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Show 1 UTAH STATE NEWS i There has bceri but one enso of Influenza In-fluenza reported In Bingham slnco Thanksgiving dny. Begulatlons may bo modified as n result of tho Improved conditions. Beglstratlon of the Jewish peoplo of Salt Lake who favor the Zionist movement, move-ment, under the. Zionist Organization of America, will bo carried out this week by tho Sulvnss ZIon society. Tho slate war. savings committee is going "slacker hunting" this week in a final effort to separate the higvcrs from tho puBhers In the category of patriots. Only seventy-two how cases of Influenza In-fluenza were registered at tho Salt Lake city health office Sunday, showing show-ing n decided Improvement over the provlous day, when elghty-Boven new eases developed. Amnndeo Noznrln, an Itallofi about years of age, committed sulclilo nt lark City Sunday by throwing him-self him-self Into Silver creek. Noziirin Sat-urday Sat-urday attacked his wife, wlm Is 111 with the Influenza, and afterward ho" was Placed In a strnlt-Jacket. He managed to escape today and drowned himself. Sixty thousand Bed Cross members will o Blgned in Salt Lake next week, If tho expectations of tho executive committee uro realized. A houso to muse canvass' for tho entire city will bo Inuugruteil Monday, December fO. The ciunimlcn will lnur ,i,.v mc campaign will Inst six days. De.-dgned to recelvo 7fiO,000 bushels of wheat, the twenty grain elevators or the Cllobe drain & Milling company at Ogden are practically completed. Tho buildings aro 1QO feet high nnd are made of reinforced concrete. Thpy have been enctod In West Ogden nnd form one unit of the plant of tliu com-puny. com-puny. Tho Democratic and Bepubllcnn slate committees have filed with tho secretary of tnto final accounts of their total receipts ami disbursements In the November campalgu, as follows: Democrats, .receipts, ll,Wl.W; ills-bnrHomenlH, ills-bnrHomenlH, ?ll.!r,.in. ifepubllcnns, receipts, ?i:i,t)75.;so; disbursements, ?i;U71.2.'t, with outstanding obligations amounting f,.io0.2f. That Salt, UiUu City and county have turned over a ngw leaf without waiting wait-ing for the new year, and havo at-tnlnod at-tnlnod tho envfablo distinction of having hav-ing no iirreNts mudu within tho boundaries boun-daries of i he county during the period from Saturday night nt -midnight to midnight Sunday, Is hovn by tho records rec-ords at the police station and at tho sheriffs office, December 7-8. Otto Hunt of Bluff has made application appli-cation to Oeorgo V, 3IcOonagle, stnto engineer, for tho use of ten second-foot of water from Arch canyon In Sail Juan county, to irrlgnto 100 acres of land. Diversion is to bo accomplished, .according to the application, by means of u canal 12,420 feet' long, five feet whlo at tho top nnd threrf fcet wide nt the bott to carry ono and one-half feet of water. Tho detachment of fifty men from Camp Lewis, Wash,, assigned to duty with lllo Third Wnr prison company nt Kort Douglas, la duo to orrlvo nt tho fort within a few days, according to Information received at war prison headquarters. This dqtuchment Is n part of, a force of about 100 men mat is needed to bring tho guard company up to Us full quota. About fifty moro men aro duo to bfi ent here from somo other camp In tho near future. Beforo sailing for Kurope, according to Information received From Washington, Wash-ington, President Wilson signed a proclamation restoring to entry 2120 ucres of land In tho Savler national forest in Garfield and Iron counties. The land is In scattered tracts and chiefly valuable for agricultural purposes. pur-poses. Tho land may bo entered upon 1 nt any time, but will not bo open to homestead settlement until January in. Filings may bo made through tho Bait Uko United Stntes lond office Formers residing along tho railroad between Salt Lake and Nepht will bo allowed to ship their wheat to tho federal fed-eral grain corporation at Chicago Instead In-stead of (lalyestoii. FIro of unknown origin entirely destroyed de-stroyed the rouiulhouso of tho Utah Ballwuy company at Hiawatha. No other damngo Is known to huvo been done to surrounding buildings. Hundreds of cartons, contnlnlog cholco Utuh celery, were mulled last week to persons living In other parts of tho Unltod States, according to a statement nmdo by Jesso N. Smith, chairman pf tho celery committee. Tho geography of Utah, prepared by Moslah Hall, stato Inspector of high school for tho Htntf1, has Jds't been completed. Tho text-books will bo used by the schools of Utnh. as soon as they are open. Three nlfolfa feed mills In Sc'lcr county began operations last week. One plant Is at Blchtleld. tho other at Klsln-ore Klsln-ore liiul another between Ktalnorc anil Jlomw. It Is believed the mill will pocounige feedlus tn thef wtlon. |