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Show ! NORTHWEST NOTES Nineteen young men left Butlo last week to enter tlio training school nt Boulder, Colo. Moro thnn 1,000,000 cases of tomatoes, to-matoes, twice the canned output of nny previous year, will bo tho Utah canneries' product for 1018. Thu Democratic statu platform convention con-vention at Helena, Mont., elected Hugh It. Wells of Miles City to sue-cced sue-cced himself ns chairman of the Htnto central committee. Chief of City Detectives John Row-an Row-an wns killed and John D. Itlley, u city detective, probably fatally wounded In a battle with robbers In the downtown district of Colorado Springs. ' To stlmuli.to Interest in food conservation con-servation aim nil wnr activities, somo Hutto merchants have resolved to wo a largo proportion o'f their advertising advertis-ing space und appropriations for i.ils purpose. At tho sheep nuctlon held nt Helena lust week, a prominent sheepman Bold a two-year-old Hampshire, 'mm, born and rnlsed lu Montana, to u liozemnn grower for $1(100, thu record prlco In tho state. A contingent of-yount n-qtnen from Lowlstown, Mont., went out .one day hint week nnd assisted In threshing operations, doltig excellent work. Heretofore Here-tofore tho women Imvo assisted only In shocking tho grain. Despite war conditions, building operations op-erations In Snlt Lako during -.ugust, 1018, showed nn Increase of 02 per cent In volume over the showing for August, 1017, nccordlng to n report Issued Is-sued In Chicago, covering Pacific coast cities. Captain IJovcrly C. Duly, retired, has been relieved from duly ns professor profes-sor of military science nt tho Univer sity of Wyoming nnd has been restored re-stored to nctivo duly and assigned ns commanding officer of tlio students' nrmy training camp unit nt that Institution. Insti-tution. Tho sugar Industry contributes moro to the wealth of tho state of Utah than any other, except that of mining nnd smelting. Tho Importance of this activity ac-tivity Is further Indicated by tho fact that it puts Utah among the first four states lu thu union In point of beet sugar liroductlon. Messages havo been received nn-nounclng nn-nounclng the death at Puyallup, Wash., of A. D. Myers, n well-known iAjwIstown, Mont., business man, 02 years of nge. The deceased left Lowlstown Low-lstown with Mrs. Myers several weeks ago, hoping that n change of cllmnto might prove bencflcMl. Striking Industrial workers nnd labor la-bor ugitatora of Hutto may.fuco the sumo ultimatum which President Wilson Wil-son Issued to strikers at Bridgeport, Conn., nnd may ho compelled to find work with an essential wnr Industry pr bo barred from employment- for ono year, according to federal agents. Four thousand und ninety-eight recruits re-cruits Interviewed nt Camp Kearny last week applied for $10,220,000 worth of government Insurance, according ac-cording to official figures given out Only thirty-one refused to apply for Insurance. In-surance. Thirty-six of them nsked for less than tho $10,000 maximum allowed. al-lowed. Willie Jack, a 13-car-old Indian boy and tho self-confessed murderer of Mrs. Charles Williams at Hick's station sta-tion In Nevada, has been sentenced to life Imprisonment It Ih tho Intention of tho court to refer the matter to tho stnto board of pardons with u recommendation recom-mendation that tho boy bo scut to tlio tato Industrial school. Thcro Is ono mother In Wlnncmucdi, Nov., who Is happier .than other mothers, moth-ers, nnd she Is Mrs. S. A. Dedmnn. A Jew 'days ngo sho received n letter from her son announcing his arrival nt Camp Dlx, -N. J., on u four months' furlough ufter receiving seven wounds und being severely gassed In the American service. Propaganda relative to tho effect that the United Stntes government Is not properly taking care of Its lighting light-ing men, has been circulated recently lu Salt Luke to a great extent, Colonel Gcorgo I llyram, In chnrgo of tno war prison' ut Fort Douglas, declared Inst week, and that drastic steps wcro being be-ing taken to suppress all such stories. Stuart Itonuld Thompson, n district orguulzer for the Woodmen of tho World, was Instantly killed and Robert Jackson was seriously Injured near i Great Falls, Mont., when tho car In wlilch they wero riding nnd which was being driven nt n high rnto of speed, crashed Into a bridge, broke through tho railing and Jumped to thu g'round 20 feet below. Ben Kuhl must dlo for tho brutal and premeditated killing of tho driver of tho Jarbldge-Twln Falls stage at Jar-bldgo Jar-bldgo about two years ago. Ills companion com-panion In tlio crime, Ed, Beck, must, serve a term of' life Imprisonment. Tlie'stato supreme court lias swept nsldo nil contentions raised by uttor-! uttor-! noys for tho condemned man und tho Elko county district court has been ill-! reeled to fix u (Into for tho execution of Kuhl lu the slate prison. Because, ho tried to bribe a waiter oil u dining cur to "slip him a little moro sugar," n traveler on an east-bound east-bound Southern I'ncuic train recently, was given a blucfc eyo by an arpiy officer, of-ficer, who was sitting nt ncarl5y table, the Incident occurring nt Itcno. Tho Rev. Father Crouin, pastor of Sacred Heart church, Goldlleld, who left last week to, enter tho nrmy ns n chaplaJn t-t Fort Itlley, Kan., whh escorted es-corted to tho train by a largo crowd, which gave three big cheers for tho clergyman ns tho train left tlio station. |