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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Written decision was handed down by the supreme court of I'lah last week sustaining the coiistiuuhmaliiy of llic law passed by the It'll 9 legislature. (imalgnTiiating the justice, municipal and cily courts in cities of more Hum . T.'iOO popuhitiou. After having organized llie lown of Orem on the north end of I'rovo bench, the citizens, under the direction of the town board, are preparing to Imnd for $110,000 for a waterworks system. The election i'f bonding the town will he held July 10. A welcome to returned solil'.ers will be the feature of trie Fourth jf July celebration at Logan this yef.r. On , this occasion the community will talis j occasion to thank the soldiers for I what they did in the last drive for independence. In an open letter to the fathers and I mothers of Ogden, the merchants of Ogden warn them that the presence of boys and girls upon the streets of the city at late and unusual hours of the night is a menace to the future of the city. Henry W. Gwilliam of the state board of equalization was badly burned burn-ed about the face, hands and wrists at Ogden, while extinguishing flames which, were encircling the clothing of his grandson, Horace Nebeker, 8 years of. age. Co-operative agreement with the government was signed last week for the construction of the Wolf Creek section sec-tion of the Kamas-Stockmore road, twelve miles in length, at a cost of $20,000, of which the state will pay half. The judge of the juvenile court at Salt Lake last week issued an edict that two boys, charged with the theft of bicycles, should be on probation for ten weeks and pay into the court every week the sum of $2 each. Efforts to contract hay for delivery near Cedar City, Iron county, at $30 a ton, were reported to Thomas Redmond, Red-mond, secretary of the state livestock board, who has just returned from a trip to that part of the state. The building of a Methodist university univer-sity in Ogden will be one of the propositions propo-sitions which will be discussed at the annual convention of the Utah Methodist Metho-dist mission, which will be held at Ogden the week of August 2S. Fifty-five of tiie sixty-seven journey-m-en bakers who went on strike at Salt Lake have returned to work and the strike has been broken, according i Thomas Itamage, attorney for the Master Mas-ter Bakers' association. Delegates from Utah, Montana, Idaho, Ida-ho, Wyoming and Nevada attended the second annual convention of the western west-ern district of the American Physical Education association held at Salt Lake last week. Commencing with the fall term of school, a new theological seminary will be opened by the L. D. S. church at MaJiti, An appropriation of $1000 has been granted by the church .to carry on the work. Lieutenant Russell L. Maughan, foremost fore-most Utah aviator, who brought down four German planes last October and wears the distinguished " service cross, is at his home in Logan on a furl otigh. Miss Mary K. Lowney. stale library organizer, lias left tiie stale for the .summer. - She is expected to return to Utah in the fall for a winter campaign in organizing the libraries of the state. It is announced that a plant for the manufacture of insulating material will be erected in Ogden within a short time. It is stated that $00,000 will be expended in the plant. Arrangements have been completed to secure a flying circus from Ellington Elling-ton field of Texas, for the Fourth of July celebration to be held at: Price on Independence day. President Wilson will be invited to stop over in Salt Lake long enough to make an address during his tour of the United States in defense of the league . nations. There were 25,017 cases of eggs held in Utah in public cold-storage plants, May '31, 1010, as compared with l(i,G44 cases 011 the corresponding dale one year ago. While i.urrying to catch a train at Salt a i r .Wrs. Charles S. Stiff!, wife of Charles S. Stifft, a visiting Kotariatl with apoplexy and died within a few minutes. At present the authorities are considering con-sidering constructing a nine-foot concrete con-crete road between St. George ami Cedar City, for a distance of fifty-six miles. Thomas and Maud Linker have been held for trial for the murder of Joseph liriggs, a Fairview fanner, killed at Salt Lake, January 13. Swenn Sorenson of Pleasant Grove, recently caught three young wildcats in the mountains east of that town. Grasshoppers and sparrows are causing caus-ing vast losses to farmers of Sanpete and Leaver counties. The ta;e board of loan commissioners commission-ers has negotiated a loan with the state land hoard for S'2."i.oiki, to be placed by the Mate treasurer to the redii of the stale road commission. I'he money w ill pay bills now pending iguinsr the state road cominN-ion. Additional cattle pens will be built it the 1 'gdeii Union stock ards in the mmeiliate fa' lire. Mmv than -'"' feet of motion ares of the activities of i-ie Kotarians t their convention at Salt Lake were ikon, to be sent all over the United States. |