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Show UTAH SfflE NEWS An organization of the Daughters of Handcart Pioneers has been effected effect-ed at Provo. The people of Salt Lake have voted in favor of issuing $900,000 water and sewer bonds. Preliminary plans have materialized for the organization of a drainage district in Sevier county. Returning home from school, Pearl Thomas, aged 8, fell in front of -a switch engine in Salt Lake, the toes of her right foot being crushed. The city officials of Eureka have ordered the marshal to collect poll tax from every resident who is not legally exempt or begin suit for col: lection. Utah won a victory over California last week when the judges in the Baby Beauty show recently held in Los Angeles declared Doras Lorraine Warburton, of Salt Lake, winner in her class at the show. Reclamation of alkaline and waterlogged water-logged lands between Salt Lake City md Great Salt Lake will receive the attention of the committee on lands of the Salt Lake Commercial club during the coming year. With a membership consisting of twenty office girls and clerks who are employed during the days in Og-den Og-den business houses, a night school class in domestic science has been organized in the Junction city. Gilbert Swanson, one of the old-time old-time prospectors of the North Tintic district, states that during all the ,years that he has been living in that section the snow has never been so deep as it has been this winter. The farmers of the Raft river country coun-try in western Boxelder county and southern Idaho have recently organized organ-ized a Farmers' Cash union, which will have for its purpose the handling of all crops of the farmers of that rich section. William Eastman, a Finn, 28 years old, one of the principal witnesses against Charles Hoyer, charged with shooting Charles Jacobson, was found dead in a room over a saloon at Park City. It is believed 'he was accidentally acciden-tally poisoned. George I. Reeves, United States entomologist en-tomologist in charge of this district, having local headquarters at Salt Lake, will begin early in March a fight against the deadly alfalfa wee-. wee-. vil which has caused so much damage 1 to Utah crops, j Contending that he is exempt be- I cause he is employed by the federal government, Assistant Postmaster Ru-fus Ru-fus A. Garner of Ogden, has appealed to the district court from the decision deci-sion of municipal court requiring him to pay $2 poll tax. John K. Tibbits, manager of the Intermountain Industrial association, who had a narrow escape from death by freezing while on a lecture tour in the southern part of the state late in January, has almost entirely recovered! re-covered! but will lose three toes. Specific appropriations for Utah national na-tional forests carried in the agricultural agricul-tural appropriation bill, as completed by the house committee, aggregate $33,805, exclusive of participation in the sum of $25,863 appropriation for national forests partly in the state. John W. Brooks, an 18-year-old messenger boy of the United States weather office at Salt Lake, has been appointed by the head of the department depart-ment at Washington to the position of assistant observer of the station at Fresno, CaL, with an increase in salary sal-ary of $300 a year. J. I. Smith, an Ogden resident, has Just completed a machine of his own invention for quilting. It has required re-quired three years of study and labor to perfect the device, which Mr. Smith believes is equal in every way to any quilting machine to be found in the largest factories of the United States. A Japanese stumbled into a deep pit beside the coal chute at Dell Station, Sta-tion, on the Western Pacific, sustaining sustain-ing injuries which proved fatal as he was being taken to the hospital at Suit Lake. Charles Jacobson. aged 2S, a miner, is in a serious condition at the Park City hospital with a bullet wound through his left lung, the result of an altercation in his cabin with Charles Hoyer, 30 years of age. While digging a trench in Ogden, Burrel A. Neider was almost instantly instant-ly killed, an automobile driven by a doctor running into the trench, one of the wheels striking Neider on the head. Immediate stops will be taken to place the building of an independent telephone system before the citizens of Ephraim at a public mass meeting to he held in the near future. George 1 1. Tribe, a financial factor and prominent business man of Og deu. a pioneer of this state, died February Feb-ruary 14. having been a sufferer from cancer the past four years. By breaking 90 blue rocks out of a possible 100. 0. L. Becker secured the high score during the weekly shoot of the Ogden Gun club last week. Becker broke S4 and missed the S."ith. continuing through to 1"0 without another miss. Price for a month. That aliens should be taxed as a means of defraying expenses incident to their presence in the country is the belief of Sheriff Phillip Aljets of Tooele county, expressed In an interview in-terview published in the Salt Lako Tribune. |