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Show UTAH BUDGET E. II. Munz, Ogden's youthful and gentlemanly burglar, has been sentenced sent-enced to from one to ten years In prison. Lyman Kapple was slacking hay near l'ayson when he losi his balance and fell to the ground. Both arms were broken. A large number of draft horses in tho Uintah basin have died recently of a complication of distemper anil influenza. in-fluenza. Eddie Gilletre, a barber, was probably prob-ably fatally injured at Salt Lake when his motorcycle collided with au automobile. The state road commission is finding difficulty n obtaining sufficient lftbor to put through its plan for u:v work on highways. A pack of seven gray wolves Is preying prey-ing upon stock in northern Summit counly, according to a report by J, Cecil Alter, meterologist. The sudden dropping of daily arrests at Salt Lake from 75 or 100 a day to 25 is directly due to the absence of liquor, according to the officers. The Salt Lake Rotary club has extended ex-tended an invitation to the International Interna-tional Association of Rotary clubs to hold its 1919 convention in Salt Lake. That the remarriage of a divorced wife does not absolve her former husband hus-band from paying for the support of their child was the ruling of the court at Salt Lake last week. The state department of education has received notice from President John A. Widtsoe of the University of Utah that there are 229 vacant scholarships scholar-ships in the school of education. Robert M. Nelling, aged 24, years, a motorcycle dispatch rider with the Twelfth engineers, is thought to be the first Ogden boy to arrive in France with an expeditionary force. Stanley Christensen, aged 14, was bathing in Spring lake at Payson, with some other boys, wdien he sank and was drowned before his comrades could get him out of the water. Weber county has brought forty suits against delinquent poll tax payers, pay-ers, seeking the recovery of $2 and costs from each defendant. Court costs will run the judgments up to about $14. Six more alien enemies of the United States, captured on the Texas border, arrived in Salt Lake last week and were interned in the Third war prison barracks at Fort Douglas until the termination of the war. With the view of having American soldiers in the best condition possible for active service imediately on their arrival in France, day by day the drill program is becoming more stringent for the Sarnies at Fort Douglas. Rabbits have destroyed much grain in Iron and Beaver counties, and grasshoppers have damaged the crop in Juab and Sanpete counties. Pastures Pas-tures and ranges are good and improving. im-proving. Stock is in good condition. Salt Lake county will have a new jail at Garfield for which the Utah Copper company will pay $2950, less $700 which the county will pay to the copper company for the lease of the jail ground for a term of fifty years. The special car fitted up and operated oper-ated by the department of the interior for demonstrating methods and apparatus appa-ratus to be used in preventing mine accidents and treatments to be administered admin-istered to injured miners, was in Bingham last week. Expension of Utah's irrigated area from 1,000,000 acres to 2,000,000 acres and the introduction of good administrative adminis-trative irrigation laws, such as may be understood readily by any farmer, are urged by Samuel Fortier, of Washington, Washing-ton, chief of the department of irrigation irriga-tion investigations. Dr. Theo Ilotopp, who confesses he has been an habitual drunkard, entered a plea of guilty to the charge of performing per-forming a criminal operation which cost the life of Mrs. Elizabeth Weiss of Salt Lake and her unborn child. He was sent to the state prison under au indeterminate sentence. Members of the Salt Lake Commercial Commer-cial club who recently toured the Uintah Uin-tah basin adopted resolutions setting forth the resources of this section of Utah and calling on the state highway commission to exert every effort to build one or more highways connecting connect-ing the basin with railroads. The report of the sanitary inspectoi at Ogden for the month of July discloses dis-closes there were twenty-one cases of contagious disease under quarantine as against seventy-eight in June; twenty-two twenty-two deaths as against thirty-three in June and seventy-seven births as against seventy-five in June. GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT. Aug 1 Production Forecast Last year Winter wheat bu.. 540.000 490.000 Spring wheat, bu. 1,100,000 1,102.000 Oats, bu 0::s,000 C02.000 Barley, bu 502,000 492,000 Potatoes, bu 2,910,000 2,000,000 All Hay (torts) .. .1,321,000 711,000 Apples (bbls.) ... 72,000 10,000 Many women have been placed in positions po-sitions recently by the state industrial commission's free employment bureau at Salt Lake, most of them with hotels and restaurants, but several have donned overalls and gone to work in the Pullman car cleaning yards. On August 5 the 1500 Utah guardsmen guards-men passed from membership In the national guard of Utah and became members of the regular army, in compliance com-pliance with the proclamation by President Wilson calling the national guard of the United fctates into federal lurvice. |