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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The Utah Light & Traction company has agreed to- arbitrate the question of wages With its employes at Salt Lake. Howard II. DeWeese, adjudged by the supreme court of Utah to have been Justly convicted of wife murder, Is to be shot May 24. In two days' campaign, subscriptions at the Garfield smelter have amounted to $107,350. There are about 1800 employes em-ployes at the smelter. An appropriation of $300 for grading and repairs to the road to Bingham in the vicinity of Welby was voted lust week by the board of county commissioners. commis-sioners. Seven Bingham women went out one j day last week on a Liberty bond loan campaign and had sold $2500 worth of the bonds when their day's work was concluded. i Last, year's famine of fruit Jars and Jelly glasses In Utah will be repeated this year, according to wholesalers of i these necessary appurtenances to the canning Industry. The Ogden Boy Scouts will launch a Liberty loan soliciting campaign April 27, in response to the call issued by I Secretary W. G. McAdoo' and which was received In Ogden last week. , Subsequent to a visit to Emery county coun-ty by Ira R. Browning, state road engineer, engi-neer, it is likely that a change will be made in the; Price-to-Eiiiery highway, which will shorten It about two miles. ! The most prosperous year in the history his-tory of the Western Pacific railroad was 1917, according to figures submitted submit-ted by President Charles M. Levey at a recent meeting of the stockholders of the company.' Assessor Creer of Utah county has turned In to the state board of equall-tation equall-tation his 1918 report of property valuations, val-uations, which shows an Increase of ubuut $200,0(10 over 1917, or six-tenths of 1 per cent. , John Crus was killed and his business busi-ness partner, T. L. Morrello,- suffered Severe body bruises and numerous, lacerations, when a high-spirited team Crus was driving at Suit Lake became frightened and ran away. Four years ago Willie Baugh, an 11-year-old boy of Benson, Cache county, was given a calf to raise. The calf grew to be an A No. 1 cow. The other day Willie sold the cow and bought $150 worth of war saving stumps. A decided slump In births during the week is indicated by the report of the Salt Lake City board of health. The report shows only 44 births, as against 97 for the previous week, and 52 for the corresponding week of last year, '.-v -. vha luif been holding out aguinst the fuies governing gov-erning local retailers during the period of the war has announced his willingness willing-ness to abide by the regulations as set down by the state commissioner of commercial economy, By winning the final event, the 880 yard relay, Spanish Fork 'schools captured cap-tured the first dual meet in Its history from Payson by a score, of 59 to 54. Kxcluslve of the relay, the score was 64 points' each, the competition being extremely keen throughout. Many Utah men are on the mustering muster-ing board at Camp Lewis, which 1ms been organized and perfected for. the Incoming, draft. The men are so proficient pro-ficient ii) their duties that a man sent to camp can be examined and accepted or rejected in Very short. time. , Completion of a hard-surfaced hlgh,-way hlgh,-way between Salt Lake and Ogden is to be accomplished In a period covering cover-ing three years, it was decided at a meeting of the state road commission with business men representing Salt Luke and Davis counties and Ogden. No search of the Jordan river will be made for the body of Mrs. Ida Nelson, Nel-son, who disappeared from Suit Lake, leaving behind her two little children and a suicide note. Officers of the Juvenile court huve become convinced that the woman had no Intention of suicide. During the five-day period beginning May 10, Utah will be called upon to 1 complete the entrapment of 108 draft registrants, a number of men equal to 3.4 per cent of the first gross quota, according to the Induction bulletin Issued Is-sued by Provost Marshal General Cruwder. The father of Mary Wilson and a ! younger sister, who went from Ogden to Klko, Nev., to marry Amer Singh and another Hindu, has tiled a counterclaim counter-claim for $10,0(K) in the district court against Singh, who Is seeking to recover re-cover $100 und damages from Wilson for money advanced at the time of the wedding trip. The Salt Lake Itoute was given Judgment Judg-ment for $15 against Hugh Heffermnn last week when it was proved to the satisfaction of the trial Judge at Salt Luke that a mistake on the part of the company's ticket agent resulted In Hef-fernmn's Hef-fernmn's getting a round trip ticket to Los Angeles from Salt Lake for $15 lesn than the regular price. That precautionary measures may be adopted generally by millers and grain men to prevent loss from dust explosions explo-sions during the summer, an educational educa-tional campaign by Dr. H. H. Brown, scientific exiK-rt with the department f agriculture, has been begun in Utah. Horse and cattle buyers who attended at-tended the auction sules conducted I y ilit 0;;U-ij Horse Sales & Commission company at Its yards at Ogden were iiests of Tom Bradstreet of Orand -land. Neb., at a banquet, at which i,e "piece de resistance" was horse lUI-dt. |