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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Delegates from Utah to attend the conference called by Coventor Davis of Idaho to meet at Salt Lake City, November 21 and 22, to discuss the iterate of waters for the western states which are now being wasted by running into the Pacific ocean, have been appointed by Governor Bamberger. Bamber-ger. The Salt Lake City board of education educa-tion has elected to test the order of the industrial commUsion that it pay to Miss liav K. Woodcock a total of $258 as a result of an accident in the Whittier school. Miss Woodcock, a teacher, was preparing a soup for domestic science luncheon when she was scalded. Unless some action is taken by the federal government to declare November Novem-ber 11, the day upon which the armistice armis-tice was signed by the allies with Germany, Ger-many, a legal holiday, no such action will be taken by Harden Bennion, secretary sec-retary of state for Utah and acting governor in the absence of Governor Bamberger. J. A. McKay, station agent and telegrapher tele-grapher at Milford for the Salt Lake Route, has resigned to look after a fortune which it is said has been left to him by an uncle in the east. The estate is reported to be valued at about $375,000. "Only two log schoolhouses are left in Uintah county and these are to be replaced with modern structures i1 the near future," says Prof. Mosiah. Hall, state high school inspector, who has just returned from a trip over the county. Information from those who have kept tab on the receipts of grapes at. Price, is to the effect that 250 cars of the fruit have been received there this season. As many as five to seven cars are standing on the siding at one time. About 1000 bushels of what U claimed to be the best wheat for seed purposes ever raised in Utah is being offered for sale by the city of Salt Lake. The wheat was raised last summer on the city farm on Ensign flat. Utah last week received the third largest inheritance tax ever paid by persons outside the state. The amount was $09,276. It came from the estate of John W. Sterling of New York and " was a tax upon Union Pacific stock. James Miller, Frank Devers and Frank Smith, who admitted the robbery rob-bery of the Springville bank, have each been sentenced to serve a term of from five years to life in the state prison. The robbery occurred October 8. When the annual rabbit drive starts in Utah this winter, there'll be more than the usual zest to it, for beside the excitement of the chase the skins of the animals bagged will have a fair market value. The jury at Tooele in the Joe Tom-ljanovich Tom-ljanovich murder case returned a verdict ver-dict of not guilty. Tomljanovich was charged with murdering Fraz Frako-vich, Frako-vich, a cripple, near Tooele early on July 9, last. In an altercation arising from a wage dispute involving $4, Tom Chris-to, Chris-to, Greek proprietor of a lunch room in Salt Lake, was shot through the right leg by Nick Demas, a Greek -dishwasher. Earl Spann, aged 19, who plead guilty to a charge of forgery committed commit-ted at Ogden, has been sentenced to serve sixty days at hard labor. The boy raised a check from $18.20 to $80.20. A deposit of ancient fossils which promises to rival the famous dinosaur quarry on the Green river near Jenson has been discovered in the Uintah basin, according to word received from Jlyton. It is announced that Salt Lake will become one of the landing stations in the new transcontinental air route which will be used next summer by passenger carrying airplanes. The members of the G. A. R. and the Spanish-American war veterans will join with the veterans of the world war in the celebration of armistice day, November 11, at Ogden. Utah will be divided into nine zones for the forthcoming campaign for the collection of taxes, according to an announcement an-nouncement of the internal revenue collector for this district. Revenues of the state for 1919 from ad valorem taxation of general property proper-ty will fall more than half a million short of that received from the same sources in 1918. Engineers are surveying the new Currant Creek irrigation proposition. When completed the project will bring 2500 additional acres under irrigation. ir-rigation. Weekly crop reports sent out by the United Slates bureau of crop estimates note that fall seeding is in progress in Utah and that the crop is coming along tiicely. A town library is being started at Altonah as a result of the recent visit of Miss Mary E. Downey, state library organizer. William H. Larson, aged 30, wa killed while at work at the Logan sugar factory. Mr. Larson was washing wash-ing out the Brown centrifugal machine, when the hose he was using for the purpose caught on a revolving shaft and he was drawn into the machinery, i A case has just been reported from Uintah county where two .boys hunt-I hunt-I ing deer became separated, and one mistook ;he waving of the underbrush fin- the movements of a deer and shot with the result that his partner ! dropped dead with a bullet through hi I body. A |