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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Pronounced by all the best stock show ever held in 1'tah. and one comparing com-paring favorably with any show ever held in the interiiii.iintaiti country, the fourth annual interuiountain stock show, held at the I'uiun Stmk yards in North Salt Lake, came to a close February 7. Positive showings of hydrophobia were found by Dr. I.. L. Dailies, state bacteriologist, in the heads of two dogs sent in from Pii'ighani City and Garland, Gar-land, respectively. lu each instance a number of other dogs hud been bitten bit-ten by the rabid animals. Total deaths ill the 101S-101H epidemic epi-demic of intluenza in I'tah. according to records furnished to the state bureau bu-reau of vital statistics, in the form of death certificates, were 2f07. There were reported during that period 72,-fi73 72,-fi73 cases of the disease. Trial of Nick Oblizalo, jointly with Steve Maslich. charged with murder in the first degree for the alleged slaying slay-ing of Marko I.aus, whose body, bearing bear-ing many slab wounds, was found near the stale prison, August o, is being held ai Salt Lake. Ducks of all varieties common to Utah and many varieties not usually seen in this slate are reported on the shores of Salt Lake in unprecedented numbers. White geese and Canadian geese are also reported to he present In unusual numbers. With $1S7.,"42.SG collected from 14,-8X1 14,-8X1 taxpayers, the county assessor estimates es-timates that fifty per cent of the taxes on personal properly, not attached to real property, have been collected In Salt Ltike county for the present year. The faculty of the Boxelder high school has purchased a new moving picture machine. It is used in connection connec-tion with teaching science, agriculture, art and history. Educational films are furnished free for use in the schools. The Carbon county school board will pay an advanced scale for school teachers. Married men whose wives are not wage earners will be given an extra ?100. High school graduates without training will not be hired. Carrington Island in Great Salt Lake will be surveyed as the result of the application last fall of F. E. Murray and R. W. Senvy. Mr. Murray and Mr. Seavy Indicated tbey wanted the land for grazing purposes. Cache county proposes to carry out the road program mapped out for this year and also to avail itself of a quarter quar-ter million dollars of the ?S00,000 federal fed-eral aid which will be available to the state on July 1. Application has been filed with the state engineer for 300 second feet of water from Utah lake and Jordon river to irrigate 30,000 acres of land. The main diversion canal will be more than 30 miles long. Among the offers of special premiums pre-miums that will be made at the stale fair this fall will be a silver trophy for the Utah Bee Keepers' association for the best general display of bees and bee products. Mrs. Andrew Chipman, aged 30, suicided by hanging herself in the barn at her home In Mount Pleasant. She is said to have become morose because of the fact that she believed her husband hus-band had left her. The city attorney has decided that the recent appropriation hy the Salt Lake City commission of $2500 for the entertainment of the National Education Educa-tion association convention is illegal. George N. Child, state superinteud-ent superinteud-ent of public instruction, will be offered of-fered the superintendency of Salt Lake City's school system at a salary of $0000 a year. There is an unusually large acreage of early cabbage in Utah, and when marketing begins in the near future prices may drop, according to present indications. Roundhouse and shops are to be built at Provo by the Utah Railroad company, it being estimated that the work will call for an expenditure of f 185.000. A rock crusher Is to be purchase by the board of commissioners of Cache county, to aid In the work of making better roads in the Cache valley. Revival of the old Utah County Baseball league will probably be effected, ef-fected, with a team from Eureka taking tak-ing the place of Springville. The United States Wool Scouring company Is to erect a wool scouring plant In the west Ogden district, having hav-ing secured a site. An inheritance tax of S3914.S3 has been paid to the state of Utah by the estate of the late Russell Y. Rossiter. Cedar City is to have a new "00-room ' hotel, and It is reported that the Salt I Lake Route Is behind the project, i The Eeeles interests announce that they will build a $2"'0.000 modern apartment house in Ogden. A cold storage plant, financed by local men. will he erected at Springville Spring-ville at a cost of $10,000. ! It Is announced that a $i"i0.O00 opera ! house will be erected at Brigham City. |