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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The Weber County Poultry association associa-tion will hold its annual show In Og dsn January 18 to 18. All restrictions' on public assemblages as-semblages of every character! In Salt Lako havo been removed byV'he state and city boards of health. Sovcral Utahnv will nttend the Pa clflc coast congress of tho League to Enforce Pence, which will bo hold If! Son Frnnclsco, February 10 nnd 20. The city of St, George Is now Investigating Inves-tigating n drntnngo system for tho west part of tho city and also a' sewcrago system for the main part. It also has 0000 feet of now plpo to 'lay,- . A competition In poultry raising has' been undertaken by pupils of tho Utah School for tho Deaf and Blind at Or-den, Or-den, with tho result that tho deaf boys have proved tho best fanciers. Utah county this year shipped 423 cars of peaches, which netted tho growers $.'175,000, nnd i!G0 carloads of apples, which brought ?31 5,000, according accord-ing to statistics Just compiled. 'Martin Culver, convicted several mouths ngo of hnvlng brought Intoxicating Intoxi-cating liquor Into Utah,, In violation of tho Itccd amendment, last wool; paid a flue of ?500 into tho federal court. Karl Mathls, while taking a case of goods down to tho basement of n store nt St. George, caught his' left foot In tho elevator pulley, causing n double frncturo of tho ankle and. a break In the bone. When the University of Utah reopens re-opens Januopy a It will offer ns part ot Its regular curriculum couiseK In nutomobllo mechanics nnd engineering engineer-ing for , car owners, chauffeurs and specialists. President Heber .1. Grant and wlfo hnvo returned from n thrco weeks' vacation va-cation In Santn Monlcn, Cnl. President Grant declared ho hnd becomo rejuven-ntcd rejuven-ntcd by tho rest nnd recreation afforded afford-ed him nt tho seaside. Tho board of health has notified nil dnlrymeu delivering milk In Ogdcn to present n certificate to tho board showing show-ing that their herds had been tested for tuberculosis and that they were free from that disease. Tho -l-yenr-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Keen of Suit Lako is at tho emergency hospital in n critical condition following the swallowing of n number of pills containing strychnine. strych-nine. Convulsions followed. Turkeys sold on tho Salt Luko market, mar-ket, December iiO, nt -18 cents a pound. This, ns far as pioneer dcnlers of Salt Lako remember, Is u higher price than tho holiday bird has ever commanded In tho retail market of tho capital city. A spocial effort to gather In tho relics of onrly dnys In Utah Is now being be-ing conducted under tho auspices of tho Daughters of Utah Pioneers, preliminary pre-liminary to making nn extcnslvo educational edu-cational exhibit nt tho stnto Cupltol building. Firing nt a pair of chicken thieves' who attempted to steal somo ot his father's pure-bred stock, whllo other members of the family wero nwny, 15 year-old EdwurdVtklns of Salt Lake, shot one of the thieves, who, however, mado bis escape, George O. Bclf, Salt Luko hotel man, won eleven prizes with thirteen fowls entered nt the Los Angeles poultry show. In tho Uralimn class his birds took nil tho prizes, innklng n complete clean-up In n field that embraced prize u-lniuim from nil over tho country. James Grey, n miner at tho Daly mlno at Park City, Incurred a broken leg when .ho was thrown from nn oro car. Thrco enrs left tho trnck In n tunnel nnd Grey, who was riding In tho second carl was cut arid bruised, In addition to suffering tho fracture. Through the snlo of S'-iD'-'.OOO of Utah state road bonds; tho stnto land board has llecn placed In funds so It may ro-sumo ro-sumo tho nctivo loaning of money to farmers. Tho board has sold UK 4lA per cent stnto bonds and will "uso tho proceeds to make furm louns at 0 per cent. Thirty prisoners at tho stato penitentiary peni-tentiary wero the recipients of Christmas Christ-mas gifts at tho hands of tho state board of' pardons. Of these, seven Vero given, paroles, ono sentenco wns commuted com-muted and twenty-two had their sentences sen-tences terminated at onco or In tho Immediate future. . Kwan Sims, Salt Lako Chinaman, reported re-ported killed lu action with tho American Ameri-can expeditionary forces, began his fighting career when ho 'wns but 10 years old ' Although bom In this country, coun-try, wbon tho revolution sturtcd In China flvo years ago, he went to that country nnd took up arms with the revolutionists. IIo later returned to the United Stntes. Tho four canneries In Utah county packed 0500 tons of tomatoes, or 80,. 120,000 cans, netting tho growers ?07, 500. Of peas, 200 tons were packed, or, 480,000 cans; of string beans 170 tons, or 1.128,d00 cans,-valued at $28,200; ot corn 50 tons, netting ?750; of cucumbers cucum-bers 500 ton's, worth ?5000j of cab-bago cab-bago 100 tons, yielding $1000. John I'rldho, n Mexican, was sen. Jenced to sixty dnys In tho city Jail at Ogdcn for making nn assault upon Joso Gnrcla, Tho two men wero cm ployed with n rullroad section gang in tho city and during n quarrel Jt is alleged al-leged that I'rldho attacked his countryman country-man with a pick. Ira B. Whltaker, of Wlllard, son of Mr, nnd Mrs. Jqhn . M. Whltaker, was killed In action Noymbor !. Mr. Whltaker, Whlt-aker, who was '2-1 years. old, had been wounded In the Argonno fighting, but I had recovered and rejoined his com 1 pany, |