OCR Text |
Show UTAH AND UTAHNS : i i Ten thousand dollars desired as a j mess fund for the city's enlisted men lias been donated by Salt Lakers. Only thiriy-six i-hildren of a total of ."".Ml" inspected' in the public schools of Salt Lake are excluded on account of disease. State Senator J. W. Clyde of lleber I'ity lost sixty head of sheep this summer through the ravages of predatory preda-tory animals. Six of the smaller inmate of the Utah Industrial School at Ogden dialed the guards after bedtime Sunday Sun-day night. Two were captured. Ten cases of smallpox and a like number of diphtheria cases were reported re-ported to the health department of Salt Lake during the past- week. Police an; searching for Patrick J. liiley. an employe of a coffee house at Ogden who is alleged to have departed de-parted early .Monday with SSU from the firm's cash register. In August, lDKi, Ogden city paid $.",I'.1).S4 for boarding prisoners. In August. 1 i 1 7 . Hie first month of prohibition, prohi-bition, the city paid only S'.Kl.L'S. Decreased De-creased arrests explains the difference. German prisoners of war. a few less than '-'Oil, from the gunboat Geier, arrived ar-rived fr Scofield barracks. Honolulu, Hono-lulu, last week, to be interned in the war prison at Fort Douglas during the war. "Winter ranges in Wyoming, grazed by Utah sheep, are in excellent shape," according to ('. B. Stewart, secretary of Hie Utah Woolgrowcrs' association, who is just back from a trip to Wyoming. Wy-oming. Lark, which lias been cut off from the outer world for two .weeks, while its ")00 inhabitants were under smallpox small-pox quarantine, is once again on the map. the quarantine having been lifted. The body of William Rawlins, an aged man who wandered away from his home at Salt Lake, was found by two fishermen in the surplus canal west of the city. It is believed he suicided. Charging that her husband after removing re-moving all of her clothing, bound her hands and feet and tied her in a chair defying her to call for assistance, a Salt Lake woman lias made application for divorce. Plans for October conference at Salt Lake include the exhibit of Red Cross work and other products which children of the twenty-one nearby stakes have prepared for the relief of military forces in the field. The board of pardons has commuted com-muted the sentence of life imprisonment imprison-ment passed upon Albert T. Day, negro, ne-gro, convicted December 11, 1907, for the slaying of Horace C. Yoss, also a negro, to twenty-five years' imprisonment. imprison-ment. Erection of a meeting house for Bonneville ward to cost 1S,00(I will begin soon. In addition to the main assembly, there will be an amusement hall with a stage, class rooms, a circle room, relief society room and a kitchen. That rewards for the farmer who aids the country by raising wheat were never more attractive, is the fact" made plain by Dr. F. S. Harris, director, of the Utah Agricultural college's experiment experi-ment station, in a discussion of the wheat situation. Despite the deficiency in precipitation, precipita-tion, pastures and ranges, and consequently conse-quently stock, mantnined good condition condi-tion during August, as set forth in the weather report for that month issued by J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist of the United States weather bureau. At the request of .T. Edward Taylor, assistant secretary of the state council of defense, the railroads have agreed to place fifty carloads of coal at 'convenient 'con-venient points throughout the slate, so there may be no delay in harvesting activities because of lack of fuel. The question of the value of. slain diseased cows is puzzling the state hoard of examiners. Rills against the board of examiners for tubercular animals ani-mals killed by (he slate are piling up and the necessity for adopting a uniform uni-form system of appraisal is becoming urgent. Red Cross ambulance corps 27. of Salt Lake, has been ordered to Camp Grant, Rockford. III. Ambulance corps 27 was organized in Salt Lake by Dr. H. 15. Spraguo, who was made captain of the company, and Lester Wire, formerly n sergeant of the city police force. Mr. Wire is sergeant of the corps. Ogden's first and only school cafeteria cafe-teria will he in operation at the senior high school within the next few days for the convenience of the students and teachers. Food will be served at cost and most of the work of preparation prepara-tion will he done in the domestic science department. The Box Manufacturers' association of Oregon has materially relieved Utah's apple box shortage. At a meeting meet-ing of the association tit Portland, Ore., on Thursday, it was decided to ship 100.00(1 apple boxes to this stale at once and to forward a second 101),-000 101),-000 within two weeks. In an effort to prevent congestion in the Ogden terminal and provide means whereby trains may be sent on their way in the quickest possible time, the Ogden Union Railway & Depot De-pot company has let a contract for enlargement en-largement of the terminal facilities. Governor Bamberger has been mimed a member of the presentation committee com-mittee of the American Peace Centenary Centen-ary committee, which is charged with the presentation of a statue of Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln to the British nation. It is planned to place the statue near Westminster Abbey, London. |