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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE During a nhl on a homo in Sail l)a .e, y.'OO worth of morphine, opium, yen slice, heroin ami cocaine was found. After disbursements of spStl.M.Y U! In November, I'tah hail ,f I ,."iO.'i, 107. SI In Its treasury lieccniher I. tiivoiilliig to facts disclosed In the monthly report o. i he state treasurer. Practically every phase of Irrigation will be explained In the course In Irrigation Irri-gation management to be offered at the Utah Agricultural college, I.ogim, during dur-ing the two weeks, beginning t'chru-a t'chru-a ry 10. Willi the total of Insurance taken out by men of the student army train-inj; train-inj; corps amounting to !?.V:'.S,riOO, 11 Is believed that the sum will reach S'lVOM) OO0 before the men at the Utah Asrlcullural college are demobilized. (asolintt was' reduced In price front :!0'-j cents to 20, Stilt I.nke dealers announced an-nounced last week. The change In price was explained to be due to a falllug off in the government demand since the signing of the armistice. The. Klks' clubhouse at Ogde.n has been opened for Influenza patients from Ogden anil Weber county, it Is under the management of the Hed Cross. The expense will be borne by 'he city and the county. 4n eight-hour day will be established estab-lished In nil railroad roundhouses anil car repair shop In Utah, December !. Kmployes working more than eight hours will bo paid at overtime rates. Since November 23 a nine-hour day has been In effect. While sawing pieces of short boards, which were to be used in the construction construc-tion of a casket, K. F. Tate, o-! years old, of Salt 1-ako, accidentally caught his left hand In a buzz saw. The end of his thumb and two lingers were am-j am-j ted. President Heber J. ('.rant of the Mormon Mor-mon church is In Los Angeles for the first visit since be was1 confirmed president. He Is there resting from arduous duties, which have devolved upon him and preparing for work tc come. Orders for 104.902 cases of Utah tomatoes to-matoes for shipment overseas by the Utah Packing corporation were followed fol-lowed by a telegram In which federal officials at Washington sabV "Shiv-ment "Shiv-ment of tomatoes should be rushed with all possible sped." Merle l'.dinision, IS years old. who it is alleged confessed slaying Vincent Corado. wealthy Italian of Tellurldc, Colo., has been lodged In Jail at Salt Lake, awaiting officers from Tellur-lde Tellur-lde with extradition papers to take him back. The program committee of the Utafi Manufacturers' association met at Salt Lake last week and discussed plans for making the next convention of the association as-sociation the greatest in its history. The sessions will bet confined to ono day. January 8, 1010, .and will be held In Salt Ltike. Demand for skilled labor on the farms of the nation will be so great next year than every available high school boy in Utah will be needed to meet the demand, according to the opinion of .7. Challen Smith, acting federal state director of the boys-working boys-working vesorve. UTAH 15 creasedo Anticipating the collection from the mining companies -of the net proceeds tax upon mines, many of the schools in the state re reported to have spent the money before it was received. Since the mines nre resisting the tax there are now no funds to meet necessary neces-sary expenses. State councils of defense are asked to aid the war risks insurance. bureau in investigations of the 4,000,000 insurance in-surance claims of soldiers and sailors sail-ors and allowance claims of their dependents. de-pendents. These comprise cases where women named as wives of men, but who are not their wives, are receiving re-ceiving allowances, and of cases of ehrdren who are not living. Every returned soldier who needs help in finding a Job will be assisted by service bureaus of the United States department of labor. These bureaus will be established in many towns In Utah, as' well as in other states. Henry Williams, arrested in Salt Lake recently on the charge of having hav-ing stolen $275 from a cafe in Ogden, wherd he was employed as a porter, lias been sentenced to serve from one to ten years in the penitentiary. Five concrete bridges will be constructed con-structed on the post road in Grand county. The bridges will span the Thompson wash, Klondyke wash, Courthouse wash, Seven-mile wash and the Mill creek crossing, Just above Moab. Many cattle in Utah are starved by being kept too long on insufficient fall pasturage, and this not only means loss in weight for the animals, but may cause the death of the weaker ones at spring calving. This is the statement made by the committee on agricultural production of the state council of defense de-fense in warning stockmen not to stint the feed. Blackleg has made its appearance at Pleasant Grove, and during the last week several head of cattle belonging to W. H. Homer, Jr., have died of the disease. Veterinarians are urging that cattlemen have their herds vaccinated at once as a preventive. John Itigby, 87 years old, pioneer of Weber county, was found dead about a quarter of a mile from his home, near Hooper, by his son, Hyrum Kigby, when the young man went to visit his father. lie found the house vacant, but warm, and the body of his father near it. |