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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Owners of wagons with tiros less than three Inches wide are warned by Ira It. irownlng, stale mini engineer, tint t the law which makes it illegal to drive such vehicles on the public roads goes Into effect January 1, and ad. vises them to dispose of such wagons or change the tires before that time. Xho recently appointed commission authorized by the legislature to devise de-vise and recommend an appropriate means for the state to commemorate the discovery of Irrigation has taken its first steps toward organization. Cache county good roads enthusiasts ore advocating the immediate survey for n road through Wellsville canyon and from Smithfield to the Idaho line, so that work can ibegin early in tha spring on these highways. Definite action will be taken on the i sale of the Piute irrigation system to the water users In Sevier and Sanpete San-pete counties at the next meeting of the state land commissioners, which will be held December 2. Mvsk J. W. Weatt was seriously injured in-jured i-hen she was struck by a street car at Ogden, it being alleged that the motorman loc control of the car as It was going down hill and could not check the car in time. Three railroad men arrested at Og-den Og-den recently, charged with stealing merchandise from box cars in the local lo-cal yards, have each been sentenced to four months In the county jail and to pay i fine of $200. It ts announced that the cost of the Piute project to November 1 has been 51,044,719, to which should be added interest and expense amounting to $350,000, making the total cost practically prac-tically $1,400,000. Mrs. William K. Thaw of Pittsburg, mother of Harry K. Thaw, has donated do-nated $10,000 to -the Westminster college col-lege at Salt Lake to aid in the construction con-struction of a boys' dormitory on the college grounds. Work on the highways in Washington Washing-ton county is being pushed, $10,000 now being available for the steel bridge across Santa Clara creek, while $5000 is available for work on the Arrow Ar-row Head trail. Thomas J. Linker, charged with first degree murder for the alleged killing of Joseph Briggs at Salt Lake last January, was acquitted by a jury. Briggs was killed while resisting two holdups. A statement issued by the president of the Salt Lake Eotarians declares that Utah is becoming one of the worst hotbeds of Industrial Workers of the World to be found in the United States. The Merchants of Ogden association has appointed a committee which will Investigate the feasability of purchasing purchas-ing the street railways of Ogden and operating them as a municipal enterprise. enter-prise. The Hotel Utah at Salt Lake is to build cn additional 100 rooms at a cost of $300,000, the addition being made necessary, it is claimed, by the Increasing number of visitors to Salt Lake. Discussion of the sheep dipping process, pro-cess, adjustment of taxation and general gen-eral range conditions was had at the meeting of the Utah state livestock board at Salt Lake last week. Youths less than 21 years old are prohibited from loitering, engaging in games or frequenting pool halls in Ogden Og-den hereafter, according to an ordinance or-dinance passed last week. Organization of the Utah branch of the League of Women Voters was perfected per-fected at Salt Lake when the old Utah ! Suffrage association was merged into the new organization. After being in a hospital in France for two months, Conrad E. Mortensen, i an Ephraim boy, died September 27, j it has just been learned in advices from France. Believed to have been stricken with I a fit of temporary insanity, William Nielson, aged 45, suicided at Hyrum, hanging himself from the rafters in his barn. Banks in the southern part of the state are reported by the bank examiner, ex-aminer, who has just made a tour of that section, to be in excellent condition. con-dition. Films depicting the modern health crusade are being shown to the schools ef the state under the direction of the Utah Public Health association. Official opening of the terminal at Soldier Summit was made by the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande railway officials on Thursday of last week. Articles of incorporation have been filed with the secretary of state by the State Bank of Piute, at Marysvale. Work on the highway through the treacherous gulch of Cedar canyon in Iron county is moving at a rapid pace. The American Legion post at Ogden is to have a band. Rece.gnizing that the teachers of Salt Lake are not being paid what they earn, the board of education w ill . do everything within its power to in-1 in-1 crease their salaries, It is announced. According to Utah Intel-scholastic Athletic association ruling, the winner j of the northern division football cham-I cham-I pionship and the title winner in the ! central division are to meet in a semifinal state championship game on November 21 or 22. Although the net revenue from operations oper-ations of the Western Pacific railroad under the federal railroad admiuistra-; admiuistra-; tion during the year of 101S shows a j decrease of more than half a million j dollars, the net income of the road increased in-creased 5373.591.S4 over the preceding year. |