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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Hyrum citizens have voted unanimously unani-mously to install a $35,000 waterworks water-works system. Box Elder fruit prospects are good for this summer, according to the horticultural hor-ticultural inspector for that county. The work of the Iluntsville-Hermit-age extension of the Ogden Rapid Transit line to Ogdeu canyon has been resumed. The town authorities of Corinne are endeavoring to secure pure water from the hills east of lirigham, seven miles distant. There is a movement on foot to hold another "fashion show" in Ogden luring May. It is planned to make the affair similar to the "fashion show" held last fall. Mrs. Bertha Wolf attempted suicide in Salt Lake, taking poison, but is now out of danger. She gave as a reason that her husband was cruel to her and that she was unable to secure se-cure employment. The merchants on Academy avenue, Provo, are planning to make that street -the "white way" of that city by installing a complete electric lighting system. The electric company com-pany is assisting in the work. Following a conference with mem-tors mem-tors of the Utah delegation, Secretary Lane has agreed to send a representative represen-tative from th'j interior department to Utah to investigate conditions on the -Ute reservation, with a view of adopting adopt-ing suggestions for improvement. The convicts in the camp in Washington Wash-ington county, according to the monthly report of the state road commission, com-mission, only worked fifteen days during dur-ing February, as rain interfered with operations. During the fifteen work-( work-( ing days 3,000 feet of road were graded. The first of the excursions to Salt . Lake from outside points has been announced an-nounced by the Oregon Short Line i for the summer season. This excur sion will be from Montana points May, 24, and others from the same district dis-trict wil be run at frequent intervals during the summer. The Oevrland Limited train, operating operat-ing between Chicago and San Francisco Fran-cisco over the Chicago & Northwestern, Northwest-ern, the Union Pacific and the South-i South-i era Pacific, will be an extra fare train after April 1 and will make the trip across the plains and the Rocky mountains in just sixty-five hours. Utah will have no state fair In 1913. This decision has been reached reach-ed by the directors, stnd the money that would otherwise have been used for the state fair will be used for improvements im-provements on the grounds and new buildings preparatory to holding a real fair in 1914. George B. Gunn, rich mining operator, oper-ator, banker and philanthropist, one of the most widely known mining engineers en-gineers of the west, died suddenly, March 11, at Salt Lake, of heart disease, dis-ease, after what his friends and physicians phy-sicians thought was a successful recovery re-covery from an extended illness. ; A thorough investigation by experts ex-perts of Salt Lake's so-called smoke nuisance, to be carried on under the supervision of a specially appointed commission and financed by a-speeial ; state appropriation, is the object of a move that is likely to take definite shape before the present legislature closes. Plans are being made for the establishment estab-lishment of a glove factory at Murray. According to plans decided upon by the directors of the Utah Chautauqua association, it is possible that President Presi-dent Woodrow Wilson will be one of the speakers at the 1913 assembly, which will be held in Ogden during the latter part of July. Richard Kirkwood pleaded guilty at Provo to unlawfully selling liquor and was sentenced to pay a fine of $60 and serve seventy-five days in the county jail. Kirkwood disposed o liquor on the streets, his offense being described as "dealing from the hip pocket." Taken with a severe attack of in. testinal trouble, Thomas Edward Jackson, Jack-son, aged 23, of Bingham, was advised to go to a Salt Lake hospital for treatment. treat-ment. He was taken to the depot and died just as the train started. The. county commissioners were on an inspection tour of Bear river at Cache Junction and Cornish last week to decide on a location for two steel bridges for the above towns. Tho bridges will te constructed at a cost of about $22,000. Descendants of those pioneers o Utah who came to the state after 1S53 but prior to 1S69. will be admitted admit-ted to membership in the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, if an amendment to be voted on at tae annual encampment April 11 is passed. Births outnumbered deaths by a good margin durln; the month of February, Feb-ruary, according to the monthly report re-port of the Salt Lake health dep.vt-ment. dep.vt-ment. Total births were 176, of which 77 were males and 99 females. Deaths numbered 103, of which C3 were males and -15 females. S. L. Brown, wife and little son will leave Brigham City for the Mexican border by a team of burros and a light buggy. The Browns are refugees who came to Utah last summer from E:igie Pass, Mexico, making the trip of more than 3,000 miles on two burros. |
