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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE 1 1 George Freeman Hanson, of Magna, ! was killed, and Mrs. Charles L. Eng-j Eng-j lish, of Garfield, mortally injured and her husband seriously hurt, when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a train at a crossing near Salt Lake. Mrs. English's baby was thrown upon the pilot of the locomotive, loco-motive, but escaped injury. Mrs. Clara Tesch was possibly fatally fa-tally injured, Mrs. Aita Roberts and her 4-year-old son badly cut by glass, and two automobiles wrecked, when an auto driven by Clarence Cutting, aged It), collided with Mrs. Roberts' machine in Salt Lake. Young Cutting admits he is to blame for the accident. The State Bank of Garland, temporarily tem-porarily closed last week, is to reopen. Depletion of reserves, due to the difficult diffi-cult situation in agricultural credits, and the falling off in deposits, resulting result-ing from inability of the bank's customers cus-tomers to liquidate, made necessary the temporary suspension. The 15-nionths-old son of Mrs. Viola B. Lund, of Brigham City, was severely se-verely burned about the neck and arm the other day when it placed a celluloid cellu-loid comb in the open door of a heating stove. The comb ignited and exploded, throwing flames into the child's clothing. cloth-ing. William Bailey, formerly secretary of the state board of equalization, was selected as chairman of the board at the organization session held in the capitol last week. Roscoe E. Hammond Ham-mond was chosen as secretary of the new hoard. Joe Garcia, a Mexican 30 years of age, is being held in the county jail at Salt Lake for investigation as to whether he may have been implicated in the killing of John Westerdahl and L. P. Teterson at Dividend. William S. Hart, moving picture actor and playwright, will present street scenes of Salt Lake in one of his forthcoming pictures, having made a visit to the capital city last week to secure the pictures. The new state automobile license law is effective April next, instead of March 12, the date on which it was approved, or March 15, the date on which, it was filed in the office of the secretary of state. Lincoln'' G. Kelly has been appointed by the governor as the head of the department of finance, a newly created office,' and Seth Pixton, of Midvale, has been named as state bank commissioner. com-missioner. The department of agriculture bill has been signed by Governor Mabey. Appointment of the new state board of agriculture and of the commissioner of agriculture may be expected now at any time. C. A. Hammond of the house of representatives rep-resentatives from Grand county, who has been very ill at Salt Lake for some time, has undergone a blood transfusion trans-fusion operation, in an effort to save his life. William H. Cook, who died at an Ogjlen hospital March 14, was the third man to succumb to injuries suffered suf-fered in the wreck of a Union Pacific work train at Knight, Wyo., on January Janu-ary 2S. Last week 556 shop employees of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad in Salt Lake were laid off, while about 750 men employed in the Southern Pacific shops in Ogden were laid off for the week. As the result of an automobile accident ac-cident at American Fork, Mrs. M. Mason, of Salt Lake, suffered a frac-. frac-. hired wrist and three other occupants of the car sustained slight injuries. Heber Walker of Brigham City is exhibiting ex-hibiting tiie pelts of two fine bobcats. The animals were caught in traps in the James Hansen canyon, about a mile north of Brigham City. It is announced that Joseph A. Smith of Sevier county will be prosecuted by the stare of Utah on a charge of falsely false-ly and fraudulently presenting a claim to the state road commission. A study of the measures passed by the recent session of the legislature reveals the fact that the legislature passed no law to place any limit on the district school tax levies. Thirteen cents was the amount of income in-come tax paid by one of those filing their returns on the last day at Ogden. The largest tax paid at that point was $0000. G. P. Wanner and George Mendel-cow Mendel-cow are to stand trial at Logan on the charge of having stolen checks amounting amount-ing to $70 from the postoffice at Providence. Provi-dence. The governor has appointed O. F. MeShane as a member of the state industrial in-dustrial commission, and James Ivers as a nivniber of the board of corrections. correc-tions. Former Governor William Spry of Utah has boon appointed commissioner of the general land office, to succeed Clay Tallman of Nevada. Pleading that he was out of work and hungry. F. M. Lewis lias confessed to the robbery of a car of mer : haiuliae at Price on February 17. |