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Show UTAH STATE NEWS During the first week of April, prae tic-ally every show window in Sail Lake will display Utah-made Roods. On "Utah day," April 25, at leas! 150,000 postcards depicting scenes in this state will he sent through the mails to the east. Wreckers commenced operations on the ruins of the Kccles building al Ogden last week, and it is said a ten Btory building will be erected. F. K. lirohm, proprietor of a room ing house in Ogden, was fined $25 ir police court for administering a beat lng to William Voight, one or hit guests. An old handcart veteran in the per-non per-non of Lars Jacobson passed away at his residence in Lake View last week. Death was caused by leakage of the heart and general debility. Mrs. Sarah M. Cannon, eighty foui years old, wife of Angus M. Cannon, died at her home in Forest Dale, a suburb of Salt Lake, March 13, after on illness of about three weeks. The Oregon Short Line will put in effect a system whereby the head ol each department will at regular times confer with the subordinate employes of the road on matters concerning the road's welfare. The state insurance commissionei has announced that he will give two prizes of $10 and $5 each for the best essays on "Fire Prevention" to be written by the pupils of the seventh and eighth grades of the Utah schools. Bengt Johnson, a resident or Prove for the past fifty years, died at his home March 13, from injuries sus tained in being run down by a team a little over a week previous, while returning to his home from an old folks' party. The mayors, city attorneys, city marshals and other city officers representing rep-resenting every city in Utah county met the Provo city officers and county coun-ty officials at Provo last week and agreed upon uniform liquor ordinances. ordi-nances. A resident of Springville has been arrested on the charge of malicious mischief for sowing wild oats and weeds on farms of his neighbors. It is charged that he damaged three farms when he planted the soil with the tannings of a mill. The board of law of the department of the interior has definitely settled the disputed question of the ownership owner-ship of the townsite of Lund, Utah. The contention that Ernest L. Carter is entitled to the property under the homestead act is not recognized. Planning to bring the results of the experiments and labors of the Utah Agricultural college closer to the practical prac-tical farmer of the southern end oi Salt Lake county, the Jordan high school has arranged to hold a series of weekly meetings for the farmers at Sandy. A solicitor for a Salt Lake tea and coffee firm was arrested at Park City for taking orders and delivering his wares without first procuuring a license. li-cense. The arrest was made to have a test case tried in the courts and in case the city wins it is said all other outside peddlers will be arrested. News of an unusual elopement comes from Moab, it appearing that Mrs. George Hurley eloped with Andrew An-drew Gibson, sole survivor of the Gibson Gib-son band of outlaws, Mrs. Hurley taking tak-ing her five children with her, and Gibson being charged with stealing a horse in order to facilitate his journey. A fine of ?50 was imposed upon a Salt Lake property owner last week for failure to put fire escapes on a building in compliance with a city ordinance. or-dinance. Mrs. Ann Ingram, Nephi's oldest woman resident of Nephi, died at the home of her son last1 week. Mrs. Ingram was irnety-two years and six months old, having been born in England Eng-land October 11, 1S20. After deliberating more than forty hours, the jury in the case of M. D. Moore, charged with having attempted to vote illegally at the last city election elec-tion in Salt Lake, brought in a verdict ver-dict of guilty as charged. The seventieth anniversary of the organization of the Relief society will be observed fittingly in Brigham City on Sunday, March 17. The societies of the four wards in the city will unite and hold one big meeting. A ladies' auxiliary to the Ogden branch of the Socialist party has been formed, with a charter membership of thirty. This is the first attempt made by the Socialists of that city to interest inter-est the women in their work. A convict camp has been established in Washington county for several weeks,' the convicts being employed in road improvements, and it is reported re-ported that the two guards have had no trouble with the men so far. George Wilson, former publisher of the Weber county Citizen, was discharged dis-charged in the district court at Ogden, the court holding that the charge of criminal libel brought against him on complaint of William Glasmaun and others was not substantiated. Bernard White, a pioneer of Utah and one of the best known men in the slate, died at his home in Ogden, March S, at the age of 72. By order of the postmaster general the postoffices at Delta, Tabby and ! Thompson are to become domestic I money order offices on April. j |