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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE The National Workmen's (.'uinpi'iisa-tion (.'uinpi'iisa-tion Service bureau, to which all t lie stock companies carrying mi a work-lien's work-lien's compensation insurance business l Utah, except one, belong, has filed tiith the state industrial commission a rate of !?!).50 per .fUMMI of payroll for carrying risks in coal mines. The former for-mer rate was $7.81. the increase being necessitated, it is claimed, by the increased in-creased benefits allowed under the Utah law as amended by the last legislature. leg-islature. To discuss the feasibility of putting in a pumping project somewhere between be-tween Beck's Hot Springs and North .Salt Lake on the I'ordan river, for the purpose of watering more than oUOO acres of land in Davis county, sixty farmers, representing one-fourth of the proposed acreage to be put under irrigation, met recently in Bountiful. The proposed undertaking will hare two canal units, one with a pumping lift of 140 feet, the other with 100-foot lift. The Uiinaii Canning eompii ly o Vernal, with an authorized capital stock of .$50,000 in $50 shares and with a list of about 100 stockholders, has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. Director are E. D. Samuels, president ; Clayborn Brim-hall, Brim-hall, vice president; C. A. Cawley, secretary; sec-retary; Leslie Ashton, treasurer, and W. II. Coltharp. Claude T. Barnes, lawyer and naturalist nat-uralist of Salt Lake, has been notified from Washington, D. C, of his election elec-tion as a charter member of the newly organized American Society of Mam-malogists. Mam-malogists. This society has only recently re-cently been formed and deals exclusively exclus-ively with mammals, or the prehistoric animals which occupied the earth in antediluvian days, or the period long before the flood. "Grandma" Andrews as she is familiarly fa-miliarly known, otherwise Mrs. Elizabeth Eliza-beth Andrews, 959 Third avenue, Salt Lake, 00 years of age, was declared the champion Red Cross knitter for the Salt Lake chapter, according to Mrs, W, O. Cleland, secretary, who has made a census of chapter knitters. Mrs. Andrews comes first on the list. "The prices paid for livestock are wet as high as they should be, and livestock live-stock cannot be profitably raised at present figures," S. W. McClure, secretary sec-retary of the National Woolgrowers' association, said. On a basis of July 1 prices, he said, sheep and cattle growers will not be able to meet operating oper-ating expenses. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Martin of 1140 Michigan avenue, Salt Lake City, have received a cablegram telling of t'he death of their son, Lieutenant W, H. Martin of the Royal air force. No 'details 'de-tails were given in the message, w&ich was sent by Alfred Davenport, brtier of Mrs. Martin. Edward A. Costor. of Salt Lake, Jias filed suit in the third district eoiirt against the medical firm of Richards, Irvine, Ridges, Snow & Tyree do 'recover 're-cover $20,000 damages alleged to diuve been sustained through a careless 'Operation 'Op-eration for mastoids, on July 7, I8TD. Nineteen applications have 'been filed with the state board of ipiairdons for hearing at the meeting to be iheld July 19. But one is for parole for murder, that being the application of Mike Bacco, who was convicted of second sec-ond degree murder. Automobile thieves were active in Salt Lake over the Fourth of July holidays period, and in the three days made away with nine machines, six of which have been recovred and returned return-ed to their owners, while three others are still missing. Articles of incorporation of the Universal Uni-versal Box Sealing company were filed with the county clerk at Ogden. The company is organized to manufacture the automatic box sealing machine invented in-vented by James Q. Leavitt of that city. James II. Clinger of Provo leas been granted a pension as a Black Hawk Indian war veteran by the bureau of pensions of the federal government. He served under Captain Caleb W. Haws. Utah will give a reception during state fair week to soldiers, sailors and marines who participated in the world war. The Thirteenth Legislature made an appropriation for this celebration. The Boxelder board of education will construct additional rooms to the Brig-bam Brig-bam City high school in the amount X SIS.OOO. Lewiston, Cache county, Utah, proposes pro-poses to lay considerable metal wa1r mains with necessary appurtenances. Holier City proposes to construct a new ;!0.0(K10 gallon reservoir and lay considerable new piping. Paradise proposes to spend ?14,400 for the purpose of supplying the town with water. At a recent bond election at Murray, !frJ5,000 was voted for water works. Provo parties will erect a resort on Utah Lake near the Provo river. Delta is to have a new three story hotel and buiness block. Treinontou is to Install a new water works system. Elias M. Tibbs. shot by his uncle, Ernest M. Morris, during a quarrel at Salt Lake, lias been removed from the hospital. The bullet entered his neck and at first it was thought recovery was impossible. Items heretofore listed as 'sundries" in expense accounts of state employes must hereafter be designatd in detail j under their true names, according to a new ruling inside by the state board j of examiners. |