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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE The l'.oxeldcr county commissioner have created a new voting precinct in the western part of the; county which will be known as 'cnlcrdalo. Leslie I'lumer, who made his escape from the county jail at. Salt Lake on March L'S, while enjoying the privileges of a trusty at that institution, hit been arrested in Sacramento. C. 11. Peterson, an employee of the Ogden Portland Cement company of I'.righam City, suffered three crushed toes when his foot caught in a cog wheel while he was at work at thu plant. The Willard Fruitgrowers' association associa-tion is considering disincorporating the association and closing up the books of the company. Just why the association is considering going out of business is not stated. Fifty-four students of the Latter-day Saints' Business college have applied for graduation, of whom only thirteen are boys. The proportion of girls ic the school, according to the principal, is unusually high this year. Letting a contract for l.r),700 feet of concrete road work in Weber county to the Utah Portland Cement company indicates that the stale road commission commis-sion is not yet ready to abandon cement ce-ment concrete in favor of. bilhulithic. The assessment valuation of the new county of Daggett was received by the state board of equalization last week, the items being: Ileal estate, JjiHUl.tKIU ; improvements, $.:!.SU ; livestock, $-14,-23 ; other personal property, $125,1111 ; total,' $323,740. Logan and Provo citizens have selected se-lected committees to arrange details for the war conferences to bo held thcru Saturday, May IS. CiLizens of communities contiguous to Cache and Utah counties are planning to attend these war conferences. Underweight butler is being exposed in v campaign against that form of law-breaking inaugurated by Walter M. Boyden, state dairy and food commissioner. com-missioner. Eleven samples were recently re-cently turned in to Herman Harms, state chemist, aud all were below weight. Because the firing of the sunset gun at Fort Douglas from its tripod in front of the post bakery interfered with the ovens and the baking of bread, the gun is' being moved to a new location. The shock caused by the firing of the gun caused the bread to "fall." Miss Sara Huntsman, in charge of the department of public speaking at the Utah Agricultural college, has been engaged by Leland Stanford, Jr., university uni-versity as assistant professor of English Eng-lish for the summer quarter to have charge of the wqrk in public speaking ut that institution. Efficiency records in the office of the adjutant general at Washington, D. C, show that the Sixty-fifth brigade, bri-gade, field artillery, stationed at Camp Kearny, of which the Utah men form one regiment, stands higher than an other artillery brigade in the army, in this country or iu France. The poultry surveys in Ogden City and Weber county were the most comprehensive com-prehensive of any in America, is the manner in which II. V. Sanborn of the United States department of agriculture agri-culture referred to the reports he had seen of the campaign for increased poultry raiding iu Ogden. Steps to extend every courtesy to the visiting soldiers, sailors and marines ma-rines were taken by the Rotary club of Ogden at its weekly meeting. It was decided to place a directory card in the Union depot, giving the names of the clubs of the city which were welcome to the men iu the service. Two hundred students of the University Uni-versity of tUah visited Ogden on May 8, in pursuit of research work connected con-nected with their courses. Among institutions in-stitutions inspected were the state industrial in-dustrial school, state school for the deaf, dumb and blind, and the plant of the Ogden Packing & Provision company. com-pany. Utah will be represented at the "win the war for permanent peace" convention, conven-tion, under the auspices of the National Na-tional League for Woman's Service, at Philadelphia on May 1(3 and '17, by Mrs. W. Mont Ferry and Mrs. Lily C. Wolstenholme, who have been appointed ap-pointed by the Utah branch of the league. Lester Stroh, 24 years of age, a resident resi-dent of Harrisburg, Pa., who was beating his way on an O. S. L. freight train, fell off the train at Ogden and was terribly mangled. His right leg was cut off at Uie hip, the left leg severed just above the knee aud his left arm was cut off below- the elbow. el-bow. Although no definite information has been received by the United States marshal designating the place of internment in-ternment for Miss Augusta Minnie Deckman, German spy held in Salt Lake for the past three months, it is believed that she will he taken to Gloucester, Mass.. where there are at present twelve women enemy aliens. Adolph Garcia, a Mexican, has been arrested at Montello, Nov., for the Ogden police, who want him upon the charge of robbing Frank Seerda, a countryman. It is alleged that Garcia went to the hunkliouse in the Ogden railroad yards, where Seerda was sleeping, and after flourishing a big knife, had robbed the longer of ?240. Receiving a broken back, injuries to the spinal column, jagged lacerations about the face, when a house he was moving slipped onto him, Raymond Curtis, 4S years of age, of Salt Lake, was fatally injured. |