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Show 111 STATE NEWS Salt Lake men, women and children numbering 80,000 cultivated 8000 war gardens, aggregating H00 acres, this season, and produced yields valued at $750,000, . . A grand jury, to meet on November 18, for the special purpose of investigating investi-gating the affairs of toe defunct Merchants Mer-chants bank, at Salt Lake, was ordered or-dered last week. As part of a nation-wide movement a drive has been Inaugurated In Utah for contributions of photograph records rec-ords to be fent to home cantonments and to the concentration can;ps abroad. Though salaries of principals and teachers of the Salt Lake schools have been paid to October 18, they must make up the time absent from their classrooms on account of the epidemic of influenza. The bodies aa well as the hearts of 200 boys at the University of Utah were warmed last week by the receipt of that number of home-made sweaters sweat-ers from the Red Cross supply depot at Fort Douglas. The Historical museum, which has been In course of construction In the Temple grounds at Salt Lake for some time, Is complete as far as the building goes, but will not be ready for the public for a month or more. In the fourth Liberty loan Salt Lake subscribed $11,115,150, the subscribers subscrib-ers numbering 50,140. The quota of subscribers was 31,200 and the amount whs $10,212,700., This is more than $000,000 above the allotment Former United States Senator Thomas Kearns, who died October 18, 1018, left no will. Statement to this effect Is Included In the application ' made by the widow, Mrs. Jennie J. Kearns, for letters of administration. Tests made by Marcus E. Jones, Salt Lake botanist and chemist, who has been studying the rubber plant of Utah under the direction of the Unl-. verslty of California, show that the plant yields as much as 10 per cent of Its weight in rubber. , j William Price Appleby, pioneer, i pony express rider and early day law-1 yer, died at Salt Lake, October 25, at i the age of 80 years. Mr. Appleby, who was a native of New Jersey, came t t'tnh at, the age of 11 years, and lu's rt sided here since. Tmmms E. McKay, of Iluntsvllle, is recovering from injuries , received at Liberty, in Ogden valley, when his automobile collided with a hog. The force of the collision cuused the car to turn turtle, and Mr. McKay was pinned beneath the car. Extreme effort is being mnde by -J, Edward Taylor, head of the production produc-tion department of the Utah food ad- Tnlnlati-atlnn tn nrfivlila nnra ffr tha I shipment of cattle and sheep from the district near Thompsons, the stockmen stock-men of which have made an urgent appeal. Utah food administration officials are sending out Instructions regarding food and Influenza. Unwrapped bread, unwashed fruit skins, bakery products exposed to the air, food handled with unclean hands and unsanitary milk may all be excellent carriers of the disease. ' Surgeon General Rupert Blue has notified Dr. T. B. Beatty, state health commissioner, that he has applied to a dozen large cities In a vain attempt secure nurses to Bend to Utah. None Is available and another call has been sent out by the Red Cross for volunteer volun-teer nurses. One thousand four hundred and thirteen thir-teen men of the September 12 registration, regis-tration, between the ages of 19 and 30, Inclusive, and a total of 127 registrants regis-trants prior to that date, are available for the call Intimated by General Crowder, to be made within the next few days. Preliminary announcement of calls on draft registrants of the state which possibly may mean as many as 3000 men being Inducted into the army in November and December possibly, Indeed, In-deed, early In November from this state, was received at draft headquarters headquar-ters last week. With eggs selling In Salt Lake at from 00 to C5 cents a dozen, now Is the time to get Into the poultry business, busi-ness, according to Prof. II. W. Sanborn, San-born, extension poultry husbandman at the Utah Agricultural college. He Is urging the householder to stock up with a few hens. Rather than face a court-martial because be-cause he could not get back on time, Frank Bennett, soldier aviator, who was released recently from the Fort Douglas hospital after recovering from Spanish Influenza and was on bis way to San Antonio, Tex., attempted suicide at 'Ogden, but will recover. An ordinance enacted by the Salt Lake City commission requires that all veal and pork shipped into the city by farmers must come, with organs attached at-tached to permit of Inspection there and must lie accompanied by a certificate certifi-cate from the raiser in each Instance to the effect that the animal was healthy. Drafted men with remedial physical defects will be sent to camps for treatment treat-ment hereafter Instead of obtaining It at home, as has been the practice. This ruling was received from Washington Wash-ington at state draft headquarters a few days ago. Alleged to have committed a second forgery while at liberty on his own recognizance in connection with a similar sim-ilar charge. W. A. Taylor was rearrested re-arrested at Siilt Luke. It is said Taylor Tay-lor gave a check for $."A) in payment for a Liberty bond, receiving $10 in tha use. |