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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE A movement is on foot for the advancement ad-vancement of the Delta high school so that the fail four years course can lie had there. The school at present gives only two years of high school work and patrons in ibis comuiunily have for some time been urging the educational authorities to take action to make this a standard high school. P-y decision of ihe public utilities commission of Utah, the so-called "IJurleson rates" now in effect on the Utah portion of the Mountain Slates Telephone and Telegraph company's system are upheld, with the exception that Ihe so-called "measured service" of the company is seriously modified, to Ihe profit of tin- patron. After five hours' deliberation, the jury al (igilen in the case of the state against Jennie Scardino. 17 years of age, charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Mike Terinain at Ihe Scardino home, February Feb-ruary 20, 1920, returned a verdict of not guilty. Formal denial has been entered by the public utilities commission of Utah of the petition of the Utah copper cop-per company for a rehearing of die Application of the Utah Power & Light company for an . increase in power rates. The city commissioners of Logan have entered into a contract with the General Appraising company of Seattle, Seat-tle, Wash., for the appraising of the Logan City municipal electric light plant and the lighting system of the city. Gail Co-wley, IS years of age, married, mar-ried, and Ihe father of a 3-months-old child, committed suicide at the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Emma Casto Hunt, several miles' north of Monroe, shooting himself through the heart. The new automobile law, passed by the recent legislature became effective April 1. ' The new fees will increase the cost of licenses for passenger vehicles about JJ5 per car and for trucks about 50 per cent. Asserting that the state needs a whipping post for such offenders. City Judge Ben Johnson of Salt Lake sentenced sen-tenced George Christiansen, 17 years of age, to six months in the county jail for beating his mother. . Eulon Johnson, aged 11, was fatally fatal-ly injured at I'rovo when he jumped from the running board of a truck and fell under the machine in such a way that a rear wheel passed over and crushed his head. The Central school building at Bingham was slightly damaged by large rocks rolling down from the hillside. hill-side. The wall was badly damaged in one of the rooms and some glass was broken. Ed. Tinkler, working for the Utah Fuel company, lost his left arm in an accident in the Sunnyside mine of the company. It was caught between a falling rock and the edge of a mine car. H. HI Huntsman, subcontractor, was killed and three other men were severely se-verely injured in a premature explosion explo-sion at what is known as Blue Cut on the Price-to-Castlegate highway. Mis:. George H. Dern of Salt Lake was elected regent of the state organization or-ganization of the Daughters of the American ltevolution at the first annual an-nual conference held in Ogden. An ordinance which provides for increasing in-creasing the license of transient merchants mer-chants from $23 a day as at present to ?100 a day, is being considered by tiie Salt Lake commissioners. Thirty-one Germans and Auslrians who were unable to assume the duties of citizenship during the war, were admitted to suffrage rights at Salt Lake one day last week. Tell additional stalls to the present roundhouse at I'rovo of the Salt Lake Koute are to be built. When the buiiding is completed it will bring 300 additional men to I'rovo. Charlotte McFariand, aged o years, daughter of Mr. and -Mrs. Charles McFariand, Mc-Fariand, formerly of Salt Lake, was instantly killed when struck by a Seattle Se-attle street car. Fire, declared to have been of incendiary in-cendiary or'gin, destroyed the big city pavilion arid dance hall in Price. The ioss is estimated at SS000, with insurance insur-ance of $.1000. While hurrying over a polished floor to answer Ihe telephone. Mrs. .Tames of Salt Lake slipped and fell, breaking her Iright leg in two places. Two additional air mail routes out of Salt Iyike. one to Los Angeles and another to Denver, are contemplated by the government. After April 1 the shopmen employed em-ployed by the Southern Pacific company com-pany in Ogden will work five days out of each week, j The engineer for the Price River Irrigation district announces that the , Mammoth dam will be rebuilt at a cost of S1.0.000. Butlerville, a farming district near Murray, proposes to expend in the neighborhood of ?o0,000 for a water system. |