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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Jefferson Uradley, a miner was 'killed at the Spring Canyon Coal mine at Storr.s, when lie was si ruck by mine cars. Application for Insurance on the .lives of lis employes approximating $300,001) has boon nuuie by the Utuh-ldaho Utuh-ldaho Su.uar company. Harry Muhllesworih, 51 years old, was painfully injured at Salt Lake when he was knocked down by an nil-lomobile nil-lomobile which had been struck by a street cur. At a preliminary meeting of soldiers sol-diers held at Salt Lake, it was decided (o postpone organization of its permanent perm-anent association of world war veterans veter-ans until later in the year. Showing a total of 201 lire alarms -unswered, at a cost of !?oO,6G5.17, Chief i. A. Graves of the Ogden city lire department de-partment has filed with the city commissioners com-missioners his annual report. The city commissioners have decided to do away with the collection of a poll tax in Ogden. Those for the year 1919 will not be collected. The office of the poll tax collector will be abolished abol-ished The Ilotary club, at its regular monthly business meeting at Salt Lake adopted a resolution favoring military training in high schools and colleges, the instruction to extend over the regular reg-ular courses. Both Salt Lake City and tne Oregon Short Line stand ready to employ at once considerable numbers of returned soldiers, but thus far few have applied lor work, according to reports issued liy the city and .the railroad. Though the death rate in Salt "Lake In 1918 was 14.3 persons in a thousand, thou-sand, which is an increase of 3.2 per thousand over' 1917, the mortality rate is still far under the average of .the forty-six largest cities of the union. Voluntary manslaughter is the charge preferred against Ethel Francis in a complaint issued by the county attorney's office at Salt Lake. The woman is alleged to have slain Thomas ilcAdoo, whose housekeeper she was. In his biennial report to the governor, gov-ernor, Warden George A. Storrs, warden war-den of the Utah state prison, says prisoners have constructed forty and one-half miles of good roads in the various va-rious counties in the state during the rblennium. Because a recurrence of influenza .. 'lias been noted in some communities -of Utah and southern Idaho from which students are drawn, the date of opening the Utah Agricultural college has been postponed from January 14 to January 27. The water rights commission ap--pointed by the governor under an act of the last legislature and for which an apftrspFiation of $18,000 was made, -.. 9ias finished Its work by preparing a frill which will be presented to the coming session of the legislature. ' Once more the banks of Utah have gone "over the top" in subscribing for United States treasury certificates of indebtedness. 0 the moreJJan ?2,-.iSOO.OOO ?2,-.iSOO.OOO subscribed in Utah, Salt Lake Danks provided $l,S20,o00 and local tons bought an additional $156,000. The Price River Irrigation company -was sold at auetion at Price las week. It was bought by the' state, but will :be turned over to a newly organized 'company. The state must hold the project for six months under the law, when the new company will buy it in. Melvin Joseph Ballard, president of the northwestern states mission, with headquarters at Portland, Ore., was unanimously sustained as an apostle of the Church of Jesus Car of Latter-ay Latter-ay Saints on January 7. He succeeds Heber j. Grant, elevated to the presidency. presi-dency. Salt Lake's watershed in Little Cottonwood Cot-tonwood and Big Cottonwood canyons is short 17 feet of the normal amount -of snow at this season, and unless this deficit is made up by heavy falls during dur-ing the remainder of the month there may be a serious shortage of water next summer. Municipal Judge Wilkins, at Salt X.ke, has decided that the police have no right to designate certain city streets to be used for coasting, vehicles ve-hicles have paramount rights on the city's streets, and all children who coast on the streets do so at their own risk, without recourse for accidents. acci-dents. Robert Wesley DeWitt, who had been serving as a night watchman, was arrested at Salt Lake last week. DeWitt is wanted in Grant's Pass, Ore., charged with participating with Jefferson P. Howell in a robbery last April, wnich netted the two men !10,-OOO !10,-OOO worth of bullion being transported from a mine. After nearly six months of anxiously waiting for news regarding their son, Charles L. White, Jr., first reported wounded in the battle of Chateau-Thierry, Chateau-Thierry, Mr. and Mrs. ChaFles L. White of Kanesville have received a telegram from the adjutant general of the army announcing that their son died July 201918, of wounds received in action. Representatives of the reclamation service from Utah and the surrounding states held a conference at Salt Lake on the 6th. The matter of legislation necessary in the arid states to protect the water supply was considered and proposed legislation for Utah was carefully care-fully gone over. Banks and trust companies of Utah oversubscribed their December quota of U. S. treasury certificates of indebtedness in-debtedness by 47 per cent. Banks of this state had been requested to purchase pur-chase $1,730,000 worth of certificates, -but. they bought $2,554,000.' |