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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Lieul. Kugene Merrill of Sinilhfield, who returned Saturday from France, was notified last week that he will receive the croix de guerre, lie saw action as a member of the 347th machine ma-chine gun battalion. Seventy-five per cent of the steers, 50 per cent of t lie stock cattle and 33 per cent of the sheep upon the I'liyelte National forest will be sold or sent to winter ranges, according to the report re-port received by Pistrict l'orester L. F. Kneipp, of Ogden. A contest was filed in the Fourth district court at l'rovo, hist week, against the incorporation of the town of Oreni on l'rovo bench. George Adams, and others, are the contestants. contest-ants. It is their purpose to lake about a mile off of the south side of the new townsite. Formal complaint charging Joe ram-lavicb ram-lavicb with murder in the first degree was filed at Tooele in the district court. Tin? defendant, who has been in jail, without bond, snice bis arrest July 10, is accused of beating B. 1'as-arvich, 1'as-arvich, an Austrian cripple, to death with a milk can. The general crop condition in Utah is given as 'JT.2 per cent of the average, aver-age, and during the month a gain was actually shown of 4.3 per cent, notwithstanding not-withstanding the unusually dry weather that prevailed and is still prevailing in most sections of the state, according to the weekly crop bulletin. Judge A. W. Agee of the district court at Ogden, granted the petition of Mrs. Bertha Hollands to claim com-' pensntion from the industrial commission commis-sion of L'tan on behalf of two minor children against the I. J. Moran Contractor, Con-tractor, Inc., company. Her husband John Hollands, was injured while working for the company, December 10, 1017. About ,fl per bruise was the rate of fine imposed by Judge Hugo B. Anderson of the juvenile court, at Salt Lake, upon Mrs. Goldie Gaoseid, when it developed that her little daughter, 4 years of age, carried black and blue marks from q beating at the mother's hands. With more than' three miles of , trucks, rolling kitchens, mobile repair shops and touring cars in line, the transcontinental army motor convoy will reacn Salt Lake August 15, according ac-cording to the schedule of the trip. The convoy is being sent out by the government to determine the feasibility feasibil-ity of long tours with trucks and to gather various data. Subject to prior right of the Mammoth Mam-moth Reservoir company and its successors, suc-cessors, the Gooseberry & Cottonwood Irrigation company is seeking to obtain ob-tain rights to the waters of melting snows and late spring rains in the headwaters of the Gooseberry, and to convey the water across the backbone of the Wasatch, utilizing a tunnel, and to use the water as a supplementary supply to irrigate some 12700 acres around Fairview. County commissioners .accompanied by the committee representing' clubs and organizations of Ogden and farmers farm-ers of Weber county, protesting about the manner of repairing roads in the county presented to the state road commission a protest relative to the resurfacing of the Riverdale Pleasant View and Ogden canyon sections of the state highway in Weber county. Required to work only three-fourths time, Dr. E. G. Gowans, recently resigned re-signed as superintendent of public instruction, in-struction, was last week appointed by the state board of education state health director at a salary of $3000 a year. This would be at the rate of $4000 a year for full time. Mrs. Anna K. Widtsoe, mother of John A. Didtsoe, president of the University of Utah, and of J. P. Os- born Widtsoe, head ot the lMiglisli department de-partment at that institution, died last week at her home, 310 Wall street, Salt Lake, after an illness of several months. Michael Gionopolis, charged with murder in the first degree for the fatal fa-tal shooting of Dr. M. B. Shipp on June !), a Salt Lake, was bound over to stand trial in the Third district court at the conclusion of preliminary hearing before City Judge Henry C. Lund. Crop conditions in Utah despite drouth are not seriously below normal. nor-mal. And there is no cause for alarm. Such are the encouraging statements made by James W. Jones, one of the best posted agriculturists in the inter-mountain inter-mountain country. The Kiekhefer Box company of Milwaukee Mil-waukee will build a box factory in Ogden Og-den immediately, according to the announcement an-nouncement made in that city by local dinners who are said to have signed contracts for boxes of this fall's production. Une hundred and eight war prisoners prison-ers arrived over the Oregon Short Line railroad last Saturday from Fort 1'ort Leavenworth, Kan., and immediately imme-diately were taken to the prison camp at Fort Douglas. Frank Elmer Flandro, three and one-half-y ear-old sou of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Flandro, Salt Lake, was killed last week when struck by an automobile automo-bile driven by W. 11. Tenner, East Second South Street. Cache county will extend the official offi-cial home to its soldiers. siiors aad marines on Angus -0, which will be a "red letter day" in the city of Logan this year. The Commercial club, head- ed by Luther M. Howell, president, in I taking the nut active part in lbi, preparations in connection with the ' War Camp Community service. |