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Show Yhe bee hive state Weber county Is likely lo have n connly library in the near future. I'lah men who enter the summer cnnip of the reserve officers' I raining corps will be assigned lo Ibe Presidio of San Francisco. From San Juan county comes advices ad-vices a surveying crew Is now at work on (he l.a Sal-l'arado road. Const ruction ruc-tion work will follow rapidly. Seven carcasses of sheep which had been butchered ami were being sold in 0:;den without in. poet Ion, were confiscated confis-cated by the cil.v board of health. Ariiiy aviators will fly from Mather field Sacramento, to Ogden to parll-cipale parll-cipale in the Golden Spike celebration on May 10 if the plans of members of the committee nre carried out. Carbon county commissioners have called a special election for May 17 for the purpose of voting bonds to the amount of $12."i,000 to construct a highway high-way system throughout the county. Work is now progressing on tlio Union Field highway in Iron county. The county Is furnishing the culverts, while the people along 1 lie survey are doing the work. The road Is to be used as a main highway. Louis F. Wetzell, foriuer chief clerk of the Utah Chopper company's Magna mill, charged with having embezzled Liberty loan funds deposited by employees em-ployees of the company, has been arrested ar-rested in California. Sheep and cuttle are doing well in northern Utah and in adjacent portions por-tions of Nevada, Idaho and Wyoming, and are fair and improving in southern Utah. Shearing is general and lamb' iug is becoming general, with favoring weather conditions. The state closed its April business with a bianco on hand of $2,0:!!),225.19, according to the monthly report of the state treasurer. Of this $702,727.40 is in the state land grant funds. There is u balance of $20,000 in the stale school interest fund. What is believed to be the finest alfalfa al-falfa patch in Utah on the last day of April is that of J. W. Mellon on the 200O-acre farm he owns at the old Hot-Springs Hot-Springs property, north of Salt Lake. The alfalfa on the patch of forty-five acres is from 12 to 10 inches' high. " Delegates to the national convention of the American Legion, proposed organization or-ganization of world war fighters, can obtain special railroad rates, according accord-ing to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., temporary tem-porary chairman of the legion. The fare will be 2 cents a mile. Branding the assertions of a lecturer on "applied .psychology" as bare lies, membeis of the Utah State Medical association are planning fiction intended intend-ed to put a halt to what they claim is the biggest fraud ever practiced on the citizens of Salt Lake City. The "Shimmy She-Wah-Wah," that gelatinous, quivering, dance craze which originated in the East Side dance halls of New York, is causing much comment in Salt Lake, and the authorities are contemplating barring such dances at the public dance halls. Brig. Gen. Richard W. Young was voted temporary chairman and Capt. Baldwin Robertson temporary secretary secre-tary of the Utah branch of the American Amer-ican Legion at a meeting of the legion branch held at Salt Lake, May 1. Former soldiers from many sections of the state attended. Governor Robert D. Carey of Wyom-ing'and Wyom-ing'and Governor (). H. Shoup of Colorado Colo-rado visited Stilt Lake last week, conferring con-ferring with' United States Senator Reed Smoot in regard to the provisions of a public lands leasing bill which the latter intends to introduce at the special spe-cial session of congress. It is the desire of the Utah Historical Histor-ical society to have every person in Utah who participated in the construction construc-tion of the Union and Central Pacific railroads through the territory of Utah in 18G8-1809 present at the celebration to be held in Ogden on -May 10, the fiftieth anniversary of the uniting of the two roads at Promontory point. - Alleged disregard of the petitions of the teachers of Ogden for a hearing hear-ing upon the salary schedule by the board of education and the superintendent superin-tendent of schools, terminated in the-organization the-organization of a union of the, teacher?, under a charter of the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor, with.- seventy-five of 125 teachers signing the roll. The railroad pioneers of the country, coun-try, who held official positions in 1809, at the time of the completion of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads, will be urged to come to Ogden for the Golden Spike celebration, celebra-tion, May 10. The officials are said to be scattered from San Diego, Cal., to Boston, Mass. Charles I. Handlcy was found guilty by a jury at Ogden of assault with intent to do bodily harm upon Vern Albertson, 12 years of age. The case was the outgrowth of the shooting of the boy by Hundley with a shotgun on Aupgust 24 last, when the boy was caught stealing green apples from the Handley home in West Ogden. For the first time in two years court will be held in Dagget county during the week. The scarcity of civil and criminal cases and the remoteness of me community from other jurisdictions were responsible for (Jie long interval between the sessions. What is believed to be the first application ap-plication for the return to home soil ; of the body of a Utah fighter who , died in service will be made by Mr. ' and Mrs. F. Crow of Salt Lake, to have the body of their son, R. F. Crow, a murine, killed in France, sent home. ( |