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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Ogden City lias begun work on th establishment of an aviation fielJ through the action of the city commission commis-sion and tlie chamber of commerce. An option on 2000 acres of hind in Weber county near the Utah Hot Springs has been secured. Senator King has introduced a bill providing that no reduction in tha number of sheep, tattle and horses grazing under permit on any national forest shall be made without consent of the advisory board of the stock association. The threatened strike of street car employees at Salt Lake has been averted, the men having been granted an increase in wages of 47.7 per cent to the platform men and 3G per cent to the track department employees. Directing a man in quest of lodging to a rooming house, playing the part of the landlord, collecting $1 for the room a,nd then installing the man in the proprietor's room, brought Seth Bates a fine of $10 at Ogden. Arches are to be erected at the four entrances to the city and county park at Vernal, and climbing American Beauty roses set to cover them. Drink-lng-fountains also are being provided for the children's playground. B. D. Anderson, a resident of Idaho, has been awarded the gold medal granted annually by the Sons of the American Revolution for the best patriotic pa-triotic address delivered by a student of the University of Idaho. Four persons, three of them children, chil-dren, have been bitten by rabid animals ani-mals in Salt Lake recently, while several sev-eral others have been victims of hydrophobia hy-drophobia in the territory within a few miles of the city limits. About $1100 remaining in the Utah defense fund, when all claims against it have been paid, will be available as a nest egg for the organized campaign to be started In aid of the returned service men of Utah. Burton Rupp, lost memory man of Salt Lake, who was found by Long Beach, Calif., police in a condition said to be the result of amnesia, has recovered his poise and is working as a salesman. Drivers of automobiles that are not provided with proper license plates are to be prosecuted, and an employe of the state road commission will have the job of checking up on offenders. Jokovos Giakounamakis, a miner, was so seriously injured at the Utah-Apex Utah-Apex company mine at Bingham as the result of a slide of earth aud rock that he died a few hours later. The taxpayers of Logan voted to bond for the purpose of raising $28,-371 $28,-371 additional funds to continue the operations of the schools during the remainder of the present year. Employes of the federal fish hatchery hatch-ery at Springville who went to Fish lake with the spring harvest of spawn, were compelled to use sleds before they finally reached the lake. The boy scout executives of Weber county have decided upon a site in the South Fork canyon which will be used as the camp for the boy scout troops during the summer. While opening a drawer, Frank Livingston Liv-ingston of Ogden, was shot through the leg when a 44-calibre revolver in the drawer was accidentally discharged. dis-charged. Suffering from deprivation of morphine, mor-phine, Myrtle Mitchell attempted suicide sui-cide at the city jail at Salt Lake and is in a serious condition, but may recover. re-cover. Difficulties in the way of the jJox-elder jJox-elder and Morgan county road programs pro-grams were apparently smoothed out by the state road commission last week. The first naval and military parade in the history of Utah was a feature of the Mardi Gras of the American Legion held at Salt Lake last week. Work will be begun on a new municipal mu-nicipal lamping ground for automobile automo-bile tourists at Stilt Lake as soon as a suitable site can be leased. A hay shortage is reported in Ka-mas, Ka-mas, and it is understood stock will be turned upon the range much earlier ear-lier than usual as a result. Sanpete county voters hsvve t.uthor-ized t.uthor-ized the issuance 01 5-80,000 bondf for hard-surface roads by an overwhelming over-whelming majority. The sale of $100,000 5V2 per cent bonds has been authorized for the erection of the city and county building build-ing at Provo. The posting of open shop notices has resulted in a strike of structural Iron workers at Ogden, on several buildings. The budget for the Salt Lake city school system was adopted last week, the total figure being $2,G30,OiA. Boy Scouts have planted 100 trees In City Creek canyon, Salt Lake, i honor of Theodore Roosevelt. Five boy scout troops have be ganized in Salt Lake during the la. week. The organization of D troop cavalry has been completed at Brigham City. Henry Frost, G3 years of age, fell dead in the barnyard of his home at Bennion. Mr. Frost had gone to ttie barn :. look after the stock and when he did not return within a reasonable time. Mrs. Frost went in search of im and found him dead. Unless immediate steps are taken by the state of Utah to provide funds for housing lite S'HO.IMKI army equipment equip-ment which will be sent to the K. O. T. C. at Hit! I'niversiiy of Utah, the sc'.n-.:' s':it;'' a chan'-e of having tb ttiiii . ! , a ; I'lei.t moved to anothet |