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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE The anvermu' Is in receipt of a letter let-ter from .lames E. Scott, national forest for-est inspector, iu nhtch he asked that citizens continue to cooperate with the forest service in the prevention of fires in the timber regions, despite the fact that the special six-day period set aside' by the governor for forest protection pro-tection ended last week. j Discovering that it would cost about ' $ln0.f!oo to publish photographs and biological sketches of the -7.000 men from Utah who served in the world war, even if it were possible to assemble as-semble the pictures, and other information, infor-mation, the Utah State Historical society so-ciety has definitely abandoned any such ten-volume project. The state board of health has been notified that a cow owned by Horace Van Fleet of Farmington had died of rabies. A dog that apparently had rabies was killed recently in the vicinity. vicin-ity. The situation in that part of Davis county is being watched closely. The report comes from Utah, Millard Mill-ard and Juab counties that field crops of both cereals and beets are looking in good condition. While the backward back-ward spring has delayed some of the crops a trifle, others are as far along as usual at this season. The cheeking up of reports received by the police, sheriff, doctors and hospitals hos-pitals discloses that Memorial day passed in Ogden and Weber county without any accidents. It is the first time in years that the day passed without some accident. Preliminary hearing In the case of Steve Radich. charged with murder for the alleged killing of Joe Savan at the Highland Boy mine in Bingham Canyon, Can-yon, on April 3, by beating him to death with a pick handle, is being held in Salt Lake. Ogden's great paving program for the year will go forward at once, the city commission having awarded a contract for $182,238 for the paving of the east side of Washington avenue, between the river bridge and the city limits. The streets of Ogden ran red with wine one day last week when Sheriff H. C. Peterson and deputies let a fifty-gallon fifty-gallon barrel of claret miss the sewer manhole and the contents ran down the gutter on Twenty-fourth street hill. Examination of the returns by county assessors to the state board of equalization indicate that the assessed valuation of Utah this year will be approximately $700,500,000. Last year It was somewhat over $602,000,000. The price of coal is still going up. Lump and nut coal retailed in Salt Lake took another 75-cent jump pet-ton pet-ton last week, when the price of lump was raised to $9.50 per ton and nut to $9 per ton. Those who have talked about the automobile replacing the horse may have another guess coming. The state road commission is seriously considering consider-ing replacing the automobile with the mule. Alex Borgo, charged with killing Joseph Veah at Dividend, May 16, was given his preliminary hearing at Pro-vo, Pro-vo, which resulted in his being held to district court without bail. Salt Lake has attained its quota of national guardsmen and is due to receive re-ceive nearly $1,000,000 in artillery equipment and material within the next few weeks. At the state convention at Ogden of the American legion, a resolution was adopted demanding the prosecution of 1200 alleged draft dodgers in Utah. Approximately 300 descendants of President Brigham Young were present pres-ent at the annual Young family reunion reun-ion held at Salt Lake City, June 1. Elks from every section of Utah were in Salt Lake fbr the three-day celebration of the Utah State Elks' association on June 2, 3 and 4. The Rotary club organized at Price last March, with an enrollment of twenty members, has just been awarded award-ed a charter. B. F. Becker, a miner employed by the Liberty Fuel company at Latuda, was killed while working in the company's com-pany's mine. The town of Magna was damaged ?10,000 by fire on June 1, the blaze starting in a garage and spreading quickly. The coldest June in years is recorded record-ed for the first of the month, according accord-ing to the reports received from Ogden alley. It is announced that at present an average of fifty persons enter Zion National Park daily by automobile. There were fifty-two motor accidents acci-dents in Salt Lake during May, three of which resulted in deaths. The annual convention of the Utah Bankers' association will be held at Ogden, June 18 and 19. Frosts occurred In the lower part of the Great Salt Lake valley on the I night of June 1. I Sixty-two persons secured marriagf licenses in Salt Lake City on June 1. Validity of the recent $400,000 bond issue voted by Cache county schoo'. district for the erection of a suitabk-high suitabk-high school, and also for additions t i and improvements on other school buildings in the district, is to be tested test-ed in the supreme court of the state. The purity squad made a raid upon the home of B. W. Austin at Salt Lake and seized an unusually large still, several barrels of mash, a few gallons gal-lons of the product of the still, and arrested Austin, who is being held in ! the city jail for prosecution by the j government authorities. |