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Show UTAH STATE NEWS 1 A Boy Scout council for Boxeldet .H ntnko was organized at a meeting held Bl t Brlghnm City. Vl Tho annual contention of the West- Bj ern Congress of Optometry will be held ! In Snlt I-nko June 20, 21, 22 and 23. Tho Alumni association of tho Agrl- 'HI cultural college will hold its annual reunion nnd banquet at Ioguu May 30 KJ of this year. HI The graduating exercises of the 'HJ Bingham high school will bo held May HJ 18. There are eight young peoplo in H the class this year. HJ J. N. Smith of Modeita reported to m the state board of health last week H the Ioks of about 100. head of Bheep HJ from unknown causes. H Thu Utah national guard will be or- HJ dere.l to maneuver camps nt American HI Lakes, Wash., and Fort D. A. Russell, HJ Wyo., during the latter part of June. Hj In a daring attempt to walk across HJ a plpo lue which crosses the Bear 'HJ river near Garland, Philip Bateman, HJ nged Kl, fell from tho pipe Into tho ,Hj river and was drowned. HJ Slightly more than S3 per cent of H the 11)10 production of alfalfa seed hi HJ Utah came from Millard county, nc- HJ cording to statistics given out by tho HI United States bureau of tho census. HI Utah last year grow potatoes, thu H census takers found, on 12,047 acres, H and produced 1,031,400 bushels, or at HJ about 125 bushels, to tho acre. Thu HJ value of tho crop was given as $3, H 101,007. HJ John K.lward Standrlng, 40 years of H age, of Salt Lake, may die ns tho re- HJ suit of an attempt at suicide, Stand. 'HJ ring tied a string to tho trigger of a HJ shotgun and shot himself Just above HJ the heart. H Charles Frank Whale, 2 years of H age, sou of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fred- ;H crick Whale, of Salt J.ake, drowned 'HJ when ho fell Into a backyard pool HJ maintained for tho drainage of thu H kitchen sink. HJ Kdwnrd Dean Wlcklns, chief cleric H In, the freight claim department of HJ the Oregon Short Lino and prominent H In Masonic circles In Utah, died sud- H denly In n Snlt Lako hospital as tho H result of being stricken by apoplexy. jHJ Tho management of the Skipper HJ Bay drainage district announces' that HJ thu project, which was begun last fall, HJ designed to reclaim about 000 acres HJ of agricultural land near tho mouth HJ of Provo river, Is ncarlng completion. HJ The problem for caring ror too un- H employed In Utah was delegated to HJ tho counties of tho state nt a confer- HJ encu called by the governor nnd hold H under tho auspices of tho stato Indus- H trial commission at Salt Lake on HJ April 22. M The charge of being an accessory' In HJ the attempted burglary of u store HJ plnced against Joseph Clark, JiotOl HJ cleric, following the killing February HJ 8, at Salt Luke, of Detectlvo (1. B. HJ llamby by 'Tom Bums, has been for- HJ mnlly dismissed. H Supervisor DeMolsey of thu LuSal HJ national forest has notified users of HJ grazing privileges that tho boundary HJ fences of the north division of thu for- HJ est hnvo been repaired ami recon- HJ structed so that thu drifting of stock HJ can be controlled. H Utah, wltll Its comparatively small H agricultural acreage, shows up only HJ twenty-eighth In tho list of thirty-three HJ states In the acreage planted to pot a- HJ toes, In 1010, but Is twcnly-llfth In HJ point of pro'luctlon, Indicating tho HJ value of Irrigation. JHJ Thomas Clark, TjO years of age, HJ widely known eastern Utah carnotlto , HJ mining man, with Interests In Moat), HJ tho Henry mountains and La Sal HJ mountains and western Colorado, was HJ stabbed to ieuth by a Mexican at H Orund Junction, Colo. HJ The school board of tho Alplno din- HJ trict will advertise for bids for tho HJ erection of n modern high school HJ building at Lchl. Tho plans nro prac HJ tlcally Identical wltli those for tho HJ $125,000 building which tho district Is HJ erectlntr nn Provo bench. IH John Dullols, of Monb, Is offering' M a reward of $100 for the arrest mid m conviction of tho person who stabbed H to death ono of his work horses, Mr. H DuBoIk Is n road contractor, and tho Hi horse was killed .at Ids camp while '' HJ he and the crow wero attending a H wrestling mutch. .HJ Bids for the construction of the out ,M fall sower system for Ugdeu, which !H will cost approximately u half million t .jH dollars, will bo culled for within tho 'H next fow weoks. Tho city plans to hH gut the work started nt as early n c'lH date us possible, In order to give. vH somo relief to the unemployment situ- jH ntl.ui In the city. Wm D. A. Bunker, the largest Individual JU alfalfa seed grower In Millard county , jD lust yonr, Is preparing for u mu.-h jH lnrger acreage and a diversified crop N this year. Ho has already had inoro fl than forty ncrcs of beets planted, is JH putting In fifty acres of spring wheat jKj nnd has considerably more than 100 W acres In alfalfa. H. Inquiries Instituted among Utah M sugar companies us a result of word jM frnni California that the producers fjl thero1 some tlmo ago mado far-reach 111 fhg wage redin'tlons elicited the Infor- fl mntlon' that similar stepa will prob- HJ ably bo taken In this district. M Audit of the accounts of tho stato MM rond commission for the last four HJ years will' probably be one of the first HJ nets officially ordered by tho now HJ state roud' commission when It tokos HJ over1 tho state's roud building und H maintaining activities shortly utter MX May 10. jH Mr |