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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Tooelo county realized $1,257.90 from Its forest reserves during the past year. Two days earlier than anticipated, the Salt Lake Route reopened its through lino to Los Angeles Tuesday night. As a result of the Utah campaign at the Omaha land show, over 100 land seekers will locate in Utah this month. At a meeting of the Commercial club the committee appointed to secure se-cure a federal building for Nephl reported re-ported much progress. Another local telephone company has been organized in Box Elder county. coun-ty. The new company is composed of a number of farmers of western Box Elder. The state food commissioner is out with the declaration that within a few years Utah will be recognized as one of tho centers of the canning industry in-dustry in tho United States. P. P. Slalhakos, who is charged with murder in the first degree for the killing of Louis Poulas, a fellow countryman in Salt Lake's Greek town, August 23, 1910, is on trial in Salt Lake. At the rate of about 2,000 acres a day, the land between Lund and Ho-dena Ho-dena on the main line of the Salt Lake Route is being homesteaded, according ac-cording to the reports of the United States land office at Salt Lake. C. M. Midgley, a contracting carpenter car-penter of Salt Lake City, was severe ly injured when he fell from the ground floor to the basement of a building while superintending some work, suffering severe injury to his spine. John H. Odekirk, a chauffeur, charged with firing the shot which killed Edward Barnes in Salt Lake New Year's eve, has .been discharged for lack of evidence. The shooting occurred oc-curred during a celebration of the New Year. It is said that Congressman Howell will recommend the appointment of James Don as postmaster at Park City, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Peter Martin. Mr. Don has been the assistant postmaster for several years. The Manufacturers' association of this state will receive financial aid from the state In the sum of $10,000 for the purpose of supporting the Utah Chamber of Commerce for the year 1911-1912, if a bill by Senator Carl A. Badger becomes a law. With the opening for sale of 3,000 acres of land on' the Piute reservation, reserva-tion, near Richfield, Sevier county, on Saturday, the long-talked-of Piute Irrigation project has had an auspicious auspici-ous start The state has already epent over $300,000 on the project. The superintendent of the Spanish Fork branch of the Lehi sugar factory fac-tory reports that he has secured contracts con-tracts from the farmers for 2,300 acres of sugar beets this year. This is the largest acreage ever secured in Spanish Span-ish Fork or in any Utah county town. The county commissioners of Utah county have authorized a bounty of rentcr a head for each ground squirrel killed in the county before March 4. The scalps of the squirrels must be presented to the county clerk as evidence of the killing on or before be-fore March 4. Frank Cronin and James Stevens were killed and L. Com Scott was severely se-verely injured as the result of an accident ac-cident at the Yankee Con. mine at Eureka. Drills, which were being brought up in the cage got loose and, striking the timbers, caused the bottom bot-tom of the cage to be torn out. Of the total $1,250,000 to be spent by the Harriman lines In advertising the west this year, the Oregon Short Line will use $125,000 exploiting Utah and Idaho, with a view to inducing settlement. In all Utah's share of the fund will approximate $100,000. In the past few years the production produc-tion of fruits and vegetables in Utah has increased at such a rapid rate that the canneries of the state have been compelled to be constantly adding add-ing to tbeir plants and equipment in order to handle the total output of the fanners. Edna Hamblin JacKson, the young Ionian who committed suicide at Los Angeles when she learned that her husband, to whom she had been married but three months, had been arrested for embezzlement, was a Salt Lake girl, and her body was brought back to Salt Lake for burial. Responding enthusiastically to the call for a convention of commercial clubs to organize a state industrial league to boom Utah from end to end, ten commercial clubs of the state have written the secretary of the Salt Lake club, declaring heartily In favor of the league. John M. Fowler, aged 2S, is in a Salt Lake hospital in a precarious condition, with abraisons all over his body, as a result, it is supposed, of having been knocked down and run over by a wagon, in a dark alley in the capital city. Experiments in dry farming in the arid sections of the state are provided for in a measure introduced in the lenate by President Henry Gardner. Tb". experiments are for the purposo of ascertaining what seeds and what crops are most adaptable to dry farming. |