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Show OlMEfJEWS ; Kanarravllle, Iron county, Is to have a new schoolhouse of four rooms and to cost about $16,000. Patriotism will mark every feature la connection with the state convention ft the Elks, which will be held at Tovo, June 8 and 6. ' Information has been received In Bait Lake that the Twentieth infantry It to be filled to war strength and sent rom Fort Douglas to Camp Fremont, 'nJo Alto Cal. . Cutworms are more active in th girdens of Utah this year than during .the past few seasons; consequently, mor care and attention must be given th growing crops at this time. Alleging that he was In a hospital nineteen days as a result of an assault by Bill Moukious, Bill Karras filed suit at 8ult Lake last week td recover 1683.24 damages for personal Injuries, Estimates made by executives who have been in intimate touch with the second Red Cross fund campaign' In Utah set the iinal figures at $(!X,00(, which is $100,000 more thun the quotu. White Chautauqua circuit of Portland, Port-land, Ore., will open an engagement at Murray on June 9 and close June 14, An extensive and Interesting program will be presented, mostly on patriotic lines. Luclle Whltoifer, aged 8, stumbled nd fell over" a high bank Into the Jordan Jor-dan river at Salt Lake, and would have drowned but for J. B. Taylor, who rescued the little glxi Just In fte nick of time. , Attention Is called by officers of the United States marine corps that Francis Raymond Crow, the first Utah boy to fall In action In France, was a members of the marine corps and not of the urmy. - Employees of the Salt Luke office of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York have contributed to the maintaining of a Red Cross ambulance and full crew now operating on the western front. Following the wholesale arrests made in the big raid at Salt Lake In which more than 800 men of draft nge were taken Into custody, all. but twen- ty-nlne were released. Those still. In I the county Jail are being held for investigation. in-vestigation. "" I With the hope of increasing the white flint corn acreage In Utuu by at least 10,000 acres, State Food Administrator Adminis-trator W. W. Armstrong has announced that the administration would distribute distri-bute $.00 In cash prizes for the raising of this variety of corn. . Miss Nora Gleason, one of the most ; widely known and loved musicians of 1 Utah, died at Salt Lake, May 20. after an Illness dntlng from April 0. A nervous breakdown, superinduced by overwork, Is stated to have been the ! cause of her last Illness. Thirty-eight veterans of Utah Indian wars and forty-five widows of veterans are to receive $10 each from the 125,0(10 approbation made for them by ' the last state legislature. These additional ad-ditional awards were mude by the state board of examiners last week. Governor Bamberger and members of the state road commission and city and county officials huve been Invited to attend the opening of the road from Ogden valley to Cache valley over the divide on June 7. It Is stuted that the road will he completed on June 1. To push the work on the Lincoln highway from Johnson's pass west to Granite point, Tooele county more than sixty convicts now building the state road through Courthouse canyon north of Moah, Grand county, will be Immediately Imme-diately transferred to Tooele county. The two-nnd-a-half-yenr-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Bounous of Pleasant View, was downed In the Tlin-panogos Tlin-panogos canal Slay 25. The child was missed about noon, and as It was feared she had fallen Into the canal a largt number of the neighbors searched It. That there Is grave danger of Bait Lake war gardens not producing the crops expected of them Is the fear ex-IrcHscd ex-IrcHscd by members of the city committee com-mittee on agriculture and food production, pro-duction, unless the majority of the gardeners quickly adopt as their motto: Use the hoe and the hose less." Utah's crack artillery gun section failed to bring home the divisional championship In the big competition at Camp Kearny, as was expected, but the Beehive gunners refused to take the dust of any other team entered and the final results showed the three fcec- II....U ..II ...1.1. I ..t i. .nr. ,,n nu fijiuti uuuioer VI points. Milking an estimate from reports received re-ceived from all parts of Utuh, Tummis Bedmond, secretary of the state livestock live-stock board, says thut this year's loss of sheep by reason of the prevalence of ticks will reach approximately $1,-250,(KK). $1,-250,(KK). This estimate, the members of the hoard suy, they consider conservative. con-servative. William B. Holt has turned state's evidence against his alleged co-con-splrators In the preliminary hearing of Albert Madison und Ray Graut Mad-laugh, Mad-laugh, charged with having stolen three barrels of whisky from an Interstate Inter-state shipment on the Denver A Rio Grande railroad tracks on Slay 3. The penny contribution campaign' among public school pupils for the benefit of French soldiers temporarily incapacitated by Illness contracted in the trenches, conducted lust "week Id Siilt Luke City school, Is being extended extend-ed to other points throughout the state, i Before the Knights of Pythias con- j ventiiin hurt closed at Salt Lake ou j ilay 22. $l,(MK) worth of war savings j ! Mumps had i.en botilil and ?2H) sub-M-ribril to the Red ios by (lie im-iii- j bi'i'i. In ini.Jii inn. Hi,- ,nv;iiiiaiiu,i lias, K.il.H rihi'ii $24.i,U.jO to lb,. Liberty lo.n.s. - i |