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Show UTAH SJATE NEWS Greek residents of Ogden have formed an association to be known as :he Hellenic-American club. John M. Browning, Ogden inventor f firearms, lias departed for the east to confer with heads of munition fac-ories. fac-ories. The Prohibition and Betterment League is to meet at Salt Lake, April j, to consider plans for a campaign for state-wide prohibition. The organization of the company which is to handle the irrigation and tunnel project in the east mountains was perfected at Ephraim last week. Suit has been begun at Salt Lake looking to the removal of Chief of Police Po-lice Shores from office, it being charged charg-ed he is a resident of Denver, Colorado. Colo-rado. A three-day fashion show was held in Salt Lake the first of the week, Me of the striking features of the show being the predominance of American-made goods. Ogden is spending about $41 annually annu-ally for the education of each public school student, while Salt Lake, according ac-cording to the published survey, is educating children at about $30 a pupil. pu-pil. Word has been received from My ton that John Babcock, who engaged in a boxing contest at that place with Battling Olson, died as the result of a fall on the floor, after being hit by the latter. Out of twenty-two inspectors in the Salt Lake health department only :hree or four will retain their positions posi-tions after a readjustment of the department, de-partment, according to the new health Jommissioner. 'Rosauros fvielson, 42 years of age, a farmer of Taylorsville, died as a result of having been kicked In the head by a horse, while harrowing. His 8-year-Sid daughter was the only witness ol the accident. About 5,000 acres of dry farm land in the Blue Creek district of Box Elder El-der county may be converted into beet-growing beet-growing land by the extension of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company's canal from Garland. A large barn belonging to Wash-, burn Chipman at American Fork was destroyed by fire. Seven head of work horses perished. Twenty-five tons oi hay and a number of sets of harness also were lost. The Salt Lake Federation of Labor has gone on record as- favoring the government ownership of railroads, steamship lines, mines, mills and forests for-ests as essential to preparedness by this country to meet an invading foe. Salt Lake will have a margin of bonded indebtedness of $1,552,000 against which it may issue ibonds for general purposes, when the new assessed as-sessed valuation of the city is determined deter-mined by action of the board of equalization. equal-ization. Maud Adams, the actress, who is playing the "Little Minister" at the Empire - theater on Broadway, New York, has brought her engagement to a close and came to Salt Lake to be at the bedside of her mother, who is seriously ill. Mrs. Anna McLellan 64 years of age, a widow, who had resided in Bingham for three years, committed suicide at -her home, shooting herself through the breast with a revolver. Mrs. McLellan Mc-Lellan had been in ill health for several sev-eral months. Jack Nolan, said to be a notorious 1 criminal and an ex-convict from the Idaho state penitentiary, is in a Salt Lake hospital, his throat having been cut by Burell Keith, a moving picture operator, who charges Nolan attempt . ?d to rob him. ' The . snow bulletin for February, issued is-sued by A. H. Thiessen, director of the United States weather bureau at Salt Lake, shows that the depth of snow on adjacent mountains is much deeper than it was during the same period . of one year ago. t Melvin B. Sowles, aged 71, prominent promi-nent in civic and mercantile affairs, and clubman, died at Salt Lake, March s 11, of apoplexy. Mr. Sowles took a irominent part in business, political .tnd social affairs of Salt Lake since j he came to Utah in 1S73. t Despondent over her failing health and the fact that a disastrous fire a c few years ago reduced her from , wealth almost to poverty, Mrs. E. S ' Dexter, aged 44, of Salt Lake, at tempted suicide by shooting hersell . through the abdomen. Her recover ' is doubtful. r No evidence of rabies appeared lr '' the heads of the two cows turnec 6 over to L. L. Daines, state bacteriol r ogist, by Dr. T. B. Beatty, secretarj of the state board of health. The cows . were killed in .Richmond by order o Dr. lleatty after two men had beei ' bitten by them. a With a total of S.300 acres of beet' ' Already contracted in Weber count; 3' and vicinity, officers of the Amalga l" mated Sugar company have announce! Ihat the acreage is almost up to tin 1 maximum capacity of the Ogden fac ' '.ory, even with its increase of 500 ton e in the daily cutting capacity. 6 The crop report for Utah, prepare! q under the direction of the Unitec j. States department of agriculture, esti mated that wheat on farms in th state March 1 was 1.890,000 bushel; valued at. 90 cents as compared witl 1,67:5,000 bushels one ytar ago whei a, tt9 quotation was $1.21 a bushel, g Utah frutgrowers must iraprov' their pack if Utah fruit is to he place. I on 11. e market at a satisfactory prict iy This was one of the faots brought ou at the conference of fruit grower Br :al!ed by the state horticultural coir nission and held at Salt Lake. |