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Show i THE BEE HIVE STATE i j John Ilicks. a visitor to Salt Lake, told the police that he had been swindled of .ft to by means of the so-I so-I called "box game" by two men whom I he had known but a short time. Hicks said thar he met the men and they explained how he could double his money by placing it in a box which llley intrusted to him to open at a certain time. Efforts to obtain pay for the first three days of the year are to be made by officials of Utah. according to .Mark Tunic, state auditor, who suggests sug-gests that mandamus proceedings be instituted by rhe at torney . general to determine who is entitled to the pay for these days. The people of Treinoiuon will on May 3 vote on a proposed bond issue of $10.00:) for the purpose of enlarging enlarg-ing and perfecting their present waterworks wa-terworks system. They will also vote1 on a $15,001) bond issue for the purpose pur-pose of adding to their present storage stor-age system. One of the most damaging landslides which bus ever occurred In Ogden canyon can-yon was that which last week tore out .100 feet of the pipe line of the city waterworks system, covering the county road for a distance of about eighty feet with a slide of earth and rocks. The Southern Utah Baseball league was reorganized at a meeting held at Salinu last week. Enthusiastic fans from Gunnison, Maiiti, Salina, Richfield, Rich-field, Monroe and ElsLnore were present, pres-ent, and the southern Section is promised prom-ised better baseball than ever before. The cost of hired labor for producing produc-ing sugar beets in Utah this year will range from $21.50 to $31.50 per acre, depending on the tonnage, according to a schedule that has been recommended to the growers by the labor committee commit-tee of tile Utah state farm bureau. Delinks Rich, a 5-year-old Salt Lake boy, swallowed a metal whistle, which became lodged in his throat. His father took Hie boy to the emergency hospital, where the lad was given an emetic, which resulted in dislodging the whistle. An army of Salt Lake merchants, manufacturers and hankers who will participate in the boosters' excursion to hold forth during the week of May 8, will storm Nevada cities in white hats, armed with canes and bedecked in streamers. Because it is regarded as the best contract under which grower and manufacturer can work to mutual advantage, ad-vantage, the Utah sugar beet contract for 1921 has been adopted by the Michigan Sugar Beet Growers' association. asso-ciation. Pictures of the late Theodore Roosevelt, Roose-velt, given by the American Defense society, of which he was honorary president, will be hung in every school-house school-house in Salt Lake City, with appropriate appro-priate ceremonies, within the next few weeks. Samuel Halverson, aged 01, was buried beneath six feet of earth in a cave-in of a sewer trench at Ogden. Fellow workmen rescued him and lie will recover, but is suffering from two hrol.-en ribs nnil internal iniurios. Unless other counties of the state are unusually active in the closing days of their 1921 membership drives, Morgan county will display the blue ribbon for farm bureau organization this year. C. V. Miller, a groceryman of Salt Lake, was hound and gagged by two men who enlered his store and then robbed him of $175 from the cash register and a watch and chain. Physicians of Utah who apply for new licenses are not required to take re-examinations every year, according to an announcement made by the department de-partment of registration. Appointment of Salt Lake's civil service commission to handle appointments appoint-ments to the police and fire departments depart-ments will be made within the next few days. Thomas Riley Marshall, for eight years vice president of the United States, addressed I lie members of the Bonneville club at Salt Lake on April 12. Salt Lake ranks second among the cities of more than 100. (H)0 population in having had the lowest mortality rate during the week ending April 2. John N. Israelsen of Hyrum, Cache county, has been appointed as head e .-!... a.,: ,.i r,.,,.i ,,f department of agriculture. Howard Burnett, a C-year-old Ogden Og-den boy, suffered the amputation of his right leg, the result of being run down by a street car. The public utilities commission has ordered the Oregon Short Line to construct con-struct an overhead crossing at Clearfield. Clear-field. Davis county. Work on Cache county's side of the Wellsvillc canyon road commenced last week. I'.ox Elder county proposes to con-struct con-struct five miles of paved highway. S in i I li field wiil enlarge their waterworks water-works distributing system. A saving on freight rates as high as 37'.2 cents per hundred iSnuids has been obtained by the Utah slate farm bureau for alfalfa seed growers In southwestern Utah as a result of extending ex-tending the cleaned in transit privilege privil-ege to points on the Salt Lake Itdute railroad. Members of the army hospitalization hospitaliza-tion committee, of which Charles G. Dawes, Chicago hanker, is chairman, are favorable to Ihe establishment of a hospital in Salt Lake regardless of whether St. Mark's hospital is purchased pur-chased or a new building erected. |