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Show UTAH STATE NEWS A man convicted of "bootlegging' whisky in Salt Lake will spend seventy-five days in jail. Martin Jones, aged 62, died in a Salt Lake hospital Wednesday, from injuries received when he was run down by an automobile. That the Utah summer ranges offei bright prospects .to the Utah sheep men for the coming season is the gen , eral opinion of sheepmen. Building permits representing con. Btruction work costing more than hall a million dollars have been issued thus far this year in Salt Lake. Miss Vilate E. Schofield of Sail Luke was declared to be the mosl beautiful young woman present at the Utah products show in Salt Lake last week. , A. E. Beller of Ogden, an inventor, has perfected what he calls an "aero-locomotive," "aero-locomotive," and claims that it wili revolutionize the world of aerial navigation. navi-gation. The sum of $6,000 will be expended this year on road improvement in Bait Lake county, this action having been decided on by the board of coun ty commissioners. Mrs. Mary Ann Stearns Winters, one of the historic women of the plate, died Thursday at the home ol )ier daughter, Mrs. Heber J. Grant, In Salt Lake City at the age of 79. Joseph Henson of Tooele, who foi more than fifty years has been activa in promoting the agricultural interests of the state, died suddenly in Sail Lake on the 2nd. He was 82 years old. John Sebastian, a traveling sales man from Cincinnati, aged 26 years fell and dislocated his back while attempting at-tempting to board a train . in Sail Lake. Ills recovery Is far from certain, cer-tain, Tle Garland Commercial club i ;not alone .boosting the commercial velfare of that town, but Is also pushing push-ing civic affairs. The latest proposed improvement js the building of a sewer systeffi. ' The elksent to Salina during the past month will be kept fenced dur ing the summer, as it is not thought .wise to let them go at large until autumn. T.he enclosure is large, and they are dQing well. 1'he Grand and San Juan county v commissioners have been given rea sonable assurance by the state road commission that work will start within the week on the new road from Moab to Monticello. The completion of the Grand river bridge at Moab was fittingly cele brated by citizens of Grand and San Juan counties on April 8, when a grand barbecue was held, with an Incidental program of sports and dancing. danc-ing. Work on the state road has commenced com-menced near Christianberg, Sanpete county. About twenty-five men and twenty teams are engaged. The work will be continued north nine miles, where it was completed last year. Once again the dates for the National Na-tional Irrigation congress to be held In Salt Lake have been changed. The Utah board of control has decided that September 30 to October 3 are the most suitable dates for the gathering. gath-ering. Two urns, one made 2,000 years ago, the other made 1,000 years ago, were placed on exhibition at the Deseret museum in Salt Lake last week. The ancient urns were found a great many years ago in the sacred mounds at Gylland, Denmark. The food and dairy commissioners of Utah. Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming met with the members of the state food and dairy bureau in Salt Lake last week. Food and dairy conditions having an interstate aspect were considered con-sidered and discussed. Protests against the proposed incorporation in-corporation of the Highland Boy district dis-trict into a town has been made to the commissioners of Salt Lake county. It is claimed the purpose of incorporation is to enable the place to have saloons, and the mining corn- panies oppose this. Going on record as unanimously in favor of a national board of health, the Associated Health Authorities Au-thorities of the state, who held a convention in Salt Lake last week, named a committee to prepare a memorial me-morial to congress urging the passage pas-sage of the Owen bill. That a very ordinary celery crop can average the Utah farmer from $150 to ?Tno per acre is the statement of Ir. L. D. Tlatchelor of Logan, who maintains that by the use of the most approved methods and utilizing to the .fullest extent the ideal soil and climatic cli-matic conditions of Utah, more than $500 can be realized. Sidewalk paving at an expense of $17,000 is authorized in the paving district which has just been created by the cky commission of Logan. Practically all of the territory included includ-ed in the divtrict, covering ninety-four blocks, lies west of Main street. Complying with the court's order of three months a?n, the last six of twelve saloons in Ogden ordered out of business by April 1 did not open their doors for business on that date. The other six have closed at dieffrent intervals during the past three monHis. |
