OCR Text |
Show UTAH STATE NEWS Twenty-two blocks will be paved at Ogden tliix 'season, It Is expected. ; .luab county will vote un $I7",000 school bond Issue during the month. Ogden proposes to lay considerable new water mains during the coming season. Tho Beneficial 1.1 fo Insurance company com-pany proposes to erect n modern ky-scraper ky-scraper at Salt Lake. The sugar factory at Ogden Is to be Improved and modernized at an expense of half u million dollars. A new opera, house is to bo built ut Brlghntn City, It being expected Unit the outlay will be at least $(50,000. ! It la announced that a Pernor com pany Is to establish a wool scouring, i I plant at Ogden this season, ut a cost ! of $:i:i0.ooo. ; Nineteen convicts Jiavo appealed to i thv state board of pardons asking j clemency, their petitions to. lie heard I on March 'JO. The management of the Lelil Can-1 nlng factory advises Unit It Is the Intention In-tention to convert the cannery Into a' milk condemnry. I A new terminal station Is to bo ! erected by the Bninbergor-Oreni In-1 .terests at Salt Lake, the estimated cost being ?HOO,000. That a complete count of Utah mny be obtained, social enumerators have been appointed to reciiuvass Im Sal and Sail Juan counties. - Tho First Congregational church at Ogden has Installed a moving picture , machine and will show moving pic- lures every Sunday evening. j Utah's school population, numbering number-ing i:!.-,000 boys ami girls, will be asked to contribute to the state's share In America's "gift to I'rance." Preparations for tho general semiannual semi-annual L. D. &. conference to be held at Salt Lake, April li to f, are being made by till branches of the church. Farmers and fruitgrowers In the! neighborhood of l'rovo are seriously considering the erection of n box factory fac-tory to take care of the fruit pnek In that district. The peoplu of Murray will vote on $100,000 school bonds for the purpose of building one or more school houses , ami supplying them with furniture and apparatus. , In a fall from a wagon in which she , was riding to school, Mabel Jordan, ' small daughter of L. .1. Jordan of Eden, j suffered a broken neck nud died almost al-most Instantly. i It has been officially announced, that the Utah railroad company will j build a new roundhouse and shops at I l'rovo this season at un estimated expense ex-pense of $1S7,000. , The Utah-Montana Land company was organized at Logan last week with , a capital stock of $200,000. The new; company has purchased OIHX) acres of laud near Great Falls. Interned aliens ut tho war prison at Fort Douglas made another attempt to escape from the prison compound ' last week by digging a sixty foot tun- nel, but their plot was discovered. ' After securing $20 in money, boyj burglars destroyed more than $100 In! foodstuffs and damaged furniture and j clothing when they ransacked the J home of Carl Ilelss, at Salt Lake. While enrollment In the Utah schools has Increased materially with the passage pas-sage of tho law making some form of Instruction compulsory up to the age of 18 years, perfection has not yet been reached. , The state board of land commissioners commission-ers has decided to pay back to seven purchasers of water rights under tho Ilatchtown project a total of ?51(5!).()S which they paid to the board for water tho state cannot now deliver. Because unprecedented snowfall on the Grand iTver watershed will cause enormous floods during the coming spring according to the weather bureau, bu-reau, a (500-foot bridge over the Grand at Moab will be raised four feet. Construction of a tipple and a surface sur-face tramway from the railroad to tlie company's coal property in Spring canyon can-yon In Carbon county will be begun, simultaneously with the opening of the new Mutual Coal company's mines. High school teachers at Ogden, thirty-one In number, who nfflllated themselves with the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor last fall and organized a union, unanimously decided at a meeting last week to withdraw from the union. Sweeping prosecution of nllens with-' In the state's boundaries who refuse I to attend school In compliance with the stnte's "Americanization" law passed by the Thirteenth legislature Is promised by school officers of the Jordan district. With an assessed valuation of $100-1 per capita of school population In 1011), as against a state nvorage of $537il per capita, Weber county has been able to construct a fine system of schools without Incurring a dollar of bonded indebtedness. Receipts of the stnte land board for February, turned In to tho stuto treasurer, treas-urer, totaled $03,(101.47. Of tills amount $27,007,70 goes to tho schools ami various state Institutions for maintenance, having been received as i interest nnd rentals. How rapidly the ranks of the members mem-bers of tho Grand Army of tho Itcpub-1 lie In tho department of Utnli are I thinning was shown by tho meeting of the "Boys of '01 to 05" at Ogden last week. The rolls show that a year ngo tho membership wus 214 and today it is 1G2. |