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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE! i Accused of murdering a Miimeap- j apolis railway postal clerk and of j holding two others at hay with a pistol j while he robbed a mail car on ilia Northern Pacific railroad of more than i $50,000 in currency, Delbert Smith, alias J. P. Saminers, 'JO years of age, was arrested at Salt Lake. Clyde Ashury Hammond, member of the Utah house of representatives from Grand county, and a bishop of the L. D. S. church from Moub, died at Stilt Lake, .March 23, after a battle for life that began a week after he came to Salt Lake io represent his county In the state legislature. Minne Baker, arrested recently by federal agents in connection with the theft of an automobile at Los Angeles, has been released from the county jail at Salt Lake, but Louis P.akke, George Lauton and Nellie linker, sister sis-ter of Minne Hater, are being held la default of bond. Notice has been received at the Salt Ltike hind office of a new ruling which provides that a homesteader nuiking entry tinder the stock-grazing act is allowed to file on three pieces of land with; n a radius of' twenty miles in order to get his full quota of 640 acres. In connection with commercial organizations or-ganizations in other large cities of the west, the Salt Lake Commercial club will send an invitation to Secretary of the Interior B. Fall to visit western slates this summer with a view to investigating reclamation projects. Baseball fans are planning another league for southern Utah, embracing Sanpete and Sevier counties. It is proposed to have teams from Gunnison, Gunni-son, Manli, Salina, Richfield, Monroe and Klsinore, and shortly plans for organizing the association will be completed. com-pleted. In order to meet curt tat expenses of the county, the board of commissioners commis-sioners of Salt Lake county have issued is-sued certificates of indebledness for $100,000. The certificates, which bear Interest at the rate of 7 per cent, mature December 31, 1021. The general superintendency of the Deseret Sunday School Union announces an-nounces that the semi-annual conference confer-ence of this organization will take place Sunday evening, April 3, at 7 o'clock in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. The principle of co-operative niaf-keting niaf-keting and selling of wool has been approved by the directors of the Utah State Woolgrowers' association as offering of-fering a posisble solution to the difficulties diffi-culties faced by the industry. Governor Mabey has vetoed the cooperative co-operative farm marketing bill introduced intro-duced in the closing days of the last legislature, and passed with very lit- tie discussion in the senate and none in the house. Utah's loss in material wealth to het various communities through tuberculosis tuber-culosis is estimated at $11,993,750 for the last three years by James H. Wallis of the Utah Public Health association. as-sociation. Robert Wotherspoon, 57 years or age, of Ogden, is dead, as the result of the accident in which he was fatally fatal-ly injured when he collided with an auto truck, while riding a bicycle. Work has been resumed on the 12.64-mile stretch of cement pavement from Ephj-aim to Pigeon Hollow, in Sanpete county, at a cost estimated at ?497,S93.40. Suffering a stroke of apoplexy, Got-lieb Got-lieb Blasch, a teamster, fell from his wagon in Salt Lake while returning home from work, and is In a serious condition. Work on the federal aid project roads of the state will be resumed as soon as money Is available, according to a decision of the state road commission. com-mission. The students of the Brigham Xoung university, at Provo, on March 23 spent the day in whitewashing the large "Y" on the mountainside. Willis Hastings', 30 years of age, has been arrested at Kingman, Ariz., charged with stealing an automobile from a garage at Salt Lake. Two thousand rabbits were killed at Promontory by fifteen Ogden hunters, hunt-ers, who visited the district to help exterminate the rabbits. Contracts for the erection of the $80,000 high school building for Gunnison Gunni-son have been awarded. City commissioners and business men of Logan are to investigate the needs of the municipal electric light plant. During the seventeen years' existence of the plant the city population popu-lation has increased 73 per cent and no improvements have been made at the plant. It is likely that some action ac-tion will be taken to install meters. Salt Lake City's budget for 1921 has been completed by the city commission, com-mission, sitting as a board of estimate and apportionment. The total appropriation appro-priation is $2,349,934.3(5. as againsr $3 027.184.f3S last year, a decrease of .$177,250.22. The budget requests for this year totaled $3,008, 726.23. After June S in Utah tobacco containers con-tainers must not have printed on same for "pipe or cigarette." Designation of the use to which tobacco may be put has been officially declared in violation vio-lation of the Southwick anti-cigaretta bill passed by the recent legislature. Governor Mabey has signed the bill which authorizes the state board of loan commissioners to issue $500,000 in bonds with which to meet deficits in the state governmental expenses of the last two years. The general fund of the state is placed behind these bonds, which carry 51& per cent interest. " |