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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE The county board of equalization of Carbon county will be reconvened by the state board cf equalization and among other things will be invited to reconsider its assessment of farm lands. There may be nothing in the fcrmal order reconvening the county board to indicate it, but it is the tacit agreement that the county board is to find a way to reduce the assessment, on farm lands. Salt Lake county's endeavor to economize econ-omize in cost of road construction through use of its own equipment and force as far as might be, was shown by a comparison of figures to be resulting re-sulting in a considerable saving. The purpose of the plan, which was approved ap-proved by the advisory committee on road building, was to make the available avail-able funds reach as far on the county highways as possible. Organization of a new bank to take the place of the Roosevelt Banking company of Roosevelt, Utah, which la3t week suspended payment at the request of the state bank commissioner, commis-sioner, N. T. Porter, will be effected within a few days, according to an announcement made by a prominent Salt Lake banker. John S. Earley, executive secretary of the Utah Manufacturers' association, associa-tion, has been advised by the management manage-ment of Lagoon that the manufacturers manufac-turers are invited to make a display of their products for the week prior to their annual outing. The management manage-ment of the resort has agreed to furnish fur-nish space and a caretaker free of charge. Honor was paid the pioneers of Utah in story and song at the Pioneer day celebration held in the Tabernacle at Salt Lake. Several thousand persons, including hundreds of Sunday school pupils from the fifteen wards of the Pioneer stake of the L. D. S. church, filled the main floor of the historic building, as well as the choir loft. The High Line Canal company of Vernal recently filed articles of incorporation incor-poration with the secretary of state, showing an authorized capital stock of $300,000 in $20 shares. M. M. Batty Bat-ty is president; J. B. Eaton, vice president, pres-ident, and George A. Slaugh, additional addi-tional director. The Vernal Irrigation company is represented as owning 10,-000 10,-000 of the shares of the new company. Enthusiastic support was manifested manifest-ed at a mass meeting held at Bountiful Bounti-ful of the proposal to issue $600,000 in bonds on the Bonneville irrigation district for the purpose of installing an irrigation system which would place water on 48G1 acres embraced in the district. Sixty-five Boy Scouts and sixteen adult executives left Ogden for a trip through Yellowstone National park, where they will take a two weeks' hike. The party will be in charge of Scout Executive G. A. Goates and Scoutmasters D. B. Foulger and G. A. Bergstrom. Warrants have been issued by United Unit-ed States Commissioner Henry V. Van Pelt for the arrest of directors of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company to face charges of profiteering under the amended complaint filed by the United Unit-ed States district attorney of Idaho. Wireless telephone conversations from Catalina Island to Los Angeles have been heard over a wireless receiving re-ceiving set on two occasions by Everett Ever-ett Seely, 540 Ninth East street, Salt Lake City, secretary of the Utah Radio Ra-dio association. F. B. Terriberry, state bee inspector, inspec-tor, has returned from a trip through i Heber valley. There are now 500 colonies of bees in the valley, he said, and those colonies will produce at least 50,000 pounds of honey worth $10,000. Miss Johanna Smith of Salt Lake has the distinction of being the first violinist and possibly the first musician mu-sician to render a selection on the rim of Bryce canyon, which was rendered last week. Two full herds of Tamworth swim will be exhibited at the Utah state fail this year from the Endsley Red Stock farm at Charleston, 111., according to advices to the state fair office. Sampling mill No. 4 of the American Ameri-can Smelting & Refining company's plant at Murray burned to the ground early Tuesday morning. The fire started supposedly from a cigaret. Adjudication of apparently conflicting conflict-ing claims of Price city and the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande in the waters oi Coltcn springs, in Carbon county, was announced by the state engineer lasl week. The sugar plant branch of the United States department of agriculture agricul-ture is endeavoring to curb the ravages rav-ages of the nematoda worm, which is damaging the beet crop in parts oi Utah. Threats that his three-year-old daughter, Allan, would be kidnaped unless he sent $3,000 to the writer art contained in a letter sent through the mails to George Castle of Salt Lake An effort to have samples of Utat manufactured goods on display it oriental trade centers is being maiU by tin- executive secretary of the Utui Mann fact liters' unsocial ion. Attired in the vestments of tli( sacred dam i- and bedecked in all theli war paint, (X Indians from the Uintat reservu ion will arrive in Salt Lak( July to participate in a week'.-fj.-;ivji to be given at I he capilol. K.'mrr J. Stirnson. a two-term vet rrri i'i the I t :ih stale prison, ha: i: strrt.-U at San D;ego -j: a cbargi j oi fovjjL'ry. |