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Show UTAH ANDJTAHNS Heart failure was pronounced the cause of the death of Parley Hawkins, 27 years old, of Salt Lake, who was found by fellow workmen fatally stricken where he had fallen at the gas plant. Another ice jam occurred on the east arm of the Great Salt Lake . along the line of the Southern Pacific railroad rail-road one night last week, and the Ice piled up so high that it was lifted over the tracks of the railroad till. Alleged to have deserted his wife and left her and their four young children without support in Salt Lake since last September, Earl M. Sutton, a boilermaker, is under arrest in Oakland, Oak-land, Cal., and will be extradited. Believing the present law, providing aid for widowed mothers, is too rigid, the social workers have recommended to the state legislature an amendment to provide a maximum allowance of $40 a month for a" dependent family. The scab is said to be affecting nearly all of the sheep driven on the western Utah range from Idaho, and these will not be permitted to return to that state until . they have been dipped and the diesase is eradicated. To meet an insistent demand on the part of women of the state for short courses in home economics, the Utah Agricultural college has organized a number of special six weeks' courses, which will open for registration February Feb-ruary 12. Gerrett Meenderink, accused of robbery rob-bery of a street car at Ogden on January Jan-uary 17, with Gordon Krushke, who was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of not less than five years, was ordered returned to the state industrial in-dustrial school. In the event that the Juab valley is unable to obtain surplus water from the Strawberry valley project to care for the lands which can be reclaimed, it is more than likely that a move' will be made to develop the available water supply of the locality. Twelve of the twenty-one convalescent convales-cent wounded who arrived in Salt Lake February 8 from the Hoboken debarkation hospital are Utahns. This is the largest percentage of Utah state men yet to arrive in a single contingent contin-gent at Salt Lake City. A total of $8045 was received by the state last year for the skins of predatory preda-tory animals, being 33 per cent less than the amount received the year previous pre-vious from the same source, according to information given out by- Dr. R. W. ' Hoggan, state livestock inspector. Differences of several months' standing stand-ing between the state of Utah and the metal mine operators were composed February 10, when representatives oi some of the bigger mining companies paid into the state treasury in excess of .$700,000 to cover the occupation tax levy for the past year. Utah is tied with Illinois and Wisconsin Wis-consin for second place in the final draft contest, with 90 per cent of its draft records completed and forwarded to Washington, according to information informa-tion received by Captain Gordon Snow, draft executive of Utah, from Provost Marshal General Crowder. Utah bakers must label their bread in the future, according to statement made by Walter M. Boydeu, state dwiry and food commissioner. Under the state regulation the correct weight and the name of .the maker must be on every loaf of bread which is put on the market, be declares. Two masked highwaymen entered a jewelry store at Lehi and while one covered the jewler with a pistol, the other took $15 from the safe. They then were joined by a confederate, who had remained outside, and the three left in an automobile that had been left around the corner. In 11)10 the average monthly salary-paid salary-paid to elementary and high school teachers of Utah was .$7S.55, or an annual an-nual salary of $579,125, based on a school year of seven -and due-half months. In 191S the average monthly salary was $92. or ?S27.G(! a year of slightly more than eight months. In acknowledgment of the debt of gratitude to the British navy and the British armies for the part they played in t:ie European struggle, Sunday. February Feb-ruary 10. will be observed with appro-prii'i'e appro-prii'i'e programs in homes and churches uvi other places of public meeting throughout the state hs British day. In line with the wage reductions made by the Utah Copper company at both its mines and mills, the three large smelters of (he Salt Lake valley American Smelting & Ketining. International In-ternational Smelling and United States Smelting have put into operation a lowered wage scale for all employes. Feeder cattle will be shown for the tirst time this year at the fat stock show to be hold on April 3. 4 and 5, under, the auspices of the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Stock Show association, at the Salt Lake Union stockyards, and it is expected that this innovation will attract at-tract considerable interest among stockmen. Urging the defeat of the bill introduced intro-duced in the United States house of representatives, providing for an excess ex-cess tax of 10 per cent on firearms and ammunition, telegrams were sent front the office of Major Fred Jorgensvn to the Utah delegation in congress. At the present time, there are forty consolidated school units in the state. During the eight years in which the consolidated system has been tried the average attendance in the elementary schools increased 13 per cent and the enrollment in the high school increased 176 per cent |
