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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Xew postmaster-5; named last week were : Jessie L. Frei, Santa Clara ; Albert T. Smith, Clearfield, and nna E. Floyd, Thompsons. Theodore Hudson, 7S years of age, who has for many years conducted a fruit store at Salt Lake, was found dead in his bed by his son. Death was the result of heart failure. To enlist British subjects in Salt Lake between the ages of IS and 30, as cadets in the Boyal British Flying corps, Major Lord l.obert Inues-Ker arrived ar-rived in Salt Lake last week. With the intention of competing for government war orders and bringing as many as possible to Utah, the executive exec-utive committee of the Manufacturers' Association of Utah will appoint a war board. Both temporary and permanent road problems will undoubtedly come before the state road commission when, members mem-bers meet with the Utah county commission com-mission in Provo Monday, March 25, to go over Utah county's road situation. The deathknell of booths in eating and drinking places of Ogdeu was sounded last week when the board of city commissioners passed, with few changes, the ordinance they had under consideration for the past four weeks. Warren C. Mangum, former paying teller in the Continental National bank at Salt Lake, who absconded with several thousand dollars of the bank's money in 1914, is named defendant in a divorce action tiled last week by his wife. To be considered as parts of the mines themselves, all mine 'dumps are assessable for taxes by the state board of equalization, rather than by county assessors, accortung to a construction of law made by Attorney General Dan B. Shields. The ltah band at Camp Kearny was selected above all bauds in the division and there are many of them to play at a huge concert given in connection with the first appearance of Florence Constantino, the distinguished Spanish tenor, and his associate stars. Going' alone to the juvenile court at Salt Lake, where she related a story of being without parents and at the mercy of local Chinamen, Violet Lee, a 15-year-old Chinese girl, was committed com-mitted to the custody of a Chinese orphans' home at San Francisco. Mountains of ice practically surround sur-round Utah lake, for the wind, sweeping sweep-ing over the surface of that body of water, has piled the ice in some points as high as twenty feet, giving the shore of the lake the appearance of miniature mountains of the arctic zone. Demanding a drink of whisky and bing informed that there was none on the premises, J. Yanashita, member of the Japanese colony at the Arthur mill, flew into a rage and began shooting, two of his countrymen, being dangerously danger-ously ' wounded before he was disarmed. dis-armed. To conform with the state statutes and permit prosecution by the city instead in-stead of by the state, the Ogdeu city commission lias passed an ordinance making it unlawful for a minor to misrepresent mis-represent his age to obtain tobacco or narcotics, or to have these tilings in his possession. Less than an hour before a passenger passen-ger train would have passed slowly over the point, hundreds of thousands of tons of snow and ice and dirt came crashing dow,n the mountainside near Dale and completely blockaded the Park City branch line of the Denver & ltio Grande' railroad. That John Van Valkenburg, arrested at Salt Lake on the specific charge of having impersonated a secret service agent, is a combination of criminality and insanity, is the expression of federal fed-eral officers who have conducted the investigation into his movements during dur-ing the past two months. The graduate school of the University Univer-sity of Utah is now the largest that it has ever been since its eslablisiimenl. This year there are lit'ty-nine registered regis-tered in the graduate school. Of these, thirty-live are doiug residence work and twenty-four are doing correspond euce and extension work. Without a dissenting voice the new city ordinance regulating the eating and drinking places of Ogdeu, practically practi-cally eliminating booths in such places, prohibiting the serving of foods or drinks to persons under 10 years of age, except under certain conditions, was passed by the city coiimiission. If there is to be a 33 per cent increase in-crease in the amount of sugar beet acreage in the stale this year over the acreage of I'.Jl", as predicted, Weber county farmers say it must come from counties other than Weber. The reason given for this statement is that Weber county lias been going the limit on heels in the pasl. Eighty-seven births and twenty-four deaths (luring last week are shown by the weekly report of the Salt Lake board of bealili. This is twenty-nine more births and two less deaths than in the corresponding period last year. Tin! valuable records kept, in the basement of the Temple at Salt Luke were moved one day lasi week to the vault in Hie church office building. Water had seeped into the basement mill the records were In danger of lielng ruined. It took four men and i moving van to move the records, which consisted of lists of baptisms. By killing 111) rodents during the ivecl;, Eill'ord Hellaan earned tlie distinction dis-tinction of being Ogdcn's chid' ral 'illler, 111 the weekly report of the cilj dinilary Inspector. The total for I'm j vcek is gi ven as 3(K). ' |