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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE i The department of justice, unable to undeisiaiid the advance in the Utah-j Utah-j Idaho sugar pi-leu from Sl:!.oO per hundred hun-dred to SHIM.";, has directed United j States Attorney Isaac I'.lair Evans at i Salt Lake to make a thorough investi- gation and report his findings to the j attorney general. Five of the teu leaders of the ille- gal switchmen's strike, arrested at i Salt Lake several weeks ago by government gov-ernment agents on charge of violat-I violat-I ing the transportation and Lever acts, have been bound over to the November Novem-ber grand jury ot the United States district court. Mystery surrounds the disappearance disappear-ance of Lee Sherman, aged -fi, who failed to return to his home in Ogden after cashing a check, his checkbook being found on the bank of the river. It is feared he was murdered, robbed and his bodv thrown into the river. The awarding of a contract by the Union Pacific Railroad company to the Utah Construction company for the building of a stretch of thirty-five miles of grading for double track between be-tween Leroy, Wyo., and Wasatch, Utah, Is announced. That Walter Anderson Watson, the Los Angeles "Bluebeard," was In Ogden Og-den for some time, going under the name of E. E. Ileese, after he had murdered one of his wives at Tecum-seh, Tecum-seh, Neb., is the belief of local officers. offi-cers. Tho state road commission has decided de-cided to co-operate with the Union Pacific Pa-cific Railroad company on a fifty per cent basis in the construction of a viaduct over the railroad company's tracks at Riverdale, Weber county. Juab county's valuation this year, as fixed by the county assessor, is more than $1,000,000 greater than the valuation oa which the county paid its taxes last year. This is an increase of about 15 per cent in one year. The Farnsworth Canal & Reservoir company of Mountain Home is applying apply-ing to the state engineer for the privilege privi-lege of storing 2500 acre-feet of water, to be used in watering 64S0 acres already al-ready under ditch. Miss Jennie Anderson of Thatcher was run down by a motorcycle at Brig-ham Brig-ham City, where she was attending school, and so seriously injured that she will be forced to give up her school work for this year. John Williams, living near Spanish Fork, suffered serious injuries when a jack which he was using to raisii a car gave way and the car ran over hini, his shoulder blade and collar bone being broken. Motor equipment for the quartermaster quarter-master corps of the Utah National guard to be assigned to cavalry and field artillery, has been provided for, subject to completion of a few formalities. formali-ties. Until the winter season arrives, the clerks and business men of Spanish Fork will. have a half holiday on Fridays Fri-days in future, all of the business men having agreed to the proposition. Great preparations are being made for the "home-coming" of B. Y. U. students stu-dents at Provo, May 2G, 27 and 28, and it is expected an immense crowd will be in the Utah county metropolis. Trices of lumber will not appreciably appre-ciably decline in the next six months, was the consensus of opinion expressed ex-pressed at a meeting a few days ago of the Salt Lake Lumbermen. A citizens' committee at 'Salt Lake has issued a plea to the teachers to sign contracts for the school year with the hope that provision may be made for an increase in salary. Good work has been accomplished by hunters for the state and federal government in the southwestern tier of counties this spring by "den-hunting" for coyotes. Indications point to an increase in the acreage of alfalfa in Cache county coun-ty tlfis year, in spite of the higher prices being paid for the culture of sugar beets. Bids are being sought for the drainage drain-age of 5000 acres of laud included in the Benjamin district. The district gives promise of .becoming good sugar beet land. Sixty carloads of sugar have been shipped out of Utah in the past few months by speculators, according to unofficial reports circulated about Salt Lake. The senate has confirmed the selection selec-tion of Mrs. R. E. L. Collier to be collector of customs for Utah, with offices. at Salt Lake. Mrs. Caroline Carlson has disappeared disap-peared from her home in Tleasant Grove, and a state-wide search is being be-ing made for her. Jack Vincent, aged 7, of Garfield, was run down by an automobile and so severely injured that he died an hour later. The Salt Lake navy recruiting station sta-tion has received a moving picture machine, which will be used to aid recruiting. re-cruiting. The attempt of employers to enforce en-force "open shop" working conditions resulted in the workmen employed on six new buildings at Salt Lake laying down their tools. The men claim the contractors are endeavoring to disrupt dis-rupt the unions. Agents of the department of justice who warned several leaders of the I W. W. element nt Bingham to discon tinue their radical agitations or face t ; sentence in the federal penitenthirj are still wali-hing the local condition! with interest although no troiib'u Is e:, I'ccieil n r.-." |