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Show UTAH STATE NEWS John R. Mcllen, a prosperous farmer of Pleasant Creer.. was badly Injured by falling from a street car la Salt Lake. Ono of i ho largest eighth grade classes in the history of Cache county ban just been graduated. There are 210 In all. Norwegian residents of Salt Lake aro planning a big celebration for May 17, in commemoration, of Norway's independence in-dependence day. (ieorge Meldrum, a prominent far mcr from Pleasant View, died at the Provo general hospital while undergoing undergo-ing an operation for appendicitis. Two young men o' Eureka who Started some Hat cam down the hill wero seriously injured when the cars left the track while rounding a curve. Alfred Sorensen, charged with murdering mur-dering Thomas MeGillis, April 20, in Salt Lake, has been held to the district dis-trict court for trial on a charge of murder. Lee Monalian, who wandered away from a Salt Lake hospital while in a state of nervous derangement, was found in Provo two days later. lie was unable to tell how he got there, but It Is evident he walked. Halph Leonard, a private of Battery Bat-tery A, Utah National Guard, at Salt Lake, will pass ten days in the county prison rather than pay a fine of $25, imposed uKin him by a national guard courtmartial for non-attendance at drill. The second "See Utah First" excursion ex-cursion under the auspices of the Salt Lake Commercial club will take place May 25, when club members, citizens and all outsiders interested will make a day's trip to Brigham City and Cache valley. Four hundred and seventy-three feet in the west portal and 406 feet lu the east end was the excavation accomplished ac-complished in the tunnel of the Strawberry Straw-berry valley irrigation project during April, which leaves only 1,429 feet of the big tunnel to be dug. Mrs. Josephine Young, wife of Dr. A. Carrington Young, state liveslock inspector,- and daughter of President Brigham Young, died suddenly at her residence in Salt Lake City, May 9. Bright's disease and heart failure were the cause of death. If the attorney general of the state Is satisfied on investigation that the securities of the Green River Irrigation Irriga-tion district are sufficient to protect the state's interests, Utah will take J50.000 of the $200,000 bond issue contemplated con-templated by the company. Investigation of the killing of James D. Harvey by outlaws at Colonia Diaz. Mexico, has been begun at As-oencion. As-oencion. according to a dispatch re ceived at Salt Lake by the president of the Mormon church from Junius Romney, president of the Juarez stake. Advices received from Paris state that Dent Mowrey, a Utah musician studying abroad, scored a success at a recital given in the Latin Quarter before the "Students' Reuuion," a critical assembly composed of the best English, French and American students stu-dents in Paris. James S. Smith, who had been missing miss-ing from his home in Kaysville for sixteen years, returned to that place last week. The family had abandoned hope of hearing from him. knowing he was among those who braved death in the mad rush for the Klondike Klon-dike gold fields. Public investigation of the charges by J. J. Morris, executed April 30 for the murder of J. W. Axtell, that he was robbed by the police of diamonds, jewelry and money to the value of about $4,000 after his arrest tor the murder, has been ordered by the city commission ef Salt Lake. The subject of securing action by the national government in constructing construct-ing and maintaining national highways high-ways will form one of the principal features of the discussion at the third annual convention of the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Good Roads convention, to be beld in Logan, June 12-14. Loans at a rate which will aggregate aggre-gate $1,000,000 a year are being made by the state of Utah on improved farm lands within the commonwealth. Under Un-der the law the land board is empowered empow-ered to make loans upon improved farm property where the security is deemed sufficient to protect the state. With one exception. Salt Lake led all cities in the Pacific coast division In the percentage of gains In bank clearings for last month over April of 1911. Cache county commissioners have appropriated $1,000 for the fund being be-ing raised by popular subscription to liuy a right of way for the proposed Logan cut-off of the Oregon Short Line. The mammoth project of collecting the surplus water of the Provo and Weber rivers and utilizing it for irri-ation irri-ation purposes in the intervening territory ter-ritory is being given renewed impetus throughout Salt Lake, Weber and Uiah counties. The confession of J. J. Morris, made lust before his execution, on April 30, .hat he killed Thomas Sandall thirteen thir-teen years ago, will be considered by iie board of pardons at its meeting May IS. Nick Haworth is serving a -il'e sentence in state prison for the jrlme. |