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Show . i j THE BEE HIVE STATE The state road commission has decided de-cided to extend its road-building program pro-gram in Sanpete county so as to include in-clude the construction of a hard-surface road for ten miles, from lha Pigeon Hollow- junction of two statu roads to Manti. Lack of water and the- jnvelteriug heat has compelled the transfer of a government surveying crew from San .liiiin county, according to G. D. Kirk-pat Kirk-pat rick, assistant supervisor of surveys sur-veys with the surveyor general's office. of-fice. Awards of 515 each made to sixty-four sixty-four Indian war veterans and their widows by the state hoard of examiners, exam-iners, are the first to be made under the law passed in the I'.ll!) legislature which appropriated S'JO.OH) to this purpose. pur-pose. Several thousand copies of the edition edi-tion of "Utah, the Tourist's Guide," have just come off the press. They will be distributed to the tourists who visit the bureau of information in the temple grounds at Salt Lake. The board of county commissioners has appropriated SUOOO for Weber county's exhibit at the state fair to be held in Salt Lake tills fall. It is aimed to have an exhibit that will surpass sur-pass all former exhibits. The body of V. I. WeMions, 41 years of age was found lying on the grass at Liberty Park, Salt Lake. The man had taken a quantity of poison. A bottle witli a small amount of poison was laying near. The new water system which was installed at Brighani City last year has proved of great value to the citizen, who this year for the first time have adequate water for lawns as well as culinary purposes. At the cost of $22,000, all of which, with the exception of the purchase price of one article, will remain in Utah, the underground fire and police alarm system is now being installed at Salt Lake. A veteran of the American expeditionary expedi-tionary forces, now on furlough, has been ordered to Salt Lake on the completion com-pletion of his furlough, and will become inspector-instructor of the national guard of Utah. Preliminary hearing in the case of Michael Gionopolis, charged with murder mur-der for the fatal shooting of Dr. M. B. Shipp on June 9, at Salt Lake, has resulted in Gionopolis being held for trial. Shortage of water on ranges will be a serious matter before summer ends, says J. Cecil Alter in his weekly bulletin. bul-letin. Ranges of Utah, are, drying up and stock are seeking forage in valleys. val-leys. The Utah Automobile association Is putting up 1000 sign markers on the roads of Salt Lake county. The markers mark-ers w'ill be placed at all needed points on the main roads in the county. Crops in many portions of southern Utah are burning up, except in the valleys or small pockets wdiere they will be heavy. On the higher ground the crops are practically ruined. It is announced that at the land sale held in Tooele county a total of 1900.97 acres were sold at prices ranging from $2.50 to $9 an acre, the average being well over $7. No trace had been found of the person per-son or persons who deposited an infernal in-fernal machine in the combination harvester har-vester belonging to Irvin Jacobs at American Fork. Shortage of refrigerator cars to piove the large cherry crop of Utah to eastern markets has been met by the timely action of the public utilities commission. The executive committee on Peach day lias designated Wednesday, September Sep-tember 3, as the day for the big celebration cele-bration and festival in Brighani City. The Ogden commissioners have passed a resolution increasing the allowance al-lowance for the Martha Society Day nursery from $30 to $00 a monlh. GJen Ellis Higley, 10 years of ago, was' drowned in Weber river, five miles north of Hooper, while bathing, getting beyond his depth. A commission has been named by the city, county and farm bureau for the purpose of studying the water shortage in Weber county. Spanish Fork Is planning an extensive exten-sive celebration for Pioneer day. It also will be in (he nature of a homecoming home-coming for he soldiers. Under the direction of the county agent, Tooele Is conducting a demonstration demon-stration campaign in the efficiency of (praying fruit trees. Hisinaell Husent and his nephi-w, Zekere Amen, victims of the assault of thugs at Ogden, ar.o reported In a serious condition. The poundkeeper for the Provo precinct pre-cinct has reported $30 received for finpounded animals for the month of June. A new lighting system Is now being-installed being-installed at Brighani City at u cost of $12,000. Hearing before the public utilities commission of Utah In the case of the Jeremy Fuel & Grain company and several other Salt Lake dealers against the Denver ffc Rio Grande. Railroad company has been postponed from July 8 to September 23. A letter to Harold R. Hagan, statu crops and pests Inspector, from the horticultural commissioner of Washington Wash-ington state, confirms the press dispatches dis-patches that that state has established a quarantine against shipments from Utah of products that might carry tb alfalfa weevil. |