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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE During the eleven months just passed in 1920, a total of 12.274 persons per-sons registered at the Automobile association as-sociation headquarters in Salt Lake. Multiply this number by four and it gives 49.00G tourists residing outside of the state who visired Utah during these eleven months. The state of Utah closed its fiscal year on November 30 with a balance in the treasury in all funds of ?1,-901.1S7.03. ?1,-901.1S7.03. Of this amount :S40.90S.14 was 'in the general fund and available for the meeting of the sh-e's expenses ex-penses and accounts against the commonwealth. com-monwealth. ' . Quadruplets were born to Mrs. Zina Taylor Knight, 30 years of age, wife of William Knight, a farmer of Plain City, on December 1. There were three boys and a girl. Two of the boys died. Each of the babies weighed 4Y2 pounds. W. J. Murphy of Thistle has presented pre-sented a claim to the state road commission com-mission totaling more than $500 for injuries to his son, William Murphy, 3 years of age, who was run over by a truck doing road work at Thistle September 28. Forty pieces of registered mail from Salt Lake were on the Burlington fast mail train which was robbed of bonds and money estimated to be worth ?3,-500,000 ?3,-500,000 on November 13 at Council Bluffs, Iowa, postal officials have announced. an-nounced. A petition for the creation of a iralnage district as a means of relief re-lief from flood waters in the north and northwestern part of Salt Lake aas been filed with the county commissioners com-missioners by property owners in that section. Fred Whitaker, who is alleged to have admitted his desertion from the United States army last May, has been imprisoned at the guardhouse at Fort Douglas while military authorities authori-ties are endeavoring to trace his army record. Utah has 25,602 farms, containing 5,050,410 acres, and valued at $31,274,-728, $31,274,-728, the census bureau has announced. The value of land and buildings shows an increase of 107.4 per cent, is compared with 1910. Josiah Barnett, for nearly forty years cashier of McCornick & Co., Bankers, and pioneer banker of the intermountain west, died at a Salt Lake hospital November 30, after a brief illness. Members of the public .utilities commissions com-missions of Utah, Nevada, Montana and Idaho concluded their conference at Salt Lake November 30, with a general discussion of problems common com-mon to all. The spending of $20,000 in Zion National park for roads, trails and other physical improvements and for administration, protection and maintenance main-tenance purposes will be asked of congress. Petition has been made to the Utah county commissioners for the organization organi-zation of a drainage district for the reclamation of 12,000 acres of land at Payson. The project will cost 350,000. The administration building for the vrgrien arsenal will be virtually completed com-pleted this week, while seven of tne sixty buildings now under construction construc-tion will be completed within the next week. One million additional nenny Christmas Christ-mas seals have been ordered by the Utah Public Health association to meet the increasing demand made by the county organizations. It has been learned that the dog which bit Florence Andrews, 4 years of age, at Ogden, was affected with rallies. The child will be gi the I'asteur treatment. Ludvig Petersen, aged 67, an employee em-ployee of the sd-eet department at Salt Lake, was fatally injured when le was struck by an automobile de-ivery de-ivery car. The total assessed valuation of the Union Pacific railroad in the state, including in-cluding its rolling stock and its franchise, fran-chise, is placed by the state board at 6,656,419. In order to provide sufficient homes :'or the constant stream of newcomers :o Delta, plans for a home-building nmpnign are being arranged. Orders are expected daily at Fort Douglas calling for the stile of the lumber used in construction of the war prison barracks. Myra Green has been appointed postmistress at Modena, and William Wil-liam D. Harris has been named postmaster post-master at Portage. The Utah irrigation and drainage convention will meet in Salt I-al;e January Jan-uary 13 and 14 to discuss irrigation problems. Farmers and dairymen of Utah produced pro-duced 30 per cent more silage this year than last year. Christmas carols will be sung in the city hall park at Ogden on Christmas eve. Fire of unknown origin at Mount Pleasant caused a loss of S.KI.OOO. All conscient'ous objectors have now been released from the war pris-an pris-an at Fort Douglas. Seven were freed November 30. The number of conscientious con-scientious objectors reached a high mark of 175 before the war do, anient an-ient began authorizing their release. An experiment conducted hy Marvin Lee. aged 11. of Salt Lake, with a bottle of carbide and several ounces i of water resulted disastrously, (ias I forming in the tightly corked bottle caused an explosion and the Lee boy i received a deep laceration on his upper lip, j |