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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Constitutionality of the provision in the workmen's compensation act which provides that payment of $750 shall be made to a special fund in the state treasury in the case of fatalities to workmen insured in stock corporations corpora-tions under the workmen's compensation compensa-tion act, will soon be tested in the courts. Twenty neighbors with five teams appeared at the farm of Oliver Hanson Han-son of Palmyra and during the day dug, piled and covered eight acres of beets. Mr. Hanson's family has been stricken since the season for harvesting harvest-ing beets opened, and he has been unable un-able to get his beets out of the ground. Jack Pass and Gus Burr were charged with murder in the first degree de-gree when they were arraigned in the city court at Ogden. . The complaint charges Pass and Burr with the murder mur-der of Darrell Wilson, taxicab drive, in Ogden, October 31. It will cost $763,000, according to estimates es-timates presented to the state road commission by its engineers, to complete com-plete the work now in hand by the state road commission so far as it is possible to complete it the present year. The board of education at Brigham City has disposed of $180,000 worth of bonds. The bonds are for the purpose pur-pose of creating a high school in the Bear River valley and improvements on the Box Elder High school. Saught chin-high in a slide of gravel, John Jarvis, aged 57, of Salt Lake, calmly smoked a pipe while two-score men worked with frenzy to get him out of the gravel chute. He escaped with numerous bruises. The coroner's jury in the case of Miss Frances Korous, Salt Lake nurse, whose body was found in ihe lake in Liberty park, cast aside the suicide theory and attributed the death of the nurse to murder. It is announced that of every $100 spent by the taxpayers of Utah through the state government in the fiscal year 1919, $40.42 went for road construction and $38.77 for educational purposes. Curtis E. Smith, aged 40, was found dead in bed at Ogden. Death was due, it is believed, to heart failure, following fol-lowing the taking of an overdose of a sleep-producing powder early in the evening. E. J. Cieinpau, 22 years of age, clerk in the office of the assistant master mechanic of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad at Soldier Summit, was run down by a light engine and Instantly killed. The United States biological survey is considering the purchase of the herd of bison on Antelope island, as a result re-sult of a request from the Salt Lake Commercial club that such action be taken. Federal acceptance of the project statement for the improvement of the state highway from Beaver to the Millard Mil-lard county line, was received from Washington last week. Mrs. William Banks, wife of a Murray Mur-ray undertaker, is in a critical condition condi-tion at the County hospital, as the result of taking bichloride of mercury tablets by mistake. A statement of the Salt Lake city teachers' pension fund shows a total collection of $114,961.30 during the last year. The sum of $21,148 was paid out to pensioners. Frank Martin and Earl Perkins charged with "borrowing" an automobile, automo-bile, were found guilty In the city court at Ogden and sentenced to serve sixty days in jail. Contract has been awarded for draining the Benjamin drainage district dis-trict at Benjamin, which embraces 4620 acres, at an estimated cost of $125,000. Farmers of Morgan county have, formed a water district and propose to construct a reservoir of sufficient capacity ca-pacity to empound 40,000 acre-feet of water. T. Buckley Clark of Salt Lake is in the county jail in that city, charged with being an accomplice in a robbery of the Leader store at Bingham. The public utilities commission of Utah has suspended until February 1 the effective date of the proposed increased in-creased demurrage rates in Utah. Delta residents last week shipped a carload of alfalfa seed to Salt Lake to be pooled and marketed through the farm bureau. The Western Intercollegiate Tress association will hold its first annunl convention in Salt Lake February 24, 25 and 20. Construction work upon the new armory for Ogden will begin December Decem-ber 1, according to the advi-.s received last week. The second annual meeting of the Utah Cattle & ITorse Growers' association associ-ation will be held at Salt Lake December De-cember 7. Organization of a real estate board at Logan will be perfected within the next few days. Mrs. Mary Morgan, formerly of Salt Lake, has filed i"i the superior court at San Francisco a sensational suit seeking to rerovc $100,000 damages for alleged alienation of the affections of her husband. Earl J. Morgan, a professional rifle shot, now in Reno. Utah business men, financiers and leaders of industry, are to be invited soon to take part in an excursion of their fellows from coastal, Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain and border states into Mexico, where all reports indicate that the o-portunitiea o-portunitiea for trade are brightening materially. |