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Show THE BEE HiVE STATE There Is l be n country library In Ncphi for the Jimb school district. in i he Victory loan drive, Sanpete county subscribed $270,250, which was $J(!,(M)o more than the quoin. A million dollars' worth of Soil Lake special Improvement bonds wore sold In Now York City tor $1,014,550.70, Pleading guilty to possession of morphine, mor-phine, G. F. Wakefield, of Sail Luke, was sentenced to serve fifty days in the county jail. The ,$75,000 appropriation granted by the lusi legislature to the University Univer-sity of Utah for a now assembly hall at the university, will be available at once. The election to decide the Issuance of $250,000 school Improvement bonds in the Granite school district resulted in an affirmative vote of fiSS and 3.'i-i against the bonds. That the women's Liberty loan committee com-mittee of Weber county exceeded all former drives by about $20,000, is the statement issued by the chairman of the women workers. Statistics compiled by the Salt Lake soldiers' and sailors' employment bureau bu-reau show that 1747 men have b'een given temporary positions and 14GI) permanent places since the opening date. The best employment offer which has been received by Parker B. Cady, state director of the United States employment em-ployment service, Is contained in a telegram from Delta", asking for more than 200 men to work In the sugar beet fields. To gain by first-hand knowledge an n I---.H rfi f o f'slineilo of Hip Tool value (f the three interurban railroads operating operat-ing In Utah, and subject to its assessment, assess-ment, the state board of equalization will make trips over the three lines in special cars. Protest that the proposed city ordinance ordi-nance imposing an annual license tax of $50 upon the sale of cigarets would put the small dealers out of business was voiced before the Salt Lake City commission last week by a representative representa-tive delegation. I. W. V. literature is being distributed distrib-uted in Ogden. The red's propaganda Is being distributed In plain white envelopes, en-velopes, on the outside of which is stamped, with a rubber stamp: "Workers, "Work-ers, Awake! Learn the Truth, ltead Me; I am Good." Increase In the assessed valuation of real estate Is the feature of the report from Boxelder county this year. The total valuation on real estate, improvements, improve-ments, livestock and other property this year is $18,286,720, as against $17,-460,397 $17,-460,397 last year. President Anthon H. Lund, first counselor in the first presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints, celebrated the seventy-fifth seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth on May 15, as well as his sixty-third year of active service in the church. Temporary mental derangement is thought to be the cause of the suicide of C. W. Gregory, proprietor of a grocery gro-cery store at Salt Lake, who ended his life by shooting himself in the right temple. He had been under the care of a physician for some time. Schools were closed at Eureka on May 14, and all public gatherings forbidden for-bidden by the city hoard of health because be-cause of a recurrence of the influenza epidemic. The closing order, which also affects shows and pool halls, will continue in force until further notice. Arthur Shores is charged with arson in a complaint filed against him at Ogden Og-den by George A. Graves, chief of the fire department. Shores has been released re-leased upon $500 bond, pending his preliminary hearing. Shores is charged charg-ed with setting fire to his divorced wife's home. The state live stock board has decided de-cided to present to the governor a request re-quest for a proclamation placing a quarantine against all sheep shipped from Idaho into Utah. The reason given for this action is the prevalence of scabies in Idaho. Nevada already has a similar quarantine in effect. Arrangements have been made by the general hoards of the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Improve-ment associations of the Latter-day Saints church to make the coming annual an-nual conference of these associations at Salt Lake, June 6, 7 and 8. one of the most interesting and instructive ever held. Rather than block public improvements improve-ments in Sevier county, and particularly particu-larly in Richfield, the state road commission com-mission has approved a contract for paving work to be done In Richfield, the approval signifying the state's consent con-sent to pay a higher price for pavement pave-ment than probably has been paid as ,yet by the state. Dissolution of an order granted hy the Third district court restraining the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Tele-graph company from collecting increased in-creased rates ordered by the postmaster post-master general has been made by Judge Tillman D. Johnson in the United States district court. In 1018 the Cache county assessment reports 8401 range cattle valued at $314,765, as compared with 10,491 In Ic'IU, valued at $408,730. In 1919 there were 9404 cattle, otherwise assessed, valued at $535,775, as compare'1 with 901M in 1918, valued at $469 OOo. While the couple's baby sat cooing in a high chair and several small children chil-dren stood nearby as frightened eye-v eye-v itnesses. Walter Rillingsley, a sheep shearer, shot to death his wife. Annie Rillingsley and then killed himself. The double tragedy occurred at Hun-tar. |