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Show iH STATE NEWS The dtj council of Alantl linn pavscd an ordinance closing all pool linlls In the city. Mrs. Catherine Lynch, 00 yours of nno, the first graduate iiuim to practice prac-tice In Halt Luke, died last week. With more tlinn sixty-five new models mod-els on exhibition, Suit Luke's twelfth annual automobile show opened February Feb-ruary 0. In twenty-two yetirs the Salt Lake public lllnury has acquired 01,000 books, according to the report of the librarian. Information on all Utah business houses Is being gathered through mes-tlomiulies mes-tlomiulies being sent out by the Utuh Manufacturers' association. Salt Lake drug stores report a fall- Ing off in the number of Influenza prescriptions as compared with the de- i iiuiuil for preventatives tho past few i weeks. Conference) of the fish and game i wardens of the mountain states, which I was to bave been held In Salt Lake on February 10, has been Indefinitely postponed. American Legion charters weio granted last week to the posts of Toe nucrvllle lp Washington county; (Jun-nlson, (Jun-nlson, Sanpete county, and Sllxer City, Juab county, , The Tooele county board of commissioners com-missioners donated $!0 to help finance the educational drive and the Tooele county school hoard also made a donation do-nation of $.r0. Tbe ban has been lifted In Ogden as far as the theatres and motion picture pic-ture houses are concerned, but will remain re-main on for tho dance halls, because of tho Influenza, Immediate steps to establish a municipal muni-cipal lighting plant in Ogden are re-commended re-commended by the Ogden Trades anil Labor assembly In a communication to the city commissioners. Shirley Mailen, aged -.'!, was seriously ser-iously Injured when an automobile he was driving to Salt I.ako turned turtle upon the state road at Itiverdale, three miles south of Ogden. Investigation of tbe facts connected with the present potato market In Salt Lake and in other cities of Utah Is being made by repiesentatlves of the federal fair price commission. The Pahvant irrigation district, one of the first in the state of Utah to take advantage of the law which was pansed by the 1017 legislature, and amended In 1011), has decided to ills-Incoipoiate. ills-Incoipoiate. In the four counties In Utah which are traversed by the Union Pacific railroad main Hue, the company values Its property at sfO.IO.V I, while tho vaiuo placed on the branch from Echo to l'ark City Ih placed at $SW,8Su. Completion of highways already partly built and the construction of others as feeders to the main statu highway appear to be the Intent of the state road commission this year rather than work on scenic highways, which can wait. Steps for the formation of a Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho baseball league will In all probability prob-ability bo started soon at Ogden. The present plans being considered call for a six-club league, with Logan, Ogden, Itrlghiuu City and three teams from Idaho In harness. That It may give thorough service, from Trice to Pueblo, Denver and other eastern points by telephone, thu Eastern Utah Telephone company has applied to tbe public utilities commission commis-sion for permit to extend Its Mnos from .Price to (ircen Itlver. One of the oldest remaining Utah pioneers, passed away In the death of Solomon V. Kimball, 7.'1, well-known resident of Salt Lake. Mr. Kimball was born Februnry 2, 1817, while his parents were crossing the plains by ox-team en loute to Utah. The Utah executive committee of the American Legion will not mix In .lackDempsey's affairs, according to action taken at a meeting of the committee. com-mittee. They decline to take sides In the controversy as to whether or not Dempsey was a slacker. Karl L. Packard, an Ogden boy, has been appointed to a secretarial position posi-tion In the American Russian embassy. For the present, Packard will be on duty with the statu department, acquainting ac-quainting himself with diplomatic methods, and will he assigned a foreign for-eign station later. Maximum sentences for burglars and robbers Irrespective of youth or mitigating circumstances will he the "Judicial dish" handed out to all offenders coming heforu tho trial , judges In Salt Lake, under a new pol- ley of "no leniency" which wus out- lined Inst week. ') Thut "Hed" dross, alias Charles l Lnngdale, alleged to have been one of tho four robbers who held up the i Sprlngvlllo bank, must remain In Ore. .' gon to nnswer for his crimes In Port-, Port-, land, was the decision of the Portland I authorities, according to word received ' In Salt Lako. l( Call has been Issued by Ira It. ' Drowning, secretary of the state road J commission, for n meeting at tho cap Itol, February 17, of the state road j commission and various county and city commissions to discuss tho geu- oral subject of engineers' salaries. 1 1 Valuo of livestock per head In Utah . has decreased during tho past year, . according to a report made public by ! M. M. Justin, Hold agent for Utah of ( tho bureau of crop estimates. Nam-j Nam-j hers of various classes of livestock, . however, havo qulto generally Increased. |