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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Emphatic denial has been voiced by Mrs. Mildred Lawry, formerly of Par!; City, that she had been lioldins Minerva Maxine Mikros, 7 months of age, as surety for indebtedness incurred in-curred by the mother of the babe, Mrs. Mary J. Mikros, through care at the hands and house of Mrs. Lawry in Park City at the time of the birth of the Infant. After a conference between state officials, with regard to permitting the entry of sheep from Colorado into Utah, in spite of the quarantine against scab, the livestock board announced an-nounced that the sheep might entei only when they had obtained clearance clear-ance from the Colorado office of thf United States bureau of animal industry. indus-try. The state of Utah has begun suit at Salt Lake against the Saltaii Beach company, which is expected tc put a final settlement on the question of the ownership by the state of lands underlying the waters of Great Salt lake. The state asserts the state's right to lease the lands under the lake. The Delta farm bureau is receiving encouraging reports from farmers' organizations or-ganizations in the east regarding the price of alfalfa seed and the officers in charge believe they will be able to market the bulk of the seed grown in that community direct to farmers at a satisfactory price. The Girls' Hiking club of the University Uni-versity of Utah is now fully organized organ-ized and will make about ten or fifteen fif-teen hikes this year, according to the president of the organization. Three! hikes have been planned for during the winter while the snow is on the ground. The amount of land which will be thrown open in Utah on water power sites as a result of action by congress providing for the entry of public lands on such sites when it does not interfere inter-fere with the development of power, amounts to approximately 445,000 acres. D. P. Atkins, who was held for the alleged theft of an automobile, and A. T. Emerson, accused of raising a check for $3 to $3000, escaped from the county jail at Salt Lake, sawing their way out of the cell in which they had been placed. Lorenzo Richards of Salt Lake City has been appointed federal prohibition director for the state of Utah, filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mathonihah Thomas at the time he was making his campaign for election to congress. State and city health officials declare de-clare that unless citizens observe precaution pre-caution and conform to the health laws, there is danger of contagious diseases becoming prevalent to an alarming extent. The Salt Lake Commercial club plans to launch a campaign to bring new industries to the city as a result re-sult of data which will be gathered in a thorough industrial survey. Efforts are being made by officials to find relatives of Mrs. Frank L. Wedell, 40 years of age, who was found dead on the floor of her room at a hotel In Salt Lake. The Kokomo Rubber company of Kokonio, Ind., will establish a western west-ern executive and distributing office at Salt Lake within the next few days. Utah county will at once pay to the state road commission $113,572.S2 as settlement of claims against the county to date. Governor-elect Mabey has left for Harrisburg, Pa., to attend the conference confer-ence of governors. E. J. Norton, assistant state superintendent super-intendent of public instruction, has been appointed by Governor Bamberger Bamber-ger as the official representative from Utah at a conference to be held in Bubte, Mont., December 2, to take up problems of the schools and school support. Heher M. Hollands, 52 years of age, formerly of Coalville, was killed instantly in-stantly when he fell twenty-five feet from the top of a tree on the farm of his brother, George Hollands, two miles southwest of Sandy. Hollands was trimming the tree when the accident acci-dent occurred.' In the hope of supplying the Utah Gas & Coke Company with sufficient revenue to pay operating expenses, depreciation, and the interest on its bonds, the public utilities commission of Utah has granted the company permission per-mission to raise its rates on gas by 22 cents per 1000 cubic feet. Boyd Kemp, the 20-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kemp, was drowned at Lehi. The child wandered away from the home and was found later by its mother in a tub of water in a neighbor's yard, about a quarter of a block distant. Frank K. Nebeker of Salt Lake, now assistant attorney general of the United States, has been appointed by the president to be "assistant of the attorney general," which is the second highest office in the department of justice. John William Brown, 35 years of age, of Ogden, was instantly killed from an electric shock, and five other persons In the Immediate vicinity escaped es-caped similar fates, as the result of the feed wire for an arc light crossing vires leading to their homes. Immediate steps in a state-wide campaign cam-paign to persuade young people of Utah to remain on the farms' rather than to seek city employment, will be' undertaken by the Utah state farm bureau, co-operating with the extension exten-sion division of the Utili Agricultural Ml lege. |