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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE George Manos. who is awaiting trial in the county jail at Ogdeu upon the charge of gambling, who made an effort ef-fort to commit suicide in the city court during his preliminary hearing by slashing his throat, made another unsuccessful un-successful attempt to end his life at the county jail last week, slashing his arm with a piece of tin. Fonr former members of the Utah National guard, all of whom have seen service on the Mexican border and overseas, have been commissioned in the field artillery branch of the regular reg-ular army, having recently passed examinations ex-aminations at Fort Douglas entitling them to commissions under the army reorganization act. The number of students in the first year of the li. Y. U. high school at Provo will be limited to fifty. This, however, does not apply to the other years of the high school. The university univer-sity litis thirty-three professors who will constitute the faculty of the high school. Celebration of the tercentenary of the Pilgrim Fathers began on September Sep-tember 1 in Utah, in connection with the opening day of the fall school term. The official time of the celebration cele-bration will extend from December 21 of this year through the spring of 1921. With the muzzles of their revolvers pressed against the stomach of their sixth victim of the night, two auto bandits were interrupted by detectives at Salt Lake and one was captured and the other is believed desperately wounded, though still at large. Uniform laws governing the charges to be exacted by each state for the grazing of livestock owned in other states, is the aim of a committee of livestock men which waited upon the secretary of the state board of equalization equali-zation last week. Directors of the Utah State Wool-growers' Wool-growers' association at a meeting last week decided to lay before their convention con-vention in Salt Lake next January plans for converting the old Salt Lake Copper company's smelter plant into a wool storehouse. By a vote of lSo to 38, Brigham City voted a bond issue of $200,000, the proceeds of which will be used to rebuild and enlarge the municipal power plant. In addition, power rights in Box Elder canyon will be purchased. Disbursement of about ?o2,000 in dividends of 5 per cent to the depositors de-positors in the defunct Merchants' bank at Salt Lake was made last week. This makes about TO per cent the depositors have received. Ogden will have its annual fashion show and harvest festival this month, according to the action takeu by the Ogden chamber of commerce in naming nam-ing a chairman of the committee to "start the ball rolling." Final notice that vigorous prosecution prosecu-tion awaits the manufacturers and sellers of extracts for beverage purposes pur-poses has beeu sent out to dealers all over the state by the federal prohibition prohibi-tion director for Utah. An overdose of medicine taken either by mistake or with suicidal intent caused the death at an early hour Friday of John Davells. a Greek, proprietor of a rooming house and restaurant res-taurant at Salt Lake. Automobile licenses are now sold at half price. This applies to motorcycles, motorcy-cles, automobiles, trucks and trailers. The licenses are good until March 1 next, but will have to be renewed during dur-ing the year 1!)21. The Utah state road commission has given instructions to engineers and workmen to proceed immediately with repairing of the Zion National park road in co-operation with the federal government. E. C. Rice, 47 years of age, a resident res-ident of Los Angeles, shot and killed Ed A. Mayer in a room at a hotel in Salt Lake. Rice claims he shot in self-defense. Half pay will he given to public school teachers t Salt Lake during the first ten days of incapacitating illness ill-ness the coming school year, it is announced. an-nounced. Clarence T. Wells, 2o years of age, was instantly killed when the automobile automo-bile delivery truck he was driving was struck by a train at Salt Lake. San Juan county has had a committee commit-tee of citizens investigating and Inspecting In-specting a proposed route to the natural nat-ural bridges in Unit county. A Salt Lake City fireman has been sentenced to fifleen days in the city jail for driving an automobile while. Intoxicated. Throe hundred cars of lambs will be the maximum shipped from Holier this year, compared with a general average aver-age of ."00. .lames W. Funk, president of the .state senate, has resigned his serin- I torial position to make the race for Congress. The Millard county fair will open nt Fillmore. Sepiembcr 22, und will , continue three days. |