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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Have you any photographs', maps drawings or aul lienl ic information of Germany? The slale eoimeil of de-i fense wauls Ihein. Send Ihem in. Utah's second lied Cross war I'uii'l totaled !?)1'J.7(i2 :tl the close of llet week's work of the patriotic solicitors, The stale's quota was .S.KKMIOO. 1 Quite a harvest of honks is being' reaped by the Fort Douglas V. XI. ('. ,. in response to "the appeal for readiir.' material for the soldiers made recently. recent-ly. The result of the women's lied Yo- drive as reflected in a statement coin-piled coin-piled by Xlrs. W. F. Adams, chairman of the women's committee, indicates contributions totaling S;.".:!. 8118.50. The wrecked copy of Cyrus K. Dal-lin's Dal-lin's statute, the "Signal of Peace." which was recently partly demolished by the sculptor when he visited the stale eapitol, has been restored. Twenty-five hunters' employed ny Ihe state livestock board are busy trapping, shooting' and poisoning predatory pred-atory animals in Utah, and they are meeting with considerable success. Dr. T. B. Beatty. state health commissioner, com-missioner, has gone to Washington, to attend the convention of the National Medical association, being Utah's official offi-cial representative for that meeting. In a raid at Bingham, more than 40O , men of draft age, principally foreigners, foreign-ers, were compelled to give an accounting account-ing of themselves with reference to. compliance with the conscription law. To be the first railroad company to file its 1917 report with the Utah puh-j lie utilities commission is the record; of the Utah-Idalio Central Bail road: company, which filed its last year's report re-port on May 2,8. Theodosius Botkin, American consul, at Campbellton, New Bruswick, died -May 27. Mr. Botkin was a former resident resi-dent of Salt Lake, coming from Kansas City after serving several terms on the district bench in that city. A testative order giving permission for the Utah Light & Traction company com-pany to operate street cars outside the congested districts of Salt Lake with one than in charge has been granted by the public utilities commission of Utah. A questionnaire is being sent from the ffice of the Salt Lake City superintendent super-intendent of schools to students completing com-pleting the eighth grade this year, with a view to eliciting information as to the vocational bent of each pupil. Ernesto D'LYbano, an alien, has begun be-gun suit against the city of Salt Lake. Asking for $10,000 damages for the lleath of his son, Guiseppe D'Urbano. between 7 and 8 years of age, who was drowned in a canal constructed by the city. Walter M. Boyden, state dairy and pood commissioner, gives. notice to fruit shippers that they must observe the provisions of the federal standard container con-tainer act in packing small fruits, lverries and vegetables for traffic between be-tween states. Two attributed causes for shortage of railroad freight cars have been referred re-ferred to XX'. F. Jensen, commissioner of commercial economy, for solution by the executive committee of the state council of defense. Mr. Jensen will make an investigation. Donating their time after business hours, ten young women connected with the arts department of a Salt Lake mercantile house knitted a "patchwork" quilt which has been sold for $171.50. The money has been contributed con-tributed to the Red Cross war fund. XTith the hope of putting all disloyal dis-loyal Americans behind the bars where they will no longer be able to do any harm, officers of the Salt Lake investigation inves-tigation office for the department of justice, have begun a rigorous cam-, paign for the enforcement of the new sedition law. Persons who have on hand more flour than they require for their present pres-ent needs', or who are willing to do with less than they are accustomed to, in order that the soldiers may have enough, can get $4.75 for each 100 pounds from the food administration,, which wants all the flour that can be spared in Utah. As an additional encouragement to the people of Utah to raise white flint corn during the present year as a substitute sub-stitute for flour, State Food Administrator Adminis-trator XV. W. Armstrong has' announced that the food administration would offer of-fer $500 in cash prizes to be awarded to the state fair. Suffering from several deep lacera-, tions about the left eye, which may result in the loss of that organ, Alfred Lynn Patterson, 25 years old is In a. Salt Lake hospital. The lacerations were received, it is said, when an emery em-ery wheel upon which he was sharpening sharp-ening tools' burst. The old folks of Jordan stake have exemplified their patriotism and support sup-port of the government by the purchase pur-chase of $400 of third Liberty bonds. The sum was taken from the accum-mulated accum-mulated funds of the treasury. XX' a r savings societies are being formed in many of the large business N concerns of the states, the members pledging themselves to buy a certain number of War Savings Stamps each week. C. E. Spiegel, alxaut 50 years old. enemy alien, who was placed under arrest by Salt. Lake police a few days ago because he laid failed to comply with the law requiring all subjects of Germany to register, was released, after aft-er he had promised to register. Utah's husky artillerymen proved themselves athletes of the highest order or-der last week, when they took second place in the big divisional field meet, a contest in which every organization of the division was fully represented and in which more than 4000 soldiers' competed. |