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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Tho E-iRles of Opcden are planning ,o erection of a $7.1,000 club build- 11 The county prisoners of Salt Lake ,ounty are to be put to work on the public highways on April 15. Lee Kom Lee, a Chinese truck gardener gar-dener died at a Salt Lake hospital its the result of injuries received in a runaway. Fly extermination" exercises were hi'ld in al! the churches of the Jordan Jor-dan district on March 28 under the auspices of the Jordan high school. I ehl has received its prize drinking fountain from the Utah Development li'iigue, won because of Lehi being thi cleanest city in class C in the titate. After a brief consecration .service in tbe First Baptist church, 430 Gideon Bibles were placed in the guest-rooms uf the principal hotels of Ogden last Sunday. , Complete organization of the Utah Sheriffs' association is planned for a meeting that will be held in the city und county building at Salt Lake on April 5. John Anthony Bates, 18 years ot age, whose talent as a sculptor is said to have given promise of possible future fu-ture greatness, died at his home in Halt Lake, March 20. Matthew A. Daugherty, for fourteen years a citizen of Salt Lake, at one lime assistant postmaster of Salt Lake, and well known in political and mining circles, died March 28. Conrad A. Wilkie, a vaudeville actor, 1!S years of age, attempted suicide at 6atl Lake by shooting himself, and is in a serious condition at the county hospital. His recovery is problematical. problemati-cal. During 1914 the canning industry in Utah distributed $S35,794.29 for fruit, vegetables and labor. Of this amount (498,253.89 was paid to the farmers, and 1.5UU factory employes received 337,540.30. Announcement is made that the clean town contest, conducted jointly by the Utah Development league and ihe state board of health in 1914, will be continued during 1915 by the state board of health. Approximately 100 families contem-Iilale contem-Iilale coming to Utah this spring to engage in farming, according to information infor-mation received from Chicago by H. T. 'Haines, state commissioner of immigration, im-migration, labor and statistics. The struggle against the fire, which has caused a cessation of productive work in the Black Hawk mine at Black Hawk since February 1, has Leen crowned with success and the Jast spark has been extinguished. So anxious are the managers of the International Exposition Eisteddfod at San Francisco to secure the Salt Lake Jabernacle choir as one of the competitors com-petitors in the choral contests that renewed re-newed efforts are being made to have the big choir entered. For the fourth time within two weeks the Nephi high school debating debat-ing teams have been victorious ftgainst the teams of Utah and Wasatch Wa-satch counties. In three out of the four debates the decisions have been unanimous in favor of the local teams. The election held in Cache county outside Logan in order to decide whether or not the county should be bonded for the purpose of building two high schools at Hyrum and Richmond Rich-mond at a cost of $140,000, resulted in 587 votes for and 934 against the bonds. A petition is being circulated in American Fork for signatures, asking for a liquor election to be held there the last week in June, in order to vote again upon the question "Shall American Amer-ican Fork remain dry or shall it have saloons, under high license and strict regulation?" Claims for damages against a municipality muni-cipality must be presented to the governing gov-erning body within one year of the time the damage is incurred, otherwise other-wise the claimant is barred from any action in the courts to recover, rules the supreme court in an opinion rendered ren-dered last week. Physicians and hospital attendants believe that Mrs. Samuel B. Clifford, who attempted suicide at Ogden, will recover from the effects of swallowing poison. The prompt work of the hus-band hus-band in administering salt and water is believed to have been the means of 6aving her life. The erection of a new dam to double the water supply of the Davis and Weber Counties Canal company is practically assured by reason of the German-American Trust company of Denver having virtually agreed to purchase pur-chase the $150,000 worth of bonds voted vot-ed for the purpose. Salt Lake broke all previous records in the line of public improvements during 1914 by completing work costing cost-ing $1,435,833.48 and letting contracts for work not completed costing $921,-726. $921,-726. 89, making a total of improvement work actually done and contracted for during the year of $2,357,562.37. John Huff, the man shot at Thistle by two Greeks, is still in a serious condition. Physicians in charge, however, how-ever, are still hopeful of his recovery. recov-ery. No charge has yet been made against the Greeks, as the officers are awaiting the outcome of the man's injuries. in-juries. General Hugh L. Scott, pacifier of the San Juan county Indians, and Lieutenant Colonel R. E. L. Michie, his aide-de-camp, were the honor quests of the Honneville club at one of the club's brilliant dinners at Salt Lake on March 25. As soon as the 6 o'clock closing law oes into effect, May 15, business men of Salt Lake will start suits to test the validity of the regulation imposed by the last legislature. The bill was signed by the governor March 15 and becomes effective sixty days after that date. As a result ot further correspondence correspond-ence between the Utah commission od the Panama-Pacific exposition officers, of-ficers, Monday, Aprl 12, has been agreed on as the date for the dedication dedica-tion ot Utah's building at San Francisco. |