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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The convention of bank clerks o( the United State:-; will be held in Salt Lake, August 22, 23 and 24. Three masked men held up a streel car conductor and motorman in Og- den, securing about $20 from the two men. Thornton Jackson, a colored man who is six feet one inch in height and weighs 235 pounds, has been appoint d on the police force in Salt Lake. Nephi Cowlishaw, charged with re liming to pay for a meal which he ate In an Ogdcn restaurant, was fined 10. Cowlishaw was drunk at th( Ime. Vera Rupp, aged 16, was attacked in tier home in Salt Lake by a burglar, and when she attempted to summon assistance was beaten into insensi UIty. The Utah County Fish and Game as eociation is considering the proposi tion of planting either yellow or blu catfish and probably other varieties la Utah lake. William Abner Haws, aged 72 years, died at hiB home at Pleasant View on the 13th. Mr. Haws was a native oi Illinois, but came to Utah in 1850 and made his home here since. The Alpine high school district, comprising the northern half of Utah county, voted very decisively in fa-Tor fa-Tor of bonding the district for erecting erect-ing new school houses. John Francis Thomas, a miner while returning from his work, fel! Into an abandoned shaft near the old Jordan mine at Bingham, a depth ol about 100 feet, and was killed instantly. in-stantly. , John Puleu, who is suffering under a delusion that Salt Lake is about to be destroyed by a tidal wave, haa been arrested in Salt Lake and will probably be sent to the state mental hospital. : Andrew Pappas, proprietor of a Greek bakery in Bingham, was run down and killed by an engine and a train of ore cars when he became doubtful as to the track the train Was go!ng"to take. ; Utah is entitled to one more vote a the electoral college in the coming presidential election and to two more delegates to the Republican national (convention in June, under the new congressional allotment. ; The Wasatch high school district is io have a $50,000 home, according to tie decision of the people at the pollg on the f3th. The election resulted in a vote of 393 to 244, making a majority ma-jority of J49 in favor of bonds. L. Lytel, engineer in charge of the Strawberry irrigation project, has denied the report that an epjdemic of smallpox prevails among the workmen. work-men. One man, he said, had the dis' ease nearly a month ago, but has recovered. re-covered. ' The board of directors of the Provo Building and Loan society made its eighth annual report to the society last week. During the past year tha board conducted a $44,000 business with an expenditure of only $60 per Btonth. Three hundred and ninety cases of smallpox were reported to the state board of health last month, according to the January bulletin of the board. Notwithstanding this prevalence of the disease it caused no death during January. ' Another early-closing campaign has been started at Ogden with a view f reaching an agreement among all the merchants now closing their places of business at 7 and 8 o'clock, to continue closing early the , whole J-ar around. , The Provo Commercial club has expressed ex-pressed itself as opposed to any movement move-ment leading to a withdrawal from the Utah Development league. Several Sev-eral weeks ago an agitation was commenced, com-menced, certain members claiming that the league was not obtaining results. re-sults. Peace and order have been restored at the State Industrial school at Ogden, Og-den, following a most unique attempt upon the part of more than a score oi girls to break their way out of the institution, in-stitution, when furniture was wrecked, windows broken and general liavoc reigned. That the effect of salt impregnation on timber is to increase its life and strength is the result of some observations obser-vations carried on In connection with structures exposed to the waters of the Great Salt lake by the Oregon Short Line railroad and Professor R. Ketchum of the University of Utah Mrs. Margaret G. J. Clawson, who died at her home in Salt Lake, February Feb-ruary 10, at the age of 70, was the leading woman in the first performance perform-ance given at the Salt Lake theatre, fifty years ago, and was regarded as one of the founders of dramatic interest in-terest in Utah. The elimination of Fort Duchesne as an army post is about completed. Captain Nolan has received orders to dispose of all government porperty remaining. The squad of soldiers now there will leave for Boise Barracks, Bar-racks, Idaho, February 25. C. H. Converse has returned from California to Utah to serve his sentence sen-tence of one year in the penitentiary, rather than forfeit his bond of $500 deposited by friends in Ogden. Converse Con-verse was convicted in March, 1910, of stealing ostrich plumes valued at $100. |