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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Planning construction of a dam ."70 feet long and 90 feet, high, to create n reservoir to impound 5000 acre-feet of water, the Pry Gulch Irrigation company, one of the large irrigation companies of the I'inta basin and of tho state, has filed application with the state engineer. Hubert S. Unit, who drove the first locomotive into Salt Lake on tho old Utah Central January 10. 1X70, died October 9 at St. Anthony, Ida. When his train came into Salt Lake there was a great celebration, and l'.righam Young drove a golden spike iu the track. That throughout a great part at least of the dry farm district of San Juan county an ample supply of good water for domestic purposes lies at a depth of from 120 to 200 feet below the surface sur-face has been demonstrated in several wells driven in the district of late. Winter feeding conditions for stock nre not only better than anticipated, but are improving, Prof. John T. Caine III., of the Utah Agricultural college, told members of the Utah Cattle and Horse Growers' association at their meeting at Salt Lake last week. With her skull crushed, an unidentified unidenti-fied woman about 35 years old was found lying unconscious in the street In Salt Lake, having been run down by an automobile and apparently dragged about 30 feet. She died without with-out regaining consciousness. Steve Maslich and Nick Oblizalo, charged with murder in the first degree de-gree for slaying Marko Laus, whose' body was found in the mouth of Parley's Par-ley's canyon, near the state prison, on August 3, are to be placed on trial at Salt Lake on October 22. While taking a half hour automobile ride in Ogden, King Albert decorated Mayor T. Samuel Browning. Mayor Browning is a brother of John M. Browning, the famous fire arms inventor, in-ventor, who was decorated before the war by King Albert. The Ogden chapter of the American legion has taken up the matter of having hav-ing aerial races in Ogden. It is planned to have maps of the two large flying fields submitted to the war department depart-ment and have them approved for future events. With the death from rabies of Philjp Jaques, 8 years of age, of Layton, at a Salt Lake hospital, there occurred the first case of the failure of the Pasteur treatment to prevent the development de-velopment of a case of this kind in Utah. The news comes from Logan that a great many sheep were caught in the recent snowstorm in the hills and that a considerable number perished in the upper ranches. 8now fell in places to a depth of sixteen and eighteen inches. Utah will produce this year practically practic-ally 3,000,000 bushels of potatoes, which is less than the crops of the past two years, but sugar beets are reported improved in all sections of the state except in Sevier county. Roy Grables and H. A. Hawkinson, residents of Silverton, Colo., suffered painful burns on their hands and arms when the tank on the gasoline stove in their sideshow at the state fair grounds at Salt Lake exploded. Glen Hamilton, the 16-year-old boy who on the night of September 22 shot and fatally wounded Ernest Heusser near the hitter's home at Salt Lake, has been paroled under the custody of the juvenile court. Utah's "blue sky" law which was enacted by the special session of the Thirteenth legislature supplants the law which the district court of Salt Lake county pronounced unconstitutional. unconstitu-tional. About $2000 worth of men's and women's clothing and wearing apparel was stolen from a store at I'rovo. it being evident that the goods were carried car-ried away in an automobile. All bids received for construction of the Lehi high school and the Lindon high school are considered by the Alpine' Al-pine' board of education as being tuo high and were rejected. Utah's valuation for taxes for the current year is $6!)2,309,:)S, as shown by the final returns of the county auditors, au-ditors, made to the stale board of equalization. Officers of the Tinfic stake of the L-. 1. S. church of Eureka are planning plan-ning I he erection of a new stake office building, estimated cost $3500. With a smaller crop than usual the orchardists around Logan are busy harvesting their apples and good prices are being obtained. The accidental discharge of a rifle held in tin' hands of a playmate, resulted re-sulted In the death of Frank Snow, aged 7, of Murray. Plans are under way for the celebration cele-bration of Armistice day, Novembei 11, in Ogden on a large scale. Orders have been issued for I lie be ginning of work at once on the nrmorj building at Prove. New ceinenl sidewalks' and street crossings are to be constructed at Helper |