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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE AppnixiniaN'ly .fSOOO wns ilisl I muled !vv tin .sl.-iti! mail com mission in Weber eiiunly Inst wevk for I lie work done upon the highways during t lie past inonlii. John JI. t'ook, chief safely inspector inspec-tor of L'lali, lias just completed and put on led a device which, it is believed, will afford absolute protection to window win-dow cleaners. One million dollars' worth of war savings stamps were received at the Salt Lake postoffice. last week. They were immediately distributed to the various posloffices throughout the slate. Horace S. Ensign, for twelve years secretary of the Utah State Fair association, as-sociation, has accepted a position as secretary of the Montana Slate Fair association and will assume his duties immediately. Jesse tlesas, whose speeding automobile automo-bile struck and killed Edward A. Davies and Gladys Mitchel on "the night of November l.'J, J!)15, is made the defendant in a damage suit, for ?20,(HH) tiled last week' at Salt Lake. "Shortweighting" is a popular iudoor sport in certain stores in out-of-the-way sections of Utah, according to W. M. Hoyden, state food and dairy commissioner, com-missioner, who declares the practice must stop or prosecutions will follow. Joseph E. Crook, an attorney of l'uyson, faces disbarment charges. The action has been initiated by the Utah County Bar association and is based on convictions of Ciook on charges of unlawful sales of liquor at differ-' cut times from 1005 to 1!)14. Following an investigation conducted conduct-ed by V. F. Jensen, commissioner of commercial economy for Utah, the hotel ho-tel free bus service, which has been conducted to and from the depots by many of t lie Salt Lake hostelr'ies, was or.lered discontinued on May 25. To avoid a "narrow and dangerous defile in Homansville c.tnyon, on the road from l'ayson to Eureka, the state road commission has decided to construct con-struct the highway up on the side of tin.1" bills, using the old. road in certain cer-tain pjirts to minimize tiie expense. 1'etition was filed last week with the state public utilities commission by the Utah Light & Traction company for an order permitting it to use but onfi operator to perform the duties of motorman and conducted to a car outside of the congested district i Salt Lake. Badly mutilated by the hoofs of a horse, the body of S. J. Redden, 38 years old, was discovered lying in a barn at East Crescent, near Sandy. Redden was subject to fainting spells and was probably trampled to death by the horse when he fell in a faint at Nthe feet of the animal. Paul .Yaltinke, who recently was placed under arrest as a dangerous enemy alien because of his association associa-tion with John Yan Valkenburg, self-styled self-styled inventor of marvelous airships and possessor of power to overcome the force of gravity, now an inmate of the state mental hospital at Provo, has been released on parole. Automobile and motorcycle plates for 1919 are to be handsome, Harden Bennion, secretary of state, says. White letters and numbers on a green field will make them discernible from a considerable distance, as well as being be-ing somewhat ornamental. The state board of examiners has ordered 32,000 plates for pleasure and commercial automobiles. Approximately 2000 Red Cross workers work-ers of one degree or another participated partici-pated In the great parade at Salt T.nt-u Mnv 21- The bend nf the nrn- cession represented those who had graduated from the ranks, and were entitled to wear, besides the ordinary arm brassard, colored head covering. The line concluded with high school recruits to the cause. The state road commission, having under consideration the question of preference between bithulithic and ce-' ment surfacing for three and seven-tenths seven-tenths miles of the highway from Davis county toward Ogden, last week heard arguments from represeAtatives of firms favoring both materials and by pvominent business men. The question is still held under advisement. advise-ment. News has been officially received in Utah that the act providing for the registration of all men who become 21 years of age on or after June 5, 1917, the last registration day, has been passed by congress and a proclamation will be issued shortly by the president; designating June 5, 1918, as the day of registration. One of the lvgest classes in the history of the Weber county schools were given certificates at the commencement com-mencement exercises last "t?ek. The class numbers 2G0 pupils from all the schools in the county. Information from Washington is to 1 lie effect that about 2000 recruits are to be sent to Fort Douglas within the next two weeks to fill the Twentieth infantry to full war strength for summer sum-mer training there. Evidence of rabies germs are said to ha've been discovered by the state bacteriologist in the head of the dog . that bit 4-year-old Lee SI anger, at Marriotts ten days ago, according to a report received last week. The child will be given the Pasteur treatment. Declaring his belief that his son was guiltless of the crime of murdering his wife, Dal DeWeese of Canon City, Colo., father of Howard DeWeese, condemned con-demned to be shot on May 24, arrived in Salt Lake May IT for the purpose of pleading with the pardons board to spare his son's life. |