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Show UTAH STftTE NEVIS Snowfall in Salt Lake last month nas the heaviest for January since 1907, totaling 19 inches. Traffic on interurban lines leading trom Salt Lake has increased more than 2.j per cent during the past year. All indications point to an exceptionally excep-tionally busy spring and summer season sea-son for all the merchants throughout the state. Plans for increasing the production 3f peas and beans on acreage near Murray were discussed at a meeting held last week. A big benefit ball, proceeds from which will he sent to Jewish European war sufferers, will be given February 23 in Salt Lake City. Burglary insurance in Salt Lake is now cheaper by $2.50 per $1,000 than it was four years ago, the rate having been reduced from $12.50 to $10. Mrs. Annie H. Peterson, a pioneer of 1S54, died at Salina from the shock received from burns. Mrs. Peterson was born in Lulland, Denmark, in 1S26. Oscar Bruhn of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, was arrested in Salt Lake, charged with the theft of $2,200 in gold from the American Express company. com-pany. Earl Dunlap. twenty years of age, who escaped from the California state prison at Folsotn, and who has been searched for ever since, was arrested at Salt Lake. Robert Knur, who set fire to the horticultural building of the Utah State Fair association, at Salt Lake, has entered a plea of guilty to the charge of arson. Resolutions favoring the immediate addition of three companies of infantry in-fantry to the state militia were unanimously unani-mously adopted last week by the officers of-ficers of the Utah National guard. The supreme court last week decided decid-ed that the writ of prohibition asked for in the case of the Corinne drainage drain-age district should be denied, thereby authorizing the procedure to sell the bonds. Stepping on to the main track in the yards of the Utah Copper company com-pany at Bingham, Nick Katsikogianis, aged 32, a Greek switchman, was struck by an engine and instantly killed. Wallace Bushnell of Provo bench was fined $200 and sentenced to sixty days' imprisonment in the county jail when convicted of the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors. The case will be appealed. Deputy wardens of the state fish and game department are carrying hay to the state's 130 head of elk in the snow drifts on the frosty heights of Mount Nebo, Juab county, to prevent the animals ani-mals from starving to death. An appeal to all the churches in the state to dedicate a sermon to patriotism patriot-ism and love of country on the" Sunday Sun-day preceding Washington's birthday is 'being made by the Utah Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Mervin Daines, aged 22, and A. Woolf, 28 years old, both of Hyde Park, were killed by a snowslide. The young men went to a mine about three miles east of the town to bring home some mining tools, when the slide occurred. John D. Morrill, game warden and superintendent of the state fish hatchery hatch-ery at Panguitch lake, was frozen to death near Sevey's ranch, about midway mid-way between Panguitch and the fish hatchery, while on his way to Sevy's ranch to get the mail. The recent discovery that practically practi-cally an unlimited supply of water is available in the arid districts of the Pahvant valley in the form of artesian artes-ian wells is to be celebrated by the residents of Millard county. June 1, 2 and 3 have been set aside as "Well" days. Mert Smith, aged 35, a locomotive engineer, was dangerously burned at Cuprum when a gauge cock underneath under-neath a Shay engine burst, releasing a large quantity of the steam from the engine boiler. Smith had crawled under the engine to make adjustments. adjust-ments. Jonathan Holland, noted inventoi and rubber expert, died at Salt Lake last week. Mr. Holland was the in ventor of rubber bands and the flrsl machine for cutting them. He taught the Germans the process of convert lng raw rubber gum into commercial rubber. Stricken with pneumonia less thai ten days previous, Joseph Geoghegan aged 56 years, general sales manage of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company and of the Amalgamated Sugar com pany, and proprietor of the Geoghegar Brokerage company at Salt Lake, diec at Los Angeles, January 28. That there is water enough amplj to irrigate 33,400 acres of land unde the Delta Land & Water compani Carey irrigation project and have I patent issue from the federal govern ment is practically the decision armed arm-ed at as a result of the conference held for several days between feder.-i and stave officials. Frank DePretto, convicted of mm der as the accomplice of Harry Brew er in the Highland Boy killing am robbery at Bingham, was denied a net trial by the supreme court, wherefor the district court will now sentenc him to death in expiation of hi crime. Christopher Stokes, aged S5 year; pioneer of 1S53, who brought the firs gold to Walker Brothers' bank fror Montana and who crossed the plain with ox-team five times while er gaged in general freighting, died a Salt Lake, January 25. |