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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE ! i From the estate of the late John R. Barnes of Kaysville. Davis county, the state has received in inheritance taxes the sum of $13.S17.05. This is among the largest inheritance taxes received from Utahns. The larger amounts come from outside the state. The Utah-Idaho Sugar company has concluded, according to an authentic report, that the sugar mill to be removed re-moved from Whitehall, Wash., will be set up on the lloneyville site and not placed in Bear Itiver City, as the boosters boos-ters from that town had hoped. Schools of Garfield county w ill close with the end of the present week, according ac-cording to advices reaching the state superintendent of public instruction. Those of Millard county closed last week. The annual shortage of funds was responsible in each case. The state road commission has voted ro sustain its secretary, Ira It. Browning, state road engineer, in declaring de-claring that, so far as the state machine ma-chine shops are concerned, the machinists' ma-chinists' strike, begun eight months ago. is over. An ultimatum lias heen set forth by the Salt Lake Teachers' association that unless the salary of elementary teachers was placed at a $1800 maximum maxi-mum at least 75 per cent of the local teachers would seek situations in other cities. Eight delegates have been named by Governor Bamberger to attend the conference of the bureau of education In Washington, May 19, 20 and 21, to discuss the emergency need of teach-' ers all over the country. Teachers' salaries in Utah, as compared com-pared with those in other states, are below the standard, according to a survey issued at a meeting of the emergency committee of the Salt Lake Teachers' association. The housing committee of the Ogden chamer of commerce will take options on fifty lots in the city, with the view of encouraging the building of fifty houses to aid in solving the housing problem in that city. "Stimulate production and curtail expenditure," a motto suggested by the government, has been adopted by the Beehive girls of the Young Ladies' Mutual Mu-tual Improvement association of the L. D. S. church. Contracts for the construction of more than six miles of cement concrete con-crete road in Salt Lake county, at a total cost of $210,000, were awarded last week hy the board of county commissioners. com-missioners. Delegates to the Republican state convention at Price will have a special spe-cial train. The train will leave Salt Lake at 7 o'clock the morning of May 3 and will arrive in Price at noon that day. George W. Raney, one of the switchmen switch-men who walked out of the yards at Ogden on April S, has heen arrested on a federal warrant charged with interfering in-terfering with the movement of trains. Motion pictures of the climbing of Mt. Timpanogos will be taken this summer by the International Film service company and will be shown in theatres throughou the United States. Leon Kimball, aged 24, was shot and seriously wounded while escaping from the window of a private residence in Salt Lake. Kimball claims he was intoxicated in-toxicated and got in the wrong house. The governor will ask the county commissioners of Davis county to take steps looking to the formation of an irrigation district of the entire county, coun-ty, north of the Bonneville district. The convention of boys' and girls', clubs was held at the Agricultural college col-lege at Logan, April 20 to 24, with' nearly 100 seniors, representing every high school in Utah, in attendance. While playing with a dynamite cap in a neighbor's barn at Salt Lake, Orlando McKinney, aged 8, lost a portion por-tion of his right thumb and forfinger by tha explosion of the cap. While working in a field near his home in Vineyard, Juistie G. Peter-sou, Peter-sou, aged 21, suffered a stroke of ap-poplexy ap-poplexy and was found dead with his face buried in the said. Deaf nnd dumb for several years, Miss Annie Voss. aged 35, was instantly in-stantly killed at Morgan while crossing cross-ing the main line of the Union Pacific railroad track. John Albert Teterson, 37 years of age. met death at Provo from injuries suffered when he was thrown from a truck which was loaded with trunks. The state road commission has awarded a contract for the construction construc-tion of the Lund and Cedar City highway, a federal-aid project. Establishment of an experimental naval aviation base on the banks of the Great Salt Lake is being discussed. dis-cussed. The State Automobile association is planning to erect signs marking the route from Salt Lake to Z;on canyon. South Bountiful has completed a modem amusement hull at a cost of appfexiL.atily -sseV'0. |