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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE The convention of Utah bankers will be held at Salt Lake, June 10 to 14. Frank Carroll, aged 13, while riding rid-ing a bicycle at Salt Lake, attempted to pass in front of a rapidly moving street car and sustained a mangled right foot. Frank M. Driggs lias been re-elected president of the Ogden Chautauqua association, which will hold its annua! meeting in Ogden for a week, beginning begin-ning June 10. A reduction from tit) cents to 4u cents a hundredweight in rates on iron and steel goods from Utah to Pacific-coast Pacific-coast ports for export lias been granted grant-ed by the railroad administration. Thousands of acres of dry farm grain crops in Boxelder county, which had wintered exceptionally well and promised abundant harvests, will die if there is no rainfall within a very few days. Jake Denkers, IV years of age, charged witli having forged the name of C. R. Cole, of Ogden, to a check for .$142.S0 and spent the money, was committed to the state industrial school last week. Search may be made for more suitable suit-able gravel for the concrete road from Price to Emery, according to state road officials. Only one of the samples sam-ples submitted to the federal road bureau has been approved. Sanpete valley crops are menaced by grasshoppers. In places the ground Is literally covered with young hoppers hop-pers and between Manti and Wales there are places where there are as many as 300 hoppers to the square foot. The Utah State Council of Defense last week honored a requisition for $50,000 from the American and Syrian Sy-rian relief committee of New York and also honored a requisition for $25,000 from the Y. M. C. A. in New York. According to information coming into in-to the office of Captain Henry D. Moyle, assistant state director, the school children of Utah have during the week ending May 24, pledged to buy $3853.25 worth of war savings stamps. Bids submitted for the construction of the proposed school buildings In Castle Gate and Hiawatha were so high as to be practically prohibitive, the lowest total on the two being $154,000, when the board expected to have them constructed for $100,000. Seven members of prominent organizations organi-zations have been chosen to arrange for the fiftieth aniversary celebration commemorating the driving of the last spike on the Utah Central railroad, January 10, 1870, which brought the railroad to Salt Lake. William Brooks, a negro, has been arrested at Los Angeles, being the third person taken into custody in connection with the mysterious murder mur-der at Salt Lake on the night of January Jan-uary 13, of Joseph Briggs of Fairview, Utah, 69 years of age. It is announced that a meeting of all the living members of handcart companies com-panies who drew handcarts across the plains in their journey to and from the Missouri river to Salt Lake in the years 1S56 and 1S62, inclusive, will be held at Salt Lake, June 1. When the steering gear of his automobile auto-mobile failed to work properly, H. O. Mull of Salt Lake, was caught beneath It when it tipped over in Bingham canyon. can-yon. He sustained a concussion of the brain, numerous cuts and bruises and possible internal injuries. Although bruised and battered by the rocks in City Creek canyon, Salt Lake, Mrs. Katherlne Hollweck, who plunged Into the stream and saved John Dene-ken, Dene-ken, aged 6, from drowning, seems little lit-tle worse from her trying experience, und the child has fully recovere'd. While playing wih a pet rabbit, Howard, How-ard, 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Davis, of Provo, was attacked by a dog and badly bitten about the mouth. A physician was called and eight stitches were required to close the wounds. The child suffered a considerable loss of blood. Several brass cannon are resting at Hie bottom of the Jordan river near Lehi, according to a letter received by Hie state historical society from J. II. Gardner of Pleasant Grove. These -annons, he says, were dumped into the iver when Johnson's army left Camp Floyd in 1861, Thomas and Maude Linker hare been arrested at Salt Lake, charged with being Implicated in the murder of Joseph Biggs, of Fairview, who was 'ound dead in Sail Lake on January IS, Obbery evidently being the motive. Fight to the finish is the ultimatum if both parties in the cooks and waiters' wait-ers' strike which reopened in Salt Lake Thursday night of last week, after hree weeks of tranquility during which 'he factions were preparing to arbitrate. arbi-trate. Investment companies allowing gents 30 to 40 per cent commission on the gross proceeds of security sales nay be barred from transacting busl- icss in this slate. The BeCUl'ltles coni-niSSlon coni-niSSlon lias (lie mailer under advlse- itient. That roads built by city and stale through the labor of returned soldiers nid sailors are proving Invaluable to ltlzens with machines is indicated by he enormous amount of traffic that Is using I he roads daily. Thai Utah may have the largest rep resen tat Ion admissible at the National Retail Grocers' convention, which is o be held in Salt Lake June 23 lo 2(1 he lirtartl, at iis last meeting, author zed the election of double delegations ty I he state and all locals entll led lo loci, each delegale to ha c a li ill' lute. |