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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Beginning Wednesday, March S. an institute for the dry farmers of the state is to be held in Salt Lake. The extension division of the Agricultural Agri-cultural college has received a petition peti-tion from Salina containing f0O names asking that a roundup be held at that place next year. Five summer homes at Pinecrest in Emigration canyon, near Salt Lake, collapsed Sunday under the pressure of deep settling snow. Losses are estimated at nearly $5,000. Utah has almost twice as many graz ing permits in force on its national forests as any other state in the union, according to Henry S. Graves, chief forester of the United States. That the fruitgrowers of Utah county coun-ty are going to reduce the Klberta peach crop is in evidence on every hand. Thousands of trees have been cut down during the past two weeks. Utah gained 4. S91 residents from last July to January 1. 1916, according to the estimates of the United States census bureau, and by next July will have gained a total of 9.8S3 for the year. Following a quarrel with his wife. Otto Burkman, aged 40, set tire to the apartments in which they resided in Salt Lake and was fatally burned, his wife and three children escaping uninjured. Several hundred counterfeit dollars are in circulation in Salt Lake, ac cording to reports made to the police. po-lice. .Several were passed in local business houses and on the street cars last week. The shop boys of the Grantsvillo high school, under the direction of Parker B. Pratt, assistant principal and head of the mechanic arts department, depart-ment, made 600 bleacher seats for the gymnasium one day last week. Samuel R. Skidmore, Jr., pioneer carpenter, building and flre-fighter, and Mrs. skidmore last week celebrated celebrat-ed the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, which took place in Salt. Lake City on February 12, 1866. Big preparations are being made for the roundup to be held in American Fork commencing February 28 and ending March 4, of 'farmers, stock-growers stock-growers and horticulturists of the county, and also for housewives. The Twentieth United States infantry, in-fantry, which left Salt Lake for the Mexican border, three years ago has been selected as a model for a preparedness pre-paredness film which Is being made by permission of the war department. Salt Lake showed the largest percentage per-centage of gain in building for January, Janu-ary, 1916, as compared with the corresponding cor-responding month a. year ago, of any western city included in the American Contractor's resume of building statistics. sta-tistics. Roy Cherrington, who was struck and killed by a train near Ogden on the morning of January 27, came to his death through his own negligence, negli-gence, according to the findings of the Oregon Short Line board of Inquiry. In-quiry. The 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Brown of Springville was iplaying around the stove with a celluloid comb, which she set on fire. The blaze flashed into her face, burning burn-ing her severely and singeing much of her hair. Confessions to the effect they held up, bound and robbed two Chinese gardeners gar-deners in Twelfth street recently are Baid to have been made by Jack gmith and "Curley" Chase, two young men arrested in Grand Junction and returned to Ogden. (Receipts of the .Salvation Army at Salt Lake during 1915 are shown to have been $7,730.88. The army found employment for 1819 men and 250 women. wo-men. It gave away 1,235 garments, 200 pairs of shoes. 11 pieces of furniture furni-ture and 1,235 othj- articles. A young man has wandered into Green River who is a puzzle to the town authorities. His memory is gone and there is no clew as to his name, or w-here he is from. He has some money, and a physician says he has not been in his present condition more than three days. 'Mts. Harriett Chalista Andrews Shupe, aged 62 years, died February 12 of valvular disease of the heart at her home in Ogden. since January Jan-uary 1, 1914, seven brothers and two sister of Mrs. Shnpe have died, her death being the tenth in the family in Httle more than two years. With the death, at his home In Farmington, of James D. Wilcox, Davia county loses one of her oldest inhabi tants and most sturdy pioneers. For more than sixty-three years Mr. Wilcox Wil-cox had made his home in Farming-ton, Farming-ton, and his sterling qualities made him a most highly respected citizen. Logan Island property owners are ; devising vfays of protecting the island i from the flood waters of the Logan . river. The city commission and the ; Boosters club offer to render assistance assis-tance in the matter, as it is apparent that the river will he high this spring, and practically one-third of the city ties on the island. |