The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-03-17
UTAH STATE NEWS
Jack Rice Of Coalvllle paid a fine of
5000 for killing beaver

Twenty-one of the thirty-five maya
zine buildings for the Ogden arsenal
have been completed and are ready
for use.
Payson won the triangular high
school debates conducted In the NeDo
district. winning over both Spanish
Fork and Springvllle.
Among the other improvements
planned for the city Of Provo during
the summer months is considerable
curbing and guttering.
Four new business establishments
were assured for Price last week.
while contracts for several new busl-
ness buildings were let.
Five cases of rabld dogs that have
been killed have been reported to the
state board Of health during the last
week. All were killed in Salt Lake.
Louis II. Bake of Los Angeles was
arrested at Provo. charged with steal
ing an automobile in Los Angeles and
trying to sell It in Springvlle for $500.
Salt Lake is listed among cities Of
| the United States having exceptionally
large deposits In postal savings banks.
The total deposits there on March l
amounted to $196,422.
Work on the federal aid project
| roads of the state will be resumed as
soon as money Is available, according
| to a decision made at session Of the
state road commission.
The proposal to Issue bonds to the
amount OF $4,000 for the benefit of
the Nebo school district, carried by n
vote of 1904 to 5T3, and patrons of
the schools are jubilant.
The postmaster at Lynndyl has re-
celved inquiries from the postofflce de-
partment relative to the possibility
of securing landing station In that
town for the air mail service.
Emma Carass, an Indian woman liv-
Ing near Vernal, lost all her house
hold effects by fire. A fire was start
ed In the Russian thlstles adjoining
the tepee and quickly spread.
Howard f. Hickel, 80 years of age.
a switchman employed by the Suther-
land Contracting company at the
arsenal, near Ogden, was crushed to
death between two freight cars.
The authorities are confident that
they have in the city Jail at Provo one
or more Of the men who murdered
Mine Superintendent John Westerdahl
and l.. Z. Peterson at Dividend.
Mrs. II. ]. Fernsten of Spanish Fork
met with painful accident while
wrlnglng clothes through an electric
wrlnger. Her right hand was caught
by the wrlnger and two fingers badly
lacerated.
A demonstration OF wireless tele-
phOny, conducted between Salt Lake
and Ogden by the United States for.
estry service, proved astonishlngly sue
cessful, according to citizens who par
tlclpated.
Hugh Earle, aged 10, was shot
through the arm by a policeman at
Ogden when he refused to stop after
being caught In the act Of robbing n
cigar store and ran down the street
pursued Sy the officer.
Word was received mt Cedar City
last week announcing June II as the
date upon which the Brooklyn Eagle
excursion to Zion National park will
arrive in Cedar City, and setting the
number In the party at 1871.
Tentative plans for the formation
OF farmers organization at Nephl
were discussed at mass meeting held
last week, So per cent of those pres
ent voting to join the state farm bu-
reau and volunteered their member.
ship fee.
The State bank OF Garland failed to
open Its doors for business March 10,
because OF an order Issues by the
state bank examiner following an audit
Of the banks finances. The institu-
ton expects to resume business in n
short while.
The hog cholera situation in Weber
county Is well in hand, according TO
the state livestock inspector, who has
made a house-tO-hOuse canvass of the
infected part of the country, vacclnat-
ing more than 800 hogs In the four
days he was there.
With more than $1,000 subscribed 10
the advertising and convention cam
paign fund Of the Salt Lake CONNER.
clal club and Chamber OF Commerce at
the close OF the first week OF the cam.
paign, the publicity and tourist chiefs
OF the organization feel highly elated.
The goal Is $4,000
Offers to contract for sheep shear.
Ing at the rate Of o cents a head.
the shearers to pay 81 a day for board,
are being received from shearlng
corral managers within the state OF
Utah, according TO the secretary and
treasurer of the Utah State Wool
growers association.
The progressive farmers of Sanpete
county are again endeavoring to settle
the thirty-year-old question: "Shal we
drain our swamp land?" Between
Manti and FalrvieW there are onnrovi-