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Show THE UTAH BUDGET GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT. Augl Production Forecast Last year Winter wheat bu.. 540.0(10 490,000 Spring wheat, bu. 1,100.000 1.102.000 Oats, bu o:sx,ooo 002,000 Barley, bu 502.000 492,000 Potatoes, bu 2,910.01(0 2.000,000 All I lay ( tons)... 1,:S21. 000 711,000 ' Apples (bbls.) ... 72,000 10,000 When his motorcycle collided witli4 an automobile Eddie Gillette, a barber of Salt Lake, was probably fatally in-jurod. in-jurod. A complication of distemper and influenza in-fluenza has caused the death of a number of draft horses in the Uintah basin recently. While stacking hay near Payson, Lyman Kapple lost his balance and fell from the stuck to the ground, both of his arras being broken. From one to ten years in prison is the sentence meted out to E. H. Munz, Ogden's youthful and gentlemanly burglar, convicted last week. According to reports received by J. Cecil Alter, meterologist, a pack of seven gray wolves is preying upon the stock in northern Summit county. An invitation has been extended by the Salt Lake Rotary club to the International In-ternational Association of Rotary Clubs to hold its 1919 convention in the. capital city. It is announced that the state road commission is finding difficulty in obtaining ob-taining sufficient labor to put through its plans for new work on the high-' ways of the state. The first Ogden boy to arrive in , France with the expeditionary force is believed to be Robert M. Nelling, aged 24, a motorcycle dispatch rider with the Twelfth engineers. President John A. Widtsoe of the University of Utah has notified the state department of education that there are 29 vacant scholarships in the school of education. - While bathing in Spring lake at Pay-son, Pay-son, Stanley Christensen, aged 14, was drowned. He was in company with some other boys, who were unable to rescue him after he sank. Daily arrests at Salt Lake have drop- f ped from seventy-five to 100 a day to twenty-five a day, and the officers attribute at-tribute the decrease in arrests to the abolishment of the saloons. A decision rendered by a Salt Lake court last week was to the effect that the remarriage of a divorced wife does not absolve her former husband from paying for the support of their child. Forty suits against delinquent poll tax payers has been brought by Weber county, seeking the recovery of $2 and costs from each defendant. Court costs will run the judgments up to about $14. A new jail is to be built for Salt Lake county 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 grounds for a term of fifty years. Captured on the Texas border, six more alien enemies of the United States arrived at Salt Lake last week and were interned in the Third war prison barracks at Fort Douglas until , the termination of the war with Germany. Ger-many. Day by day the drill program at Fort Douglas is becoming more stringent for the new-made soldiers, with the view of having the American soldiers in the best possible condition for active service immediately upon their arrival in France. Grasshoppers have damaged the crop in Juab and Sanpete counties and rabbits rab-bits have destroyed much grain in Iron and Beaver counties. Pastures and ranges are in good condition, however, how-ever, and improving, while stock is in good condition. During the month of July, according to the report of the sanitary inspector, there were 21 cases of contagious diseases dis-eases under quarantine in Ogden, as against 7S in June ; twenty-two deaths as against thirty-three in June, and twenty-seven births as against seventy-five seventy-five in June. Samuel Forties of Washington, chief of the department of irrigation investigations, inves-tigations, is urging expansion of Utah's irrigated area from one million to two million acres, as well as the introduction introduc-tion of good administrative irrigation laws, such as may be understood readily read-ily by any farmer. Confessing that he had been an habitual ha-bitual drunkard, Dr. Theodore Hotopp entered a plea of guilty to the charge of performing a criminal operation which caused the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Eliza-beth Weiss of Salt Lake and her unborn un-born babe. He was sent to the state prison under an indeterminate sentence. sen-tence. Resolutions have been adopted by members of the Salt Lake Commercial club who recently toured the Uintah basin, setting forth the resources of that section of Utah and calling on the state highway commission to exert every ev-ery effort to build one or more highways high-ways connecting the basin with th'a railroads. |