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Show UTAH SffiE NEWS Brigham has been invaded by the jitney bus. The Baron woolen mills of Brigham City will soon begin operations. Five hundred people were present at tlie dedication of Verual's new city and coun'.y park on Arbor day. The grand lodge of the 1. O. O. F. of the state of L'tah held its forty. fi:'th annual conclave at Salt Lake last week. May 12 will be good roads day in Cache county, when needed work will he performed on the county's highways. high-ways. Leo K. Edwards, charged with having hav-ing robbed the Sugar House bank last September, was acquitted by a jury at Salt Lake. Assessed valuation of Weber coun ty, not including the assessments o( the state laud board, for 1915 is $529.-795 $529.-795 more than in 1914. Governor Spry has appointed delegates dele-gates from Utah to the International Press congress to be held in San Francisco, Fran-cisco, July 5 to 10, inclusive. Parties from Colorado have become interested in a large acreage of gypsum gyp-sum properties in the Cedar mountain country, east and south of Price, that promise well. During "clean-up day" at Gunnison, 17,786 tin cans were gathered by contestants. con-testants. It took ten wagons to haul the tin cans to the garbage pile outside out-side the city. Announcement is made that Samuel Newhouse and associates are planning the erection in Salt Lake of a twenty-eight-story skyscraper, to cost approximately approx-imately $1,500,000. Life imprisonment in the state penitentiary peni-tentiary was the penalty imposed on Gust Zacharopoules, recently convicted convict-ed at Salt Lake of murder in the first degree for the killing of his wife. Water was turned into the big syphon sy-phon of concrete and steel that dips across the Jordan Narrows, last week. The stream will make possible the reclamation rec-lamation of from 12,000 to 15,000 acres of land. The Utah County Jersey association held its fourth annual Jersey show at Provo last week and over 100 pure bred Jerseys with a small number of graded Jerseys and a herd of Hol-steins Hol-steins were entered. Directors of the Davis and Weber Counties Canal company have awarded ithe contract for building the large dam in East canyon, Morgan county, (to the Utah Construction company. 'The dam will probably cost $150,000. It is estimated that 300,000 pounds pf Utah wool were sold one day last week for prices ranging from 23 to 6 cents. The 1915 clip from the nearly near-ly 2,000,000 head of sheep In the state U estimated at more than 13,000,000 pounds. All activity of the Oregon Short Line railroad system was suspended for five minutes on April 24th, during the funeral services over the body of W. H. Bancroft. Every train was stopped, every telegraph instrument was silent for five minutes. Bids are being advertised for by the Murray City library board for the erection erec-tion of a Carnegie public library in Murray this summer. The building complete will cost approximately $20,-OOo, $20,-OOo, of which amount $10,000 has been donated by the Carnegie library board. Utah's new law, known as Senate bill No. 93, prohibiting the transportation transporta-tion of liquor into "dry" territory is sound, according to an opinion issued from the offce of the attorney general. The law makes it unlawful to transport trans-port liquors to points within "dry" territory. ter-ritory. The persons carrying the petitions to secure signers for the purpose of calling a liquor election at Logan in June assert that the required number has been secured and that there is no doubt about the election being called. The prohibitionists are organizing to defeat the election. Taking the stand that their organization organi-zation is sufficiently perfected to handle the 1915 fruit crop, the Utah iFruit Growers' association -.decided after a session with V. C. Talbprt, representing rep-resenting the western Colorado fruit growers, not to combine in an inter-jstate inter-jstate association for this year at least. That the inherent right of a widow to one-third of her husband's property is not subject to an inheritance tax in Utah, providing the property is located lo-cated in Utah, is the gist of an opin-ion opin-ion handed down by the supreme court. Dr. F. Moormeister and Dr. Theo M. H. Hotopp, physicians- of salt Lake, have been arrested on warrants charg. ing them with involuntary manslaughter manslaught-er in connection with the death of Mrs. Eula B. Smith Tattershall, aged 19 years. Nick Ellas, who is said to be Niclc Charetopoulos, suspected of the murder mur-der of Mrs. Sophia Bourazanis, the aged mother of the Rev. Dorotheas Bonrazanis, pastor of the Salt Lake Gree Orthodox church, has been arrested ar-rested in Minneapolis. That the coal and coke trade of Carbon county is steadily improving is evidenced by the fact that at this time 600 ovens are going at full blast at Sunnyside, while the reserve coke-stored coke-stored at that point, and amounting to several thousands of tons, Is now-exhausted. now-exhausted. A dark brown cap found in the rear .of the home of G. E. Sheldon, at Salt Lake, is the only clue to the identity of the .man who fired the bullet through a window in the Sheldon home late Saturday night Aprtl 17, seriously serious-ly wounding Mrs. Sheldon. Governor Spry announces that he and members of the road commission and board of corrections are willing to place convicts on the Salt Lake-Los geles highway as soon as the enthusiasts enthu-siasts can determine where the principal prin-cipal auto route out of Salt Lake to the west will be. News has been received of the death, accidentally, at Breckenridge, Colo., 1 fef James Walch of Price, but formeny of Aspen, Colo. Death was due to coming in contact with a live wire while, working for the lighting company com-pany 'in the Colorado city. ( |