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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Having passed an ordinance providing provid-ing for the creation of a department of motor inspection and smoke abatement abate-ment In Salt Lake, with various definite def-inite and prescribed penalties designated, desig-nated, the city commission is now facing fac-ing the question of securing a qualified man for the position of chief smoke inspector. in-spector. Within a year trackless desert wastes in Kane county will blossom like well-tended gardens. This is the prospect extended at Pasadena, Cal., ty Frederick C. Rockwell, heading a syndicate which at Salt Lake has just .applied for water rights for irrigation purposes for 100.000 acres in Kane county. After being under surveillance by the members of the police and sheriffs departments since July 9, when Charles Lee Barker died at Ogden of arsenic poisoning, Mrs. Laura Barker, 45 years of age, the widow, has been arrested and will be charged with the murder of her husband. The monthly report of the state treasurer for October shows receipts for the month of $418,091.83, and disbursements dis-bursements of .$673,157.22. The balance bal-ance on hand in the various funds at the end of the month totaled $1,358,-040.58, $1,358,-040.58, of which ,$CG9,1G6.01 is in the general fund. Clyde W. Ryder, 29 years of age, who was an ace in the Royal Flying corps of England, and was credited with bringing down 21 German airplanes, air-planes, died at an Ogden hospital last vveek from injuries received at Wells, Nev., while working as a locomotive fireman. L. W. Wilson, 40 years of age, an employee of the Hooper Sugar company, com-pany, was electrocuted at the factory when he attempted to remove a sugar beet from an electric light socket, in which the beet fell when the light was taken away. The man died within ten minutes'. An increase of $2,885,536.53 in savings sav-ings deposits and a decrease of $2,744,-504.70 $2,744,-504.70 in commercial deposits, as compared com-pared with the corresponding statement state-ment of one year ago, are noted in the consolidated report of state banks and trust companies. A band of Utes was arrested recently recent-ly on a charge of hunting deer without licenses, and one member of the party is being held for the purpose of testing test-ing state and federal statutes regarding regard-ing the right of Indians to hunt on the reservations. Dr. W. A. Evans, a health writer in the Chicago Tribune, pays a high tribute trib-ute to Utiih's health measures in combating com-bating the idea often .prevalent that a high death rate is a necessary concomitant con-comitant in any community of a high birth rate. Returning from an inspection of crops and pest conditions in Cache county, Harold R. Ilagan, state inspector, in-spector, pointed to the possibilities of the spread of the sugar beet nematod, a destructive pest, at sugar dumps. Tired of "bumming" around, Welby Lisonbeo, 17 years of age, presented himself to a policeman at Salt Lake and confessed that he had escaped, . January 10, from the state industrial school at St. Anthony, Idaho. Disaster faces the metal miners of " ' UtTuT the freight rates on ore in in trastate "'!p"'Vnf-- "Y increased, according ac-cording to the testimony given at the hearing at Salt Lake before the examiner ex-aminer for the interstate. Amelia Holm, of Salt Lake, bound for San Francisco, disappeared from a Western Pacific train near Boowawe, Nov., and all trace of her has been lost. She left her coat, hat and baggage on the train. R. T. Atkinson, aged 57, of Salt Lake, who was injured in a wreck on the Salt Lake Route, died at Los Angeles. An-geles. Mr. Atkinson was news agent on the train. Three others were killed lu the wreck. A week or 10 days' threshing re-ninins re-ninins to be done at Levan, and much wheat is to he sown; 50 per cent of the potatoes are still in the ground and some alfalfa hay is yet in the Holds. Utah, stands fourteenth in a list of 23 states in the number of persons killed at railroad grade crossings, considered con-sidered in proportion to the number fc of automobiles registered in the state. CT. Salt Lake's schools, with 25.000 boys . and girls, and approximately ltMXl era- ' ployees, are taking an active and in telligent part in the campaign for elimination elim-ination of tho smoke nuisance. One of the measures which will be Pirtiinitlod to the next session of the state legislature by the Utah State Realty association is the state license law for real estate brokers. The li'-l road construction program for the fourth forestry district calls for the expenditure In Utah of $293,100 of the ? 1.252.200 to be spent in the entire en-tire district. Some hay is still In the fields at Morgan and nearly half of the potatoes and two-thirds of the beets are yet i'n the ground. Chris .lonson of Carbon comity, president pres-ident of the Carbon County Land, Water & Power company, has opened negotiations with the state board of land commissioners for a loan of $100,000, with which to begin reconstruction recon-struction of the Mammoth dam. formerly for-merly owned by the Price River Irrigation Irri-gation company. Thousands and thousands of ducks, dead and dying, are found along the watorholes, sloughs ami lake west of Willard. in Boxelder county, according accord-ing to reports brought from tat section sec-tion oy sportsmen. |
