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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE An appropriation of $150 a month for the support of tli United States employment em-ployment service has been made by Governor Bamberger. Expenditure of $1000 for the erection erec-tion of an outdoor boxing arena and grandstand at Fort Douglas has been authorized and work will begin at once. The 1919 Utah state fair will be held October 1 6 to 11, according to an announcement an-nouncement made by the executive committee of the State Fair association. associa-tion. , Two score business firms of Suit Lake have approved the cause of the city firemen in asking the establishment establish-ment ftf the proposed two-platoon' system sys-tem in the city fire department. Mrs. Josephine Worthman of Ogden, who attempted suicide in Los Angeles three weeks ago, is still in a critical condition, the bullet having lodged in her breast and an operation will be necessary.. The streets of Ogden are to be cleaned with the street washers before S o'clock each morning. This was announced an-nounced by the street department, following fol-lowing a petition from the merchants of the city. Completion of the Salt Lake to Ogden Og-den concrete highway within the next four months is assured. This entails the construction of three sections of the highway which aggregate nine and a half miles. So far as possible free water will be supplied this year for back yard gardens gar-dens in Salt Lake, and the movement to cultivate small plots will receive every encouragement that the city commission com-mission can give. Indications now are for a bumper fruit crop in Utah this year. According Accord-ing to the advices received by the state crop pest commission, the buds are in excellent condition, having weathered the winter splendidly. Huntsville farmers will not grow peas this year, according to a statement state-ment given out by the Weber county farm bureau, with the permission and consent of the members in the Ogden valley farming district. Hans Kron, enemy alien interned in the Fojf Douglas war prison camp glnce August, 1917, has been given his liberty: Kron was interned at Seattle, where he was alleged to have been friendly with German agents. Records completed by the local police po-lice show 156 arrests for alleged "bootlegging" "boot-legging" since January 1 by the Salt Lake police department. This record has never been equaled since prohibition prohibi-tion became enforced in Utah. The arnml convention of the U,tah State Woolgrowers' association, which was to have been held in Salt Lake, beginning April 1 hats been indefinitely postponed by action of the executive committee because of the influenza epidemic. I Mrs. Annie E. Anthtmy, wife of Edward Ed-ward D. Anthony, a Salt Lake City fireman, who was injured in an automobile auto-mobile collision on the Ogden road a short distance north of ' the Davis county line died at a Salt Lake hospital hos-pital March 27. Pinned beneath their automobile when the machine turned turtle following follow-ing a collision with another car on the Ogden road, just north of the Salt Lake county line, Edward D. Anthony, a Salt Lake fireman, and his wife were seriously injured. Exceptional gallantry in action which resulted in his death, brought also to Captain James B. Austin, formerly form-erly 'of Salt Lake, both the Distinguished Dis-tinguished Service Cross and the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre de Leopold, according to information received by his parents. Driving wells in various areas and determining the most practical and ef-ficent ef-ficent equipment for obtaining and raising water to the surface constitutes consti-tutes the present mission of C. C. Haskell, Has-kell, irrigation engineer, in association with Prof. William Peterson, state geologist, connected with the Agricultural Agricul-tural college. A large number of shearers, camp renders and herders have signed agreements agree-ments with the Utah State Woolgrow-ers' Woolgrow-ers' association to work for the wages recommended, which are, for shearers, 12 cents per head and board, or 14 cents without board; camp tenders, ,ff;0 per month and. board ; herders, $70 per month and board. The state board of equalization began be-gan its work on March 20. The laws of Utah give the state board power to fix taxes on public utilities, including railways, which operate In more; than on county. There are thirty-five public pub-lic utilities and sixty railways which come under the jurisdiction of the equalization board. What was the slate board of equalization equal-ization Is now Iho state board of equalization equal-ization and assessment, that being the name adopted by the board under the new law which gives the board greater powers than heretofore and gives it Jurisdiction over county assessors and county commissioners when equalizing properly for taxation. I'lans for raising $.VHM) to defray current cur-rent expenses were made by the finance fin-ance committee of the Utah branch of the League to Enforce Fence at a meeting held at Sail. Lake. The amount Is to In; apportioned among thrf counties according to population. Thought lo have become despondent over being Jilted by his sweet heart., John V. Treloar, 21 years old, a mail carrier between J'.lnghnm ami the U. S. Mine at. Copperricld, Utah, Is believed be-lieved lo have committed suicide, five inih'H from Bingham on the road I" Salt Lake, when- Ills body wan found. |