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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Accused of murdering a Minneap-apolis Minneap-apolis railway postal clerk and of holding two others at bay witli a pistol while he robbed a mail car oti the Northern Pacific railroad of more than $."rO,lHJ In currency, Delbei't Smith, alias J. P. S unuiers, uo years of age, was arrested at Salt Lake. Clyde Asbury Hammond, member of Ihe Ftali house of ropresen tat i ves from Grand eouuiy. and a bishop of ihe L. D. S. church from Moab, died at Salt Lake, March 2H. after a 'battle for life that began a week after he came to Salt Lake lo represent bis county 111 1 111- slate legislature. Minno Baker, arrested recently by federal agents in connection with the thet'l of an automobile at Los Angeles, has been released from the county jail at Salt Lake, but Louis Bakke, George I.auton and Nellie Baker, sis-tor sis-tor of Minno Baker, are being held in 'default of bond. Notice lias been -received at the Salt Lake land office of a now ruling which provides ihat a homesteader making entry under the stock-grazing act Is allowed to file on three pieces of land within a radius of twenty miles in order to get his full quota of G10 acres. In connection with commercial organizations or-ganizations in other large cilies of the west, the Salt Lake Commercial club will send an invitation to Secretary of the Interior A. B. Fall to visit western states this summer with a view to investigating reclamation projects. Baseball fans are plnnulng another league for southern Utah, embracing Sanpete and Sevier counties. It is proposed to have teams from Gunnison, Gunni-son, Mantl, Salina, Richfield, Monroe and Elsinore, and shortly plans for organizing the association will be completed. com-pleted. In order to meet current expenses of the county, the board of commissioners commis-sioners of Salt Lake county have issued is-sued certificates of Indebtedness for $100,000. The certificates, whicfi bear interest at the rale of 7y2 per cent, mature December 31, 1921. The general superintendence of the Deseret Sunday School Union announces an-nounces that the semi-annual conference confer-ence of this organization will take place Sunday evening, April 3, at 7 o'clock in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. The principle of co-operative marketing mar-keting and selling of wool has been approved by the directors of the Utah State Woolgrowers' association as offering of-fering a posisble solution to the difficulties diffi-culties faced by the industry. Governor Mabey has vetoed the cooperative co-operative farm marketing bill introduced intro-duced in the closing days of the last legislature, and passed with very little lit-tle discussion in the senate and none in the house. Utah's loss in material wealth to her various communities through tuberculosis tuber-culosis is estimated at $11,993,750 for (lie last three years by James H. Wallis of the Utah Public Health association. as-sociation. Robert Wotherspoon, 57 years of ago, of Ogden, is dead, as the result of the accident in which he was fatally fatal-ly injured when he collided with an auto truck, while riding a bicycle. Work has been resumed on the 12. 64-mile stretch of cement pavement from Kpliraim to Pigeon Hollow, in Sanpete county, t a cost estimated at $407,893.40. Suffering a stroke of apoplexy, Got-lieb Got-lieb Blascli, a teamster, fell from his wagon in Salt Lake while returning home from work, and is in a seriou condition. Work on Ihe federal aid project roads of tlie state will be resumed as soon as money is available, according to a decision of the state road commission. com-mission. The students of Ihe Brigham Young univorsily. at Provo, on March 23 spent the day in whitewashing the large "Y" on flic mountainside. Willis Hastings, 30 years of age. has boon arrested at Kingman, Ariz., charged with stealing an automobile from a garage at Salt Lake. Two thousand rabbits were killed at Promontory by fifteen Ogden hunters, hunt-ers, who visited the district to help exterminate the rabbits. Contracts for the erection of the .SSO.oOO Ihgh school building for Gunni stui have been awarded. City commissioners ami business men of Logan are to investigate the needs of the municipal electric light plant. During the seventeen years' existence "of the plant the city population popu-lation has increased 73 per cent and no improvements have been made at the plant. It is likely that some action ac-tion will be taken to install meters. . Salt Lake City's budget for 1921 has been completed by the city commission, com-mission, sitting as a board of estimate and apportionment. The total appropriation appro-priation is $2.S49,934.36. as against $3,027.1S4.5S last year, a decrease of $177,2522. The budget requests for this year totaled $3,OOS,720.2t'.. |