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Show UTAH STATE NEWS lirs. Helen R. Myers, aged 39, died' ai Eureka from ptomaine poisoning. Antone Leta, the Italian leper con-; fined at the Salt Lake county hospital,, is improving. May 1 to May 15 has been desig-' ated as clean-up days by the mayor-of mayor-of Salt Lake. About 23,0D0 acres of land in Sevier; county will be thrown open to settlement settle-ment June 8. A company has been organized at Arimo for the purpose of installing an up-to-date flour milling plant. Business men of Eureka have decided de-cided to raise funds to place the fa-, mous "Sioux road" in condition for' travel. The state road across the salt beds to Wendover will be in good shape for travel by early summer, it is reported. re-ported. The Salt Lake cadets of the high school will probably take a ten days' trip to Utah lake following the close of school. Several raids on alleged gambling bouses in Salt Lake have been made ! of late in an effort to stamp out this I evil in the capital. ; The demand for girls in -business ' houses and offices in Salt Lake City more than exceed the supply, accord- ing to latest reports. Four hundred new citizens received their certificates of naturalization in' j the federal and districts courts of Utah during the year 1915. Two boys were captured in Ogden . after they had stolen an automobile ' from the Utah Hot Springs with the j intention of taking a joy ride. During 1915, Salt Lake City ex- I pended $69,510 on the maintenance,' : conduct and improvement of its parks and places of outdoor attractions. attrac-tions. The total assessed valuation of real estate, improvements and personal: i property of Weber county under the, i full value plan of assessment for 1916 is $37,431,455. In a resolution adopted by the Og- " den City hoard of education it is set' forth that $254,900 will be needed dur- L- ing the next fiscal year for the opera-. tion of the schools. 0 Another increase in wages for the. employes of the Utah Copper coni- j pany, both at the mines in Bingham j and the mills in Garfield, was announced an-nounced last week. d The Saltair railroad, running from . Salt Lake to Saltair pavilion, is to be n entirely electrified .and a three-mile j extension built immediately from Salt-, ji air Beach to Garfield, d Fire attacked the Saltair pier run- . e ning from the trains to the resort gate, causing considerable damage, ie and for a time threatening the total f destruction of the buildings, x D. g. Burley, general passenger :o agent of the Oregon Short Line, has II resigned and Daniel S. Spencer, as-'s as-'s sistant general passenger agent, has e, been appointed to fill the vacancy. to Plans are under way among the dairymen of Salt Lake to co-operate e- with the local United States dairy dl-e- vision, bureau of animal industry, in 19 jstablishing a cow-test association in "y that city. t0 Now that the supreme court has m upheld the constitutionality of the revised re-vised drainage law, Corinne drainage drain-age district, in Box Elder county, is w arranging to lay about 200 miles of er concrete pipe. The conference committee on the 3' Indian appropriation bill has retained , . Utah items appropriating $53,740 for the support of confederated bands of lk Utah, and $200,000 for confederated Utes in Utah. 1(3 Governors of many states will meet Rt, In Salt Lake on Tuesday, June 27, Is when matters of nation-wide impor-t- iance will be discussed. The meeting as will follow a session of the governors ,e- Df western states, to take place Jf June 26. ig Plans are being made to covert the du five companies of infantry of the Utah National Guard Into cavalry DU troops, supplementing troop A, and to ri- organize two more cavalry troops, rs giving the state militia two complete ak battalions of cavalry. While attempting to arrest a man a named Williams near Richfield, Hans Borg was shot twice, one bullet tak- alJ Ing effect in the right groin and the er other In the left wrist. Williams is ue in jail, and Borg in the hospital, with -1 excellent chances of recovery. 8 While attempting to sell a bicycle, ier bo says, to get money to send to his e(i sister in Scotland, his only surviving de relative in the world, David Campbell, ht- a. Scotch lad not yet 17 years old, was es' arrested in Ogdcn. He admitted , stealing the wheel In Salt Lake, ly, With 1.S00 men employed on the e(j double-track work of the twelve-mile t0. stretch between Emery and Wasatch, lat fu"y 2,00m men are said to he employed em-ployed in construction work for the Y Union Pacific railroad between Ogdcn and Evanston, Wyo., at the present time. ve A strike was declared by seventy Iu1 Granite high school students when . 1 I lie principal refused to grant a holl-hf holl-hf tiny alter the student body had de-ied de-ied cliin-d in favor of a holiday. Tlirca's cf abolition of ihe student body gov- eminent arc made as a result of the action of the students. ! After ;in unsm -eef-slul at'empt to ! fm! his life by severing the radial ;:r ' teries in his wrisis, Henry V. J'in-' J'in-' );erton. years of age. tore open the J' v.ruruH in bis wristn at the ecunty . ' l.i .pita! at Salt Lake and died from 1 -:-f c: Wocl |
