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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE A permanent chapter of the War Mothers of America organization has been formed In Utah counly, with headquarters head-quarters at: Provo. '.Salt Lake Elks will erect a new fraternal building probably during Hi.! coming year. Approval was given the scheme at a meeting held last week. Tin; Native Copper company of Eureka Eu-reka and the Omaha Cleanser company of. Ogden have filed articles of incorporation incor-poration with the secretary of stale. Officers at Fort Douglas fre to be discharged soon on their own application appli-cation If release is desired, according to word that reached tho post hist week. That Dr. Harry Mayfield of Salt hake, who at first was believed to have taken his own life, at Ogden, may have been tho victim of an overdose of medicine, med-icine, investigators believe. Morgan Howell, 55 years od and a resident of Lehi for many years, committed com-mitted suicide by hanging himself in his barn. No known cause for the fact Is given, except that it must have been the result of temporary dementia. The case of Hyruni Bateman, charged charg-ed with murder for the fatal stabbing of Henry Sexton, near Salt Lake, November 10, 1017, has been settled by Bateman pleading guilty to a charge of voluntary manslaughter. The first long stretch of hard-surfaced road will probably be built from Richmond, Cache county, to Payson, Utah county; a distance of almost 100 miles, through all kinds of country. coun-try. More money is now available for state roads than was ever on hand in the state in its history. The total expenditures ex-penditures of the road commission last month were $ 125,000. This month they are lower, .being about $85,000. The theological students of the Brigham Y'oung university are to be given training in public speaking. Representatives of the various classes have been given assignments to speak in the different wards of the Utah stake. That lives of American soldiers were sacrificed needlessly in the battle of the Argonne was the charge made by Lieut. William H. Gibson, a Salt Lake boy, who spoke before members of the Kimanis club at the weekly luncheon at Salt Lake. Aeroplane transportation. -for tourists tour-ists from Zion canyon over the seventy-two miles to the Grand canyon looms as a possibility within two years in the opinion of W. W. Wylie, owner of the many Wylie Way tourist camps in the national parks. Canners and growers of Weber county coun-ty reached an agreement after their differences had been submitted to an arbitration committee at Ogden. Growers Grow-ers will receive $14 a ton for tomatoes grown this year, $57.50 for late peas and $02.50 a ton for early peas. It was unanimously decided at the regular weekly meeting of the first presidency and council of twelve of the Mormon church, on March 20, to postpone post-pone the general conference which was to have convened April 4. Prevalence of Influenza is given as the reason. Blood tests for children are to be made free by the University of Utah department of bacteriology and pathology path-ology at the state public health, laboratory. labor-atory. The purpose of the tests will be to determine the relation between certain blood diseases and mental disability. dis-ability. According to a report of the state land board, Boxelder county, with over 3S5.000 acres of school lands and more than $040,000 in land value, is by far the banner county in Utah. The largest improved school property value is given to Salt Lake county, with $107,500. The state veterinarian has just completed com-pleted an investigation at Lake Point of numerous stock deaths in that section. sec-tion. Requests were made that the state official ascertain the reason for "pink-eye" or animal influenza. He found that the deaths were largely due to smelter smoke. John Doe Leo, Chinese proprietor of a restaurant In Ogden, has filed notice in the district court that he would appeal the case of the city of Ogden vs. John Doe Leo to the supreme su-preme court of Utah. The case arose under an ordinance prohibiting the maintaining of booths in a restaurant. The Women of American Patriots have presented to the city commission at Ogden a resolution adopted at a recent meeting, asking that the city provide funds for the erection of a civic building, which will be equipped with an auditorium, gymnasium and swimming pool for returned soldiers and sailors. The gray wolf will be exterminated In Utah in two years, and the western states will be freed of the animal before be-fore five years by the campaign now being conducted by the United States department of agriculture, in the opinion opin-ion of Dr. A. K. Fisher, who Is in charge of the economic investigations of the biological survey of this department. de-partment. With representatives from practically practical-ly every town in Utah county present to support them, the county commissioners commis-sioners met at Provo, March 1-1, to discuss dis-cuss a $1,000,000 bond election, for hard-surfaced roads and $250,000 for a county courthouse. Promising to build a dam 200 feet long and two feet high in the Virgin river iii Washington county, Lars .7. La' son and Willard Larson have made application for the use of five-second feet of water from that stream, to add to their present supply for Irrigating Irri-gating 250 acres of land. |