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Show UTAH SfflE NEWS The women of Murray are planning the organization of a civic club. The park department of Salt Lake wants the United States forest reserve to furnish at last 500 spruce trees, to be planted in the public parks of the city. Robert Dugdale, for sixteen years the janitor of the Provo postoffice, dropped dead in the basement of the federal building from apoplexy on March'- 24. Traffic officers of Salt Lake are working overtime these days in an effort ef-fort to catch automobilists who make a practice of driving their cars past standing street cars. George A. Storrs of Provo has been appointed warden of the state prison to succeed Arthur Pratt, who has held the place for thirteen years and who resigned, effective April 1. The Utah Irrigation congress will hold a convention at Salt Lake, April 4, at which all irrigators, canal companies com-panies and others interested in irrigation irri-gation are urged to attend. The ibas of liquor revenue that will come with the enforcement of the prohibition pro-hibition law August 1 will not bring iBalt Lake to financial straits, according accord-ing to B. A. Bock, city auditor. A new apartment house and a new photograph studio mark the beginning of building operations for Provo and many other buildings and homes are among the plans for later in the spring. Philip Manuez, Mexican sheep herder, her-der, died in the emergency hospital hos-pital at Salt Lake, supposedly as the result of knockout drops. It is supposed sup-posed Manuez was drugged and then robbed. - Robert Howard of Hiawatha, as state coal mine inspector,, and Frank D. Brown of Salt Lake, as commissioner commis-sioner of immigration, labor and statistics, sta-tistics, were appointed last week by Governor Bamberger. The establishment of a naval training train-ing station on Great Salt Lake is being be-ing urged ty citizens with a love for the navy, both in Salt Lake and Og-den, Og-den, according to reports which became be-came current last week. In line with action of governors of other western states, Governor Bamberger Bam-berger has issued a proclamation declaring de-claring the week of April 14 to 21 as Western Consumers' week. It is in line with a program to promote western west-ern industries. More than 200 dynamite caps, enough to wreck a .large building, were found in a tin box lying on the pavement at Second South street' and Plum alley, Salt Lake. If the caps had been struck by a passing wagon, undoubtedly many people would have been killed. Amy Helen Hill, who shot to death Ross M. Bonny at Salt Lake on November No-vember 9, 1916, withdrew her former plea of not guilty to a charge of first-degree first-degree murder, pleaded guilty of involuntary in-voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced sen-tenced to serve nine months in the county jail. Although the registration of Utah's motor vehicles for 1917 is as yet in its infancy this year but less than a third of the anticipated total of pleasure pleas-ure cars having been licensed the state has netted already approximately approximate-ly $74,000 to date from all vehicle registration reg-istration sources. v B. F. Anderson of Kanarraville, Iron county, last week applied to the state treasurer to register the name of his farm, under the new farm name registration reg-istration law. He wants to name his farm "Echo farm." He has been informed in-formed that the law does not go into effect until May 8. Joseph Henry Martin, the alleged Ogden blackmailer who terrorized wealthy families of the Junction City for weeks during 1911, must spend his life in the state prison unless he can convince the state board of pardons 'that he should be released before death ends his sentence. A swindle scheme much practiced in the east has been, brought to Salt Lake. A man, representing himself as a farmer, has been calling on housewives house-wives and attempting to secure small sums of money from them, telling them he will deliver potatoes or onions at a ridiculously low figure. The premium list of the first Inter-mountain Inter-mountain stock show to be held at Salt Lake March 4. 5 and 6, celebrating celebrat-ing the opening of the plant of the Cudahy Packing company, was issued last week. It shows that $1200 in cash prizes is being offered for individual indi-vidual fat cattle, for carloads of fat cattle, swine and sheep. The Utah-Idaho Grain exchange, an organization said to have been made imperative by the United States grain standards act of August 11, 191G, is now m process of incorporation. The formation of such an exchange for Utah and Idaho is looked upon as a progressive step in the development o business in the intermountain region. re-gion. Expenditure of more than $8,000,000 is planned by the Oregon Short Line and the Salt Lake Route for improvements improve-ments during the spring and summer and contracts are already being made by the two companies tor the construction construc-tion of new work. Apparently despondent because of ill health and a fear of losing her mind, Mrs. Marie McKinney, 25 years of ape. wife of W. A. McKinnoy, a mining man of Cokeville, Wyo., shot herself through the left breast at their temporary home in Salt Lake, and is in a serious condition. |