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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE At the request of Governor Mabey officers who have been active in enforcement en-forcement of the prohibition laws met in conference with him at the state capitol January IS. the conference being for the purpose of acquainting the governor with the plans and methods now in use for the enforcement enforce-ment of the law. Estimated cost for projected road construction and maintenance in Utah during 1921 and 1922 is placed at $1,-515.7S0 $1,-515.7S0 within the state if the Mc-Arthur Mc-Arthur bill is not passed by congress. If this hill does pass, the expenditure within this state, providing Utah does her part, will be a total of ?3,237,0S0. Agitation for the preservation of Utah's bison herd on Antelope island continues to grow, instead of diminish, since commercialized slaughter of the animals started. From Nashville, Tenn., comes a request for price quotations quo-tations on an outright sale of the entire en-tire herd. Senator King has introduced a bill making appropriations to pay the claims of various settlers on leased lands of the Uintah Indian reservation reserva-tion who sustained losses through the failure of the irrigation project to provide pro-vide them with ample water last season. I The Lehi sugar factory finished slicing beets last week. During the 111 days of the campaign the mill cut 110,000 tons of beets, averaging about 1000 tons per day. About 40,000 tons were shipped from Salt Lake, Boxelder and Wasatch counties. Traced through the sale of slain man's automobile, Harry Nash, cow-puncher, cow-puncher, fancy ropCT end expert pistol shot, has been arrested at Los Angeles on suspicion of being the .murderer of Martin Schwab, of Payson, who was killed near Flagstaff, Arizona. Following a runaway in which his wife was injured, Leonard Thomas, of Salt Lake, tied up his team while he took his wife home in a borrowed rig. Upon returning for the teai he- found someone had stolen the harness from the horses. William and Ralph Thompson, cousins, 15 years of age, narrowly escaped death from gas which escaped from a heater they failed to turn off when they, retired at Ogden. They were found in an unconscious condition. condi-tion. That Huntsville is not to be outdone by Eden in the matter of having a waterworks system for the community, is evidenced by a meeting held at Hunts ,ille, which was attended by many representative men and women. While confined in the county jail at Salt Lake on charge of petty larceny, Lou Tanner is charged with having forged several checks on various vari-ous institutions in Salt Lake and to have given them to a friend to cash. The proprietors of the various meat markets of Brigham City have combined com-bined to install a community abattoir and packing house, thus eliminating the present system of each market purchasing and killing its own meat. Alfalfa meal nay be shipped to Montana now on condition that the shipper first has obtained a permit to make such a shipment from the office of the state crops and pests commission commis-sion at the state capitol. Reports from the poisoning campaign cam-paign being waged in the western part of Boxelder county for the purpose of exterminating jack rabbits are to the effect that it is progressing most satisfactorily. sat-isfactorily. The total value of new buildings and additions begun at Salt Lake during 1920 amounted to $3,Sri9,353, compared with $4,060,490 during 191, accDrding to data compiled by the city building inspector. Mrs. N. Sophia Engstrolm of Bingham Bing-ham City was found dead in her bed, having passed away without her family knowing that she was ill, except ex-cept for a slight indisposition the day previous. As a protection again st vandalism, j the Logan postoffice will hereafter be closed at 8 o'clock each night and open the following morning when the first mail clerk arrives on the job. The drive for 15,000 new (members for the farm bureaus of the state is being launched, according to Donald D. McKay, president of the Utah State Farm bureau, at Huntsville. J. C. Henager of Salt Lake was reelected re-elected president -of the Utah State Bee Keepers' association at the closing clos-ing session of the annual state convention con-vention held in Salt Lake. Thirty-two schools in Cache county, comprising the entire school system of the district, are being inspected for the preliminary scoring in the clean school contest. John Salamica, 18 years of age, and Eddie White, 16 years (of age, were arrested at Salt Lake, charged with having robbed a store at Ogden on January 19. Clifford Thurman, aged 27, was drowned while in the bathing pool at Beck's Hot Springs, near Salt Lake. Potatoes were grown on 17,000 acres in Utah in 1920. with a yield of 194 bushels per acre, a torol production of 3.29S.0O0 bushels and a value December Decem-ber 1 of ?2.C.",S.OOO, or 80 cents per bushel, as compared with $1.37 per bushel in 1919. The finished product of Utah cement plants will reach j:i.500.0oO ; flour mills .S2.000.0iHl; knitting factories and woolen mills. $1.50,00 ; packing j plants, .0.OiMt.n)i.i; salt, S.VlO.O'iO; I bakeries, S3.5fMi.000; leather goods, SI,-500.'XKI; SI,-500.'XKI; brick and other building blocks and tiling, $7,000,000. |