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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE George ("Beefsteak") Harrison, for many years one of tin most picturesque pictur-esque and interesting figures in that part of the slate, died at Springvillc, February J. lie had been engaged in Hie hotel business at Springvillc since 1S58. The sobriquet. "lieefsteal;," was earned by Mr. Harrison through the manner In which steaks were sorted. A dispatch from Washington announces an-nounces that an ainemlint-ut to the Indian In-dian nppropriai ion hill was authorized for schools in Uintah and Duchesne school dislricts lu Utah, witli the stipulation that schools receiving bone-fits bone-fits from this appropriation shall accord ac-cord the same privileges to Indian as to while children. The Salt Lake American Legion post has given its endorsement to the hospitalization hos-pitalization appropriation now before the Unirt-d Slates congress, registered an unmistakable opposition lo the anti-cigaretle bill pending before the state legislature, and urged upon that body provision for a slate memorial building. Five to twenty years in the state prison was Hie sentence given Harry Byars, 21 years of ago, who pleaded guilty to having robbed a drug store In Ogden. Howard Linsley, It years of ago, who was Willi Byars in the robbery, rob-bery, pleaded guilty and was sentenced sen-tenced to the slate industrial school. The state land board lias Issued figures fig-ures which show the amount of stale land In Utah. The figures submitted are: State land not yet offered for sale, l,C:i3,l-0 acres; state land now offered for sale, 1,224,405 ores, and state land unsurveyed, 2,500,000 acres, making a total of 5,357,525 acres. Governor Mabey and members of the state legislature were the guests of Ulan editors at a banquet at Salt Lake, February 1. It was' the biennial "chicken feed" of the Utah Press association as-sociation and no details were omitted in keeping It up to the association's standard. 1 Frank DePretto, once under sentence of death after being convicted, jointly wi'.h Harry Brewer, of tlie murder o Eugene Allen In the course of robbing the Highland Boy store in Bingham Canyon, in the spring of 1914, has escaped es-caped from the state prison. Following Hie posting of notice of reduction in Hie wages' of the men employed upon the Pacific Fruit Express Ex-press company's ice bouse and storage stor-age plants now under course of construction con-struction at Ogden, seventy-five men walked off the job. The Logan factory of the Amalgamated Amalga-mated Sugar company closed its 1020-21 1020-21 campaign February 1, after a successful suc-cessful season run. The slicing of beets Is completed, but many employees em-ployees of the factory are still working. work-ing. The state highway road-building program, now a matter of investigation investiga-tion by a committee named by Governor Gover-nor Mabey, finds itself with contracts and agreements for construction vroj-ects vroj-ects totaling $1,1SS,000. Stabbed by two men who attempted to rob him, Alexander Holmes, a brick-mason, brick-mason, of Salt Lake, died while being taken to the emergency hospital after he had crawled to a house and made known his condition. Roy Nelson of Denver, serving a six months' sentence in the Salt Lake county Jail for the theft of a carload of coal from the Denver & Rio Grande railway, tins been reprieved by Governor Gover-nor Mabey. A registered mall package containing contain-ing $1500 in currency sent from Price to Scofiold. a distance of 25 miles, reported re-ported as missing In transit for a week, has finally reached Its destination. Material progress has been mnde during the present winter in the campaign cam-paign which has been waged against the smoke nuisance at Salt Lake, the mayor has reported. The Western Union Telegraph, company com-pany has been given permission to increase in-crease its rates on messages wholly within the state of Utah not to exceed 20 per cent. A highway who attempted to hold up and rob P. J. Anderson ut Ogden got one of the most severe beatings of bis life at the hands of, the Intended victim. A snowplow that can bo operated as an attachment to an automobile is reported re-ported to be doing good work on the public roads of Heaver counly. The first annual auto show of the Cache Valley Automobile and Accessory Acces-sory association was held February 1, 2 and 3, at Logan. Carl Hickman, aged 14, Is dead at Salt Lake from injuries sustained when he was run over by a motor truck. lllngham minors and business men contributed $750 in one day to the fund for the relief of children in Europe. Eu-rope. More land has boon placed under cultivation cul-tivation In eastern Millard county lu the last two years than in all Its past history and the progress is galnluf every day. |