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Show UTAH STATE NEWS A convict road building camp will be established at Riverdale, south of Ogden. Brigham's first street pavement will be laid this year. Three blocks will be paved. Mrs. Louisa B. Engilman, aged 62, who conducted a second-hand store many years at Salt Lake, died April 9. A syndicate will expend $2,000,000 in the development of sugar beet lands and growing fruit trees in Emery Em-ery county. Arta D. Young, aged 60 years, a son of Brigham Young, died at Ogden of stomach trouble. He had been an invalid in-valid more than three years. The Utah League for Enforcement of Peace was formally organized and officers were elected at a meeting held at Salt Lake last week. Three valuable sheep dogs owned by the McKay ranch near Kelton, Box Elder county, were killed last week after they had fought a rabid coyote. Mrs. Thomas H. Vardy of Garfield fell in a swoon from a sudden attack of heart failure while walking along Main street at Salt Lake, and died a few hours later. Approximately 10,000 people visited the state capitol on April 8, when it was opened especially to give conference confer-ence visitors an opportunity to carefully care-fully inspect the building. Relatives and friends gathered at the Spafford home at Springville on April 9 to celebrate the golden wedding wed-ding of Mr. and Mrs. Anna Spafford. Seventy-five guests were present. Officers have been unable to find relatives of Fred Lind, 30 years old, (vhose dead body was discovered in a creek bed near Castle Rock at the head of Echo canyon by a sheep-herder. sheep-herder. Two matters in line with the development devel-opment of Vernal are pending. One is the proposed extension of the city waterworks system. The other matter is the question of bonding to build a $10,000 Carnegie library. Experiments conducted for more than a month in Salt Lake laboratories laborator-ies have proven that aluminum can be extracted cheaply from the alunite oxide ores of Utah, and patents will be applied for at once. Fully 400,000 young trees from the forest service nurseries are to be planted in the Wasatch, Palisade and Cache national forests as soon as the snow is off the district where the nursery nur-sery stock is to be set out. Edwin Startford, aged 24 years, an employe in the Ogden 'railway yards, drank a quantity of carbolic acid at his home, and died thirty minutes later. His wife said his act followed strange conduot during the day. Health conditions and sanitation as they relate to plumbing, drainage, ventilation ven-tilation and sewage disposal were principal topics discussed at the fourth annual convention of the Utah State Master Plumbers' association, held in Salt Lake last week. Work is to be commenced at once on the Sanpete county end of the road from Ephraim to Orangevllle. A decision de-cision to that effect was reached last week toy the state road commission. There is available $10,000 for work on the road, which is to cost $30,000. Preliminary steps for the organization organiza-tion of an independent telephone company com-pany to be known as the Utah Mutual Telephone company, were taken at a mass meeting of representatives of the various commercial clubs of Salt Lake county, held in Murray on April 6. D. C. Hoover of Plainview, Texas, who was struck by an automobile at Salt Lake, died without regaining consciousness. He had sustained a compound fracture of the skull, supposedly sup-posedly by striking his head on the pavement when he was knocked down. The Civic league of Ogden announces announ-ces more than 100 prizes for boys and girls of the Ogden schools who produce pro-duce the best fruits, vegetables or flowers in home gardens, the products to be displayed at the annual school fair under the auspices of the league next fall. Early development of the iron fields in Iron county and the attending benefit ben-efit to the iron industries of Utah is predicted by Kinjdon Gould, vic& president of the Denver & Rio Grande', and director of the Utah Fuel company com-pany and an official in various capacities capaci-ties of all the Gould lines, who was in Salt Lake last week. Another potash plant is to be built at Marysvale by a Philadelphia manufacturing manu-facturing company, which already has a number of experts and engineers on the ground looking over the various locations for a plant and also testing the deposits of alunite, of which the company has obtained control for the last six months. R. T. Hilliard, of Ogden, an employee em-ployee of the Union Pacific railroad for the past forty-nine years, has been retired with a substantial pension for life. He entered the service of the company as a telegraph operator in 1867, but for the past thirty years he has been a passenger conductor. |