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Show UTAH BUDGET Brigham City is busy these days harvesting har-vesting one of the best general fruit harvests enjoyed for some time. Convicted of speeding at Salt Lake, Michael Hall, a youthful auto driver, was sentenced to ten days imprisonment. imprison-ment. The Salt Lake city commission has tentatively fixed the 1017 tax rate at 0.7o mills on the dollar, the same as1 last year. Two ydung girls of Ogden are being held under government orders at the county jail as aiding a deserter named Telt'er from Fort noughts. I 'iving into seven feet of water In the swimming pool in the Public Safety building at Salt Lake, William Howard Clark, l. years of age, broke his neck. I'tah has four graduate nurses doing active service in France at the present time, and fifty-five more are serving in this country at various army camps. Utah men on the firing line In France are winning the commendations commenda-tions of their superior officers in all branches of the military service, according ac-cording to reports received last week. That Wilford Larson of Mammoth, reported missing following the de-strueiion de-strueiion of the U. S. S. San Diego off Fire Island, New York, is alive and well is the news received by his sister sis-ter last week. Thirty registrants of Weber county in the l.ilS group claimed deferred class oil a f count of agricultural employment. em-ployment. Out of this number appeals of but four have been granted and these were classed in C-l The high cost of living has no terrors ter-rors for tile prisoners interned at Fort Douglas. Sufficient vegetables are rasied to supply the tables of the prisoners. pris-oners. These gardens save Uncle Sam many dollars during the week. A new detachment or battalion of drafted men for special vocational training will arrive at the University of Utah and begin work August 13, according to information received last week at the school from the war department. de-partment. Officers and men at Fort Douglas are planning field day for August 3 when the military grounds will he converted con-verted into an athletic field, where both Red Cross organizations ami men stationed at the fort will participate in the sports. The tour of the 143th artillery band, completed with the entertainment at the capitol. July 24, was most successful. success-ful. The band received contributions of ?lo.o74. After paying railroad fares, etc., this will lease $12,000 for the regimental fund. Salt Lake firemen have announced their intention of resigning in a body unless the city commission sees fit to grant the increase of ,?20 a month in wages and the extra twelve hours away from duty, as asked for In a petition of July 10. Miss Augusta Minnie Deckman, Interned In-terned as an alien enemy, has been removed re-moved from Salt Lake to the State Industrial school at Ogden, where she will remain a prisoner until an order for her removel to Gloucester, Mass., shall have been received. That the greatest per capita expenditure expend-iture for construction and permanent improvement of roads throughout the the nation was made by the state of Utah during the fiscal year ending June 30, 191 S. is the announcement that comes from Washington. In cash sales of war savings stamps thus far this year it seems strange that the percapita sales average the same for the county with the largest population. Salt Lake county, and the one with the smallest population, Kane county, the average being .?6.75. Utah draft boards will not be allowed al-lowed to issue to registrants in the current quota any release for enlistment enlist-ment in the marine corps, navy or emergency fleet corporation, according tJ instructions received by Capt. F. V. FitzGerald from Provost Marshal General Gen-eral E. H. Crowder. Felling two trees each more than thirty inches in diameter, on his eighty-third eighty-third birthday, in the presence of a number of his associates of three-score years, was one of the ways that Lewis W. Shurtliff celebrated his natal day as well as Pioneer day, July 24, at his home in Ogden. Grief stricken and temporarily insane, in-sane, officers said, because he was transferred to the 160th depot brigade as physically unfit for service in , France. Private Ernest McFarlane, 2S ; years old, of Murray, threw himself In frout of a heavy truck near his quarters quar-ters in Camp Lewis and was almost instantly killed. The Threshermen's association of ! Weber and Davis county has decided on a flat rate of 14 cents a bushel to he charged the farmers for thresh-! thresh-! ing oars, barley and wheat. The farm-! farm-! ers. however, have failed to agree to ! the payment of the price, so the affairs between the farmers and threshermen are at a deadlock, i That Utah farmers are taking early steps to receive the advance guard of the annual offensive of the grasshopper grasshop-per pest, is the statement made by J. I Basil Walker, state crop pest inspector. |