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Show UTAH AMI Residents of Escalanle who a so,-or so,-or more years ago failed to exoi-f; their option of purchasing lam " that vicinity at $1.25 an acre, th-w,'. the state, by lieu selection from J! 1'nited States government, were ( polled last week to pay an avei-u,' ! price of $1S.50 for the land in or'("' to retain their rights to it. Duo to the efforts of the Huh t.i,f at Mt. Pleasant, supported by all n, civic organizations of the city, all u stores, offices, drug stores, cafes confectionery stores have agreed close their places of business over j Wednesday afternoon during months of June, July and August, After losing his suitcase at the (k den depot, in which he carried ,ssi in currency and deposit slips, ,hun,, R. Burton, 85 years of age, en i-um from Oakland to Wisconsin, fell frw a train near Ogden, walked hark ,1( town and found his suitcase, with contents undisturbed. Arsenite of sodium snrinl.-ta 1 on "white top," a weed which has becran, so threatening in Salt Lake county that the residents have had it ilociar-ed ilociar-ed legally "noxious," proved fatal i one cow and may cause tile loss of a number of others. Ernest L. Doll, Southern I'acifi,' messenger, running between Ogilm and San Francisco, shot and killed liis divorced wife, Mona, and then, turning the gun on himself, ended his life, 'flit tragedy occurred at San Francisco. Paul B. Alder, 50 years of age, a plumbing contractor of Salt Lake, was killed when his car was forced over him when struck in the rear by another an-other car. Alder was cranking liis car when the accident happened. E. J. Norton, assistant state superintendent super-intendent of public instruction, who lias returned from a visit of several days in San Juan ounty, reports that there is good prospects for successful school work in San Juan county. Reuben Simpson, veteran of the Salt Lake fire department, is the first to apply for a pension under the firemen's fire-men's pension act passed by the 191!) legislature. He retires on half par. or $67.50 a month. Value of sunflowers as a 'forage crop on dry land farms is one of the subiects undprfninp- test- nt Hia Vonlii substation experimental farm of the United States department of agricul-ture. agricul-ture. C. E. Gregory of San Juan county, trapped a mother wolf and then discovered dis-covered the den, from which he dug out eight wolf pups. He received a bounty of $502.50 for his day's work. A report from the Springville fish hatchery shows that from April 22 to May 17 a total!: 145,500 fry was dis-j dis-j trlbuted from that institution, beiug planted in the streams oi the state. White top is a serious menace to the farmers of Salt Lake county and other parts of the state. Cnless its spread. is stopped or controlled, thousands thou-sands of acres will become useless. The report of the executive committee commit-tee of the state fair shows an estimated esti-mated revenue from the fair of $40,-Q00 $40,-Q00 this year, that of last year having been $40,695.08. The North Summit school district has just concluded a cleanup campaign, cam-paign, which included the repair anil renovation of buildings and the cleanup clean-up of grounds. The construction company is niak- . ing splendid headway in hard-surfacing an eighteen-foot strip on the state road between Brigliam City and Hot Springs. The Uintah county farm bureau is tnl'ino- cfov.-. .,...1 oil tUa "tnall '"""6 -JLIO till 1111 Oil..." flock" wool, in order to obtain for the farmers and small growers the top price. Uintah county has received from the state road commission two trucks for use by- the county on its $140,000 road construction program this summer. A complete history of the early settlement set-tlement of Cache valley is to be collected col-lected by a special committee of the Logan Chamber of Commerce. The Kyune bridge over Price river is reported swept away by high waters. A bridge on the State road near Lebi met a similar fate. The American Fork Commercial club has called for 150 men to work on the new road at South Fork building build-ing in American canyon. One Salt Lake man's body, that of William Wallace Ipson, was among the first to be returned from France on the transport Nereus. Census returns give Brigliam City a total population of 5282, which l an increase of 41! per cent over the last census. The Salt Lake navy recruiting station sta-tion will decorate the graves of nil navy men in Salt Lake on Memorial day. Utah Elks are planning big things for their slate convention in Sa" Lake June 2, .'( and 4. Few cattle have been turned upon the Kaiuas range because of the prevalence- of now. Five hundred sacks of sugar which, federal officials (barge, have been boarded at Richfield and were beinS shipped to Omaha, Neb., for speculation, specula-tion, were seized at the Henver Jt It'" Iraude freight yards at Salt Luke I'J a deputy United States marshal. 'The county assessor has annouiu'i'ii Ihat but 40 persons of a total of more than 0000 in Weber county arc ih'-limpient ih'-limpient In payment of personal Imncs. He claims that this is the record flC the county and in previous years delinquent de-linquent lists have contained 2000 or more names. |
