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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The first week in .May ol this year ' will be observed in the public schools ot Utah as "Community Welfare week." The Utah chamber of commerce will probably send three delegates to the National Conservation congress at Washington May 2, 3 and 4. A daring bandit walked into the Copperfield State bank at Bingham and successfully made away with nearly $4,000 in gold and currency. A women's voters' conference, under the auspices of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, will be held in Salt Lake on May 11 and 12. Judge Thomas J. Brandon of Cen-terville, Cen-terville, 84 years of age. prominent in public life of his county and the state for more than a quarter century, died April 21. Peter L. Ferguson, an Ogden inventor, inven-tor, has been granted a United States patent for a trowel designed for all kinds of fancy plastering on cornices or moldings. Approximately $500,000 is being spent by the Ogden, Logan & Idaho Railway company in constructing a new line between Hot Springs and Brigham City. A vigorous campaign against the codling moth in the orchards of Salt Lake county is urged in a bulletin issued is-sued by the horticultural inspector for Salt Lake county. Logan is to have a Carnegie library at last, the city commission having agreed to make the necessary levy to support and maintain the place when once it is established. Within a tew days ibe old Valley house, once Salt Lake's best and most distinguished hotel, will he completely razed to make room for a terminal building for two interurban railroads. Death claimed a popular and talented talent-ed woman of Ogden on April 23, when Miss Lila Jost, known in musical circles cir-cles throughout the state and an instructor in-structor in the Ogden Conservatory of Music, died suddenly. Walter B. Williams, 44 years old, of Salt Lake, fell backwards off the ladder leading to the hayloft in his barn, landing on his back at the entrance en-trance to a stall. He was kicked to death by one of his horses. With the aid of Salt Lake capital-the capital-the Uintah basin will have a railroad within two years, to connect with the Denver & Salt Lake, the Moffat road, at Craig, Colo., if plans of Salt Lake capitalists are carried out. A move to test the validity of the new city ordinance limiting the number num-ber of for hire automobiles in the business busi-ness district has started among the automobile owners engaged in the tax-icab tax-icab .business in Salt Lake. Elmer W.' Dewey's application for parole from the Utah state prison, where he is serving a rourteen-year sentence for the killing of Police Sergeant Ser-geant Henry Johnston, was denied by the state board of pardons. Mrs. Margaret Zane Cherdron, who was a Republican presidential elector from Utah in 1912, and cast the ballot of the state for William Howard Taft, is being advanced as a delegate to the Chicago convention by women voters. Orville Eugene Hartwell, aged 64 years, contractor and builder, known throughout the state, died at Salt Lake of ptomaine poisoning contracted contract-ed two days previous and attributed to some oysters which be ate at a restaurant. rest-aurant. Virtually all of the sugar beet acreage acre-age for the Ogden factory has been plowed and planted. More than 10,000 acres of beets have been contracted for the season and approximately two-thirds two-thirds of this total has already been planted. Frederick W. Francis, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Calaway, Hoock & Francis company, died at Salt Lake following an operation opera-tion performed April IS for acute stomach trouble. Mr. Francis was 51 years of age. Forty-five prisoners from the Utah state prison were taken to Ogden Monday Mon-day morning to augment the force at the road camp three miles south of Ogden, making a total of sixty men who will push the work on the concrete con-crete highway. Leonides Garcia, 24 years of age, a Mexican miner formerly employed at the Highland Boy mine of Bingham, was fatally wounded in a running fight with Bert H. Seager, marshal of Phoenix, Bingham canyon. Garcia was resisting arrest. Mrs. Robert Felt of Ogden narrowly narrow-ly escaped serious injury or death when her clothing was ignited by flaming gasoline. She was cleaning clothes in gasoline on the rear porch of her home w-ben the fluid in some unknown manner was ignited. Marvin Turnbow, who killed Clyde Bailey for the alleged betrayal of the former's w ife, was found not guilty of murder by a jury at Moab. Three months after the killing Mrs. Turnbow shot to death ber three children and then put a bullet through her own head. Work on the extension of the Orem lines into Paysoa will be completed shortly and it is expected that cars will be running to terminals within a few weeks. The line is in operation to Salem for both freight and passenger passen-ger service and on'.y a mile of track is to be laid to Payson. Remains of the man who was cut tr. pieces by an Oregon Short Line freigni train at Harrisville, near Ogden, havt been identified as those of Eddie Schad, aged about 36 years, a con structicn company employee, whose-home whose-home is in Muskogee. Okla. |