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Show i THE BEE HIVE STATE Fire caused by a defective flue destroyed de-stroyed ten houses at Copperfieid be-fo-re it was brought under control. As a result of injuries received when she stepped from a moving street car, Mrs. C. M. Jones of Salt Lake died at a local hospital the following day. The celebration of Great Britain day-will day-will be held in Ogden Sunday, January 2G, when a mass meeting will be held in the tabernacle and special services will be conducted in the churches of the cit,'. Tlie state council of defense of Utah is and has been operated at a less cost than any other stale in the union. There are three states that- are low, but Utah is the lowest of all in cost of operation. Louis Kushton, a worker at Garfield, died at a Salt Lake hospital from injuries in-juries received when he was caught in a cave-in near1 the smelter. Kushton was caught in a slide and his chest and ribs were crushed. Brig. Gen. Richard W. Young, whose brigade comprises about 1200 Utuhns and 250 Califoruians of the 113rd, 141th and 145th regiments, reached home in Salt Lake on January 1, on a ten days' leave of absence. The city commission has authorized refunds of license money to the proprietors pro-prietors of the pool halls at Ogden for the period they were closed during the influenza epidemic. Tlie amounts ranged from $1.13 to $43.4S. There is a marked decrease in the number of arrests made in Salt Lake during the year, it is shown in the report re-port of the police department. During the year 3974 persons were arrested by members of the police department. Savings deposits of the banks of Utah have increased close to $100,000, the aggregate being $29,955,894 on June 20, while on October 5 last, a period of fifteen months intervening, the savings deposits amounted to 30,-342,754. 30,-342,754. Ten thousand, nine hundred and sixty-two pints of liquor have been confiscated by the police department of Salt Lake during 1918 in 155 dif-f dif-f a rent seizures. Five hundred and fifty gallons of hard cider have alsc been taken by the department. Average acreage in Utah which has been sown to winter wheat and rye iu 191S has been compiled by counties in a report issued by M. M. Justin, field -agent for Utah and Nevada of the federal fed-eral bureau of crop estimates. A 4 per cent increase in this acreage is shown Seventy-five 'bushels of corn to the acre in a country where they cannot raise corn is a remarkable yield. This is what Rulon Nicholas of American Fork succeeded in getting this year. He has just been awarded second place in the White Flint corn contest, for Utah. In the report on the state insurance fund, filed in the office of Governor Bamberger December 31, is shown an accumulation of $203,43.76 in assets. Also are disclosed the establishment of reserves of $101,377.87, a surplus of $30,290.82 after paying all benefits and expenses. Pascual Garrza, a Mexican, IS years old, lies in a critical condition at the emergency hospital at Salt Lake, having hav-ing been poisoned by mistake. According Ac-cording to Garrza's friends, the young man contracted influenza and tlie nurse administered carbolic acid in place of liquor and lemon juice. Proposing to construct a canal more than three miles long with a width at the top of 14 feet, at tlie bottom, of 8 feet and carrying a volume of water 3 feet in depth, the Salt Lake Potash company lias made application to the state engineer to divert 40 second feet of water from Great Salt Lake. Those who have maintained that tlie war would bring a marked increase in tlie birth of male infants , seemingly have won their argument. According to figures compiled by the Salt Lake health department, 1739 boys entered the world during 191S, leading tlie more gentle sex by a majority of 145. Of the $4,205,493 paid into the state treasurer's off fee in the twelve months ending November 30, 1918, almost one-half one-half came from Salt Lake county, the exact amount being $1,715,481. Weber county was second with payment of $443,900; Utah county was third with $2S1,17S, while the smallest contribution contribu-tion enme from Daggett, $1051. Roosevelt is now in direct communication communi-cation with Salt Lake by telephone, the line of the Uintah Telephone company having been completed to Park City. This line, which has cost the company $25,000, goes through Emmons, Alto-nah Alto-nah and Stockmore over the- range to Park City, a distance of ninety-five miles'. There were eighteen fatalities in the coal mines of Utah, reported to the industries in-dustries commission up until the close of business December 31. This is the lowest number of fatalities recorded in tlie last three years, and In view of the largely increased production of coal, tne percentage of fatalities to tonnage production was decreased remarkably. re-markably. Because commercial slock feeds are extensively used by dairymen and others in Utah, Walter M. Boyden, state dairy and food commissioner, in Ids biennial report, recommends tlie enactment of a law regulating tlie manufacture and sale of stock feeds. The communion set for tin? Twenty-second Twenty-second ward chapel, Salt Lake, was found to be missing when the church members and visitors arrived at the chapel Sunday morning. No clew to the intruders could be found. The police believe that some boys in th'fc neighborhood are to blame. |