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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Seven species of Insects of prey to lesti'oy the alfalfa weevil are about lo be Imported from Italy to Utah. Utah In the year 1911 produced $42,000,000 worth of foodstuffs upon its land and $40,000,000 worth of metal.s from Its mines. When the annual convention of the Utah State Dairymen's association opened In Ogden Wednesday, sixty-five sixty-five members were present. Utah la furnishing annually 500,000 barrels of cement for the construction construc-tion of one of the greatest reservoir projects in the world. C. K. llollingsworth, who has been chosen president of the Utah Developed Develop-ed League, Is an Ogden attorney and at one time represented Weber county coun-ty In the state senate. Actual cost of public Improvements In Salt Lako, according to the city engineering department, was during 1912 $178,191!. 28 less than in 1911, allowing al-lowing for difference in current prices. James Benson, 93 years of age, a pioneer of 1802 who walked the entire distance from New York city to Salt Lake, except for a ferry ride across the Missouri river, died at Salt Lake last week of general debility. Sanitary, commercial and social purposes are given as the reasons for the formation of the Utah Milk Dealers Deal-ers association of Salt Lake, nearly forty dealers of the capital city and vicinity having become members. For tho first time in its history Salt Lake has a Socialist mayor-. Henry W. Lawrence, a wealthy Socialist, So-cialist, who Is a city commissioner, has taken charge for a month in the absence of Mayor Samuel C. Park. The death rate in Utah was slightly slight-ly larger in December than in the preceding month, according to the bulletin issued by the state board oi health. In November there were 26E deaths, while in December there were 333. With the election of officers for the corning year and the appointment of a committee to perfect a stronger organization, or-ganization, the ninth annual convention conven-tion of the Utah State Horticultural association came to a close at Ogden on Wednesday. Jack Harbertson, the Ogden wrestler, wrest-ler, threw George McLaughlin of Ma-lad, Ma-lad, Idaho, twice in fifty minutes at Ogden, using a reverse body hold f,ach time. The first fall" was obtained In-forty-one minutes and the second In nine minutes. Th plan for the forming of 4 great ecntral musical conservatory for conductors con-ductors of the musical departments of the different Mormon organizations has been placed before the general board of the Deseret Sunday School union for its approval. Instruction by means of motion pictures pic-tures as a part of the regular curriculum curri-culum In the public schools of Salt Lake may be instituted within the near future if negotiations now on between be-tween the W. H. Swanson Film company com-pany and the board of education bear fruit. An interurban terminal in the business busi-ness section o Salt Lake,' with a Main street entrance, is the latest proposition being considered by the officials of the Salt Lake & Utah Railway company, the proposed interurban in-terurban line between Salt Lake and Payson. H. B. Johnston, a young Salt Lake man, has invented and patented a screen which he hopes will solve the problem of preserving game fish of Utah in their native haunts. His screen is intended to prevent fish from entering a canal or ditch from a lake or stream. Reduce the gap Detween the producer and the consumer by establishing a "city market" with a "package delivery" deliv-ery" and the high cost of living will be reduced to the entire population, is the opinion expressed by D. F. Smith in his speech before the Horticulturists' convention at Ogden. Clayton Locuson Haines, 81 years of age, died of general debility at Salt Lake, January 22. He was one of the most picturesque figures of Utah. Accident Ac-cident having Brought him to Salt Lake in 1S65, he was one of the originators origi-nators of the Alta club and for many years had charge of the Salisbury stage lines. I The Railway and Marine News of January 15 contains an interesting article on the part played by E. H. Harriman in building up Utah and Salt Lake City. It is pointed out that the Harriman fortune furnished more than two-thirds of the money needed for the new capitol of Utah and suggested sug-gested that it would be appropriate for the state of Utah to have one of her talented sons paint a picture of Mr. Harriman to be hung in the new state capitol. A novel idea has been inaugurated by the members of the Salt Lake Mo-torcvele Mo-torcvele club. The club has formed a movable" band, of eight pieces. The members of the band will ride in tandem tan-dem attachments, with which many of the machines are now equipped. The first annual exhibition of the Salt Lake County Poultry association opened Monday at Murray. Many birds of blooded strain, some of them with prizes already to their credit, were entered in competition for the trophies tro-phies provided by the association and Interested outsiders. |