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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Congressman Howell has recommended recom-mended the appointment of Lawrence Johnson aB postmaster at Mesa. "I am for Utah" is the slogan for Utah Products week, which opens Id Salt Lake April 1 and continues to and Including April 6: Helen Gould, the eldest daughter ol the late Jay Gould, known as "the best man In the Gould family," was a visitor In Salt Lake last week By a proclamation the governor hai Bet apart Monday, April 15, as Arbot day In Utah. The day Is to be devoted de-voted to the planting of trees and Bhrubs. Beginning April 1, the running time on the electric line between Ogden and Brigham City will be reduced to fifty-five minutes, fifteen minutes from the present echedule. Anthony W. Ivins, who left Salt Lake several weeks ago to visit the Mormon colonies in Mexico, reports that everything Is peaceful In the Mormon settlements. Once more the validity of the Sunday Sun-day closing ordinance In Salt Lake is questioned and the proprietors of the smaller grocery stores and fruit stands of the city are joining to make a test case. Salt Lake, Utah and the west are to be brought to the attention of residents res-idents of the eastern states through a series of illustrated leotures to be delivered by J. Frank Pickering of Payson. The stockholders of the Kaysvflle Irrigation company have decided in favor of building a reservior a miie northeast of Kaysville. About twenty- five acres of land will be used for the reservoir. A trainload of boosters from the Pacific coast, en route to Dallas, Texas, Tex-as, where the annual convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of America will be held, will visit Utah points early in May. Peter Desonnit, Italian, who was arrested ar-rested several days ago in Salt Lake, upon suspicion of having sent "black hand" letters to his . wife, is now charged with having forged the name of a business man to a check. The first gun of a twelve months' advertising campaign has been fired 'by the Commercial club publicity bureau bu-reau of Salt Lake by the insertion of a full page advertisement in the April number of the Sunset magazine. Herman Volker, a carpenter of Salt Lake, became violently insane at his home. The family called the police. It required the strength of three patrolmen pa-trolmen to remove him to the city prison, where he was locked up in a padded cell. John Adam Snyder, 68 years, old, who had been a prominent figure in business circles of Salt Lake for twelve years, died last week. He was stricken with paralysis March 7 and since then gradually had weakened until his death. The Ute Indians must cultivate the lands they own in Utah or lose their title, according to Charles L. Davis, acting Indian agent. It is said that this is in line with a movement to re-, re-, claim thousands of acres of land in the Uintah reservation. Conductor Severiu N. Lee of the Tabernacle choir at Brigham City, resigned his post last week on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday anniversary, an-niversary, after thirty-two years of active service. During that time he only missed two meetings. Louis Revias, a Mexican, made two attempts to commit suicide in Salt Lake City, by throwing himself in front of a switch engine in the yards of the D. & R. G. A switchman dragged him away from the tracks and the police were called. The city commissioners of Ogden have passed a resolution to discontinue discon-tinue the retail butchers' license on petition of twenty-eight butchers. Two years ago the retail meat dealers deal-ers asked that a license of $25 a year be included in the tax ordinance. Arrangements are being completed for a municipal cleaning day in Ogden Og-den early in April. It is proposed by members of several of the women's clubs to have the day made a holiday so that the school children may participate par-ticipate in the proposed activities. The recent offer of Wlllard Done, state insurance commissioner, providing provid-ing for prizes for the best essays written on fire prevention by school children iB favorably commented upon In the last issue of the Weekly Under-writer, Under-writer, a national insurance magazine. maga-zine. Vera Cook, aged 6, is in a serious condition in a Salt Lake hospital, suffering from burns sustained when her clothing caught fire from a bundle of flaming papers which were being burned in the yard. Less than four hours after he had been put to work in the gravel pit of the Oregon Short Line in North Salt Lake, an unidentified man, appearing ap-pearing to be of Swedish descent, and about forty years old, was killed In a rock slide. Forty overall machines have been ordered by an Ogden firm, in anticipation antici-pation of opening a manufacturing plant of that character in the immediate imme-diate future. Employment will be furnished fifty girls and about 500 pairs of overalls will be turned out dally. |
