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Show UTAH STALE HEWS A drug store and a pool hull at Pari; City were destroyed by fire, the loan being about $10,000. Immense shipments of coal are being be-ing sent through Salt Lake destined to points In Nevada, , California and Idaho. The farmers' round-un and house keepers' conferenee'at the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college at Logan is being held this week. , : . - , . . In Utah, Idaho and California the teet sugar crop last year was 2,458,000 pounds, as against 1,528,000 pounds in 1918, a gain of 51 per cent Boxelder county has a large list of class 1 men from which to draw when the order comes to begin medical examination ex-amination for the second draft. A three-quarters size oil painting of former Governor William Spry was last week hung on one of the north walls of the executive suite in the state cupitoL "A campaign Is on In Utah for the sale of war savings thrift stamps. Are you purchasing your share? If not get busy at once and do your bit In the battle for freedom. Hogs being fed on rolled barley and meat meal continue to lead in the fattening fat-tening contest being conducted by the state agricultural college at the Salt Lake Union stockyards. Salt Lake's patronesses' home for soldiers was opened last week officially. offi-cially. The patronesses' home Is an ' undertaking that has been started for the social welfare of soldiers. , Salt Lake ranks fifth as to building activity in a list of six western cities, v according to a comparative statement for 1017 Issued by the American Contractors' Con-tractors' association at Chicago. In the future all bay rum sold in ' Utuli will be considered a beverage by the attorney general if it contains uioro than one-half of 1 per cent of alcohol and is not denatured to make it uu-Hlrilikahle. uu-Hlrilikahle. , John Dungl, the German arrested about two weeks ago at the plant of the Ogden Tacking & Provision eoni- pany at Ogden, will be Interned at the internnieut camp at Salt Lake for the duration of the war. The 3G2d regiment, which has in its ranks many Utah men in Camp Lewis, set a high shooting record in the three days just finished on the rifle range, obtaining better scores to the man in most instances than the 301st and 303d regiments. Plans to raise $25,000 in Utah as part of the Knights of Columbus' $3, 000,000 recreational war fund for the benefit of soldiers were made at a luncheon at Salt Lake at which many men prominent in public and business affairs were present. " In payment of me premium due on Insurance Issued covering a large number num-ber of tate employes, the state Indus trial commission last ween received a c.eck of $2801.04. The amount comes out of the general fund of the state and will go Into the state Insurance fund. ' . Aliens in Utah from lands with which the United States Is at war must fill out complete registration blanks soon after January 27. Each registrant must furnish four unmounted signed photographs of himself, not larger than three by four inches, clear and distinct, wilh a light background. Coventor Enimit D. Royle of Nevada, Ne-vada, who is credited with successfully forestalling a price of 80 cents av-ounce av-ounce on silver between the United States and England, was the honor guest at a banquet at the Alta club at Salt Lake Sunday night by the Utah chapter of the, American Mining congress. con-gress. "Wlille we know we are not what we ought to bt we Americans we . know we are on the right side," said Apostle James E. Talmage in the tabernacle tab-ernacle service at Salt Lake last Sun- day. "There is no place in this church for traitors, whether they be native or foreign born," continued ''Apostle Talmage. Abraham It. Majors, serving a life term in the state penitentiary for murder, mur-der, was given his freedom on parol" last week. On May 12, 1800, Mujors was ordered to be shot for the murder of Captain William A. Brown of th Ogden police the previous April 30. A new trial was ordered and be was sentenced to life Imprisonment. Axel Andresen set a new intennoun-tain intennoun-tain record for ski Jumping at Salt Lake on Sunday, when he Jumped eighty feet. Notwithstanding Andre-sen's Andre-sen's championship feat, he lost on points to A. Melgard of Spring Valley, Wyo., who was awarded the first prize f the Sportslog, having a total of 200 points to Andresen's 102. Judge George Francis Goodwin of the third district court died January 1!) at Salt Lake within a few seconds after he had declared a court reeesx of ten minutes and retired from tin bi-iich to his chamber in evident distress. dis-tress. Acute indigestion, with consequent conse-quent interference with the heart's action, ac-tion, was the cause of death. Holier J. Grant has been named chairman of the Utah Liberty loan , slate central committee for the third Liberty loan, according to an announcement announce-ment from the office of James K. Lynch of Snn Francisco, governor of (lie Twelfth federal reserve bank. A search through the interniotintaln country has been Instituted by the authorities au-thorities in an effort to locate Jennie Si-arle and Alice Latham, aged It and 15 years, respectively. The two girls fcft their homes in Ogden to go t t'liool and have not slnco been heard from. |