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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE To further the plans of the (lolden Spilii; celebrul ion to be held in Ogden May 10, the railroads have contributed $10,000. I Cedar (lily will vote on a bond issue May (j amounting to $00,000 for tlio purpose of improving the water system of the city. T'oiiiniissioiH'i'S of Sanpete county have decided to expand !ff00 on I lie Mantl canyon road between (he city and the national forest line. To purchase airplanes for exhibition work and for use in an ay.iation school in Utah, Lieut, (,'eorge C. Heck of Ogden, has left for New York. Thir occupation tax imposed last year aggregated .$,'12,002,103, while the total valuation of all properly in the stale, us shown by the assessment rolls was $077,105,1)22. A fine of $10.25 each, to pay for damages done, and sentence of one year at the State Industrial school, were imposed upon four boys who stole an automobile at Ogden. Private John Kaze, the first resident of Iron county to enlist for service in the war and who has spent eighteen months overseas in the marine corps, arrived home last week. John MeCready has been appointed a member of the state livestock board by Governor Bamberger. Mr. MeCready, Me-Cready, who is well known in Weber county, succeeds E. C. Parsons on the board. The state land board will shortly offer of-fer for sale in Tooele county 10,000 acres of state land. A part of the land is located southeast of Tooele, north of Gra'ntsville and a small portion near Ibapah. Sheepmen who have permits to range flocks on the forest range must see that their animals are clean before the mountain ranges are open. Several Sev-eral flocks have been found to be Infected. In-fected. Vocational education of partially disabled soldiers at Fort Douglas hospital, hos-pital, as well as of incapacitated soldiers, sol-diers, sailors and marines of Salt Lake will be undertaken by the Elks lodge of Salt Lake. More than 75 per cent of all men in the state placed in positions through employment agencies were placed by the United States employment service, according to figures compiled at the Salt Lake office. The merchants of Ogden have addressed ad-dressed a letter to the postmaster general gen-eral urging the establishment of an air mail terminal in Ogden when the proposed pro-posed "ocean-to-ocean aerial mail service" ser-vice" is decided upon. Thirteen candidates for positions as mine foremen and nine for positions as fire bosses succeeded in passing an examination given at Price last week under the direction of John Crawford, state coal mine inspector. The Scofield Coal company, the last of the mining companies to join in the suit to test the constitutionality of the mine tax law, paid into the state treasury treas-ury last week $1,652.6 which wis the tax; assessed plus Interest and cost. Probably the first Utahn to enter Germany and the only one to be attached at-tached to the United States military mission at Berlin is Captain H. F. Christiansen of the dental corps. Dr. Christiansen's home is in Salt Lake. Separate trial has been asked and granted the three indicted Merchants' hank officials, at Salt Lake, George E. Ford and L. J. Hays not being defendants defend-ants in the present trial, the charge against Mr. Pingree alone being prosecuted prose-cuted at this time. Registrar of the land Office at Vernal Ver-nal lias mailed instructions to entry-men entry-men who have failed to make the improvements im-provements required by the govern- mrnif itti llio T'liidt; ivhie-h rli.v onfot-orl that the time has elapsed and that the land is again open to entry. In the assessment of Utah property in 191S Carbon county was seventh in the list, with a total valuation of ?20;-240,444. ?20;-240,444. This year Carbon county is likely to stand second in the list, as coal lands are to be assessed by the state board of equalization and assessment. assess-ment. To make a complete map of the mountains and peaks on the Fillmore. Fish Lake, Manti and Uintah national forests, showing the relation of one peak to the other with- the exact angles, an-gles, the forest service bus arranged 'with, the coast and geodetic survey to establish a branch in central Utah. Any attempt to violate the state nnti-syndicalism or sabotage law by the I. W. W. or any organization which might wish to hold assemblies for the indorsement of radicalism in Salt Lake, might result in the use of the war prison at Fort Douglas, according ac-cording to Sheriff John S. Corless. Every ft'tah food manufacturer is affected af-fected by the amended regulations, according ac-cording to John Karley, secretary of the Utah Manufacturers' association. The regulations provide that food packages containing more than one-half one-half ounce avoirdupois shall be labeled to show the exact net weight of food. The -board of trustees of Millville have called an election to lie held on May 27, when a proposition to issue bonds to the amount of .fSOdO for the purpose of constructing an electric light plant for the town will be voted on. Commencement dates at the Utah Agricultural college for 1910 have been postponed one week. The baccalaureate baccalaure-ate sermon will be on Sunday, June S, instead of June 1, and the commencement commence-ment exercises and the alumni ball will be given Monday, June 9. in place of June 2. |