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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Madame Melba sang to the Utah boys at Camp Kearney on April 4. Cheer after cheer rang across tin: parade pa-rade ground after each selection. In the lust eighteen days, .$20,000 has been subscribed to t lie war savings sav-ings fund through the efforts of the children of the Salt Lake public schools. (iarfiold county will this year levy the maximum road tax allowed by law, five mills, as decided at a meeting of the county commissioners with the stale road commission. It. Wolfgang, a German, r8 years of age, is held at the sheriff's office at Ogden pending the locution of two men who accompanied him to Ogden from Pulton, (Jul., where he was an inmate of a mental hospital. A telegram announcing the need of IS 10 mechanics for shipyard work in California has been received at the office of-fice of I'. J. Morau, federal director of labor for Utah, from the district director di-rector at Sun Francisco. Purchase of. $16,000 worth of Iron county school district bonds by the mate industrial commission was authorized last week by the state board of examiners. The bonds will draw 5 per cent interest. .Eight hundred fine ewes, property of .(. V. Inila; of Hurricane, have died from poisoning. Just before shearing and lambing season the ewes were valued at $25, milking the total loss more than $20,000. Each county shall annually appoint three competent persons to act us appraisers ap-praisers of the property of all estates valued at $10,000 or more, according to rules covering such matters formulated by the attorney general's office. In one of the most prouuctive raids to-be made by the police since the State of Utah went dry, five ten-gallon kegs .f whisky were confiscated at Salt I , ke last week. The whisky lias a present retail value of $2000. Ilesuliitions have been adopted by the Weber county council of defense urging, as a war measure, the necessity neces-sity of completing the cement Highway High-way between Suit Lake and Ogden in time for the movement of this season's sea-son's crops. To stop plant diseases, campaigns will be waged in Utah to bring about a more general adoption of preventative preventa-tive measures already contributed by science, and investigation of unsolved problems will be attacked with renewed re-newed vigor. Claiming that when he stopped his automobile to avoid passing a standing .street car, another street cur sneaked up behind him and lilt his automobile a jolt from the rear, a Salt Lake resident lias sued the street cftr company com-pany for $300. The Oriental proprietors of restaurants restau-rants in Ogden which are affected by the new bootli ordinance are preparing to oppose the enforcement of that provision pro-vision of the law, according to the information in-formation that has reached the office of-fice of the city attorney. An increase in the raising of hogs in Weber county of 2j per cent over last year, is predicted as a result of the campaign conducted by the Weber county farm bureau. Incomplete figures fig-ures show that the increase will exceed ex-ceed that amount in many sections. Suspected of attempting to evade the draft law by the use of some powerful pow-erful drug which lias materially affected af-fected his heart during the past few weeks, John 1'appa., a Gioek, was arrested ar-rested at Suit Luke at the request of the federal authorities and was lodged in the county jail. An inv itation to the New Mexico tax commission that it call its western tax conference to be held in Salt Lake Cuy has been extended that state by William Bailey, secretary of the state Hoard of equalization. Uniform methods meth-ods in the assessment of livestock, will be the chief topic at the conference. confer-ence. Wool, sold at auction in Salt Lake, brought $1 a pound, which is said to be the highest price ever paid for aq unscoured fleece. The fleece weighing weigh-ing 22 pounds, was from the back of the famous "Ked Cross" rum, which, auctioned twice at Salt Lake lust January, brought a total of $10,000 for the Ked Cross. A decision reached at a meeting between be-tween the county commissioners, the state road commission ana the city commissioners of Murray i.s to the effect ef-fect that approximately 10,000 linear feet of paving on the oust side of Stale street from Biltle Cottonwood creek to Sixty-fourth South street will be finished this year. Sylvester Cook, an Ogden soldier boy who volunteered to go with the last contingent of Ogden's quota leaving leav-ing last Sunday, and who had a change, of heart at the last moment, necessitating the sending of a substitute sub-stitute in bis stead, has promised the local draft board to get a job and stick around until the next quota leaves, and will thus escape punishment. punish-ment. (lather thrift eggs one day each week. Sell them and invest tin, money in thrift slumps. This is tin excellent suggestion for an easy means by which people living In the rural districts and who raise chickens may aid the thrift stamp movement. The slate superintendent, of public instruction Is in receipt of a stute-iim-iiI from the slate auditor, showing that there is In the state treasury pUO.Orj.TJ for distribution among the stale school districts. This money i.s tipporlioiicd uccordini; lo the school population. |