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Show UTAH STATE NEWS School superintendents of the state held their annual convention In Suit Luke last week. Taxpayers of Ulutnh county passed tho school tax' levy of three mills for u $25,000 Indebtedness by u vote of -lio I to 1-." ut u special election. I Tho Ulntuh cunning factory has I opened Tor the summer run, string I beans are now being canned and euro I and tomatoes will be next hi Hue. 1 A large plaster parts cast of the cliff I dwelling region at Mesa Verde, Colo., I was received at the University of Utah I last week. The cast Is reproduced hi I There nre two kinds of mosipiU(..s n I Utah, say experts, thu uedes and the I uuapheles, the latter the breed that I carries malaria und spreads It. They 1 are lu the minority. I Colonel Thomas C. Webber, 81 jears I of age, merchant and former iiew.spn- I per man, who for years has been gen- I oral muuager of the '.. C. M. 1. at Salt I l.ako, died August 15. The American Jersey Cuttle club tins I written the Utah State Fair assucla. I tlon u letter In which It offers $200 to I be distributed to exhibitors or Jcrcy rattle ut the annual fair. I .Melon-growers of Provo bench, Sa- I lent and Sautuquln report that the I melon crop Is Just coming on and local I melons wilt now take the place of tlis- I Imported crop oil all local markets. I In Provo there nre sixty-five fewer I children of school ugc this year than fl last, according to thu school census, fl the number aggregating .1101, which It fl practically thu same us ten years ago. fl The 10l!0 winter wheat acreage la fl Weber county Is considerably below HJ that of 1011), und the spring wheat H acreage Is greatly lu excess, according HJ to figures submitted tu the bureau ufwj crop estimates. B Vernal will have 11 University club If fl plans of some of the leading husluesj BJ men of the city mature. About sixty- BJ five college men and women have been BJ listed and tunny more are being milled BJ tu the roster. HJ Cedur City Is erecting one of ttie H most up-to-date unto camp parks In H tho state. Tents und cook ovens will B bo provided, while shower baths nre B being Installed and the grounds seeded B to lawn anil trees planted. JH Ilryce's canyon has been tho MecrtKB for tho nuto tourist this season, thou- M sands visiting the wonderland. All H visitors are enthusiastic lu their prulsi IB of Ilryce's and many additional thou-fig sands will make thu trip next season, BJ It is predicted. BJ Work on the now Millard count; BJ courthouse ut Flllinoru Is prngresxInfBJ rapidly and It wilt be ready for oecv-BJ pancy by the latter part of October. BJ It Is located on tlio park of the olJjB ciipltot grounds, n short distance frouHJ the old capital. H Fanners of the Cullao section taVeH exception to recently circulated state Bj meats to thu effect that the people o'BJ Callao were malutulntug a mudhole forH personal tpilu, that they might extri-B cute atitolsts from the mudhole nt nnfl outrageous rate. B iiuiwiii j., iiuKiiii, tnu.o insHcior K crops and pests, will serve part of tliefl time as uu Instructor In zoology ut tlutB University of Utah beginning with tlieHJ fall term, September 27. Ills work tl the stute Institution will lu no wuy lo- terfere with his present duties. I The formal dedication of Zlon mfl tlonut park on September 15 lias hccjH suggested to the Salt I-nko Commcrc'riS I club, which is to have charge of ufW ningements, by Stephen II. Mather, dl-P rector of national parks, who lul agreed to attend tho ceremony at that! time. Tho secretary of thu state hoard otgt health Is In receipt of 11 letter from tk'fS United States public health bureau In- A forming him thnt It will be Impossllil B for thu bureau to comply with his n B quest to send an agent to conduct 1, f' campaign against mosquitoes In tt ,jf Hear River valley of IIox Klder count; -M Mrs. (lurthii Wheeler, 17 yeiim tfi age, was arrested ut Ogdcti nnd bount I over to the district court oi the chnrgt M of bigamy. Tho complaining wltnes T? Is Klmur Wheeler, thu woiuuu's hu,cV band, who claims that he has Jo ij ' learned that tho young woman was i ready married when she married lilts An audit of tho hooks or tho l'tt igrleullural college, which has Jut OisMi completed by Joseph ltlrle, stat y:jj auditor, shows an overdraft of ulmo B $150,000. The deficit Is due to expend 'fl Incurred by tho erection of hulhllnrjfl;. for the accommodation of soldier HJ while the wur was In progress, it yfl said. IB Tho Southern Utah Federated C-oi'BJ merclal clubs becumo an uctuulll) w August HI ut Cedar City. The couB tncrcinl organizations of WiishlugtuB Iron, Heaver, Millard, (larfhtld ill Kane counties are present membemB thu federation, but commercial orgaH xatlonu or other counties are ellgllfl to membership. H Tho statu meutnl hospital at l'roflj has tho largest population now tflj Institution has over had. There tflj 001 lumutea, nlno luoro than on jflf 1. During July five were illschairBfe and three died, JB The Farmer-I-ubor pnrty otflriiftB tossed Its hat Into tlio stuto polltlftfll ring at Its convention In Salt lw August 15, with tho selection of Hf partly complete state ticket unJ BJ naming of a committee to act In flf Junction with the executive couiuilfB ot tlio state in cuooalug candidate) &M remaining offices, B |