Plans for the observation OF Apple
day on October 20 are being dis
cussed by the Salt Lake Commercial
club.
A fire of unknown origin burned 200
tons of bay. barns and other buildings
ON the farm of Thomas A. Hunt of
Roosevelt.
The per capital cost Of operating
the public schools of Salt Lake during
the 1914 period was sl96 less than
for the previous year.
Mrs. Myrtle Willis of Monroe was
seriously injured in runaway acct.
dent. one rib being broken and she
sustained other injuries.
The Lehi sugar factory has begun
Its twenty-fifth campaign. The bes.-
now coming in would indicate a much
higher per cent of sugar content than
they had last year.
HE seventeen.months-old daughter
OF MIR. and Mrs. Hub Warren was
drowned at Price by falling into
tub partly filled with water that had
been used for watering horses
While showing a group of friends
how his revolver worked, Dick Seva.
sian, an Armenian employed by the
Utah Copper company at Copperfield,
shot himself through the stomach.
In fit Of dependency Mrs. Flor.
ence Allen, wife of William Allen OF
Eureka, took her life by shooting her.
caliber revolver, death resulting al.
most instantaneously.
George G. Hewes, a member of the
Salt Lake Commercial club party OF
Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon"
scouting party, painfully injured In an
automobile accident near Cedar City.
Is reported out of danger.
Lambs from the Uinta national for.
est have reached the highest price
that have ever been paid for range
lambs shipped from that section. Two
thousand head. owned by one man,
were sold last week for S13.494.
Lieutenant Colonel Allen Aliens.
worth, the only man OF the negro race
to rise to the rank Of lieutenant col.
onel in the United States army, who
died recently at Monrovia, Cal, was
at one time stationed at Fort Doug
las.
Hyrum n. Winter. former clerk OF
the Granite school district, is charged
with embezzling about $4,000 of the
school funds in complaint issued
last week. Winter is also charged
with attempting to burn down the
school building.
With view OF increasing the area
watered by the Strawberry project
from 10000 to $1,000 acres, the United
States reclamation service proposes
to spend approximately half million
dollars in the construction OF new ir.
rigation canals.
The first degree murder charge
against Steve Zigich, who shot and
MORALLY wounded his friend, Mike
Claich, at Bingham. November H.
was reduced to involuntary man
slaughter and Zigich was sentenced
to three months in the county jail
Abscess of the lungs, caused by the
inhaling of particle of foxtail grass,
resulted in the death of Florence Nc
Cune Lunt, 1S-months.old daughter OF
| H.. I'D Afra nf
The grass is supposed to have be-
come lodged in the child's lungs last
June.
Frank +. Merrill, former guard at
the state prison, has been sentenced
to serve an indeterminate sentence in
the prison for aiding George Parry
to escape on August /, 1913. Parry
was recaptured. Merrill, under the
sentence, must not serve more than
three years.
Louis LAUDER, 7-yearold son of l..
A. LAUDER of Price, died as the re-
suit of being run over by train.
Both his les we're so badly crushed
that they had to be amputated above
the knee. Already weakened by loss
# blood and suffering, the operation
Slapped his strength.
Births tripled the death rate, less
one, in Salt Lake for the week ending
September IS, according to the week
" report of the city board of health.
During the week sixty-eight births
were reported with the sexes evenly
divided. A total of twenty-three
deaths were reported
One hundred and fifteen members
of the Salt Lake Rotary club, includ'
ing two former governors OF the state
of Utah, spent the day on September
49, in Silver Creek canyon building
roads. All put in six hours OF hard
labor and made a passable highway
where formerly a dangerous tran
existed.
For a consideration said to be APP
proximately $l7OOOOOO the utoh
Light & Traction company has pur'
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