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Show UTAH sra news" Mrs. Helen H. Myers, ageiT 39, died at Kureliii from ploinalno pulHiiiiliig. Autone Letu, (he ltaltun leper con-lined con-lined at the Stilt LiiUe county hospital, is Improving. May 1 to .May 15 luis been designated desig-nated as clean-up days by the mayor of Salt Lake. About 23,000 acres of land In Sevier county will lie thrown open to settlement settle-ment June S. A company has been organized at Arimo for I lie purpose of Installing an up-to-date flour milling plant. Business men of Eureka have deckled de-ckled to raise funds to place the famous fa-mous "Sioux road" in condition for I ravel. The state road across the salt beds to AVeiulover will be lu gooil shape for travel by early summer, it is reported. re-ported. The Salt Lake cadets of the high school will probably take a ten days' trip to Utah lake following the close of school. Several raids on alleged gambling bouses In Salt Iake have, been mado of late In an effort to stamp out this evil in the capital. The demand for girls In business houses and offices in Salt Lake City more than exceed the supply, according accord-ing to latest reports. Four hundred new citizens received their certificates of naturalization in the federal and districts courts of Utah during the year 1915. Two boys were captured in Ogden after they had stolen an automobile from the Utah Hot Springs with the intention of taking a Joy ride. During 1915, Salt Lake City expended ex-pended $09,510 on the maintenance, conduct and improvement of its parks and places of outdoor attrac tions. The total assessed valuation of real estate, improvements and personal property of Weber county uuder the full value plan of assessment for 1916 Is $37,431,455. In a resolution adopted by the Ogden Og-den City board of education It is set forth that $254,900 will be needed during dur-ing the next fiscal year for the operation opera-tion of the schools. Another increase in wages for the employes of the Utah Copper company, com-pany, both at the mines in Bingham and the mills in Garfield, was announced an-nounced last week. The Saitair railroad, running from Salt Lake to Saitair pavilion, is to be entirely electrified and a three-mile extension built immediately from Salt-air Salt-air Beach to Garfield. Fire attacked the Saitair pier running run-ning from the trains to the resort gate, causing considerable damage, and for a time threatening the total destruction of the buildings. D. E. Burley, general passenger agent of the Oregon Short Liae, has resigned and Daniel S. Spencer, assistant as-sistant general passenger agent, has been appointed to fill the vacancy. Plans are under way among the dairymen of Salt Lake to co-operate with the local United States dairy division, di-vision, bureau of animal industry, in istablishing a cow-test association lit Lhat city. Now that the supreme court has upheld thg constitutionality of the revised re-vised drainage law, Corlnne drainage drain-age district, in Box Elder county, is arranging to lay about 200 miles of concrete pipe. The conference committee on the Indian appropriation bill has retained Utah items appropriating $53,740 for the support of confederated bands of Utah, and $200,000 for confederated Utes in Utah. Governors of many states will meet in Salt Lake on Tuesday, June 27, when matters of nation-wide importance impor-tance will be discussed. The meeting will follow a session of the governors of western states, to take place June 26. Plans are being made to covert the Bve companies of infantry of the Utah National Guard Into cavalry troops, supplementing troop A, and to organize two more cavalry troops, giving the state militia two complete battalions of cavalry. While attempting to arrest a man named Williams near Richfield, Hans Borg was shot twice, one bullet taking tak-ing effect In the right groin and the other in the left wrist. Williams is in jail, and Borg in the hospital, with excellent chances of recovery. While attempting to sell a bicycle, he says, to get money to send to his sister in Scotland, his only surviving relative in the world, David Campbell, a Scotch lad not yet 17 years old, was arrested in Ogden. He admitted stealing the wheel in Salt Lake. With 1,800 men employed on the double-track work of the twelve-mile stretch between Emery and Wasatch, fully 2,000 men are said to be employed em-ployed in construction work for the Union Pacific railroad between Ogden and Evanston, Wyo., at the present time. A strike was declared by seventy Granite .high school students when Uie principal refused to grant a holiday holi-day after the student body had declared de-clared in favor of a holiday. Threats of abolition of the student body government gov-ernment are made as a result of the action of the students. After an unsuccessful attempt to end his life by severing the radial ar teries in his wrists, Henry W. Pin-kerton, Pin-kerton, 59 years of age, tore open the wounds in his wrists at the county hospital at Salt Lake and died from lose of blood |