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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE According to estimates, the value of ! food products from the back yard and vacant, lost of Salt Lake last year was $:i."),OO0. The location survey of a state highway high-way will soon he made over the old Murmon (rail, through Emigration canyon can-yon to the Morgan county line. A condition of financial health Is shown in the report of 102 state banks and trust companies in Utah, preparud and issued April HO by W. K. Evans, stale bank commissioner. Notice has been tent to all slate directors di-rectors of war savings by the national committee that there can be no cessation cessa-tion of activities during the period of Hie Hed Cross drive in May. Thirty-one men included in the last army draft have failed to report to Garileld board No. 1 for examination, and unless they appear at once they will be recorded as deserters. It took a jury less than twenty minutes min-utes in the United States court at Salt Lake to find M. V. Fogh guilty on three counts in an indictment charging him Willi violation of the espionage act. The first shipment of wool to be made from the Fairfield shearing pens consisted of three cars, containing about 135,000 pounds, consigned to eastern warehouses, was made May 1. Lieutenant-Colonel William C. Webb took over command of the Utah regiment regi-ment on May 1, simultaneously with the message of Cloneral Young to the war department accepting his new-position. new-position. Urging widespread cultivation of front and back yards as well as all vacant lots for the production of vegetables vege-tables and green stuff, the food administration ad-ministration avers that every garden is a munitions plant. Frederick G. Redman, a Salt Lake man, who is now driving an ambulance ambul-ance of the hospital detachment of the Thirty-seventh division on the French front, has been decorated with the French croix de guerre. Governor Bamberger has selected George Albert Smith and Levi Edgar Young, both of Salt Lake, to represent repre-sent Utah at the "Win the War for Permanent Peace" convention to be held in Philadelphia, May 10 to 18. Wilhelm von Linder. held in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth as a deserter from the American army, has been ordered interned at the war compound at Fort Douglas, and will be brought to Salt Lake within a few days. Max Florence, charged with violation viola-tion of, the Heed amendment in bringing bring-ing eight trunks full of whisky from Evanston, Wyo., into Utah, last week . changed hisV'ca of not guilty to that of gniltyin the federal court at Salt Lake. The Liberty bond "slackers" of Og-den Og-den are destined to receive a call in the next few days from a federal of- ficial aud questioned as to their reasons rea-sons for failing tiScome to Uncle Sam's aid and lend him a little of their hoarded hoard-ed wealth. A thousand lodgepole pine trees have been added to the flora of City Creek canyon near Salt Lake, in the past week. Five men planted the trees, which were seedlings from the United States nursery on Beaver creek, uear Kamas. Alexander S. Campbell, a native of Salt Lake, 46 years of age, was terribly ter-ribly mutilated and instantly killed in an explosion about a mile east of Kenilworth. It is presumed that the explosive which Mr. Campbell was carrying was set off by the intense heat from the preceding shot. Announcement was made last week from state headquarters of the war savings committee that the chain letter let-ter method of selling thrift stamps has been discontinued by the war savings organization because the scheme was not indorsed by the national war sav- ings committee aud is not proving satisfactory. sat-isfactory. Christian Riis, an enemy alien who has been in the internment camp at Fort Douglas, has been temporarily paroled from that institution, liiis, it is said, is an expert manufacturer of surgical instruments, and it is understood un-derstood here lie is to be used for this work in the east. Reports on inspections made by the sludents of Salt Lake's high schools in connection with the clean-up and paint-up campaign are being compiled, and experts on city beautifieation declare de-clare that they will be of utmost importance im-portance in considering what must be doue in connection with future corrections cor-rections in the appearance of the city. Maggie and Sadie Jones, claiming to be sisters, and dressed in overalls and jackets, were arrested at Ogden when they alighted from a "side-door sleeper.',' sleep-er.',' They claim they are trying to see the world,, and prefer men's attire. Boys discovered the body of (lieu-seppe (lieu-seppe Santomos, an Italian, on the roadside near Cuprum. The man had beeu missing from his home for fifteen days. It is supposed be fell, while on his way home, fracturing his skull. Utah Copper company employes from the Magna and Arthur plants aud the Bingham & Garfield railroad have subscribed $1,131 ,Gj0 for the three Liberty loans. To date ?127,.r)(K has been subscribed to the third Liberty loan by the workmen. Outlining the work accomplished oinee February 1 by the Utah State Council of Defense, and showing that in Utah 1500 men have been released for war work and ,?2,S00.OOO saved in wages and operating expense per annum, an-num, a report has been issued by tb secretary. |