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Show THE UTAH BUDGET To accommodate increased business the Postal Telegraph Cable company will construct u new telegraph Hue from Salt Lake to Spokane. Fire believed to have been of incendiary incen-diary origin practically destroyed the bouse and furniture of C. A. Middle-ton, Middle-ton, a policeman of Salt Lake. Serving sixty-day sentences, there are now fifteen drug users in the city jail at Salt Lake, as the result of a strenuous anti-drug campaign. George Martin Ottinger, who died at Salt Lake last week, was a veteran fireman, author and artist. He was. a member, of the volunteer firemen of the early days. Fruit to the value of thousands of dollars has been lost to Utah on account ac-count of the shortage of help to harvest har-vest the crop prior to destruction or damage through frost. The people of Utah are responding to the food conservation and distribution distribu-tion of fuel ideas in a manner that is distinctly pleasing to the food and fuel administrator of the state. J. Heney Remington, aged 37, was shot and instantly killed at Bingham by William Phinney, 35. The shooting was the result of a trivial disagreement. disagree-ment. Phinney was captured. The seventy-fifth anniversary of their wedding was celebrated last week by Mr. and Mrs. William W. Weygint of Salt Lake. Mr. "Weygint is 97 and Mrs. Weygint 95 years of age. When he passed through Salt Lake last week from the coast, Billy Sunday, Sun-day, the evangelist, declared that: "The devil will get his due when the kaiser arrives at his destination." Condensed milk plants located in Utah may soon be called upon to fur-uisli fur-uisli part of the heavy shipments of condensed milk that are being made to Russia by the American Red Cross. A movement is under way by patriotic patri-otic Utah county people to send the Utah county soldier boys a carload of apples, and it is expected that the boys will be remembered in this practical prac-tical manner. War revenue taxes are now being collected, and the purchasers of theatre the-atre tickets, loug s tance telephone calls, railway tickets, sleeping car berths, and many other things are paying the tax. The Salt Lake Commercial club has gone on record as favoring the plan of an eastern capitalist looking to the establishment of a wool scouring plant in Salt Lake before the wool clip of next year is ready. Edward Stone, 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Stone, of Salt Lake, narrowly escaped death by poisoning when his grandmother by mistake gave him a dose of lysol instead in-stead of cough medicine. Exceeding the quota of its first Liberty Lib-erty loan subscription by 215 per cent in the subscription to the second Lib-. Lib-. erty loan Utah is reported to be second sec-ond ranking state in the United States as regards Liberty bond activity. In addition to pledging the housewives house-wives of Utah to an observance of strict economy in the use of foods, the federal food administrator of Utah is now asking the hotels and restaurants restau-rants to join the army of food conser- vators. As the result of a Hallowe'en prank at Salt Lake, Gustave Geis, aged 17, shot ins 16-year-old brother in the head with a small calibre rifle, when another boy attempted to wrest the gun from him. The boy will probably proba-bly recover. In the home guard organization that is being established under the direction direc-tion of Col. II. M. H. Lund, adjutant general, no men tinder 31 will be en-l'ulled, en-l'ulled, although men between the ages of 18 and 41 are eligible for member- ship in the unorganized militia. The recent frost in Utah county is said to have destroyed 100 carloads of apples. Approximately 75 per cent of the crop was saved through the growers picking their crops and stor-'" stor-'" . iug them to await boxes and railroad cars for shipment to the eastern markets. mar-kets. Four hundred and sixty-four arresls were recorded at the police station at Salt Lake for October. This is 33S less than during the corresponding month in 1910 and seventeen less than ere recorded for the preceding month. Of this number thirty-four were for drunkenness. In (be case at .salt Lake of Helen Ruth Oberg against M. (). and Jessie Minor, a suit to recover $10,000 damages dam-ages for the loss of the sight of the , left eye from being struck with a nail by Arthur Minor, small son of the defendants, de-fendants, the jury returned a verdict assessing the damages of the plaintiff at $2500. r Salt Lake grocers were informed last week by James S. Carver of Og-den, Og-den, a member of the executive board of the National Retail Grocers' 'association, 'asso-ciation, who was recently in conference confer-ence with Herbert Hoover, that growers gro-wers should encourage the return of the marker basket system by charging uxtra for deliveries. |