OCR Text |
Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Decision lias been reached by the Salt Lake Commercial club fb keep its original date for the trade excursion to ion national park. The opening and dedication of the park officially will be held September 15, but the trade trippers will leave Salt Lake for southern Utah August 30, as originally orig-inally scheduled, and visit Zion national nation-al park September 5 and G. Andrew Jenson, assistant historian of the Church of Latter-day Saints, announces the completion and publication publi-cation of the third volume of the Biographical Bio-graphical Encyclopedia, which lie has been working on for some time. This volume contains 2!)i) biographical sketches of prominent men and women wo-men in the L. D. S. church. Reports which have gained circulation! circula-tion! in a part of the state press that for every si spent on, actual work on state roads under the supervision of the state road commissiion, $2 or S3 has been spent on "overhead," are not borne out in a statement prepared by the chief clerk for the commission. Fruit has grown and ripened favorably, favor-ably, and potatoes, sugar beets, truck and vegetable crops generally, have faired well, according to the weekly weather, crop and range bulletin issued is-sued last week by J. Cecil Alter, in charge of the Salt Lake office of the United States weather bureau. A. O. H. Marchant, 75 years of age, a resident of Utah since 1S54, when he came to America from Bath, England, his birthplace, died at a Salt Lake hos pital August IS. Mr. Marchant was a farmer and settled in Peoa, Utah, in the early sixties, where he has since lived. Edmund A. Bock, former mayor and city auditor of Salt Lake, was arraigned ar-raigned last week on sixty-eight criminal crim-inal complaints, growing out of his taking tak-ing $12,000 of city fuuds and upon request re-quest was granted further time in which to enter his pleas on the charge. L. F. Roddick, 57 years of age,, and Fred Ward, 23, who were arrested in Salt Lake August S, in connection with i burglary which occurred in Delta uly 20, have been released, each prov-ig prov-ig that they were not in Delta at the time of the burglary. Residents of St. George face a shortage short-age of timber for fuel this winter. Prosecution will follow bringing cedar from across the line in Mohave county, coun-ty, Ariz., where a large amount of the fuel has been obtained in the past, it is sjid. Demand for additional housing facilities fa-cilities at Soldier Summit has aroused the D. & R. G. officials to action, and their budget for this fiscal year now calls for fifty additional cottages, ten of these being now under construc-tiion. construc-tiion. A special audit of the books of former for-mer Auditor and Mayor E. A. Bock, of Salt Lake, shows that Mr. Bock abstracted ab-stracted a total of $12,000 from the city's funds between 1915 and 101S. This entire amount has been repaid. The Salt Lake county convention of the Farmer-Labor party will be held in Salt Lake September 5, at which time a full county and legislative ticket will be uoiniuated. The work on the post road to be built from Delta to Ilolden has been delayed until a full right of way can be obtained from the property owners along the route. The monthly report of the state and federal campaign against predatory animals shows a total of 210 coyotes, thirty-five wild cats and three bears slain. The thirteenth annual convention of Utah state firemen was held in Eureka last week with representatives from all departments of the state in attendance. attend-ance. Seeking refuge under a tree during a storm at Salt Lake, Rouald Mitchell aged 14, a newspaper carrier, was struck by lightning and killed. The people of Delta are making a determined effort to obtain from the railroad a better and more adequate depot. The National Tax association convention con-vention will be held in Salt Lake the week beginning September G. Mrs. Gurtha Wheeler, 17 years of age, was arrested at Ogden and bound over to the district court on the charge of bigamy. The complaining witness Is Elmer Wheeler, the woman's husband, hus-band, who claims that be 'has just learned that the young woman was already al-ready married when she married him. An audit of the books of the Utah Agricultural college, which has just been completed by Joseph ltirie, state auditor, shows an overdraft of almost Jl 50,000. The deficit is due to expense incurred by the erection of buildings for the accommodation of soldiers while the war was in progress, it is said. A large plaster pnris cast of the cliff dwelling region at Mesa Verde, Colo., wns received at the University of Utah last week. The cost Is reproduced Id tolor. |