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Show ! THE BEE HIVE STATE Tentative plans are under way for a large outdoor celebration late in April 1 by boy scouts at Salt Lake, when Camp Taylor in Mill Creek canyon will be christened. Camp Taylor consists of 1-100 wooded acres of land contributed contri-buted to the local boy scout council by A. V. Taylor of Salt Lake. An attempt was made to wreck the Park City passenger train of the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grand railroad on its trip to Salt Lake, by piling ties on the track five miles from the Salt Lake City limits. Shoe prints beside the track show that at least three men had been In the vicinity. The Perry Electric Light & Tower company lias applied to the public utilities commission of Utah for permission per-mission to Increase its rates to the people of Perry, because the Brigham City municipal plant lias raised the rates to the company, which acts as a distributor only. The Utah Public Health association, which started the modern health crusade cru-sade and placed it in operation, in the J public schools of the state, is receiving letters Prom many teachers telling how the work lias improved conditions in the homes and in the schools. A statement of the condition of 102 state banks and trust companies of the state as of December 31, 1910, as compared com-pared with the condition of ninety-seven ninety-seven institutions the year before, shows a net gain in aggregate resources re-sources of $10,041,311. The bandit killed early Monday morning, February 10, in Brigham City by peace officers, Is not Walter L. Taylor, Tay-lor, of Salt Lake, officers declare, who claim the dead man was a former convict con-vict at Leavenworth, Kans., whose name was Confer. The secretary of the state board of land commissioners has announced that since all the bonrd's funds have been loaned out at Interest or are already al-ready applied for, the board will have no more funds available for loans for some time. With the closing of the influenza wards of the isolation hospital connected con-nected with the county hospital at Salt Lake last week, Red Cross officials and hospital attendants said they believed be-lieved that the epidemic has ended for this year. Bessie Summers, who was shot through the right lung by Valley R. Summers, her former husband, who later killed himself, has refused to discuss with officers the details of the trouble at her apartment in Ogden. The state board of equalization has decided that Iron county coal shall take a valuation of 4 mills' for coal within the first mile of the outcrop and 8 mills a ton for the coal In the second miles from the outcrop. Prospects for an amicable settlement settle-ment of the wage question between the men and the street car company at Salt Lake have brightened, and it is believed that the proposed strike will be averted. J. T. Lake must stand trial at Salt Lake on a manslaughter charge as the result of the death of Lelioy Anderson, aged 9, who was run down by an automobile au-tomobile driven by Lake. The industrial commission has granted a lump sum payment of $1834.74 to J. C. Ault, who lost the use of an eye while working for the Utah Copper company. Voters of the eastern section of Juab county wdll next month pass on the proposal pro-posal to issue bonds for $175,000 with which to build a new high school for the district. Quarantine restrictions in Logan, which had prohibited public meetings of any kind for three weeks, have been lifted upon recommendation of the city physician. Jennie Scardina, 10 years of age, slayer of Mike Termain in Ogden February Feb-ruary 20, is charged with second degree de-gree murder in a complaint filed last week. Charles Sullivan and Ed Campbell have been arrested in Salt Lake In connection with the robbery of a store In Ogden of $150 worth of furs and ' pelts. Governor Bamberger has Issued a I proclamation urging the people of j Utah to co-operate with the navy in securing its quota of enlisted men. Before the "conscientious objectors" who are held at Fort Douglas regain their liberty, they are to be subjected to sanity tests by menial experts. Members of the Spanish Fork farm bureau voted unanimously to stand by i the state farm bureau contract as to beet prices for the year 1920. That a new armory is practically assured for Ogden is the announcement made by officers or' the local organization organiza-tion of the national guard. It is now- believed that tiie office oi collector of customs at Salt Lake may he closed, because cf lack of appropriation appro-priation of funds. More than (HVW licenses for pleasure pleas-ure car automobiles had been issued 1 cn February 27. J |