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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Price la now clnlmlng n population of at least 3000. Progressive citizens of Snllnn have reorganized the commercial club. Annettn Martin, convicted at Ogden of having pasted a worthless check, was sentenced to sixty dnys In Jail. More than &" per cent of the tench ers of the Ogdcu schools have signed their contracts at an advanced salary. Charles G Carter, aged G-l, a colt tractor, was killed at Salt Lake, when his auto was struck by a train at n crossing. Prizes for the best nntlfly posters will bo offered to school children by tho women's department of tho Weber county farm bureau. With a capital of ?1.000,000 tho Pluto ltescrvolt & Irrigation compnny has filed Its articles of Incorporation with the secretary of state. It Is expected that at least 1000 visitors vis-itors will bo entertained by tho city of Price on May I), the (ato of tho Republican statu convention. Immediate steps will bo taken to arrange for the fifth annual Inter-mountain Inter-mountain stock show, to be held at Salt Lake in the spring of 1021. The strike of electrical workers of Salt Lake has been settled. Tho men are to lecelve ?8 a day for the present with a false to $0 a day on all new work. There were only twenty-nine groy wolves on which bounty wns collected In Utah In the year Just ended, us compared with fifty-seven the year before. The governor has uppolnted L. W. Shuttllff of Ogden as u member of tho state commission to prepare plans In commemoration of the first Irrigation system In Utah. The four condensed milk factories located In Cache valley manufactured during tho past year more than C30,-000 C30,-000 cases of condensed milk, valued nt approximately $4,000,000. llefore definite action Is tnken by tho merchants of Ogden upon the weekly half-holiday plan, a general survey of the conditions will be made by a Special committee. Soldier Summit Is growing very fast as a division terminal of the Denver 'and Itlo Grande. In the wny of new Improvements two hundred more cottages cot-tages are reported needed for rental. The statu of Utah, In' the twelvemonth twelve-month period ended Murch 20, paid bounty on 17,510 predatory, animals killed, tho bounties alone furnishing the hunters gross receipts of $00,-014.80. $00,-014.80. Using1 some gasoline with whlcluto light tlie kitchen tire, Itecd, thu elght-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Amnion Tuttlo of Spanish Furls, was choked tu death from the fumes following an explosion. Large numbers of stock have died In southern Utah because of the shortage short-age of bay, and nt least 70 per cent of the stock are at present fn poor condition, according to Information received re-ceived last week. Mrs. (J. 10. Millerspatigb, wife of a Los Angeles merchant, fell from a rapidly moving train between Oasis and Delta, rolled down a twenty-five foot embankment and suffered only from cuts and bruises. The largest and most completely equipped still ever seen In that section sec-tion of the state was seized on the farm of Frank Otterstrom, one mile down tho river from Huntington. Nick Dlnuu wus placed under arrest on a government charge. The supreme court of Utah has decided, de-cided, In effect, that the public utilities utili-ties commission might continue its In-qu'ry In-qu'ry Into the special contracts ex-Is'lng ex-Is'lng between thu large users of electric elec-tric power In Utah and the Utah Power Pow-er & Light company. These contracts antedate the passage of the utilities law. Application from the Wylle company, com-pany, which has the cnmplng concession conces-sion for tins Zlon national park, for the lease of a section of laud near Ilryce canyon has brought out the fact that the only practicable appioach to the blink of that scenic wonderland Is over property now owned by thu state. "Old Big Foot" known as the "Pea-vine "Pea-vine wolf" and tho "Outlaw," which, dining the past ten yenrs has Inflicted Inflict-ed so much damage on stockmen In the San Juan country has at last been rapturei.' and tho pelt has been delivered deliv-ered to the commissioners. There hnd been n standing reward of $1000 for the captuie of this wolf. Wildcats were taken In everj county in the state last year, Including four In Davis and eleven In Salt Luke. They are thickest, however, In tho' south, Iron again leading with .171, followed bj Washington, with 2S1; Garfield, 284; Heaver, 282; Kane, 201; Hoxelder, with 200. All other counties coun-ties wero under the 200 mark. Having redeemed Its pledge of $300 Increase In tenchers' salaries for next year, tho city board of education went $50 better for each teacher last week. Thu total Increase of the pay roll of teachers under the action taken will bo $1150,000' more thnn hiRt year. Alonzo Brlhkerhoff of Kmery, president pres-ident of tho Utnh Cattle A Horse Growers' association, has Issued nn aiqieal to tho livestock men of tho stnto to begin laying their defense now against an increaso In grazing fees on the national forests, und "ta defend our rights." |