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Show UTAH STATE HEWS The Elks of Salt Lake have pledged 1300,000 to be used In building a home tor that order." Domestic coal, lump and nut, will advance ad-vance in Utah before May 1, it has been announced. A home-made "still," ten gallons of whisky and sixty gallons of pulp were seized at the home of Barth Evans of , North Centervllle. Leonard Ostler of Springvllle was paid $30 bounty on a 3-months-old mountain lion captured In the mountain moun-tain east of Springvllle. , The carload of , thirty-two horses for battery C has arrived at Provo, all in good shape. The horses were shipped from Camp Funston, Kan. The campaign to secure a maintenance mainte-nance fund for the Sarah Daft bowe at Salt Lake for the coming year will continue indefinitely. ' Mrs. John W. Guy, of Provo, Is recovering re-covering from an illness caused through accidentally taking poisonous tablets In place of headache tablets. Judge John Edge Booth, of Provo, , 72 years of age, a resident of Utah since September 12, 1857, died March 28, following an attack of pneumonia. Democrats from all points of Utah have assured their presence at the Jefferson Jef-ferson day banquet to be held Monday, April 5, in the Hotel Utah, Salt Lake. Fire believed to have started when a coal oil lamp overturned in the living liv-ing room, destroyed the three-room borne of Mrs. Anna Bergen at Salt Lake. Announcement has been made by the Utah National Breeders and Fanciers' Fan-ciers' association of the second annual rabbit exhibition in Salt Lake, April to 10. Last year strychnine poison was distributed dis-tributed in Ogden valley. For every unce of strychnine used, the farm bureau bu-reau says, $203 . was saved - to the farmers. In response to calls from women operators op-erators of automobiles,' the extension division of the University of Utah has arranged a practical automobile course for women. Ogden was chosen as the site for the proposed ordnance depot by the government gov-ernment because of its climatic conditions condi-tions and railroad facilities, it has just een learned. The Weber county farm bureau has made arrangements for the distribution of poisoned oats to the farmers in the districts where squirrels are said to be a menace. The body of Emil Schmidlinj street -car motorman, 45 years of age, was found In Gilmer park, Salt Lake, be Shaving ended bis life by firing a bul-Siet bul-Siet through bis head. Castle Dale is about to vote a library tax, making this the second tax-supported library In the state. Hunting--ton voted the tax some time ago, and installed the library In the former city Jail. The taking of "raspberry extract" Jer "rheumatism of the heart" cost W; D. Larlssey and R, F. Meldrum $50 each, when they landed in the city Jail at Ogden upon the charge of drunkenness. drunken-ness. Crashing head-on Into an automobllt "which he was attempting to avoid hit ting, E. L. Brooklebank, a clerk, of Bait Lake, was thrown from his motorcycle motor-cycle and sustained Injuries which re. suited in his death. Catholics of Salt Lake during th week of April 12 to 20 will conduct a campaign for the purpose of raising a fund of $300,000 for charitable, educational edu-cational and religious work of the church in Salt Lake. W. S. Gannon, 47 years of age, master mas-ter mechanic at the Utah Apex mine, at Bingham, was killed Instantly as the result of being struck In the neck by a crowbar which caught In a con. veyor belt at the hoist of the mine. Buried beneath an avalanche of snow which crashed down the mountainside near the Utnh Metal & Tunnel Mines company mine at Bingham, Enos Parr, shift boss at the mine, his wife and two sous, died before help reached them. The state road commission has gone en record as in favor of a new route for the state highway Into Custle Dule, ver the bench land, rather than the present road, which is through a coun- -. try where Its maintenance is said to be more difficult. Instead of serving a life term in the irtate prison, Frank De Pratto will bave to serve only twenty-five year longer for the murder of Eugene Allen at the Highland boy store, Bingham Canyon, according to the decision ol the state board of pardons. Trapped In one of the most remote and desolate spots in Utah, and in the shack once the home of Cass Hite, frontiersman and prospector, Carl C. Fisher, 45 years of age, counterfeiter, was arrested 'last week at Hite by secret service operatives and brought to Salt Lake, where he Is lodged in the county Jail. ! Raising the standard of Weber county coun-ty dairy products by importing thoroughbred thor-oughbred Holsteln heifers through , members of the Boys' and Girls' club, wo the main topic of discussion at a aseetlng of the Weber county dairy ommlttee, held at Ogrhtt. ! Further examination of xHick Obll-aalo, Obll-aalo, who recently confessed to the murder of Marko Laus, near the state prison on Sunday, August 8, Is to be made his attorneys endeavoring to establish that his condition is such that no credence can be placed in his statements. - |
