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Show UTAH STATE NEWS James A. Bean, one of the Utah pioneers who was with the -first Provo settlers in 1849, died January 19 at hia home in Provo. William Green, miner, 28 years ol age, of Neff's canyon, attempted suicide sui-cide at Salt Lake, taking poison, hut it is believed he will recover. The state auditor's office last week issued warrants to ijie amount of $16,000 covering bounties on predatory animals for the last six months. A. O. Smoot, who was nominated for postmaster of Provo several weeks ago, was confirmed -by the senate last week. He succeeds James Clove. A fine of $100 was imposed on Walter Wal-ter B. Wedell of Ogden, who was found guilty of having shipped decayed de-cayed fruit out of the state of Colorado. Colo-rado. Mrs. Sarah Marler Affleck of Lew-iston Lew-iston was seriously wounded, when a .22-calibre rifle in the hands of her 17-year-old son was accidentally discharged. dis-charged. With a celebration on the part ol the Republicans, Lincoln's birthday, February 12, will be remembered in Salt Lake in more pretentious manner man-ner than ever. During 1916 there was completed in Salt Lake 8.93 miles of street paving, as against 13.2 miles contracted for, according to the annual report of the supervisor of streets. Ground for the new sugar factory of the West Cache Sugar company, which will he erected at Cornish, at an approximate cost of $600,000, will he broken immediately. Frank Francis, for the past twenty years editor of the Evening Standard of Ogden, was elected secretary of the Ogden Publicity bureau, succeeding succeed-ing Jirmes P. Casey, resigned. That rabies exists to such an extent ex-tent in Millard and Washington counties coun-ties that it may be necessary to kill a great number of cattle, is announced announc-ed hy the state board 'of health. A resolution urging the governor and legislature to create a salaried position of state humane inspector was adopted at a meeting last week of the Utah Humane society at Salt Lake. As a result of the activities of more than a hundred sportsmen who participated partic-ipated in a rabbit drive at Monument the poor of Ogden will have enough rahhit mpat tn lat thpm cpvpral days. Rolaml D. Williams, who was mysteriously mys-teriously shot and killed last week in Oklahoma City, was well known in Salt Lake. iHe was a music teacher and opened a studio there with his wife in 1908. The Salt Lake Real Estate association associa-tion will petition the legislature for a repeal of the act passed by the last legislature limiting the rate of taxation taxa-tion to an aggregate of 17 mills, which any county can levy on property. prop-erty. An avalanche in Cottonwood gulch buried the cabin in which W. C. B. Sharp lived, and when he was dug out from the ruins of the cabin he was so far gone that he died just as he was heing carried into the hospital at Bingham. The efforts of the Salt Lake Commercial Com-mercial and Rotary clubs to obtain the 1918 convention of the National Live Stock association for Salt Lake City were crowned with success in Cheyenne, Wyo., where the livestock men voted to come to Salt Lake next year. Just how to provide legally for the $140,000 estimated deficit in the school funds of the state made necessary neces-sary under the operation of the present pres-ent tax law and incident to the growth of school population in Utah is the problem now confronting Utah educators. edu-cators. Although the message is regarded as the work of a demented person rather than that of ah I. W. W-, post-office post-office inspectors have been trying to learn the identity of a man who dropped a threatening note in one of the receiving boxes at the Ogden postoffice. On complaint of a woman that her husband lost his monthly pay check of more than $100 in a gambling game in Salt Lake and that she and her children were deprived of the necessities necessi-ties of life as a result, the police made a raid on the place and arrested six men on charges of gambling. Commanders of the various units of the National Guard of Utah intend conferring with the military committees commit-tees of the state legislature in a few days and placing before the committees commit-tees the financial needs of the militia in order to keep its strength in accordance ac-cordance with the federal program. Charley Barth, aged 11, of Ogden, has confessed to writing "blackhand" letters to the mother of Leota Davis, aged 10. Young Booth was enamoured enamour-ed of the little girl and threatened to kidnap her if her mother did not forhid the attentions of other youths. He has promised to he good in the future. The program for the hig Farmers' Roundup and Housekeepers' conference confer-ence to he held under the direction of the extension division of the Utah Agricultural college at Logan, from January 29 to February 3, has just been announced. The shutting off of gas and the turning turn-ing of it on shortly afterward by the gas company at Salt Lake is thought to have caused a fatality. The victim was W. T. Rand, 24 years of age, a brakeman on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad. It Is believed he was asphyxiated as-phyxiated as he slept. |