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Show 0119 STATE HEWS I i i Mrs. Mark H. Clays died at Bingham, Bing-ham, April 1, of smallpox, after an Illness of several weeks. The state of Utah will collect an in heritance tax amounting to $04,634.72 from the estate of the late Windsoi V. Rice. Aquilla Xebeker became United States marshal for Utah on April 1, succeeding James H. Anderson, whe has held the office for over four years. Saving deposits in the eighty-eigln state banks of Utah show an increase jf S56S.415.35 during the period from November 21, 1913. February 28, 1914. A ladies' auxiliary to the Bountiful Commercial club has been formed, with a view to getting the interest oi the women in the community in public pub-lic movements. D. E. Burley, general paaseni;ei agent of the Oregon Short Line, predicts pre-dicts that the Panama-Pacific exposition exposi-tion in .San Francisco win be entirely ready by October 1. Lucretia T. ,Ross, special govern ment investigator of eye diseases among the Indians of Utrft, is' in Ceep Creek, where she will treat Indians In-dians suffering from trachoma. Richard Snow, 7 years old, son ol Ashby Snow, was fatally injured in a fall from a swing on the playground it the Lafayette school in Salt Lase, death occurring a few hours later. 1 Utah has six mountain peaks which rise more than 13,000 feet above sea . level and nearly sixty peaks Which are more that 12,000 feet above sea level, according to the United States geological survey. Members of the Modern Woodmen of America are making preparations to attend the state encampment, which will be held in Price May 6 and 7. Delegates are being elected by all the camps in the state and each of the twenty-eight will be represented. Governor Spry has issued a proclamation procla-mation fixing Wednesday, April 15, ae Arbor day throughout the state. He calls upon the people of the state as a whole to unite in adding to the adornment of the state this day by the planting of trees and shrubs. Theodore Engstron, a carpenter, 39 years old, committed suicide at the home of his sister, Mrs. Mary Mufch-3rt, Mufch-3rt, in Ogden, by slashing his throat with a razor. Engstron had been un-ible un-ible to secure employment and this fact is believed to have prompted him to kill himself. The first carload of the million and a half brick, which are to be used in the construction of the factory of the Utah Glass company, have beeii shipped from Salt Lake to Moroni. The balance of the bricks are to go forward as quickly a3 they can be loaded on the cars. The construction of silos and the use of silage for feed in Utah, boosted among farmers of the state by the federal dairy division, has so far been a complete success and even greater things are predicted this year in the silage line, according to J. A. Dorman, chief of the da.iry division. For the first time in the history ot the L. D. S. U. department a boy has ben chosen to represent the school in the state high school declamation decla-mation and reading contest in the person of Llewellyn Thomas, who in the final contest of the school defeated defeat-ed four girls and one boy. In order to aid fruit farmers, arrangements ar-rangements have been made by the director of the weather bureau at Salt Lake to give telegraphic predictions of coming low temperatures. A system sys-tem of daily reports from the four centers of the fruit district Provo, Roy, Brigham City t?id Tramonton will be instituted. Believing that the proposed railroad to tap the immense supply of timber which the forest service intends t sell from the Kaibab national forest will result in the construction of an extensive system of feeders, John H. Clark, former supervisor of the Kaibab Kai-bab "forest, contends that the building of the road will be the making ot southern Utah. Convicted ,on a charge of supplying liquor to boys for a St. Patrick's day celebration, William Kappus, a saloon-keeper at Park City, was fined $100 and sent to jail for sixty days by Judge Alexander McMaster of the juvenile court. A total of 77 births as against 1$ deaths, a ratio of more than four tc one, was reported to the city board of health of Salt Lake last week. OI the births. 43 were boys and 34 were girls. Of the deaths, 3 were males and 15 females. Louis E. Tuttle. a prominent citi zen of Manti, died March 26. from the effects of a wound inflicted accidentally accident-ally by the discharge of a gun whicb he was cleaning. John E. Hill, 77 years of age. civi! war veterans, former state treasurer of Xebraska and for thirteen years a resident of Salt Lake, died March 27 of general debility. The state fish and game commissioner commis-sioner has ar-iounced that by the ad ding of 6. HQ" l ass spawn to the state fish hatchery at Utah lake lie would open an active war against carp wiib the hope of reducing their number sufficiently to give bass a better opportunity op-portunity to increase. That a search far and wide for Ralph Newman, a jewelry broker, ii being prosecuted by the police of Salt Lake become known a few days ago. Newman is alleged to have disappeared disappear-ed with SI 500 worth of diamonds in trusted to him by his employer. i |