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Show 'UTAH BUDGET Kxravatiou work for the construction construc-tion of a modern fire depart incut at Fort Ioughis is under way. The women's cniiimi 1 1 ce of the third Liberty loan in Weber enmity secured a total of, S.'il.tMO in subscript inns. Ifuy war st imps I'm- .Mothers' day instead in-stead of carnations, was the admonition admoni-tion of the war savings commit tee. The senate has passed Senator King's bill for the relief of homesteaders home-steaders in the Castle l'eak irrigation district in Utah. At the annual convocation of the Crand Chapter, Koyal Arch Masons of I'tah, belli ai 1'rovo last week, Frank I'orter Slierw-ood of Salt Luke was chosen most excellent high priest. The proprietor of a cafe at Ogden, charged with substituting sauce in the hot lies of a .standard brand, was found guilty and sentenced to pay a line of SLT) or serve twenty-live days in jail. Albert Middlestaed, Gorman, 33 years old, was arrested for moving his family and himself from Yuma, Ariz., to Salt Luke without lirst notifying the federal authorities at Yuma of his intention. in-tention. Uegisiralinn booths for the enrollment enroll-ment of women who wish to enter the government service as typists, stenographers, stenog-raphers, electrical draftsmen, accounting account-ing clerks, etc., have been opened in Salt Lake City. . William Spendlove, 59 years of age; Miss Kiuh Criddle, 17, and Miss Alline diddle, lo, lost their lives by drowning drown-ing when their automobile turned turtle into a ditch partly filled with water near .Morgan. Theodore Devonivich Lealow, widely known among bicycle riders and patrons pa-trons of the game ten years ago as "Teddy iJevonivich," died -March S at a Salt Lake hospital. Death was due to typhoid-pneumonia. The first Utah woman to engage in welfare work among the American soldiers sol-diers ou the French front is Miss Mae Isabella Morton of Salt Lake. News of her arrival overseas has just been received by her parents. Seeking to recover $100,000 damages for alleged failure of tiie officers of the tlunnison Valley ougur company lo transfer 10,000 shares of the preferred Slock of the corporation, A. W. Lutz of California lasl week began an action in the federal court against the sugar company. The half-holiday movement in Box-elder Box-elder county has again taken hold of .those favoring the proposition, and Ibis year it is proposed to make the half holiday official by having city, town and county offices close at 1 p. m. each Saturday during the sum mer. Lust week $125,000 was placed to the credit of the state road commission, the money to be used in helping to defray de-fray the expense of construction and maintenance of the new stretch in the Lincoln highway which is to run across me south end of the Great Salt Lake desert and over Johnson's pass. The official figures for the Liberty loan subscriptions in Ogden City and Weber county were announced at the general headquarters to be $1,492,100, or $1o2,1G1 more than the quota set for the district by the state committee. The total number of subscribers in the district was 9421. Under a ruling made by the adjutant general of the United States army, it is believed that young men students at the University of Utah, who have had one year's military training under an army officer at that school will be eligible for entrance into the fourth officers' training camps. Approximately 239,000 acres of winter win-ter wheat is likely to be harvested in Utah this year, according to a report issued by M. M. Justin, field agent for the department of agriculture bureau bu-reau of crop estimates. On May 1 the winter wheat condition was 89 pet cent, compared with 90 per cent on April 1. Presidential warrants were received May 7 by the United States marshal for the internment of Miss Augusta Minnie Deckman, German spy, detected detect-ed in smuggling a note into the prison pris-on compound at Fort Douglas last February, and Isaac Eisner, an Austrian, Aus-trian, who brought a young woman into the state for immoral purposes. Tremonton on May 8 established a new record in lied Cross activity by virtually suspending ordinary business-operations business-operations for 1 lie day and devoting the entire time to substantial Red Cross work. That the work was substantial sub-stantial is evidenced by the fact that about $2000 cash was raised before tlie observances were over. George Itomney, Jr., member of the state board of equalization, estimates that approximately $000,000 will ac crue from the collection this year of the mine occupation tax. Bused on a total population, in round numbers, of 137,000 school pupils, this will mean a maintenance revenue to the public schools of the state amounting to $3.10 per capita. |