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Show THE BEE HiVE STATE Three women the first In sil on h Jury In P.ini-diain -ami one man comprised com-prised the tribunal before whom .Jolin Ka;.'iio of the Copperfield Candy company com-pany was tried on the charo of huv-Ini,' huv-Ini,' whiskey Illegally In his possession. President: lleber .1. Crant of thu L. 1). S. church was Heeled president of the 1,'iuli -Idaho Su'ar cumpan.y, sue-ccediiu,' sue-ccediiu,' the bile T'resldeul. Joseph I'. Smith. Ilavtd A. Smilli. a son of tin; hitler, was chosen a director to fill vacancy on the erfu ! i e board. Contract on a small stretch of the W'endover hiliv.a.v was let. Ibis week at the meeiintr of I In- slate road commission. com-mission. It. was for widening five and one-half miles of the road between Clamshell liucket ami Arimo-u and was for 10 cents a lineal fool. Captain Koyal J. Iioulas, at Camp Kearny, has been made adjutant of the military police of the camp, according to advices received by Itnlph JioiiKbis, of U'den, father of the young man. lie epccts to be discharged from service In about two mouths. In equality of assessment 'as between merchandise and other classes of properly prop-erly is complained of in the biennial report, of the stale board of equalization, equaliza-tion, filed with Covernor Iiamberjrer, as a result of the operation of the law !(( i i ri n that property be assessed as of the first day of January in each year. Amendment of the law is recommended. I.'lali will receive ?."i7..';00.7o as lu-r part of the national apportionment lor roads and highways in forest districts, aci-oriliny to the advices received here by iJisttict Forester L. F. Kneipp. at the district headquarters m Ogilen. J he money represents one. fourth of the revenue rev-enue from .the forest reserves of the stale from the sale of timber and grazing graz-ing fees. The Wasatch national forest yielded ihe largest amount of revenue fur the year, which was XVlfW.W. At an executive meeting of the state Council of defense held Wednesday Official Of-ficial sanction was given to an effort to obtain from the war department a ruling that will make every soldier the owner of the khaki uniform lie wears at the time of mustering out. This action by the defense council is consistent with resolutions recently adopted by the Red Cross executive hoard. The latter has already taken up this matter mat-ter with Senators W. H. King aiid Reed Smoot, with a request that they communicate the desire to the war department. de-partment. Miss Margaret Romney, grand opera singer of Salt Lake, who made her debut at the Metropolitan opera house, New York, in "La Boheme,'' has won the praise of the critics. She appeared ap-peared under her stage name of Margaret Mar-garet Roniaine and carried the part of "Musetta" in Puccini's opera. The Ogden board of education issued is-sued a statement that in the event the public schools are allowed to resume on December 30. that there shall be no more holiday observances for the remainder re-mainder of the school year. It is said that, owing to the fact the schools will have lost about fifteen weeks since September, it will necessitate strict attention with the school program pro-gram to carry it through by June 1. Wasatch county lost a picturesque figure December 7, when Homer Fraughton, 60 years of age, died of heart disease. Mr. Fraughton was a peace officer of this county for many-years, many-years, having been sheriff for a considerable con-siderable period and also city marshal of Heber City. He also was noted as a hunter and trapper. The influenza epidemic at Mt. Pleasant, Pleas-ant, which has been under control for the last two weeks only two homes being under quarantine las broken out afresh, thirty new cases being reported by Quarantine Physician Physic-ian Dr. W. P. Winder, and eight homes were placed under quarantine as a result. re-sult. The influenza situation throughout Boxelder county generally is quite favorable, fa-vorable, and due toVhis fact some of the schools will reopen and resume the year's work Monday. Portage, Plymouth, Riverside, East Garland, Beaver Dam, Collinston, Mantua and Thatcher are the towns which will open Monday. Elwood and Tremon-ton Tremon-ton resumed, work some time ago, and -Promontory schools have not closed at all. The situation in Brigham City is highly satisfactory, but it is not hardly probable that the schools will be opened for some time to come. A few new cases are breaking out every day, and It is reported that there are more case snow than there were last week at this time. It is probable that the Brigham City schools' will remain closed until after the holidays. The reported lifting of the ban upon theaters and churches, as well as public pub-lic gatherings, in Salt Lake, by the Salt Lake and state health boards, has caused Ogditi to take drastic action to safeguard their city. The emergency health committee met and adopted a resolution compelling persons coming into the city to have a certificate of good health issued not more than twenty-four hours prior to their entrance en-trance Into the city. Dealers in flour substitutes may sell their present stock to the government under regulations recently adopted by the grain corporation, according to an announcement made by the food administration. ad-ministration. It is recomnionded by the government that Salt Lake dealers deal-ers make preparations to ship their substitutes to points whore the grain corporation will accept f. o. b. shipments. ship-ments. The Fairvlew Commercial club has launched a boom for the building of an up-to-date roller mill and grain elevator ele-vator in that city. |