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Show J THE BEE HIVE STATE Siatistics on wages of farm labor. made public by the department of ng I riculture, show that the average monthly wage of farm laborers in TUih. with board, was S70. and without with-out board was during the year; nine years ago I'lah was paying s.'ij and ?47.r0 per month, respectively. The eighteen beet sugar factories of i Utah last year worked 1.0711.7:!:! tons of beets cropped from lOO.TOO acres, the largest tonnage and t lie largest acreage in the history of the sugar industry of the state. The average sugar content of the Utah beet s was 14.-19 per cent last year, and the average av-erage extraction 11.19 per cent. The official marker, which formed the headstone for-the grave of Grant II. Lyman, one of the first Oah murines mu-rines killed in France, has just been received by his mother, Mrs. Susan ('. Lyman of Salt Lake. Mrs. Lyman is the widow of the late President Francis Fran-cis M. Lyman of the L. D. S. church. Sirs. James N. Kimball, 72 years cf age, died at Ogden of pleuropneumonia, pleuropneumo-nia, which developed following a night of exposure recently when Mrs. Kimball Kim-ball wandered from home and spent the night along the 'Weber river, her hands and feet being frozen. The department of agriculture's preliminary pre-liminary report on beet sugar production produc-tion for.1919 shows that Utah's output for the year was lli),S29 short tons, more than 14,000 tons in excess of tlu; output of 1918, and 30,000 tons more than produced in 1917. A committee of Utahns has been in' Washington for a hearing before the house public lands committee with regard re-gard to the proposed legislation covering cov-ering the purchase of lands in the Uintah reservation by Utah residents some years ago. Agents for the department of justice have recovered automobile tires and tubes valued at more than $600 as the result of the investigation following the arrest of Sergeant Richard Wagner Wag-ner of the motor transport corps at Fort Douglas. Approximately 900,000 acres of land In Utah are under irrigation, producing produc-ing an average crop value of $44,500,-000, $44,500,-000, while approximately 100,000 acres are under completed canals with adequate ade-quate water supply, but are not under cultivation. Four persons narrowly escaped death when the home of Ed Smith at Salt Lake was destroyed by fire, the furnace blowing up just as the occupants occu-pants escaped in their night clothes. The home was valued at $30,000. Cache stake Mutuals are to put over a campaign that will by popular subscription sub-scription net them $10,000 for the establishment es-tablishment of two resorts in Logan canyon, one .for the Boy Scouts and one for the Beehive Girls. Alex Edwards, 38 years of age, suffered suf-fered the amputation of both hands below the elbows as the result of burns received when he came into contact con-tact with a high-power electric wire, near Richfield. William Shafer, of Bingham, was shot and probably fatally wounded by a Serbian known is Joe Thomas, following fol-lowing an altercation growing out of a dispute over alleged nonpayment, for drinks. Valentine Ehrct, aged 70, who disappeared disap-peared after boardriig a train at Grand Junction, Colo., after a nation-wide search, has been located in the state mental hospital at Frovo. Owners of automobiles must have the 1920 license plates securely attached at-tached on the front and rear of their cars, according to official notice from lie secretary of state. Cooking classes for prospective brides and newlyweds will be conducted conduct-ed at Civic center at Salt Lake under the direction of the Women's Civic center committee. The sum of $10.73 per capita of school population in each school district of the state will be distributed in the January apportionnieht of state district dis-trict school funds. A national record for recruiting has been established by Ogden Boy Scouts. The troops of Ogden, since August 1, 1919, have increased their enrollment from 120 to 524. More than $2,000,000 worth of cat-.tle, cat-.tle, sheep and hogs were on exhibition at the Ogden livestock show which opened at the union stock yards on January 8. The Utah Central railroad jubilee was held in Salt Lake January 10 in commemoration of the completion of the road fifty years ago. Bonner X. Smith, Salt Lake lawyer and a member of the state legislature for ten years, died at Salt Lake, January Jan-uary 0. The directors of the association have decided that the next state fair will be held from October 4 to 9, inclusive. Mathonihah Thomas of Salt Lake will be federal prohibition director for Utah. Utah's coal production in 1919 is estimated es-timated at. 4.000,000 tons. Roy Coles, a brakemau living at Ogden, Og-den, has been arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the box car robberies, rob-beries, wti'eh have occurred recoMly between Ogden and Wells, Nv., afid which are said to involve thousands of dollars worth of nierchandl.se. Automobile coasting on Utah lake Is the latest sport In the American Fork vicinity. A flivver with chained wheels and hand sleds trailing behind furnishes the apparatus. The chain', i feur opens up the machine to Its full speed and then turns to one side while the trailing coasters speed on. |