The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-09-19
Utah STATE NEWS

n,r,ne the last month over 100 car
a Of fruit have been shipped from
pleasant Grove.
coorge Hammond. one of Grants.
.u,o,s most prominent citizens, died
san,ember 10 of Brights disease.
Iohn Thomas Cant. a native of New
,.,sov who crossed the plains and set
,,od in salt Lake valley in 1868, died
=, salt Lake, september 10
Harry Mewhinney. convicted of muir.
sor was not executed on September
"a the board of pardons having com
rruted his sentence to life imprison-
nent.
Two Mexicans, Francisco Lopez
and Philip Diaz. engaged in shoot
,ng affair at Thistle. Diaz has a bull
70, wound in his shoulder and one in
,he abdomen.
Motion picture oprators in Salt
toke who have organized union are
asking an increase from $25 week
"a ego week In demands which they
have made to their employers.
Boy scouts will assist the police in
reeping the streets clear of pedes,
trians during the four street parades
which are to be held in Ogden for tho
fashion show, September 20 and 90.
Despondent because he was out OF
work. Alfred Peterson, 2S years OF
are cigar maker, attempted suicide
IN a saloon in salt Lake, but was IN
snccessful and will recover.
barn, hay, two horses, a wagon,
buggy and farm implements, the prop
erty of Karl n. Peterson of Pleasant
View, was destroyed by fire starting
from lantern which had been left in
the barn.
Despondent because OF Illness In his
family Delroy Empey, 80 years Of age,
Of Idaho Falls, Idaho, attempted sui.
eide at Salt Lake by swallowing half
a dozen mercury tablets, and is in
critical condition.
Following a quarrel over business
matters, Henry b. Davies, plumber
Of Salt Lake City, shot and killed his
partner, c. Arthur Davis, the shooting
occurring while the two men we're go
ing over the books of the firm.
James II. Wallis. state sanitary
commissioner of Idaho, is in Utah to
begin Investigations toward adjudica
ton in the "cleantown contest" for
which his services were secured by
the Utah state board Of health.
An appeal from the judgment of
conviction In the Second district court
at ogden has been filed In the su.
preme court by Joseph Henry Martin,
convicted OF Matchmaking the Eccles
family and other prominent families
Of Ogden.
Twenty towns In the Uintah basin
will participate in the Uintah Basin
fair, September % to %. this year. A
speciality will be fat cattle and hogs
The grain crop of the Uintah basin
also will comprise large part OF the
exhibits.
H. b. Mullin, the man who is charg.
ed with having swindled Salt Lake
banks out Of an aggregate amount Of
$3.50 by means of a system of savings
account deposits and Withdrawals, has
been arrested in Seattle by Pinkerton
detectives.
The latest baby the baldest baby,
the baby with the homeliest father,
the housekeeping baby, will win
prize in the baby contest which is to
De one of the features of the Fashion
show to be held in Ogden September
Is and 26.
interfering with locomotive.
lelohy under special enactment of
IsOS, Will be the charge filed against
Aoe Davis, Frank Morris, Bryan Bar
ger and Earl Jones, the young men
arrested for running away with a Salt.
air locomotive.
Inc body of another dead man, the
SECOND IN week, was found In Spring
canyon, near Price, last week. with a
crushed skull and other evidences OF
'oul play The body had been buried
unuer about four inches of dirt and
nad been dug up by dogs.
T. U Child of Ogden has applied
LOT a patent on a machine which he
oon'ehds will exterminte the alfalfa
Seevil The machine consists of a
1evolVing wire brush and drag teeth,
winch in addition to cultivating a
ne'u OF alfalfa, will comb It clean Of
"eeVil' according to the inventor.
me 200 members of the ogden Tab
, ,,"na choir, having agreed to false
S''Vv among themselves by contribut.
h e S-O each, feel that a great step
81 s' oeeh taken toward the financing
'ue choir for its trip to the Pan.
q s|a'raciiic exposition next July when
number Of concerts will be given.
Unless some railroad company soon
r oes III to construct a line into the
Io" ',nerh part of Box Elder county,
,nS - through Curlew, Blue Creek
raN RAW rocatello valleys, the farmers and
on uS OF that district will take 1t
e s ,IiSS"'SeIyes to build the railroad, it