The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-12-19
UTAH STATE NEWS

IL dedicated their new $4,000 Car
negie library with appropriate sery
fees.
John b. Bernards, aged 8, was Sc
riously injured at Salt Lake while
coasting, his sled collidng with al
automobile.
Ministers and oth,rs authorized t.
perform marriages w. have to pu
war tax stamps OF The marriage
certificates they issuf a future.
A reduction OF several hundred pei
cent in the number of cases of con
tagious disease in the country districts
of Weber county is reported by the
health officers.
Attorney j. VI. Denny, of Salt Lake
was stricken by heart disease while
mailing a Christmas package to b''
daughter in Nevada, death occurring
few moments later.
Nicholas Byhower who has beer
superintendent of parks for Salt Lake
City for eight years and has enjoyed
an excellent reputation for efficiency
and ability, has resigned.
Nut coal was reduced in price by
Utah coal operators the past week IL
a frank effort to divert the public de
mand to this variety as against lumI
coal. for which there is an excess de
mand.
Additional legislation to aid the dc
partment In its protection and perpet
uation of the fish and game Of the
state is recommended by the fish ant
game commissioner in his biennial re
port TO the governor.
Carl b. Cottrell. 9-yearold son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Cottrell of Rays
vile, was severely injured when he
was kicked by horse. His forehead
was crushed, fragment OF the bone
pressing upon the brain.
Total receipts of the office of state
fish and game commissioner from II
censes. fines and other revenues fol
the years 1913 and 1914. were S74,
01i54. Expenditures for the same pc
Rod aggregated $72,l06.96.
The dedication of the new Bear
River stake tabernacle was held al
Garland ON the 18th, and was attend
ed by many OF the prominent authori
ties of the Mormon church. The new
tabernacle cost about $4,000.
H. A. Bradley. aged 40, a public
chauffeur. has surrendered to the
Salt Lake police, admitting that II
was his automobile that struck an6
fatally injured Henry Linnell. aged
65. Bradley claims the tragedy was
unavoidable.
The erection by Weber county OF
$4,000 apartment building in which tt
house the widows and orphans who are
being cared for at public expense Is
the plan that will be considered ane
probably adopted by tho county com
missioners.
Edwin ID. Smith, who declared tina
he had passed four worthless check.
for $2l.50 each at Ogden, because hi
was in serious financial straits, wal
released to return To his sick wife u
Salt Lake City, after returning tn,
money.
Chinese residents of Salt Lake City
are joining with Chinese all over thu
United States in protest to Presi
dent Woodrow Wilson against recog
milton of agents of the Chinese repub
lie sent to the United States to nego
tiate loan for China.
Along with the annual -oundup a,
the Utah Agricultural college at Lo
gan, from January Is to January 80
will be held numerous conventions Of
associations bearing on agricn.sura
fundamentals. The roundup of 1917
will be the largest ever held in Utah
Thomas Barton. a farmer OF Gran
ger, killed a mountain lion in hi,
yard one day last week. Mr.. Barton
was doing his morning work wher
he heard mysterious sound in the
pig pens. Upon investigation he founC
the lion in with the pigs, and shot
the beast.
James Jasper of Goshen was in
stantly killed on the desert 100 miles
from Goshen while moving his sheer
camp. Jasper was sitting well for
ward on his wagon driving across the
desert, when the wagon tongue broke
and he pitched forward, his neck be
ing broken.
Claude X. Dodge, a former resident
of st, George, is the inventor OF al
automatic tag-affixing and marking
machine for use in laundries. Mr
Dodge has been granted a patent OF
the machine, which is said to be the
first TO combine both the marking anc
the tag-afiiXing features.
Attorney General Barnes and w. ID
Candland, president of the state lanC
board, returned last week from Wash
ington, where they presented protest,
20 the department of the interior
against taking over by the federal gov
eminent OF school lands in Utah on tn,
ground that they contain coal deposits
Representatives OF the Salt LAX,
Commercial club have gone to Wash
tngton to take up with the nationa
administration the matter OF liftlnl
the embargo on copper as contra
band OF war They will seek govern
ment cooperation to keep the copper
and anal fninaa of tho upagt ,na,.t O., -.