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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Ogden teachers numbering 18' have been (signed up to teach in the irity schools during the term of 191f iand 1914. A small sized cloudburst visitec Osden and vicinity on May 27, the water overflowing the gutters in man) parts of the city. A severe haKstorm visited North O'den district on Wednesday, and is said to have done considerable dam age to garden truck. Trout fishlug this year promises tc be exceedingly good, according to re orts received by the state fish anc game commissioner. Protesting that he stole to feed his Tamily, Charles Anderson, a residenl of Provo, has been held to answei the charge of burglary. The people of Warren, Farr West and Plain City have started a cam-(paign cam-(paign to awaken farmers in the three districts to the fact that they are in need of an interurban electric line into Ogden City. Charged with having passed worthless worth-less checks in Salt Lake aggregating $100. R. W. Rice, 22 years or age who declares he has influential friends in Kansas City, Mo., has been arrested in Sa'.t Lake. Contract for the construction of the Penrose district school of Box Elder county has been awarded to the Ogden Og-den Planing Mill company on a bid of $1,000. The school is to be finished oy September 1st. The annual camp of instruction oi the Utah national guard will be held July 20, when the battery, the signal corps, the infantry and such other martial men as Utah possesses will go to Heber City. On May 27, a hailstorm swept over the Provo Bench near the mouth ol Provo canyon and destroyed more than $15,000 worth of fruit. The storm belt was about a mile wide and two miles long. 1 Orders for -fifteen new motor cars of the passenger type have been placed 'by the Sa''.t Lake & Utah rail-d, rail-d, which will connect Salt Lake and Pay-son, The contract calls for delivery deliv-ery within six months. Coal dealers probably will bring a test suit against the Denver & Rio Grande to determine the constitutionality constitution-ality of the coal-weight destination law passed by the last legislature and which has just gone into effect. The case of the state against Alfred Al-fred Reedheim, charged with having i beaten Mrs. Dora T. Jacketts with a pair of horse hobbles May 22, at North Point, during an altercation over the trespass of cattle, has been dismissed. The state bureau o immigration, labor and statistics is taking steps to call to the attention of Utah landowners landown-ers a band of 207 prospective settlers from Poland, who have sent advance requests as to where they can buy good land, and what the cost would be. John Molena, Italian, charged with assault with a deadly weapon on Sol-. Ion Argentos at Salt Lake, May 24, in which he is alleged to have stabbed Argentos in the back during a argument argu-ment over the payment of a meal, has been bound over to the district court - for trial, The finar. survey of the Green river irrigation project has been accepted by the secretary of the department of the interior. This reclamation project pro-ject is in eastern Utah and when completed com-pleted will embrace enough acre-feet of water to reclaim about 265,000 acres of land. After a conference between the state road commission and the Rich county commissioners, it is decided that Rich county will have about $12,000 for : roads this year, the money to be applied ap-plied on the road from the Wyoming line to Randolph and thence from Randolph to Laketown. A petition signed by six business men of Ogden has been presented to the board of city comrnissioneds, protesting pro-testing against the use of the side walks by fakers. The petitioners set forth that they consider the pavements pave-ments and curbs of the city a part of their plant for doing -business. The bureau of soils, U. S. department depart-ment of agriculture, has resumed field work on the soil survey of Cache valley, val-ley, of which approximately 150 square miles remains to be surveyed. The survey is being made for the purpose pur-pose of determining the different types of soil in the area, and what crops they are best adapted to. Frank Carpenter, an employee at the Beggs concentrator, at Park City, struck a match as he was looking into a large tank of acid, which exploded, flying over Carpenter's face and hands. Fellow workmen rushed to his assistance and put oil on his burns. He will not lose his eyesight, but will always bear scars on his face. One hundred cases of strawberries shipped to Ogden from outside points -were destroyed by the sanitary inspector. in-spector. The top layers of the Hemes appeared to be all right, but the lower layers were found in most cases to be rotten and covered with mold. Notice has been received from Oregon Ore-gon to the effect that that state has prohibited nursery stock or like things from entering its boundaries-from boundaries-from Utah or Wyoming when packed in hay or straw. The alfalfa weevil is attributed as the cause for the quarantine. |