Show UTAH ANn U AHNS A bounteous crop of fruit Is la predicted predicted predicted pre pre- for Utah this s season season ason l If proper precautions with regard to spraying to keep down pests are observed C. C I L. L Smith the first auto driver arrested arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested In Salt Lake for speeding within the last four weeks was sentenced to serve ten days In the city jail with no alternative of ofa a fine Every Salt Lake boy registered in inthe inthe the boys' boys working reserve and junior bo boys boys' s working reserve must roust be examined examined exam exam- ined loed by a doctor r before being sent out in camps for summers summer's work The Mountain States Telephone I Telegraph company shortly will file In Inthe inthe I the office of ot the t-he state public utilities commission an application for the Increase Increase increase In In- crease of ot its toll rates on certain lines The counties In Utah In 1917 paid into the state treasury a total of ot 2 2 2 in taxes as gs shown in a table issued by State Auditor Joseph in preparation for his biennial report At a meeting of the directors and stockholders of the Knight Sugar company company company com com- pany held in Salt Lake a dividend of ot 3 per cent on the stock or a a. total of was declared for the last quarter A net Increase of five fifty-five In the population of ot Salt Lake is s shown by bythe bythe bythe the weekly report of the city board of health just Issued which shows vs only thirty deaths as against five eighty-five births for the week Defects In IIi muster rolls of several companies of ot Utah Indian war veteranS veteranS' veterans veterans vet vet- erans eranS' are likely to result In rejection of ot their claims for federal pensions according to a a. letter from G. G M. M gaber commissioner at Washington An unidentified man w was s walking along one of the tracks of the Denver Rio Grande railroad at Summit Summit Sum Sum- mit and stepped onto another track on which a single engine was coming being Being Be be- ing hig struck by the engine and killed To repair the break In the Salt La Lake 8 Utah canal near Bluffdale Salt Lake county the Utah Copper company engineering engineering en en- department has constructed in the record time of ot four tour days a f foot o stretch of the largest flume In la the state Unless the contracting companies can be held under their contract and bond for tor repair of the aerial tramway at the county silica beds near the mouth of ot Neffs Neff's s canyon It will probably probably probably ably be abandoned and sold for tor what can be realized Cadet students at the Utah trual college who qualify for tor entrance Into nto the fourth series of officers' officers trainIng train train- Ing lag camps will be trained mined In a special sch school ol to be conducted at the Presidio at San Francisco according to Information information information mation just r received Arthur Clapier of Ogden won the ten-mile ten handicap bicycle road race lover over the course to th the Utah Hot Springs from Ogden on Sunday He not only crossed the tape first and won von the first place but he also took the second time prize Protesting the unmitigated high cost of ot living the Metal Trades union of Salt Lake sent a petition to the Salt Lake Lak Federation of Labor Labor- fo for th the convocation of a mass meeting to consider consider con con- sider ways and means of all alleviating living con conditions in the the capital city Carl Larson accused of having violated vio vio- the the e espionage act by giving utterance utterance utterance utter utter- ance to sentiments disloyal and unpatriotic unpatriotic un un- patriotic with a view to defeating the purposes of the selective draft law was h held ld for the action of the federal grand jury following a a. hearing at Salt L Lake ke The report of ot the third Liberty loan committee shows that subscribed for tor the bonds and that there Is a bond In every family In the state Emery county won won the distinction of ot being the first to exceed Its allotment and Beaver was the first city to oversubscribe over over- subscribe A general increase in rates is asked by the Blue Mountain Irrigation company company company com com- pany which has filed a n petition with the state public utilities commission commis commis- sion The concern supplies the to town of Monticello San Juan county with irrigation and domestic water and with electric k light Pla Plans Plane u for the new new quarter system have have been decided decided upon by th the authorities authorities author author- lUes of the tile University of Utah School the year round Is the Idea The new calendar will go Into effect at the opening of the 1918 summer session which begins this year on June 10 and ends August 30 The ll largest American flag In the world which was lost en route to Salt Lake Le to be used In the big patriotic demonstration to be held on May 18 under the auspices of the local lodge Loyal Order of ot Moose has been located located located lo lo- lo- lo at New Orleans having been shipped there by mistake Logan and Provo citizens have selected selected selected se se- committees to arrange details demUs for the war wor conferences to be held there Saturday May 18 Citizens of communities communities' contiguous to Cache and Utah counties are planning to attend these war conferences Claims of two seventy-two Utah Indian war veterans and three seventy-three widows of the pioneer defenders of the commonwealth commonwealth com com com- were approved last week by the state board of examiners These veterans and widows are declared entitled entitled tIed to compensation under the the appropriation made by the last Utah legislature ture for their relief Letting a contract for feet teet of concrete road work In Weber county to the Utah Portland Cement company Indicates that the state road commission commission commis commis- sion Is not yet ready to abandon cement cement cement ce ce- ment concrete In favor of |