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Show UTAH STATE NEWS All the Commercial clubs of the Uinta basin have consolidated. A farmers' round up was given by the Utah Agricultural college under the auspices of the Grantsville High school February 26 to 28, inclusive. The body of Leslie Baker, 18 years old, who was caught in a snowslide at the "Z" dugway in American Fork canyon Saturday, has been recovered. Residents of the Lucern valley, on the other side of Diamond mountain from Vernal, are petitioning to separate separ-ate from Uinta county and start a new county in that section. Reorganization of the citizens' military mili-tary training camp wrhich won popular favor at Fort Douglas in August and September Is assured for the coming summer, it is announced. Bounty records show that R. W. Swingle of Ogden is one of champion huni:i of the ' county. He killed during the past year two bears, forty-eight forty-eight coyotes and two wildcats. t Convicting evidence has been secured se-cured hy the officers of Vernal that one 'business house in Vernal has received re-ceived invoices since June 1, 1916, for whisky which amounted to $2,345.15. Potatoes in Salt Lake City are selling ui&uci yi iveo uiiooi in uuu- don. Onions in Utah have reached the New York price and are continuing continu-ing so scarce advances are expected. The postoffice a.nd a general stock of goods owned by Louis Winchell at Cache Junction was totally destroyed by fire on February 24th, causing a loss of $5,000. The origin is unknown. Hereafter midnight will sound the death knell to music, dancing, drinking drink-ing and other forms of revelry in Salt Lake hotels and cafes, according to an announcement made by the chief of police. Twenty-two burglaries committed within a period of three weeks in the residence sections of Salt Lake are charged by the police to Arthur C. Atkinson, At-kinson, 23 years of age, an electrician, arrested last week. Louis Bell, Italian, 32 years of age, said toy the police to be one of the most desperate criminals in the west, was shot by a policeman at Salt Lake whefn he resisted arrest. His wounds are not regarded as serious. Miss Maud Jones of Price stepped off a passenger train on the Denver & Rio Grande and her foot slipped under the car. Her foot was so 'badly mangled man-gled that her big toe and a part of her left foot had to be amputated. J. H. Davis', a mechanic employed by a Salt Lake automobile company, lost his job, was arrested and lodged in jail on the accusation that he had thrown a live cat in a blazing furnace in the basement of the garage. John O'Neil, 26 years of age, one of the best known and most popular young men of Eureka, died suddenly of heart disease. He had attended a dance, and at 10:30, feeling ill, he went home. At 11 o'clock he was dead. Clarence Hendrickson, aged 23, a cripple, having had 'both legs amputated ampu-tated seven years ago, has been arrested ar-rested at Salt Lake, charged with attempted at-tempted blackmail, the wife of a prominent merchant being the complainant. com-plainant. Salt Lake is the healthiest city in the United States, the death rate averaging av-eraging but 9.524 per thousand, compared com-pared with 13.30 per thousand with sixty-seven other cities in the United States having a poulation of 100,000 or more. Transfer papers were signed in Salt Lake last week whereby the six canning can-ning factories controlled by Senator W. J. Parker of Ogden will be taken over by the California Packing corporation, corpor-ation, the largest concern of its kind on the Pacific coast. Franklin Curtis Goudy, grand sirs,of the supreme lodge of the I. O. O. F. of the world, which, numbers 2,225,000 members, will be the guest of honor at an informal reception to be given at Salt Lake by the Utah Grand lodge the third week of April. A case of alleged mistaken identity almost cost Mrs. Anna Jackson, 26 years old, a negress, her life at the hands of an infuriated Greek at Salt Lake. Mrs. Jackson was shot twice by the unidentified foreigner as she entered a room in which the man is said to have 'been quarreling with another an-other woman. From figures compile4 on the advance ad-vance in the high cost of living from four reliable sources by the professors and students of the University of Utah, it appears that the increase is not any sudden jump ahead in charges, but that in fact great increases came in the prices in 1916 as compared with those of 1915. The board of education of the Uinta school district is holding meetings all over the county in an effort to persuade per-suade citizens to vote the $130,000 bond at the election to be held on March 6. The bonds will be used to enlarge and improve the school district. dis-trict. The record price for wool In the Dinta basin has been paid by John N. Davis of Vernal, who purchased the entire 1917 clips of Walt McCoy's 800 sheep, Strangham's 3,000 head, George E. Adams's 1,400 head, J. W. Davis's 1,400 head and T. T. Alexander's 950 head at 40 cents per pound. Ogden canyon has recently been the scene of a score of , snowslidea which, while not large enough to damage dam-age property to any great extent, covered cov-ered the tracks of the electric railway with snow and kept a large force of I men at work clearing the way. |