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Show UTAH SJATE NEWS Improvements costing more than $4,000,000 are to be made during this year by the Oregon Short Line. The revenue which is derived in Utah annually from saloons is about $352,670, according to the figures of the state statistician. Although the state-wide prohibition bill has not been reported out of committee, com-mittee, two candidates have made their appearance for commissioner of prohibition. Tom Park of Lark was stabbed and Instantly killed in a brawl at Bingham. Bing-ham. J. C. Setzer, G. B. Sutton and Louise Ball are in jail charged with being implicated in the killing. While engaged in blasting at the Utah Copper company's plant at Bingham, Bing-ham, Peter Notanamai, 35, who arrived ar-rived here two years ago from Italy, was struck by a rock and killed in- ctnntl-r Saloons in Utah pay to the cities and towns in which they are located $343,950 annually, according to a statement state-ment made by H. T. Haines, state statistician. There are 304 saloons in the state. Electrification of the Saltair line, from Salt Lake to Saltair beach, will be completed by June 1 and trains will be running over the road within a few days after the equipment is in place, it is announced. Frank J. Hagenbarth of Salt Lake was unanimously re-elected president of the National Woolgrowers' association associ-ation at the concluding session of the fifty-third annual convention of the association at Salt Lake last week. Roscoe E. Ashworfh, who was graduated grad-uated by the University of Utah in 1914, has received the Rhodes scholarship scholar-ship appointment for Utah for 1917. Mr Ashworth is at present assisting in the Latin department of the university. uni-versity. B:ngham's red light district may 'be closed forever as a result of the murder mur-der of Tom Park, a miner, during a quarrel in a resort of the mining camp early Saturday morning, according accord-ing to a statement made by the sheriff. The Public School Teachers' Retirement Retire-ment association bill, enacted in 1913, ia ueciaieu uiicunsuiuuuiiiii iu an opinion prepared by the attorney general's gen-eral's office at the request of Dr. George Thomas of Logan, president of the association. Arrangements are being made by the United States Fuel company and the United States Smelting interest to have the Salt Lake Route operate the Utah railway running between Provo and Helper and into the coal fields of Carbon couniy. Unable to pay the fine of $3,055.32 imposed upon him for embezzlement of post office funds, Alfred E. Pritch-ard, Pritch-ard, former assistant postmaster and superintendent of the Salt Lake post office, has been taken to the county Jail to serve out his fine. Captain Hugo Deprezin, a hero of two wars, first mayor of Eureka; the appointee of President Roosevelt to the postmastership of that city and prominently identified with the Masons Ma-sons and Elks, was buried Sunday with Masonic and military honors. An opinion prepared in the office of the attorney general declaring the public school teachers' retirement law unconstitutional will not be accepted as a revocation of the measure, .according .ac-cording to a statement made by an officiaMn the state department of education. ed-ucation. Officials of the Salt Lake & Utah railroad (Orem line) have sent out food supplies for the starving quail along their line from Provo to Salt Lake. Grain in abundance has been forwarded to ten different destinations, destina-tions, at a distance of five miles one from the other. " A decision advising growers to take a united stand in their demands for an Increase of $3 per ton for tomatoes to be grown during the 1917 season and increases of $5 per ton on all grades of peas was reached at a meeting meet-ing of the directors of the Weber county farm bureau. Salt Lake is prosperous, according to the annual report of the merchandising merchan-dising research committee of the Associated As-sociated Advertising Clubs of the World. When people had more money to spend for necessities in 191G than in 1915, in face of the rising cost of commodities, it is a sure sign ot prosperity. Requesting in a farewell note filled with grim humor and pathos that his body be cremated and his ashes taken to the top of Pike's Peak and scat tered to the four winds, Joseph P. Hanna, hotel man, glob trotter and thirty-second uegree Mason, of Pueblo, Pu-eblo, Colo., committed suicide at Salt Lake by drinking cyanide of potassium. potas-sium. T. R. Cutler, general manager of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, wiil confer with officials of the Oregjn Short Line in a few days in reference to the extension of a railroad line from Garland to Bear River City, a distance of nine and one-half miles. |