Show UTAH STATE STAIT NEWS during the past year utah paid VIM in stamp tax A dash of snow fell in salt lake the night of the loth bolh the lehl lehi band has been reorganized with twenty two members about salt lakers took advantage of excursion rates east and west last week oil enthusiasts say a refining plant will be erected in sanpete county in the near future arthur kneass of salt lake city has been appointed messenger in the boise idaho land office ed johnson an employee of mcdon aids circus was killed at payson last week being run over by the circus train the president has signed the commission of edward 11 II callister as collector of internal revenue for montana idaho and utah erastus kliopia of provo has sued thomas llewellyn for damages alleging that defendant beat him in such a manner as to inflict permanent injuries the western union telegraph earn com office in salt lake city did the largest business lost last week of any week since the office has been established in the capital city the first money that will go to the state treasury through the operation of the inheritance tax will be from the stale estate of J M ricketts dicketts Eick etts who died in salt bait lake on may 21 the salt lake public library contains volumes and has membership cards outstanding the average dally daily loans the past year was and books daily issued to the reading room the wholesale liquor firm of E M burris burns co which removed from weiser idaho to salt lake has assigned with liabilities amounting to upward of the stock will cover the indebtedness the supreme court last week passed on a case involving the smallest amount ever involved in a case before that tribunal the case arose over re taxed costs the court rendered judg i ment for 1 0 0 for plaintiff salt lake county has passed an ordinance imposing a tax on telephones the tax imposed Is sl 1 a year on instruments renting for 60 a year and upward and BO 50 cents a year for those renting for less than 60 a year the biennial bi convention of county superintendents was held in salt lake city last week twenty two of the twenty seven counties of the state being represented and matters matter of importance to the schools were discussed mark J mitchell recently bound over ever to the district court of grand county on a charge of perjury took french leave the loth just prior to tho the holding of court to try him so far the officers have been unable to locate him cadet dumford the successful contestant for appointment to the west point military academy having failed to pass pas the entrance examination to that institution another chance may be afforded clarence Cla renco S jarvis of st george grasshoppers are doing extensive damage to crops at manti and school children are being employed to aid in ridding the vicinity of them large numbers have been dest destroyed roved by driving them into traps and the llope is ex pressed that further ravages may be averted I 1 oil experts claim that within a short time no one will be able to locate lands in the green river eiver district walker brothers of salt lake alone have located nearly two townships towns bips machinery tl is being set et up and the value of the supposed Bop posed oil bearing zone will soon be determined the state of utah recently relinquished acres of land tu to millard county which the thrown open to settlement the land was wa selected because of the projected bonneville reservoir and would have hava been valuable had the enterprise been carried out the anaconda standard says a hack aback once a owned by brigham young Is lying in a scrap heap in butte butle where for a number of years it was in dally daily use rise jim murray bought it in 1882 for and rented it to one buck lime k driver tor for 65 5 per day until it returned him it originally cost the provo posto post luce will pass from a third to a second class OP orico lice on july 1 which mearis means that there may be ba appointed an assistant postmaster and three clerks the office also expects to show how sufficient receipts to entitle it to a free delivery her bervice vice A majority of the san juan county voters failed to sign a petition in favor of tho the annexation of san juan county to grand and the question is practically settled for the present as it can call not now be brought for up a vote befort before the election of 1802 1909 |