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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE It is understood that $10,000 will be appropriated at once to improve the Bingham highway. The contribution to date by the Home Economics section of the Belief society to the Utah county Ked Cross chapter is $1035.52. Guides at the capitol are to be supplied sup-plied with badges, so that they can be distinguished by visitors who wish to be shown around the building. Despondency brought about by a nervous breakdown caused Nathan Fox, Jr., 22 years old, and a popular student at the University of Utah, to commit suicide at his home in Moroni. It was decided by the state livestock board last week that a value of $200 be allowed on each head of pure-bred cattle condemned for tuberculosis and that $100 be the maximum for grade animals. Brigham City will tax $1.G0 per acre in 1918 for every acre of land irrigated irri-gated by water which is distributed by the city out of its irrigation system. The tax will be collected on more than 1000 acres. The sttujy of the kidnaping of a school girl and her imprisonment for four days in a cellar in Salt Lake, to which story the girl holds consistently, has not been solved yet by juvenile court officers. Among other improvements included in the coming year's program of the Salt Lake county road commission is the "laying of a shale road through Parley canyon connecting with Wasatch Wa-satch boulevard. Ten boys, who were brought before the court at American Forks for smoking smok-ing cigarettes, were given a lecture on the evil effects of smoking and the parents of the boys were admonished to look after them. The adjutant general of Utah has issued is-sued a bulletin that competent orders for individual induction into the army will be accepted up to and including April 10, after which date such orders will not be honored. The keynote of the conference of the Deseret Sunday School union, to be held at Salt Lake April 7, will be the pointing out of the opportunities for Sunday school workers for practical service in the present crisis. In view of a change in the old plan of holding officers' training camps only at division headquarters camps, the possibility of having a training camp established at Fort Douglas this spring is being discussed by those interested. Ogden high school pupils are going to purchase an ambulance for the 'United States army or they are going to outfit a hospital unit for service over the seas. This was the conclusion reached at an enthusiastic meeting of the pufils. Itequisirfon papers have been sent to the, governor of California by Harden Bennion, acting in the absence of Governor Gov-ernor Simon Bamberger, for the return to Utah of K. T. Cotterell, who is under un-der arrest in Los Angeles charged with embezzlement. Singing songs of home and country around old fashioned bonfires, the members of the Mutual Improvement Associations of the Mormon church in every town and hamlet In Utah will usher in the third Liberty loan drive the night of April C. Kveu grape juice allowed to ferment, sufficiently to exhibit alcoholic synip-tonfs synip-tonfs cannot be sold with impunity under un-der the Utah state law. This fact was demonstrated to Mike Smiiovich when found guilty of bootlegging because he was shown to have sold such a commodity com-modity in Midvale. Up to March 8 the pupils in the Ogden Og-den public schools had purchased $4181. SI in war savings stamps. The Madison school leads with $S.S9.1U in sales, with an average of $1.20 to each pupil. The highest average is at the Quincy school, where the pupils have purchased $l.'S:i each in stamps. The young son of Lowe Galley of Vernal suffered painful burns recently from an explosion. The boy had a number of cartridges in bis pocket, which were set oil' in some unaccountable unaccount-able manner. His clothes caught fire, and before help arrived be had been severely burned. He will recover. Because the appropriation made by the last legislature to carry the state industrial commission through the two-year two-year period has proved insufficient in proportion with the business imposed upon that body, the state board of examiners ex-aminers has allowed a deficit of $40,-000, $40,-000, the present biennium closing with March, 1910. Contagious disease cases reported at Salt Lake last week number 198, as follows: German measles, 47; mumps, 42; chickenpox, 30; whooping cough, 2S ; smallpox, 17; measles, 12; scarlet fever, 10; diphtheria, 8, and typhoid fever, 4. To go without breakfast every Sunday Sun-day morning while the war lasts is the latest form of Hooverizing. This' is actually done by the men and women Of the Wasatch ward In Salt Lake City. |