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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Previous recor.'s In building of business busi-ness blocks in Brigham City will be broken this year, according to present prospects. E. S. Burr, a switchman, fell underneath under-neath a car at Salt Lake, one leg being be-ing severely crushed, amputation being be-ing necessary. The B. Y. U. student body devoted their time on Wednesday to the annual an-nual repair and recoating of the big white "Y" on the mountain east of the university at Provo. Unmasked but armed with revolvers: two highwaymen boarded a street car in Salt Lake, robbed Conductor Chad-wick Chad-wick and Motorman Knox of $16.25 and made their escape. The city commissioners of Provo have appropriated $12,000 for the redemption re-demption of twelve $1,000 waterworks bonds. This will reduce the city s bonded indebtedness to $13S,000. The average Utah wool yield is about 15,000,000 pounds,- and wool-growers wool-growers estimate that this year's crop will be up to that mark. About So per cent of the clip has been sold. R. C. Rathbone of London, England president and principal owner of the famous Glenwuod Springs health re sort in Colorado, may decide to build a similar resort in Salt Lake City. Three deputy sheriffs of Salt Lake county and Police Chief S. 3. Jones of Bingham are conducting a search for Mike Lenaich, an Austriau, who shot to death Mike Mandich, a couu-Lryman, couu-Lryman, at Bingham. Brooding over recent financial losses, loss-es, Chris K. Zazias, -a Greek machinist, machin-ist, attempted to commit sucide by taking poison at Bingham. Though his condition is serious, it is believed that he will recover. Tom Cummiugs, who was held up and shot at Helper, died from his wounds. Cummings was well known throughout eastern Utah, having been tor years roadmaster of the desert division di-vision of the Rio Grande. In an unsuccessful attempt at suicide, sui-cide, M. B. Cannon, a transient on his yay from Spokane, Wash., to Colmes-neil, Colmes-neil, Tex., slashed his throat with a pocket knife while seated in the union un-ion passenger station at Ogden. He will recover. More than 500 persons were present on March 17 when the people of Plain City celebrated the fifty-fifth anniversary an-niversary of the founding of the settlement. set-tlement. The day's program included music, speeches, a banquet, baseball game, and ball. Because the victim of the assault cannot recall any detail of the attack, the police have little hope of apprehending appre-hending the persons who beat up Guy Kelley with rocks while the man slept on a pile of ties at Ogden. Kelley is slowly recovering. jV -number of farmers' institutes havebenarranteflj'iy southern part of the state during nclj j. j I by the extension division of tlMl I Agricultural college. Attractive-, instructive programs of lectures have-, been planned for each. .By the terms of a proclamation Issued Is-sued by Governor Spry, 665 corporations corpora-tions organized under the laws of Utah will have their charters revoked re-voked if their annual incorporation tax, together with the delinquency fine, shall be unpaid by noon of April 6. Although the number of fires in Utah during 1913 was much smallei than in the previous year, several big blazes brought the total loss ratio of the amount the fire insurance companies com-panies paid out to the total amount collected in premiums much higher than in 1912. . Utah will send its best baby boy and its best baby girl to the San Francisco Francis-co exposition next year to compete in a contest to decide what two babies are the most perfect in all the United States. The . Utah prize babies will he selected at a contest to be held during the state fair. The Hotel Logan company has beet formed at Logan and the plans for erecting a hotel and bank building at the corner of Main and Center street, on the site of the old Thatcher Bank building, have been approved. Tha plans call for a four-story structure, with a full basement underneath. After being out thirty-six hours, the jury in the case of Gwiliym Jones, former for-mer clerk of Carbon county, charged with embezzlement, reported that it could reach no unanimous decision, and .was discharged. A new trial will be ordered. March 20 has been designated as fly day and the summer's campaign against the deadly house fly will be Inaugurated In-augurated in formal manner. "Trap the fly," the slogan adopted for the campaign, will be given all possible publicity. K. Tatematsu, the Japanese who lulled a-fellow countryman at Kenil-worth Kenil-worth several weeks ago, pleaded guil ty to murder in the second df grce and was sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary. He is 27 years of age. A badly decomposed body has been found near the charcoal ovens at Spring Glen. There were no papers on the body, but a tailor's tag on the coat makes it practically certain that the body is that of Robert Jamesson, a oh u engineer. v. ;10 dis,aop?aroe from Helper several months ago. The Latter-day Saints of 1'rir-e moved into their $5u,0;ij tabernacle on March 16. the quarterly conference being held in that edifice. President Joseph F. Smith was present and made addresses in the morning, afternoon after-noon and in the evening. |