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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE The li rst contribution toward financing finan-cing the proposed memorial bridge to the soldiers, sailors anil marines of Salt Lake county to be built across the mouth of Parley's canyon on the Wiisiitch-loniie ille boulevard. has been made by the Ensign school. After trying to kill Manuel Ortega, 21 years of ago, a Mexican, by slashing slash-ing the right side of his head and cheek in an attempt to sever the jugular jug-ular vein while he was sleeping at a table in a poolhall in Salt Lake, .lesus Iopez. aged 47, made his escape. No traces of poisonous bacilli, such as caused trouble in ripe olives in eastern states, were found in olives tested in Utah, according to a report submitted to Walter M. Hoyden, state dairy and food commissioner, by L. I, Paines, stale bacteriologist. l'lans are heinir made at Provo for a community Christmas tree. It is intended in-tended to erect the tree in a centra' place in the business district of the city, and that il be large enough to present a spectacular appearance when trimmed and illuminated. Millard county will on December 9 sell .S50,000 bonds, of which $.10,000 I is for the erection of a courthouse, $90,000 in co-operation with the federal and state governments for the construction con-struction of state roads and $220,000 for local and county roads. Cedar City is' awake to the advantage advan-tage it holds as the gateway to the newly created Zion National park and other scenic attractions and is preparing prepar-ing to take care of the tourists who must pass through its limits on their way to nature's wonders. . The Utah-Idaho Sugar company has filed application witli state engineer to take 50-second feet of water from Bear river, directly east of Garland. They will erect. a power plant and lay 700 feet of 40-inch pipe for irrigation purposes. A liquor "still," which members of the sheriff's office say lias been operated op-erated the past year and its product sold exclusively in Bingham, was seized at Salt Lake and Antonio Scor-zato Scor-zato and his wife placed under arrest. The kitchen of C. B. Jones' residence resi-dence at Salt Lake suffered considerable consid-erable wreckage when a frozen water jacket, suddenly heated, exploded. Six windows were broken and two large holes were, blown in the ceiling. Norma Shepurd, aged 40, a drug addict, ad-dict, inmate of the city jail at Stilt Lake, committed suicide by hanging herself from a cell cover in the woman's wo-man's ward. An apron was used as a hangman's rope. The stockholders of the Utan-Idaho Central Railroad company, at their meeting at Ogdon, ratified the action of the directors in ordering the segregation segre-gation of the city and iuterurban lines of the company. Increase in rates amount to practically prac-tically twenty-five per cent has been granted to the Salt Lake, Garfield and Western railroad and the Inland railroad rail-road company by the state public utilities utili-ties commission. Salt Lake residents responded gen-i-j-ously to the request for a Christmas giXt to French war orphans during the post card drive conducted by the committee com-mittee for the Fatherless Children of France. The San Francisco polios department depart-ment has been requested t find the relatives of the man, believed to be T. H. Tury, whose body was found in Taylor's canyon, near Ogden. United States department of the interior in-terior advises that an additional $5000 is now available for road work on Arrow Ar-row Head trail through the Shivwits Indian reservation. Three thugs robbed Tom Brooks, proprietor of a rooming house at Salt Lake, and his wife of approximately $3000 in valuables and money one night last week. The federal government will very shortly advertise for bids for tne construction con-struction of a $10,000 steel bridge across Santa Clara creek, Washington Washing-ton county. , Baskets containing the requisites for a Thanksgiving dinner were furnished fur-nished by the Salvation Army to. 150 needy families' of Salt Lake. Gladys Olson, aged 7, was instantly killed at Delta by the accidental discharge dis-charge of a gun which was not thought to be loaded. - Westminster college, at Salt Lake City, has received a contribution of $10,000 for the erection of a boys' dormitory. , Utah will be represented .it the national na-tional foreign trade convention to he held in San Francisco, May 12 to 15, 1920. Enrollment at L. D. S. schools, when compared with previously published yearly reports, shows a large, increase. Cache county commissioner.' propose to enlarge Trenton irrigation districl from -li 11 10 to 12,000 acres. It is rumored that the L. D. S church will erect a hospital at Richfield. Rich-field. Proposals looking toward" the (level opment of Zion National park by extending ex-tending the camping, automobile, road and other facilities to meet the expected ex-pected increase in the numbers of visitors visi-tors for next year and thereafter were made at a meeting held at Salt Lake. It will be unlawful after the first day of January, 1020, for any person in I'tah to use on the public highways of the state wagons having tires less j than three inches wide, provided that j this shall not apply to buggies, car-j car-j riages and other light vehicle'' used for I lriving purposes only. |