Show UTAH STATE NEWS Building activity In Salt Luke Lake shows a D. war post stimulation revealed in a an increase of 74 per cent over oyer the act of ot July 1018 1918 O Ogden den demanded an improvement in the telephone service of ot the city at a meeting recently held at which were ere present officials of the telephone Company the city commissioners loner an and several se merchants of this tills city Appointment of W. W Karl Kurl Hopkins of 1 Lehl Lehi hl to the position of ot superintendent n- n dent of ot the Ogden elt city schools maik marks the fourth selection of or Lehi Lehl men with will withIn willIn In a n month to enviable positions pos In th the educational field In III common with other parts of th the state county has suffered from the scarcity of water and the crops crop will amount to about 50 per pel cent o othe of the normal Bear Dear river ri is extremely low but the mountain streams ar are holding up fairly well One of the most distinctive am antI and Ideally finished buildings on the Utah Agricultural college campus the tho AgrIcultural Agricultural Ag Ag- Engineering building 1 is nearIng Hearing completion and will be ready read for Cor occupancy occupancy during the comIng school year jear ear Ernest l 15 13 years of age pf Thatcher Idaho who was visiting relatives es in Ogden this week wa was drowned in the Weber river when he took cramps crumps In the middle of the stream and sank before aliI aid could be be secured President Lee It n Taylor of the Utah county farm furm bureau bureau reported that he had met with the state board of equalization equalization equal equal- In regard to taxes on farmlands farm farmlands farmlands lands In this tills county and that a raise of of 30 per cent will be made In the taxes of ot the farmers Application for a charter in the II American Legion and approval of a constitution and laws laws by-laws for the proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed Lehi Lehl po post t of the organization were effected at a meeting of returned service men held at the Lehl Lehi Commercial Commercial Commercial Com Com- mercial club club last week The city council of Richfield has entered into a contract with the Telluride Telluride Tell Tell- Power company to Install an electric street lighting system with ornamental iron poles and candle candlepower candlepower candlepower power lamps For the present the lighting will wm be confined to Main Street Grain in the valley alley Is rIpening ripening ripening rip rIp- ening two weeks In iu advance of the thel l usual sual time and harvesting har is in pro pro- press The crop is turning out to to tobe be better than at first expect expect- ed Some of the new land will yield from twenty to to thirty bushels per acre With the arrest of f Nick In EI Ely Nov New and Steve M lIch In Butte Dutte both joth of Salt Lake It Is thought by Sheriff SherIf John S. S Corless that the two men responsible for the death of Marco Marko Marko Mar Mar- ko co Laus whose body was found In a gulley at the mouth of Parleys Parley's canyon canon pa n August 3 may be In custody Owners of salt gr grass s areas have been heen een warned by Harold R li R Hagan state crop Inspector not to cut their crop until after October 1 1 Many states es have been quarantined against the he alfalfa weevil and the product may not be licensed for use in packing shipments until the frost has killed the the- he insects Nel Nellie le Folkman flied filed a petition in inthe inthe inthe the probate division of the district court at ut Ogden asking for letters of administration In the matter of the estate state of or Joseph M M. Folkman deceased The petition states the estate Jt 11 s val val- Bed aed at and consists of property n Weber n county The widow and eight children are the heirs Folkman was killed b by an Interurban train at Har- Har on Jul July 19 More than coyotes have been destroyed by state hunters and government government gov gov- men during the present year An and the total number of various predatory pre pre- animals kUl killed d reaches accordIng according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to the annual report of the United States biological survey cooperating cooperating cooperating co co- co- co operating with the Utah State livestock livestock live live- stock tock board The government expended expend expend- ed during the present year rear jearo to o rid the state of the tile pests The plan of distributing funds under special and federal school appropriations Ions has bas been announced b by G. G N Child state superintendent of public ln In All special activities under un un- under der the funds provided must be mended by the supervisor Isor of or each partIcular particular par- par line Une of activity before appropriations appropriations will be made by the state board I of f c uca U I l i The county farm bureau executive e commIttee has leas Just finished a survey suney of f the crop situation In Sanpete county coun coun- ty y and makes the following report on acreage creage and crop percentages Irrigated Irrigated Irrigated gated grains acres CO GO per percent percent cent ent grains acres 43 3 per pcr cent alfalfa acres 37 per cent wild hay huy acres 50 ro roper per er cent sugar beets 5 00 acres 77 71 per er cent potatoes potato s acres 50 ra per ent rent peas roo acres 50 per cent The Spanish Fork Cunning Canning Company Company Com Com- pany any began operation operations last week on onlie the lie seasons season's IS beans A force orce of nf f about seventy five women girls nd tad men Is employed at the canning plant lant while about the same force Is employed In the fields An excellent yield Is expected I IThe The United States Railroad Admin Admin- Administration will he be e asked ked by the State Public Utilities Commission to tn build 1 station at nt Sigurd on the Denver k Ho Lilo Grande President Joshua Green nood eI of the fl-e commission hh hiss hiitt an- an loun |