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Show UTAH STATE NEWS DuiiiiiKi. to Utah fruit by the frost of ,,rl -,8 w,,s Mot "8 I'XtenslM' as at first estimated. Price Is to have a new theater build-nK, build-nK, which will -ost In the neighborhood neighbor-hood of fW.OOO. eorKe Henry Steed of ok,iii. 70 yours of nKu, dleil suddenly at thu breakfast table of apoplexy. More than 1000 lumhels of urnis. hoppers were caiiKht by the so-called mlloon hopper In Piute county ulouel last year. I'lnh hud a lilKh school (nrotlinent of 2H.1 piiills for i-udi 1000 of population hi 1011). This will be liiei-eusi.,1 (IiIh year, It Is expected. The Ojnleh cliumber of comineree Ihtim, nt an early date, to establish n truffle but eau In connection with the work of the chamber. F. Wnterstrnw, ranch hand near North Point, losL the second finger of his right hand when a milk can ho was lifting fell and pinned It to a rail. One hundred and twenty representative represen-tative mining und business men of Suit Lake left life capital March W on a visit to Price, Huntington and the oil fields of that section. Appointment of .lames T. Hammoud, L'tuh's first secretary of state, us director direc-tor of registration has been confirmed by formal announcement from the office of-fice of Governor Mabey. Support of the state-wide campaign 'being earrled on by the Utah farm bu-reau bu-reau for a cleunup of cities und rural 'commiuilties ullke Is being given by tho state board of health. Mr. and Sirs. George A. Hicks, who, It is believed, are the oldest married couple ln Utah, observed the sixty-cK'hth sixty-cK'hth anniversary of their marriage at Spanish Fork, March' iM. Municipal ownership of an electric power plant was decisively defeated In Ihe Ogdeh bond election held Saturduy, March Ufl. Ponds for fire apparatus and public parks were also voted "down. i The state engineer's office and the federal geological survey will co-operate In establishing and maintaining a stream measurement station on tho south fork of the Ogden river, near Huntsvllle. David K. Smith, formerly chairman of the board of county commissioner 'of Davis county, has been named by Governor Mabey as u member of thu .board of agriculture, created by tho lust legislature. The building committee of the Klks' lodge ut Kureka has awarded the contract con-tract for rebuilding thy dancing pavilion, pavi-lion, which was recently duinugcd to Ihe extent of ifJlSOO uccordlug to the-Insuniuco the-Insuniuco adjuster. Salt Iike business und professional men who last week visited Price aud Huntington and the oll-drllllng area about the Sun llafael swell, have returned re-turned home very optimistic us to thu future of Hint section. .The furiiicfg of Gunnison valley, aided aid-ed by all the boys of the high school uml under the direction of V. O. Stott, county farm agent, distributed nearly 7110. pounds of squirrel poison throughout through-out the valley one, day last week. Increased passenger fares on thu steam railroads of Utah, estimated by them to Increase their revenues by $1:00,000 a year,, will be deferred for u tluHYtPosslhly for two mouths, by thu action of the public utilities commission commis-sion of Utah. Norman Hnmii, 1)1 years of age, n farmer of Draper, died ut his home us the result' of tin accident,' when ho stumbled over n baby carriage aud fell, fracturing three ribs ou his right side. One of the ribs pierced thu lung, causing caus-ing his. death. Kornier Senulor Georgo Sutherland of Utuh.'who, his friends say, declined u cnblnet position In President Harding's Hard-ing's official family, Is again mentioned mention-ed for a federal appointment, this tlmu tlutt of solicitor general In the department depart-ment of Justice. Autone Ilomen, who wus held In thu county Jail at Ogden for three days while temporarily Insane, was released March -8 and resumed his trip to his homo In Newman, Oil. The doctors belluvc iHoinen' wus affected by tho high altitude. Ilunjamln.il. llrooks, r5 years of age, one of tho .best known livestock com. mission men In the west, died suddenly sudden-ly .at a store In Ogden, Into which ho stepped while walking Atloug thu struct, whenjio felt un attack of Jieurt trouble coining .on. Members of tho stato board of land commissioners .held u conference with Governor Mabey, and afterwanl nu-nountwd nu-nountwd Umt, with the governor's op-provoJ op-provoJ the policy of the board with regurd to the sulewf the Piute project hnd Iveeu establish! The Hpworth League of the-Methodist KjiIacojiu! churches of Salt Lake have been granted permission to establish es-tablish a camp lu American Kork canyon, can-yon, nt the foot of Mt Tlmpunogos, next Juno, by Dunn Parkinson, supervisors super-visors of Wasatch forest. Governor Mabey bus approved tho Soilerberg bill passed by the recent legislature, which provides that a no-tury no-tury public nuiy act In any county In the state. Heretofore a notary could act only In his lio io county, or the county In which ho was commissioned. Two hundred schools of Utah havo made application to the stato superintendent super-intendent of public Instruction, nnd through him to tho American Dfonse society, for pictures of Colonel Theodore Theo-dore Itoosovelt, which will be hung in the various schools, with appropriate Kvemoulcif, ubout May 1. |