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Show THE BEEJIVE STATE A movement is on foot for the advancement ad-vancement of the lelta high school so that the full four years course can be had there. The school at: present gives only two years of high school work and patrons In this community have for some time been urging the educational authorities to take action to make this a standard high school. By decision of the public utilities commission of Utah, the so-called "".Burleson rates" now in effect on the Utah portion of the Mountain Stales Telephone and Telegraph company's system are upheld, with the exception rhat the so-called "measured service" of the company Is seriously modified, to the prolit of the uatron. After five hours' deliberation, the jury at Ogden tn the case of the state against Jennie Scardino. 17 years of age. charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Mike TVrinnin at (lie Scardino home. February Feb-ruary 20. 10'JO. returned a verdict of nor guiltv. Formal denial has boon entered by the public utilities commission of Utah of the petition of the I'tah v.op-pet v.op-pet company for a rehearing of the application of the I'tah Power & Light company for an increase in power rales. The city commissioners of Logan have entered into a contract with the General Appraising company of Seat-tie. Seat-tie. Wash., for the appraising of the Logan City municipal electric light plant and the lighting system of the r.lfy. (jail Cowley, IS years of age. married, mar-ried, and the father of a .'1-monlhs-old child, committed suicide at the home of his motlier-in-law. Mrs. Kmma Casto Hunt, several miles north of Monroe, shooting himself through the -heart. The new automobile law, passed by the recent legislature became effective April 1. The new fees will increase the cost of licenses ' for passenger vehicles about !?" per car and for trucks about 00 per cent. Assorting that the state needs a whipping post for such offenders. City Judge Ben Johnson of Salt Lake sentenced sen-tenced George Christiansen, 17 years of age, to six months in the county jail for beating his mother. Rulon Johnson, aged 31, was fatally fatal-ly injured at Prove when he junyed from the running board of a truck and fell under the machine in such a way that a rear wheel passed over and crushed bis head. The Central school building at Bingham was slightly damaged by largo rocks rolling down from the hillside. hill-side. The wall was badly damaged in one of Hie rooms and some glass was broken. Kil. Tinkler, working for the Utah Fuel company, lost his left arm in an accident ji the Sunnyside mine of the company. It was eaugl'.l between a falling rock and the edge of a mine ca r. 11. 11. Huntsman, suhconl factor, was killed :i nil Ihreo other men were severely se-verely injured in a premature explosion explo-sion at what is known as Blue Cut on the Priee-lo-Cast legale highway. Mis. George 11. Dern of Salt Lake was elected regent: of the state organization or-ganization of the Daughters of Ihe American Revolution at the first annual an-nual conference held In Ogden. An ordinance which provides for increasing in-creasing the license of transient merchants mer-chants from .fo a day as at: present; to .$100 a day, is being considered by the Stilt Lake commissioners. Thirty-one Germans and Austrian who were unable to assume the duties of citizenship during the war, were admitted to suffrage rights at Salt Lake one day hist week. Ten additional stalls to the present roundhouse at Provo of the Salt Lake Route are to be built. When the building is completed it will bring ,'!0() additional men to Provo. Charlotte McFarland, aged 5 yearn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles McFarland, Mc-Farland, formerly of Salt Lake, was Instantly killed when struck by a Seattle Se-attle street car. Fire, declared to have been of incendiary in-cendiary origin, destroyed the big city pavilion and dance hall In Price. The loss is estimated at .fSOOO, with Insurance Insur-ance of ol)00. While hurrying over a polished floor lo answer the telephone, Mrs. James of Salt Lake slipped and fell, breaking her right leg in two places. Two additional air mail routes out of Salt Luke, one to Los Angeles and another to Denver, tire cont einpln I ed by the government. After April 1 the shopnn m- ( ployed by the Southern Pacific com- puny in Ogden will work five days out of each week. The engineer for the Price River Irrigation district announces that the .Mammoth dnm will lie rebuilt at a ost of .I.".0.0IM). P.iil lervllle, a fanning district near Murray, proposes to expend in the neighborhood of .S'iO.'xxi for a water system. With a view to arousing public sentiment sen-timent in favor of the soldiers bonus hill, to be brought before ihe next session of congress, the world war veterans and the veterans of the Span-ish-A nierii'a n ami Civil wars held a moii'-tcr parade in Ogden. The sab' of more than a million and a quarter pounds of alfalfa seed in :i single transaction is announced by he seed marketing association of tin '"tali State Farm bureau in oonnoo-'ioti oonnoo-'ioti with Ihe successful pooling of 'he Ri'JO crop of more Hum U'li iti-livblu iti-livblu 1 growers. |