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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Thelma Young, 20 years of age, wild wos burned by a gBS heater about two weeks previous, died at Oleii, March 1 . ' , " Ingenwald C. Thoreson, present sur-' veyor general of Utah, has been on-, Inated by President Wilson for reappointment, reap-pointment, v . . , . Forty-one War Savings societies have been organized In Salt Lake City since the drive for organization of these societies so-cieties was commenced recently. V Flung for the 'organization of an extensive, ex-tensive, drainage district, to reclaim; about 40,0(10 acres ofhind," are under consideration by land owners of l.elil. Knitted In the western part of Tooele, county lias gained. such headway' that J even the lives of citizens there are now In danger, according to reports re-! celved by the state Isjurd of health. j t WilUani rhenney, convicted of second sec-ond degree murder fur the killing of J. Henry Keinlngton.at Bingham, November Novem-ber 1, 1017, has been sentenced to life Imprisonment in the state prison. , The members of the Ogden police department are giving much attention to the rounding up of the slackers and deserters. During the past week fourteen four-teen cases were huudled by the department. de-partment. , ' That manufacturers of tomato catsup and soup, who have not taken out government gov-ernment license, should do so at once U set out In a telegram from the nu-tloiiul nu-tloiiul food administration to the state Administration. , Though hundleapped by lack of transportation facilities and by being at a distance from the national capital, Utah was the first state in the Union to complete the work of classifying men for the selective draft ' ' Anthony T. Duy, a negro, who was sentenced February 20, 11H7, to be executed ex-ecuted for the murder of another negro whom he slew at Salt Luke, commutation commuta-tion of sentence saving him from execution, exe-cution, Is now asking for parole. Under strict regulation the city will furnish free Mater for the irrigation of war gardens in Suit Luke again this year If the commission adopts the recommendations- to submitted by the commissioner of the waterworks department. de-partment. . . j The postal savings pdt nt the Binghum postofflce reached $144,085 on March 1. The savings accouuts have shown a substantial increase, In spite of the sale of more thun $;?0,0OiT worth of war savings stumps since the first of thevenr. J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist for the Salt Lake weather bureau has given UKHumme thut spring is not far distant, dis-tant, and he does not hesitate to say that St. Patrick's day will" surely usher In balmy days which will be the forerunner fore-runner of summer. I i Herman Babbet, who has been a prisoner pris-oner In the civilian compound of the war prison barracks at Fort Douglas for several weeks' because of utterances utter-ances derogatory to the United States government, is to be paroled by order of President Wilson. The moving picture which shows the during exploits of thieves who use automobiles au-tomobiles in which to make their escapes es-capes is charged by Judge C. M. Niel- seu of the Juvenile court nt Salt Luke with responsibility for many of the thefts of cars by buys. While walking south on State street at Salt Lake, In company with his wife, about 10 o'clock Sunday night, Jacob Meyers of Murray was struck from the rear by an automobile, sustaining u fracture of the skull, wlii hT-esulted in bis death about an hour l;er. K. O. Howard and II. 'N. Byrne of Salt Luke and K. E. Bristol of Ogdeu have returned from' Denver, . where they represented Utah at the conference confer-ence of members of the finance committee com-mittee of the American Ked Cross society so-ciety of the Intennountaln district. A bulletin of suggestions pertaining to the farm labor situation Is being pent to Utah fanners by J. W. Watson, farm help specialist of the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college at Logan. The Importance Impor-tance of big productions of fwid with njla'iiiuni of labor Is stressed In the iulletin. " The state farm bureau has offered prize of $100 to the county farm bureau bu-reau securing the largest per cent of bureau members. The Weber County bureau, which Is the oldest in Utah, bus instituted a membership campaign and Its officers are sanguine as to the outcome. KeMirtsof the clerk to the state board of corrections on expenditures at lie Utah state prison during 1917 shows that less than half the amount appropriated by the legislature for maintenance of the penal Institution for the biennial period of 11)17-11)18 has been expended. Coal lands covering an area of neur-iy neur-iy a townsnlp and situated about twelve miles southeast of Snllnu in Sevier county, are restored to entry by presidential order received at the Suit Lake office of the United Stntes land office. . The dunce halls of Brighnm, City will be conspicuous hereufter for the absence of boys and girls under the age of 10 yeurs. Tlie Juvenile officials have made a ruling prohibiting children of these uges going to dunces unaccompanied unaccom-panied by responsible persons. Mary Wilson, the Ogden girl charged Willi obtuinlng money under -false pretenses pre-tenses in connection with the alleged failure fo iniirry a Hindu fanner miuicd Anir Singh, nftcr 'iiis sulci to have Kivt-n her coii-;denibie humey uui! jewelry, bus been Uischarg'. J from cus-to.ly. cus-to.ly. ' ' |