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Show IJTAH STATE IIEWS To redeem drug users, the Salt Lake County hospital will Introduce a new mental method of treatment, used by Dr. John Scott Barker. Never have so many political conventions con-ventions been held within one week In . "Salt Lake as last week. The conventions conven-tions numbered eleven. The state public utilities commis sion last week granted permission for Another railroad the Salt Lake & Utah to Increase Its rates to federal chedules. , A barber shop was wrecked at Salt Lake and a passerby narrowly escaped Injury when a wheel came off an automobile auto-mobile and crashed through the barber shop window. t For (he soldiers' welfare fund Utah ubscrlbed $110,000 against a $100,000 allotment. For the Y. M, C. A. war . fund she subscribed In full her allot- ment of $10,000. , Utah canneries will complete the ' largest pack In their history this sea- eon. .This is the optimistic prediction of Walter M. Hoyden, state food and dairy commissioner. 1 The management of the state fair held at Suit Lake last week announced an-nounced that the fair was the biggest and best ever held, and that the paid admissions were over 120,000. ,v Directors of the Knight Woolen mills of Provo will accept the $200,000 ; ; which the government has offered to - advance, according to a statement issued is-sued by the manager of the company. One of Salt Lake's first contributions contribu-tions to the cause of mercy, the t Sprague ambulance corps, has arrived In England and probably will be id service In France within the next few weeks. - - Shooting Imaginary Germans with an .old shotgun cost J.. Richard Stenbloi ' of Hunter his life, lie was shot, accl-", accl-", dentally, by his playmate, Lester Peter- soil. The charge passed through the body of, the boy. "' Arch M. Thurman, secretary of the state council of defense, has received v a telegram from Washington, asking that the state make a special effort to i furnish more men to work In the muni' , .'. v Hon works In the, east ... Christ Anastotulas, a Greek farmer .. ..; ' residing near Salt Lake, was arrested on the charge of cruelty to animals. It Is alleged that he brutally stabbed , , two pigs with a pick when the- animals '"'. trayed Into 6ns of his fields. " : ' It is announced that liquor seised by the Salt Lake ppUcs department and iltherto destined for destruction' Is to : be turped over to ths.Unlted States ' Jl ' . i government f nd win be put Uf th service of the United States army . il i i i fChtef White .Elk, (KM ,galned o . . " toriety In Salt Lake a few months ago v after proving himself to be a champion prevaricator, has fallen Into the hands f the law, according to advices re- reived from San Francisco, where he ' -f was arrested. ' Gordon Snow, city recorder at Salt Lake, has been commissioned a captain In the United States Infantry. Captain I Snow will, within a fev days, succeed ' Captain F. V. Fits Gerald, draft execu tive of Utah, who has been ordered to Camp Devens, Mass. ., . , In the first Liberty loan Utah sub- scribed $9,400,000 ; her allotment was $0,500,000. In the second Liberty loan she raised $16,200,000; her allotment wits $10.000,(KK). In the third Liberty loan she raised $1 531,300; her allotment allot-ment was $10,315,000. A" ? n,Vnfl? V lnk,n? direct ap-fu'iil ap-fu'iil to Utah girls to Invest part of their time nt soliool In studying domestic domes-tic science as a war measure, Miss Jen Cox, state supervisor of vocational voca-tional domestic science, Is conduct!!, a number of mass meetings at various Stare school districts. Suit Iaike City employs less firemen thnn any other city of Its size In the country, with one exception, according . to the 1917 statistical report Thesi figures are based on 1917 reports, which show the Salt Luke department having two Inspectors and 67 first, second sec-ond and third grade firemen. , Lnuiel O. Larson, stnte treasurer, and ex-officlo collector of the occupation occupa-tion tax on the net proceed of mines. Inst week turned over to the state $3000 as the first pnyment to be nmde from this fund, which Is exacted to total, when all the mine companies pay their taxes, aoim-thing like !)50,- Applications for military trnlnlng will be accepted nt the UilKhnm Young university, acwdlng to Joseph U. KeHer, vice president of the institute. insti-tute. At least 100 more student-soldiers can be accommodated at the campus. All provisions for the comfort com-fort of the students have ken completed. com-pleted. Wunshlp, In Summit county, holds the palm thus far In the Liberty ln rive. , The town contains. .10 families. StitiHiei'lng 100 pt-rsons. The quota for lite hnmlet was fixed at $9000. Within eik'ht hours after the canvass beis'au $'.H',00 hnd been subscribed and every man, wonuuv and child in the town possessed oyu or more Liberty lxnds. TNr'con htiiv'.rc! dollars wqs made during fair week by the- Salt Lake Chapter of the Uod Cross at Its lunch counters, on Main street and at the exposition grounds. The $1300 is clear gnl 11 for the chapter, since all the labor and food materials were donated. I'.eraiise of the present scarcity of teaehcrs In Utah a large number of this who have had capalile training are being recruited Into tin state sehool ranks by "eiiiern'U'''" certifiniU'S, HC-eonlini; HC-eonlini; to annouiieenient made remit ly by Secretary Nort'.m of the state 1: 1. . |