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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Ex-President William H. Taft will be asked to preside at the demobilization of Salt I.nke service flags, on iiio visit February L'li. Three men are under arrest at Salt Lake, following the finding of the dead body of a man who has not yet been identified, and who had been shot. Utah, on Fobruary 10, observed British Brit-ish day, with special services in the churches iind special programs in the Sunday Schools In many instances. The city commissioners at Provo have levied the annual tax for irrigation irriga-tion water. Each city lot must pay 75 cents, and the acreage rate is $1 per acre. Frank Johnson, aged 52, arrested at Salt Lake, is believed to have been implicated im-plicated in a number of burglaries. A quantity of jewelry was found on hts person. Utah's quota of War Savings stamps for 1919 lias been tentatively fixed at $4,80S,5OO, as compared with a quota of $S,04;i.(XX1 for 191S. The total may be changed later. Carbon county commissioners at their meeting last week -decided to take up $30,000 of the courthouse bonds on May 1, the option in the bond providing for this. Construction work on the Moab-Mon-ticello unit of the post road project will soon begin. Supplies are being moved to the site of the camp situated near Kane Springs. Mrs. Phoebe A. Woodruff Snow, widow wid-ow of President Lorenzo Snow anil daughter of the late President Wilford Woodruff and Phoebe Carter Woodruff, died at Salt Lake, February 15. The Welsh people of Salt Lake City and neighboring towns, following a custom of many past years, will celebrate cele-brate St. David's day, Saturday, March 1, in a banquet at the Hotel Utah. While "playing house," Ruth Louth-an, Louth-an, 10 years old, of Salt Lake, narrowly escaped death from burning when her . dress, ignited by a lighted candle In her little "home." burst into flames. General conditions in Carbon county mines were never better than at present, pres-ent, according to John Crawford, state coal mine inspector who has just eom-; eom-; pleted a tour of the properties in the county. Recommendation to the state legislature legisla-ture for relief in the case of the claimants claim-ants interested in the Ilatchtown irrigation irri-gation project is made in the final report re-port of the state land board to the board of examiners. "Low dresses and short skirts menace men-ace the morals of the youth of the land," declared Dr. Lela Beebe, government gov-ernment social hygiene worker, in her lecture to the Junior Mutual girls of Ensign, Salt Lake and Pioneer stakes. Liabilities aggregating $280,916.11, against assets totaling $91,281.19, with a deficit difference of $1S8.(5-1.92, are shown in the report on the affairs of Badger Brother, brokers of Salt Lake, filed by Charles H. Wells, received for the company. Fire completely destroyed the grocery gro-cery store of Reuben Hatch, at Salem, and only the heroic work of a bucket brigade of fifty determined citizen saved the general merchandise store of James Christensen which adjoined the other building. Thirty-five seniors were favorably passed upon for graduation at the meeting of the council of the Utah Agricultural college. They represent but a part of the class of 1919, which, in spite of abnormal conditions, will be large. David Mattson, secretary of state during the Spry administration, was arrested at Ogden and stands accused of violating the state prohibition law. A pint of whiskey, alleged to have been sold by Mattson, is held in evidence. evi-dence. Blanks for filing return ' of annual net income for federal income tax purposes pur-poses will be available almost simultaneously simul-taneously with enactment by the senate sen-ate of the pending 191S revenue measure, meas-ure, according to present plans of the Internal revenue sen-ice. Bude Buskin, who was found guilty of assault with intent to kill, was sen tenced by Judge John F. Tohin in the Salt Lake court, to an indeterminate indetermin-ate term in the state penitentiary. Buskin attacked a fellow countryman with a knife, threatening to cut off his head. For the ordinary unmarried individual individ-ual with the average salary, the federal fed-eral income tax this year will be three times what it was last. The wage-earner wage-earner who paid 2 per cent of his 1917 earnings above his lawful exemption exemp-tion last year, will be called on to pay 6 per cent of his 1918 earnings this year. ' Depositors in the Merchants' Bank of Salt Lake to the number of thirty- hree have appealed in a memorial to the governor and the two houses in the legislature to investigate the acts of Bank Commissioner W. E. Evans and of A. F. Tolton, state bank examiner. ex-aminer. Abandoning all hope of the occupational occupa-tional lax law being declared unconstitutional, uncon-stitutional, nine Utah mining companies com-panies paid, on February 10. the amounts assessed against them under it, totaling, with interest at 12 per cent since the tax became due, approximately approxi-mately $7G5,0O0. William Bess, 10-year-old boy who recently made a daring getaway from the Salt Lake county jail, whore he had been taken after his escape from the state industrial school at Ogden, has been taken back to the Ind lslrlal school. |