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Show UTAH STATE IWS Mrs. Camilla Hintz Neilson. a pioneer pio-neer of Holliday, Salt Lake county, died last v. c-ek. Efforts are being made to bring about the closing of Salt Lake business busi-ness houses by G o'clock every night. The next annual convention of the American Bar association will meet in Salt Lake on August 17-19 of the present pres-ent year. Miss Lydia Van Vmen, 20 years of age, suffered a fractured jaw wlun a coasting schooner collided with a cutter at Ogden. Josephine Peterson, 19 yeas of age, whose home was in Huntsville, suicided sui-cided at Ogden, taking carbolic acid, following a quarrel with her sweetheart. sweet-heart. William Short, 80 years of age, at one time a well-known butcher of Salt Lake, died at the county hospital last week. Mr. Short was born in England. That Utah in ten years wjll be the only real competitor in the canning business that California will have in the west was the assertion made at the Richfield roundup last week. John William Wilson, 5 years of age, a newsboy, who received a fracture frac-ture of the spinal column, the result of being run over by a delivery vehicle two years ago, died at his home in Salt Lake last week. That within two weeks plenty of work for men and teams will be furnished fur-nished the farmers oKSalt Lake county coun-ty by the launching of building operations opera-tions for an independent sugar factory is .the prediction. Salt Lake gained 38 per cent in -building activity in 1914 over 1913, according ac-cording to the American Contractor of Chicago, thereby taking fourth place among eighty-eight of the largest cities cit-ies of the United States. Mike Chubich, a Servian, while celebrating cele-brating at Bingham, sent a bullet crashing through the residence of Mike Cidar. The missile is said to have narrowly missed Mrs. Cidar. Chubich was arrested and released on a $75 bond. With Ogden as the assembling point for Nevada, Idaho, eastern Oregon and Utah and also the headquarters of W. B. Webster, direct representative ot the British government, hundreds of horses are being loaded in that city daily for shipment east. Tom Cachindes, a Greek, is in the county jail at Salt Lake, having been locked up in contiection with the shooting, early in December, of Bruce Mackay, which occurred in a Murray "club." Three weeks after the shooting shoot-ing affray, Mackay died. Directors of the Ogden, Logan & Idaho Railroad company have issued a call for the annual meeting of that corporation, capitalized at $5,000,000 announcing that the question of creating creat-ing a bonded indebtedness of $10,000,-000 $10,000,-000 will be submitted at that time. Utah is one of the nine states in the union in which the rate of illiteracy illiter-acy among children between the ages of 10 and 14 is but one in 1,000, according ac-cording to a statistical 'report just issued is-sued by the bureau of education of the United States department of the interior. inte-rior. Nearly fifty men, most of the num ber expert machinists, are employed installing the machinery at the American Ameri-can Can company's new factory in Ogden. It is expected to have the plant ready for operation by March 1. It will furnish employment for more than 100. ' The people of Green River are to erect a munia'pal light and power plant at a cost of $20,000. The plant will be constructed on Green river, seven miles north of the city, and wi 1 furnish light and power for Green River, Elgin and other places through-' out the valley. Fees collected by the secretary ot state during the quarter ending December De-cember 31 totaled $66,260.75. The annual an-nual corporation tax, most oi which was received in the last quarrcr, amounted to $60,270, while th0 general fees were $5,421.70. Motor licenses netted the state $634. J' A younj. son of Miy'-w:u Mrs. Walter Wal-ter WiseiV i'i'rly drowned at Bountiful.l Ing on a pond he broke tb A His little sis ter ran 1 what had hap pened. J g the 'body the case but after persls- 7" uscitated. ampaign at the the twenty-fifth - operation, 64,-Tigar 64,-Tigar was made. i00 tens of sj-I sj-I h would mv-j I an 1,200 f f ach twff nnial repuiTui J. E. Tal mine inspect or. A JV4fU tons of coal was stale last year, v Beardsloy, a former well w j.iie and hotel man of Ogden I ai'V'1 Lake and recently head of ! the savings bank department of the ; postal bureau of the Philippine govern-I govern-I ment. resigned i,is position recently to ! take the Siam agency for the Shanghai Shang-hai Life Insurance company. Prohihititn is the subject to be taken up by tho debating society of the Weber academy at Ogden. The question will be debated before the student body in the near future. The subject' will be treated in its broadest phases. . ' V |