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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Ralph Jetly, aged 10, was accidentally acciden-tally shot by Clifford Cox, aged 14, at Salt Lake, and is in a critical condition. condi-tion. The upholding of the constitutionally constitution-ally of the Adamson act means $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 to the railroad men of Salt Lake, it is said. Cedar City, Iron county, reports con- . siderable buliding under way with much more, in contemplation at the break of spring. More than l.VOOO school children in Utah will be compelled to stop school between now and April 1 as the districts dis-tricts are short of funds. Charles Nelson, aged 27 years, single, sin-gle, was killed in a blast in the underground un-derground workiugs of the United States mine at Bingham. Assessments of mines and railroads throughout the state will be finished by the state boiird of equalization during dur-ing the first week of April. With the building of a new sugar factory at Moroni, the town has been given such an impetus that a "build-'ng "build-'ng boom" is now reported in full blast. Plans for the university summer school of 1917 are now well under way and give promise of a schedule of work which will attract a record-breaking record-breaking attendance. The North Sanpete National Farm Loan association has ben organized at Mount Pleasant, with the purpose of securing money at a low rate of interest in-terest to improve farm lands. Phenor Nielson, a member of troop E, second squadron of Utah cavalry, aged 21 years, son of L. B. Nielson of Ephraim, received fatal injuries while exercising a horse of his troop. With a total snowfall of not more than five inches during the winter and the sun bringing out green slips of grass now and then, the Uintah basin has proved ideal for the wintering of cattle and sheep. Sheriff Peterson of Weber county last week published the sections of the prohibition law relating to the bringing of liquor into dry Utah, declaring de-claring he wished to give everybody sufficient warning so they would have no excuse later. Members of the new state Industrial commission, which will have control over the administration of the workmen's work-men's compensation act passed by the last legislature are Preston A. Thatcher, Thatch-er, Logan; Harrison E. Jenkins and W. M. Knerr, Salt Lake.. William A. Whitney, general superintendent super-intendent of transportation for the Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line railroads, has been appointed as general gen-eral manager of the Ogden, Logan & Idaho Railway company to succeed P. D. Kline, resigned, it is announced. Nate Malizia, an Italian laborer whose legs were mangled 'by an Oregon Ore-gon 'Short Line train at Salt Lake, died at a local hospital following amputation am-putation of the limbs. Malizia was riding rid-ing his bicycle to work and slipped under the wheels of a moving switch engine. It is estimated that about 4,000 teachers will receive money from the teachers' retirement fund through withdrawal. All teachers who contributed contri-buted to the fund, whether they are in active service in the schools at this time or not, will be paid what they put into the fund. Fifteen Duroc brood sows were delivered de-livered to fifteen Vineyard boys last week under the auspices of the local farm bureau for that section and the boys who were fortunate enough to get one of the pigs will pay the slippers, slip-pers, who are the Salt Lake stockyards, stock-yards, $33 per head next fall. Warning to loyal citizens of the United States that in their loyalty and desire to save their country from the menace of a foreign foe they do not sacrifice the principles of democracy, and liberty, lib-erty, was sounded by Bishop Paul Jones in his sermon at the First Methodist Meth-odist church at Salt Lake last Sunday. Policemen, firemen, mail carriers, city employees and 'others who are entitled to free transportation on street railways of Salt Lake and other cities in Utah under the ordinances granting franchises to public service corporations may receive the same service ser-vice under the provisions of the new public utilities law. Beaver hides which have been confiscated con-fiscated by the state and by the various va-rious game wardens are being cared for in the office of the fish and game commissioner until the state receives a bid for them. In the vault of the fish and game department are seventeen seven-teen fine beaver hides which have been taken from over-anxious hunters. That the convicts in the Utah state prison are thrifty is indicated in the report of the auditors, following a check of the accounts of the prison. There is a total amount of funds In bank from the state prison of $2,C27. The total prisoners' cash balance is $2,351 on hand and in bank. There Is also $172 from the library fund in tho bank. With one day to snare in the time allowed him by law, Governor Bamberger, Bam-berger, on March III, signed the last of the bills to joss both houses of the late legislature, and it is said that the record has seldom, if ever, been equalled in the history of the state. Attack may be made on the sanitary live s'ock law which was passed by the legislature and signed by the governor. gov-ernor. It is claimed by a number of the. sheepmen and employees of the 'ate thnt certain portions of the new ii v will not stand the test of '.he |