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Show UTAH STATE HEWS Ten thousand dollar was raised foi ' the lied Cross as a result of the Me Cormlck concert at Suit Luke on March 14. ' Utah stands eighteenth among the; tates In the total sales of war savings ; stamps to February 16, through. the: medium of the postofflce. The week beginning March 18 has! been set aside by Governor Bamberger ' as enrollment 'week for the United ' States Boys' Working Reserve in Utah. A. T. Poy, who has been In the state prison for eleven years, on conviction of the murder of another negro at Salt Lake, was denied a pardon last week. Fitting up a laboratory and storage room In the basement of the eupitol. the state livestock board Is arranging a place where research work may be conducted. . Wasatch county has achieved the honor of being the first county In the country, it Is reiorted, to rulse Its entire en-tire quota for the year in war stump subscriptions. . I Dr. E. G. GowanR, state superintendent superintend-ent of public Instruction, says that he expects little difficulty in obtulslug Utah's quota of fKKH) boys and girls for the working reserve. ' Col. Richard W. Young, commanding the Utah artillery regiment, luls been named a member of an efficiency board at Fort Sill, Okla., and will leave within a few days for that post. j Secretary of State Harden Bennion Is now acting governor of Utah, Gover- j nor Bamberger having left Suit Luke on March 17 to take up his speaking ! tour In behalf of the third Liberty loan. State quotas for the boys' army of 250,000 to work on the farms were announced an-nounced March 16 by the United States employment service of the labor department de-partment at Washington. Utah's quota is 5000. Elaborate preparations are , being mnde for the appearance of the Americanization Amer-icanization class of the Suit Lake night schools on March 2a It Is expected that a large class will be given cltl-Benshlp cltl-Benshlp papers. Following an Illness of several months' duration. Dr. Milford B. Shlpp, pioneer physician and early settler of Utah, died March 14 at his home in Salt Lake City. Dr. Shlpp was a Black llnwk Indlon war veteran. Through the co-operation of Russell Ensign of the agricultural department of the Boxelder high school, peach growers at Brlgham City will experiment experi-ment In growing the varieties of peaches peach-es grown in the state of California. Deuf boys of the State School for the Deaf and Blind at Ogden have completed com-pleted about a score of bird houses. The little homes for the feuthered flock ere to be placed .In the shade trees which surround the state Institution. After several weeks of forced luuc- tivlty due' to a lack of supplies, the Wt. Pleasant chapter, American Red Cross, has obtained more than $2(K) worth of material and will at once begin be-gin the making of hospital garments. The Children's Year movement In Utah was organized at Salt Lake last week. The object of the campaign to be conducted will be the saving of the Jives of 500 children under the age of 6 years during the coming twelvemonth. twelve-month. Twenty thousand bundles of clothing r.nd shoes for the suffering Pelgians Is the estimate made by Jhe lied Cross executive committee us to the volume of the contribution from Suit Luke City and county during the week of March 18-5. Chiirles Henderson, associate of John Van Valkenberg, In the latter's claim of extravagant achievement in aerial navigation, was adjudged insune by an examining board at fait Lake mid ordered committed to the stute mental hospital at Provo. All birth records for Salt Lake were broken lust weJ, according to the weekly report of the city board of health. This shows 10'J births during the week. Of these, forty-six are boys mid fifty-Mx are girls, tenths for the week numbered but forty-one. Kmployees of the state public utilities utili-ties commission will probubly be permitted per-mitted to use railroad pusses while in pursuit of their " duties in connect ion with railroad, although no offuiai im-ni.uncemeiit im-ni.uncemeiit to this effect has been received re-ceived from the director general. An urgtfit appeal has been sent out by lr W. D. Dalrymple of Ogden, stute director ot the Prepuredness League of American Dentists, to the iletitists of Utah, asking them to en-roil en-roil for dental services, to be rendered free of charge to tiie men who are tlrufted Into the national army. Another itVpeul to theVurmers of Weber county to slim up their contracts con-tracts for growing sugar beets this year wus made by the Amalgamated Sugar company, following an uppeal Issued Is-sued by the board of directors of the Weber eounty farm bureau, urging the fanners to act at ouce and sign their contract to grow beets. Voshiro Shlma. n Japanese, 32 year old. was found deud In his room at ult l-ake with a bullet wound through bis head. Friends of Shitim state that be probably committed suicide while Proodiflg over, the fact that he had killed u fellow countryman in 1113. i Three thousand acres of farm lands will he thrown open to the farmers of this stute for cultivation this seuson at MosKlii-ou-lhe-Ijike and tin-re will be ao cost attached or rental charge for the hind. The Milec r'r lh" i"'i-eii.v i"'i-eii.v wili cost furiiii-is lor the station. sta-tion. s |
