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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Quirk sales and bigger pVollls lo the purchasers Is a slogan that is bring adopted in the war .savings stamp sales in Weber county. It' Utah is to go over the top In tho war savings' stamp loan there must. Ir many large subscriptions a great many more than havr come in so far. A. net increase of $l,r),72:!,(7!) In tho assessed valuation of property in Salt Lake City and county is shown In the recapitulation completed by the county assessor. There appears to he no prospect for the settlement of the cooks' and waiters' wait-ers' strike in Ogden at the present time, according to the views of the employers and the strikers. Women of Salt Lake are organizing for the big War Savings Stamp drive and have formed an organization which will be effective in contributing a considerable sum to the war stamp fund of Utah. War garden crops in Salt Lake this year are expected to total in value more than $1,000,000 more than triple the sunt obtained from last year's crops, according to. the supervisor of the city war garden bureau. A war risk insurance bureau for tho inlei'inountain district is to be established estab-lished in Salt Lake at nn early date, according ac-cording -to information, brought from Washington, by John James, former Insurance In-surance commissioner of Utah. The Idlewild company, of which Governor Gov-ernor Bamberger is the principal stockholder, stock-holder, is having its hotel building in Ogden canyon cut up into apartments suitable for ten to twelve families desiring de-siring a cool spot for the summer. In response to the government's call for men to speed up its shipbuilding, 200 Utah men hove offered their services, ser-vices, and will leave in four shipments for 1'uget Sound, Wash., to enter different dif-ferent departments of shipbuilding. In view of prospective additional expense ex-pense for railroad fares in making trips of inspection throughout Utah, the state board of examiners has authorized auth-orized the state land board to purchase pur-chase two automobiles for use it' iffi-ci.-il travel. In sentencing two Salt Lake youths to pay fines of .$25 each for keeping girls out until 3:30 o'cloii; In the morning, morn-ing, joyriding, Judge Nielsen announced an-nounced a policy of holding the owner of the car used responsible for such action by minors.- The Salt Lake City teachers' retirement retire-ment commission has ,fl0,000 'surplus that is to be invested in municipal or school bonds. Already .$53,000 of the retirement fund is so invested. Under the slate law only these two investments invest-ments are possible. The Utah-Idaho Central Railroad company and its employees have announced an-nounced that an agreement had been signed whereby the motornien and conductors will receive a wage increase of 5 cents an hour and working conditions con-ditions will be modified. On the charge that he has uttered seditious sentiments and has expressed pleasure whenever the German troops have been reported to have gained a slight victory over the allies, A. P. Marquart, a tailor of Park City, faces trial and may be interned. A man giving the name of H. M. Black and his age as 54 years was taken into custody at Salt Lake and is held for observation as to his mental men-tal condition. He appears to labor under un-der the delusion thtit he is chief of the United States' secret service. Automobile owners of Utah will not suffer because of a lack of gasoline, oils, accessories and parts' for repairing, repair-ing, unless the government should commandeer automobile supplies, which is not at all likely, according to the sentiment expressed by automobile dealers. Suit to elect ,T. C. Wade from the custodian's residence on the state fair grounds has been filed in the Third district court by the Utah State Fair association. The complaint alleges that the defendant has persisted in occupying oc-cupying the place without vght since May S. Notice lias been received by the Utah Manufacturers'' association from the depot quartermaster of the army at Omaha that the goverivnent is in the market for a large quantity of baking powder, pickles and other food articles, which Utah manufacturers are asked to bid upon. t Mrs. Elizabeth M. Cohen, Utah pension pen-sion commissioner, is advised in a telegram' from Washington that representatives repre-sentatives of the federal pension department de-partment will visit Utah on June 17 for the purpose of examining- further into claims made by Indian war veterans veter-ans of this state. Homemade strawberry Jam is going to be a short pack this year, according to Utah and Washington crop indications. indica-tions. It is not expected .that either state will be able to furbish berries enough at a price warranting purchases pur-chases of quantities sufficient to supply sup-ply the preserving trade. Mistaking a bottle of lysol for medicine, medi-cine, Mrs. V. O. Emmet, of Salt Lake, had a narrow escape from death last week when she swallowed nearly a tablespoonl'iil of the drug. |