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Show UTAH STATE HEWS At a mass meeting it was decided by the citizens of Mauunath to eelebraib Independence day In an appropriate and fitting manner. The Salt Lake and Ogden Scots will hold an outing at Lagoon Wednesday, June 26, to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Bannockburn. The annual meeting of the Utah State Dental society, scheduled for Salt Lake June 19, 20 and 21, In planned to be in the nature of a post graduate course. Without regaining consciousness, C. B. Spraguev the third victim to succumb suc-cumb to Injuries sustained In the fatal automobile ai!ldent near Salt Lake on June 4,' died Ira June 7. The Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers Engi-neers held its memorial exercises in Salt Lake,' June t, in commemoration of fifty men and seven women who i bad died during the year. Oats acreage has decreased slightly !n the state, though the Uintah basin shows a considerable increase. Condition Condi-tion of oats in the state is slightly below be-low average, being 03 per cent Pearl Hudson, aged 23, was struck by an auto Just as .she alighted from a street car in alt Lake City, and was probably fatally Injured. The car was driven by & son of Mayor Ferry. James McDonald of Ogden sustained deep scalp cuts and one ear was almost torn from his head when a light car In which he was riding came Into collision col-lision with an auto truck on the road to Clearfield. , - , . , Hearty Indorsement was given by the Salt Lake Realtors last week to two proposed ordinances now under consideration consid-eration by the city commissioners to protect property owners against the abuses of tenants. Succumbing to an illness of leas than a week's duration, Colonel Irving A. Benton, general passenger agent of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad for many years, and well-known man of affairs, died at Salt Lake, June 9. The women of the southern part of the state have responded enthusiastically enthusiastic-ally to the work of the National Leagtrt for Women's service, according to Mrs. Lily C. Wolstenholme, who has Just returned re-turned to Salt Lake after an extended trip. ; The executive committee of the Utah Association of Boards of Education, in a meeting held at the capltol last week, decided to hold the annual conference confer-ence independent of the time when the Utah Educational association Is to convene. con-vene. f - t" , , To be lost In the mountains and compelled to spend the night in one of the near-by canyons, through which there IS no? travel, if the experience that befell hree Ogden wtfmen, who went on a hike' Sunday. ' They were none the, worse for theff experience. Under a recent order of the postof-flee postof-flee department no parcels will be forwarded for-warded to soldiers In Europe, In care of the American expeditionary force In France, except at the request of the eoldler and If accompanied by an approval ap-proval from the regimental commander.' command-er.' .t r That the Wendover highway, which parallels the Western Pacific railroad across the Great Salt Lake desert, will be fit for safe travel for the heaviest j kind of motor-driven vehicles by July 1, Is the expressed opinion of the fore-mnn fore-mnn of the road gang at work on that stretch. . 1 Arrested at San Francisco on a charge of stealing an automobile. Private Pri-vate Arthur II. Bulsh, O buttery, 847th held artillery, formerly of Salt Lake, was taken back to Camp Lewis, tried for desertion and sentenced to serve twenty-five years In the federal penitentiary. peni-tentiary. Denied release under bond from the state mental hospital, Charles Henderson Hender-son was given Into the custody of n neighbor for one week, to penult him to attend the funeral of his daughter-in-law, Margaret Henderson, who was killed by a speeding automobile near Salt Lake. Mark Johansen, 12 years of age, of Huntsvllle, Is striving to gain the title of champion squirrel hunter of Ogden valley. To partly substantiate his claim, he appeared at the office of the county clerk Saturday and received $14.32 bounty upon 484 squirrels, at 3 cents a head. After having made a trip of 10.12 miles through the southern part of Utah, It. II. Slddoway, state fish and game commissioner, reports that such favorable conditions were found for It that a trout-planting campaign will be opened at once In practically all the comities of the south. Measured by the national average of 2S.7 per cent of the first draft registration regis-tration classified In class 1, twenty-two of the thirty-four local boards In Utah come near that figure, according to 'a telegram received from General Crow-der Crow-der by Captain F. V. Fits Gerald, draft executive officer for this state. Suit to recover $100,000, which he ullages Is due for services In re-es-tublishlng the credit and standing of the Kewhouse Realty company, has been filed by Governor Bamberger at Suit Lake. More than a half million predatory animals have been killed by huntert and $i!H,218.53 In bounties has been paid out to them By the state In tht year ending March 20, according to a compilation made for the biennial re-ort re-ort of the state auditor. ' . If the Utah Light 4 Traction com-iany com-iany were permitted to operate thelt tive? cars at Salt Lake by the one-nun one-nun plan It would be a violation ol he national labor war hoard principles, icconllug to the decision of W. M. Knerr of the state Industrial commission. |