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Show UTAH STATE NEWS It is announced that Salt Lake l8 1 have a twenty-four story building, to b erected by the Deseret National 'barn? at a cost of $1,000,000. More than 1,000 persons who are jo years of age or older attended th complimentary matinee tended at n new Alhambra theater in Ogden t? April 16. n Masked and each armed with a re-volver, re-volver, two men entered the Norn, Salt Lake bar, held up John D. co, the proprietor, and obtained $25 from the cash register; Charles Vaughan, colored, was and killed by another negro, Ander. son Kyle, during an altercation inane-' gro club at Ogden. Kyle contend, that the shooting was accidental. Work is to be rushed on the Britr. ham City-Wellsville electric line, a, near as can be estimated by the com. pany officials, 300 men will be employed em-ployed at the opening of work on the line. F. S. Bohling, a saleman, 27 years of age, of Salt Lake, was fatally jured when a motorcycle he was rid. ing was struck by an automobile driven by J. Stanley Parish of Center, ville. George S. Glen, who sent in his res. ignation as a member of the Ogden city board of education shortly after the $200,000 bond isue . was vote( down, has refused to recede from his stand. The alleged objectionable attentions of William Balic to a sister of Mike Badovich and Peter Badovich led to a free-for-all fight in the Badovich home at Bingham. All three men are in jail. Unless the question of rates can be satisfactorily adjusted, the National Guard of Utah will probably not make the proposed trip to the Panama-Pa. cific exposition this summer in lieu of the regular encampment T. H. Thomas, who died at Schofield, was a brother of General George H. Thomas, the "Rock of Chicamauga." ' The deceased was a confederate veteran vet-eran and was with General Robert E. Lee at the surrender of Appomattox. Under the new state food law, which became effective March 22, a pound of butter must wegih sixteen ounces "stripped." Not even ringside weight goes. When the last piece of waxed paper is off there must be a full sixteen six-teen ounces of butter. As the result of a decision to exhibit the Philadelphia Liberty bell of 1778 fame at the Panama-Pacific exposition, it seems probable that residents ot Utah will be given an opportunity to see the valuable relic as it passes through to San Francisco. Arrangements are being made for the installation of a jitney auto line from the Orem depot in Lehi to the Saratoga Springs, on Utah lake. Tha service wil be largely in the nature of an experiment, and if the service proves popular! wil be continued. The big brother movement, which has been of incalculable help to thousands thou-sands of boys in the east, is to be inaugurated in-augurated in Salt Lake within the next few weeks. The movement is designed as an auxiliary work of the Young Men's Christian asociatrcn. Mrs. Lulu Sheldon, wife of a Salt Lake barber, was shot and seriously wounded as she was bending over a bed tucking the covers around . her youngest child. It is not known who fired the shot, which came through a window and struck Mrs. Sheldon in the back. Whether cigars and tobacco come under the classification of merchandise is a question over which, the Salt Lake cigar and tobacco deaiers are now much concerned, in view of the fact that on May 11 the 6 o'clock closing clos-ing law passed by the last legislature becomes effective. Leo R. Freshwater, former postmaster post-master of Robinson, was found guilty I in the United States district court at Salt Lake for embezzlement of 403.91 of government money durins his incumbency between the dates o( Slay 21, 1913, and May 11, 1914. The verdict included a recommendation of mercy. Hoping to break up a practice said to be prevalent in bordering states, of shipping indigent persons into Salt Lake county with the idea of having this county care for them, the county coun-ty commissioners are considering passage pas-sage ot an ordinance making it a misdemeanor mis-demeanor for the importation of indigents. in-digents. Search for the body of William A. Bills, SO years of age, who has been missing from his home in Riverton to' 0'. er two weeks, and who is believe! to have fallen into the Jordan river, lias been stopped by the high water in the river. Citizens of Moab are planni"K lhe organization of a bank, which it is contemplated con-templated to bo readv for business by May A 'basement fire in the T. P. Roberts block at Logan did several thousand dollars damur.e t stock and ImnieJ the floor of die 'building badly. Word has been received by i'il,,'i Slates Marshal Aquila Nebeker that a man answering to the description el William Morgan, who escaped Ave years ago while 'being taken from S" Lake to the federal prison at Frl Leavenworth, is under arrest at KocU Mount, Va. James O'Nell, who says ho is rp' resontattvo of the Hotel duetto ru llshlng company, was sentenced M Judge Rood at Ogden to servo tlilr'J days In tho city jail on the chars' f obtaining hotel accommodations c" tulso proU'tiscs. |