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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Provo now lias a population of 12,-000, 12,-000, according to the new directory. For the coming state fair, over 5tMH) entries have been made by 500 exhibitors, exhib-itors, to date. , Convicted at Coalville of having whisky illegally in his possession, a negro was fined $150 by the local justice jus-tice of the peace.' Sportsmen of Ogden and Weber county are to assist after October 1 in furnishing wild ducks for a supper for the boys at Fort Douglas. Itange conditions are the best for years in most parts of the state, and stock is in excellent condition, according accord-ing to a bulletin by the weather bureau. bu-reau. The weather bureau reports that beets and potatoes are reaching maturity ma-turity in good condition. Beets in the Tremonton district re reported not so large as usual. Constructed at a cost'of $150,000, the new spur of the Western Pacific from Burmester te the International smelter smel-ter near Tooele will be completed within a few days. On September 19 ten thousand people peo-ple from all over eastern Utah were in Price to pay homage to the boys from that section who were leaving for the training camp. Thousands of visitors were in attendance at-tendance at the Peach day celebra tion at Brigham City, September 19. The festivities began at 11 o'clock and lasted until late at night. At the annual meeting of the stockholders stock-holders of the Denver & 'Rio Grande, which takes place October 16 iu Denver, Den-ver, consideration of a railroad into the Uintah basin will be included. The total tax revenue on all property proper-ty in ' Salt Lake City and Salt Lake-county, Lake-county, assessed at $277,573,423, should be $4,919,126 for the present year, according ac-cording to figures by the county auditor. audi-tor. Thousands of people who gathered at the railway station in Salt Lake September 19 realized what war really means when they bid farewell to 432 men who were leaving for the training train-ing camp. Recently fruits have made excellent progress in the different sections of Utah, and are of good quality. Shipments Ship-ments of pears, plums and prunes are being made, and carload shipments of peaches are beginning. Dr. Max Kampmann, psycho-pathol- , ogist, who is well known at Salt Lake and in Centerville, has been arrested at Los Angeles, charged with Tiola-tions Tiola-tions of the espionage law. He left Utah a short time ago. It is reported that unless drastic steps are taken by the state council of defense, or some authorized food conservation agency, tons of fruit throughout the stnte will be allowed to rot upon the ground. According to a report received by John B. Walker, state crop pest commissioner, com-missioner, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers cucum-bers and melons are being damaged ti a great extent by the frost in Salt Lake, Davis and Weber counties. Throughout the state much fall plowing plow-ing has been done and some seeding, but in many cases farmers are waitings for rain before seeding. Scarcity of labor is putting farm work behind in. Beaver county. Corn is being cut in. Iron county. On the eve of their departure for the training camp at American Lake, more than 300 of the men drafted into the military service of the nation were the guests of the people of Salt Lake at a luncheon tendered at one of the leading hotels. Judge Nielson at Salt Lake last week showed his displeasure at the practice of allowing children to drive t automobiles by holding the owners or custodians of machines responsible, when he fouud John W. Tobin guilty f permitting a small boy to drive a truck. The first arrest at Bingham of an. alleged bootlegger since the bone-dry law went into, effect occurred last, weefc, when a deputy sheriff took into iistody Mike Morikis, at Oopperfield. Morikis was carrying a grip, in which twenty-four pint bottles of "booze" were found. Permission from the national food Administration for the storage of wheat by mills and individuals, with reason-.ible reason-.ible allowances for storage charges, is to be asked by the millers and farmers farm-ers of the state, with a view to averting avert-ing a possible shortage of wheat in Utah during the coming year. Utah's governor lias been chosen as a member of the presentation committee commit-tee of the American Peace Centenary committee, which is charged with the presentation of a statue of Abraham Lincoln to the British nation. It is planned to place the statue near Westminster West-minster Abbey, London. Plans for the October conference in Salt Lake include the exhibit of Red ! Cross work and other products which children of the twenty-two nearby stakes have prepared for the relief of the military forces iu the field. |
