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Show ..Utah is the first state to Inaugurate j M all-fraternal clay for the benefit of I War. relief funds. j Dora Montague, of Payson, has en- J lifted in the navy as a yeoman and Is i erring as a clerk in the naval recruit- j ing office at Salt Lake City. I Miss Lavorne Frantzen, diiuhter of , Mr Matilda Frantzen, of Spring City. J baa left for Washington, D. C to be employed in the office of the adjutant j I general. j The threatened strike qf the Salt J Lake fire fighters, which was to have j taken place Sunday, was called oft i both sides to the controversy making j concessions. J Due to the accidental discharge of a i rifle Clement Koldwyn, of Ogden, met j with a painful injury to his hand at t Buntsvllle, the bullet passing through the palm of his hand, Edward Scherrer, a registrant of,the Ogden City draft district, Is in Jail in j Cincinnati, 0., because he is alleged to j have misrepresented his dependency j status in his questlonnlare. j That road construction on the west- i em end of the Lincoln highway will' be j rushed to completion was evidenced j last week By the installation off addi- tlonal road building machinery. j The total tax rate on Salt Lake City j property this year will be 19.80 mills, j s against 20!20 last year, a decrease I of .40 of a mill on the dollar, or 49 j cents on each $1000 of property value. J J. II. Manderfleld, manager of the Salt Lake Union stockyards, has been appointed by Governor Bamberger as Utah, repesentatlve on the highways transport committee of the council of national defense. ' Instructions to Utah draft boards to exert every precaution In ridding the national army of unpatrlotio enemy aliens and at the same time accord Justice to loyaF soldiers of enemy birth have been Issued. ' ,, Tlans for the fourth Liberty loan campaign In Utah are now being worked, work-ed, out by Heber J. Brant, state chairman, chair-man, and his associates. Unlike the loan campaigns of the past, the coming campaign will last but three-weeks. , Two men who are alleged to have taken In one week from .various Salt Lake hotels more than $1000 'worth of Jewelry and money are Being held In the city Jail: They are John Murray, 21 years of age, and George Jackson, & . A sliver an Inch in length was re-, rooted from the right tonsil of Thelma. McComb, 14-months-old daughter of Robert C. McComb, by attendants at the emergency hospital at Sah Lake. JThe cJUld had attempted to swallow the silver. ' Nearly $3,000,000 will be the revenue from the 1918 Utah ta levy, fixed at 4.7 milis, according to action taken by the state board of equalisation. This levy, it was explained, is $ of a mill lower than the total state tax for last, year. ,'. It Is announced that 1076.95 acres of land in the Dixie national forest will be thrown open, to homestead entry on August 2L Should Uiere not be sufficient suffi-cient applications under the homestead act by Auirust 28, tne land will be open for other entries. ' Claud Sapp, 11-year-old son of the barn foreman at the United States Fuel company's mines at Panther, was Instantly killed when a boulder weighing weigh-ing six tons rolled down the mountain aide, striking hint on the head and crushing his skull. T President W. B. Ennls of the Salt Lake county farm bureau, has an-1 an-1 nounced that arrangements are under way to provide a uniform scale of prices to be charged farmers for threnhlng grain. Existing prices range from 10 to 20 cents a bushel. ' Appropriations made by the last legislature for the construction of two new buildings atthe University of Utah, with an adVmlonnl $18,000 by the state council of defense, have been released re-leased by Governor Bamberger and work was begun on the buildings last week. Of 31.G83 cattle in Utah subjected to ' tuberculin teMs only 200 have been condemned and destroyed up to July 15, according to a report compiled by Thomas Redmond, secretary to the state livestock boar.d. It is estimated that there are nearly 500,000 dairy cattle In the state. The state veterinarian is investigating investigat-ing the poisoning of three cows belonging be-longing to Leroy Barker of Pleasnnt View. About five minutes after eating a quantity of hny the cows died. It Is believed the hay had been sprinkled with a poisonous mixture in order to exterminate gra choppers. As a result of arbitration, the price for threshing has been set at 13 cents for wheat 11 cents for barley and 9 cents Tor oats for Weber and Davis counties, where farms are nnirorraally smaller than In other counties, except Ogden valloy and the Bountirul district dis-trict of Davis county, where special prli-es will prevail. While the corn production for Utah for WIS cannot even be estimated as yet. It is declared that it will go many thousand of bushels over that of any preceding year, according to the report re-port given, out at the offloe .f the federal food administrator for Utim. The killing of a real timber wolf within the limits of Salt Lake City on July 24 wns In accord with a proper celebration of Pioneer day, In the opinion opin-ion of J. F.. Mammott, who shot the pnhnal near hN home. He collected $50 bounty for elimination of the animal. |