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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The town board of Bingham has let the contract for a new Jail. Ogden Is free again from smallpox for the first time in six months. The Ogden chamber of commerce Is to have a country club, according to the sense of a meeting held last week. It has been practically decided to establish a "rock pile" to be used Jointly by tho city and county for the exercise of prisoners at Ogden. The transplanting of two million and a half Douglas fir seedlings in Big Cottonwood canyon is nearlng completion, twenty-three men being engaged In the work. That cranberries will grow on the tillable land near Murray has been demonstrated frequently, and it is now aimed lo redeem the marsh lands with the new industry. Murray gave official sanction to prize fighting within its limits last week, when the city council refused to adopt a resolution prohibiting events of that character. Careful inspection of the alfalfa fields in the neighborhood of Kays-vllle Kays-vllle last -week revealed the presence of alfalfa weevil in such numbers that It is feared the crop is doomed. Burt Herrick of Ogden, while endeavoring en-deavoring to extract the fangs from 8. rattlesnake, was bitten by the reptile, rep-tile, and had a narrow escape from death. He is now out of danger. All of the labor laws in effect in Utah, including the new child labor law, and the new nine-hour law for women, -will be enforced through the Btate -bureau of information and statistics. sta-tistics. By a vote of forty to four, citizens of Price authorized a $15,000 bond issue, is-sue, the money to be used In creating creat-ing a public park, removing indebtedness indebted-ness on the public lighting plant and extending the waterworks system. Sparks from a passing engine oa the Denver & Rio Grande started a blaze in the barn of Ben Cox at Lehi that resulted in $500 damage. Ten tons of hay were bui-ned, but a number num-ber of blooded horses were rescued. Copies of the new quarantine laws, adopted by the state board of health, following a revision of the medical laws by the last legislature, are being mailed to the local health boards and district health officers of the state. A petition has been filed in the courts by the citizens of new Tooele, through which the citizens hope to establish es-tablish their independence from the old city, or Tooele proper, and incorporate incor-porate a hew city under the name of National City. The Kaysville Commercial club has passed resolutions asking the county commissioners of Davis county to levy a five-mill tax ror good road building throughout the county, the fund to be used in connection with the state appropriation. J A. L. Toone of Ogden, docket clerk I of the last legislature, and who has I held similar positions at former legis- I lative sessions, has been appointed I deputy in the office of H. T. Haines, I commissioner of the state bureau of I immigration, labor and statistics. The old freight house in the Ogden 1 yards is being razed to provide a site for a coach shop which will be erected erect-ed by the Harriraan lines as soon as the space is cleared. The new shop will be specially equipped to handle the steel coaches now in use on the O. S. L. line. Joseph, and Mart Mortensen of Mayfield returned last week from their sheep camp with three bears which they had killed while herding sheep. Several of their sheep were being killed each night, and the slaughter of the bears followed to , protect the sheep. There was a rush to the federal land office in Salt Lake on Tuesday, the opening day for homesteading 40,000 acres of land in Millard county, thirty-nine persons, six of them women, wom-en, being lined up when the office opened, and 12,500 acres being disposed dis-posed of during the day. The petition from Colton and Tucker citizens in Spanish Fork canyon, for the organization of the town of Colton, Col-ton, fifteen miles in length, has been denied. The object of the desired incorporation in-corporation was to permit the residents resi-dents of Colton and Tucker, under a town government, to vote on the liquor liq-uor question. The Salt Lake county commhson-ers commhson-ers have authorized a liquor election In the districts of Salt Lake county outside of incorporated towns, cn June 27, to determine whether these districts Ehail remain "wet" or go "dry," In accordance with the provisions provis-ions of the liquor law passed by the recent legislature. Suffering from a nervous breakdown, break-down, caused by the arduous duties of guarding Layton by night since J. W. . Lavender, nightwatchman, was shot by bandits, Burt Sbirtal went to the hospital a few days ago in a state of norvouB collapse. Partly because of the thinning out In Utah flocks during the past year, and partly because the wool clip is freer from aand and dirt than It was a your ago, the total Utah wool clip will be considerably under the weight of tho 1910 crop, according lo present pres-ent cellmates. |