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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Orpanlned htbof throughout Utah has 1 been enlisted In the great war savings I tlrlve that la boiri; 'conducted by the j state director and state war savings committee. ' A complete report of the transaction of the Ogden Clearing House assocla- j tlon for the year 1917 shows that the j total business exceeded that of 1010 j John Nef, 80 years old, a patriarch of the Mormon church and pioneer of j 1847, died January 6 at hU residence j In East Mill Creek, where nt? lived j seventy years. ' j Salt Lake Red Cross workers have completed since the beginning of war work a grand total of 120,398 articles for use by hospitals and. the soldiers of the American army ' " Stephen O. McMurray, 63 years old, retired mining man of Salt Lake, Jumped from a third story window at the Park sanatorium at San Francisco , and was Instantly killed. ; . j A summary of accidents reported to the state Industrial commission slued that board began operations July 1, 1917, shows a total of 6416 casualties of greater or lesser Importance. . . , . I'arugonuh used its fire apparatus for the first time when the hay stack and granary belonging to Andrew La-moreaux La-moreaux caught fire and narrowly escaped es-caped being burned to the ground. ? During the period between April L 1917, and Jtfnnary 1,-1918, the Ogden Unloa stockyards bandied more than a half -million head of llvestock-6783 carloads, or approximately 198 train-loads. train-loads. " , . . . ; f. Dedicated In honor of the 185 Odd fellows who are In the army and navy, a service flag held the place of honor at the patriotic services held ' at . the L O. 0. F. temple at Suit Lake Sunday afternoon. -. Senator Reed Smoot has offered an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation appro-priation bill to appropriate $20,000 for a survey and examination of a proposed pro-posed government Irrigation project In Iron county. , . ' . : ' ' Factories which have been working at a disadvantage la Utah will be aided by the government, according to notl' ficatlon received last week by A. C. Kees, secretary of the Manufacturers' Association of Utah. With two holes In his head which the police say might have been caused by u soft-nosed bullet or a pick, the body of a man, who was later Identified as George Hugis, a resident of Minneapolis, Minne-apolis, was fouud at Salt Lake. " ; While racing Sunday on the Indoor bicycle track at Salt Lake, Anton Claw-son Claw-son smashed through the fence, went over the wooden rim and crashed with terrible force upon the former dance hall floor. He was seriously but not fatally hurt. - ' ' The crew of the U. S. S. Utah are today enjoying the- comforts of hundreds hun-dreds of .warm garments knitted by the Angers of loyal women of the Beehive Bee-hive state from materials purchased with a special fund collected last summer sum-mer and fall. Tlntle Is the land of swollen Jaws and double chlus. The reason for this vast multitude of distorted features is that an epidemic of mumps has been prevalent in the district for several weeks. There are about flf ty cases tn Eureka alone. t- " . ," Patrick Uanley, said to be 102 years old, died at, the home at Ogden, January Janu-ary 7. He had been In falling health for more than a year. He was a native, na-tive, of Ireland, but came to America when a young man. He has lived in ' tyrden since 190S. ' ' ' " ' ';. - ''-' .' Mrs. Alain WHllams of. Ogden. has received an electric reading lamp rnadu of a two-Inch cannon shell. The unique-present unique-present was received as Christmas present from her husband, Fnnk Wll llniuft, uieuiler of the Uuited States marines now In France. i " If the present plans of his friends are carried out, Leonard Taylor, a crippled heWshoy of Ogden, who la said to possess a voice of remitrkahle quality, qual-ity, will tour the I'antages vaudeville circuit .during the next few mouths, billed as the "Singing Newlxy." , Reports from deputies employed In the department of tile Htutf livestock commission Indicate flint fear of a hog cholera epidemic In Davis county have been allayed. Several hogs iu a couple of heeds receutly died of pneumonia. In an automobile accident south of Rrlglmm four boys of Perry Theodore Theo-dore Grahser, Karl Oraser, Rrlgham Nebeker and Melvln Woods were seriously se-riously Injured when the car they were driving turned over three times on a smooth road. ' Fred C. Schramm of Suit Lake hns been chosen from among the men of Utah to consult with Allen Albert and o'hers In Denver, Colo., on matters relating to entertainment In cantonments canton-ments and national guard camps throughout the country. No lext books on the German language lan-guage will be adopted or considered by the state text book commission while the war with Germany shall lust. , Two-yenr-iild KImo Yenrnly was fatally fa-tally burned at Salt Lake while playing play-ing around a Christinas tree on New Veur's eve. The child's clothes caught (ire front lighted candles. PiUfkyurd poultry husbandry s a means of relieing tin" shortage of animal an-imal funds for human consumption is espoused by Hurry V. Sanborn of the slate agrii lilt ural college at I.ognn. I'eeiiuse two lads jilayed carelessly Willi matches, the shod and straw slin-k noted ,y , , :..hers of Jiuiibl was juried to tin- ,.i.nd and the entire preiui.-i's tht-.-.m-iied itli destrucliou. |
