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Show Ul STATE HEWS ! Herman Knudson, a resident of Frovo since 1S04, died October 31, aged : 62 years. More than 1,230,000 caes of to- matoeg have been packed und sold i trom the 197.8 crop in Weber county, j . W. H. Stratton of the firm of Ktrat- j ton Brothers of .Ogden, dropped dead J of heart failure, last week while duck i hunting west of Ogden. Members of the students' army ! training corps at the University of Utah who desire to attend officers' 5 training camps are to be given an' op- portunlty to do so, ' ) Word was received at Spanish Fork 5 last week of the death of Private Charles J. Stewart, the first Spanish jj Fork boy to be killed In action on the battle front in France. Grover V. , Sorenson, the 20-year-old son of Christian Sorenson of Vine- $ yard, died in France September 29, as a result of wounds received in action, according to news received last week. . i Mr. and Mrs. William Zabriskie of Mt. Pleasant have received advices f that their son, Henry M. Zazriskie, hud 5 been killed in action In France. He j, met death October 1, according to the & message. . 1 5 , Merl Wheelwright, of Ogden, was killed In action on October 6, accord- ing to a message received by his par S cnts. It la believed that he met his death while In the offensive northwest of Verdun. ' " , The district court has Issued a for- ' tnal order calling a special grand Jury ijj to Investigate the affairs of the de- funct Merchants bunk at Salt Lake, jjj The inquisitors are to report for duty ( November 18, gi Clarence S. Jarvls, a -former Provo ( man, who assisted in the subdividing of the Uintah reservation and later was In the reclamation service of the f government, has been commissioned captain In the army. ' i. If the stork that supplies Salt Lake J, with babies had traveled faster on the Jj! night of October 31, 300 children would j. have been born there Inst month. But f, as he was a couple of hours late with oue little girl, only 2!K) babies arrived. ? Unless the margin of profit on coal Is Increased, tnnny conl dealers of the J. city will be forced to close down their establlnhnients, according to Ellas S. S Woodruff, president of the Retail Coal Iculers' association, of Salt Lake 5 City."-'" v : . ; ; , Marriage licenses were not in much demand in Suit Lake last month, ac- '9 cording to John E. Clark, chief deputy 'f; county clerk. Only 151 licenses were $ Issued In October, 1918, a decrease of C 321 as compared with the previous g year. j:: Boy scouts of Salt Lake have been designated secret service men to round up all slacker phonograph records and persuade them to do their duty 5 , by singing for the boys in the trenches and the cantonments and on the large transports. The Utah Agricultural college has completed the Induction of more than 700 young men Into its students' army , training corps, as it apiears from reports re-ports from the various induction of-I of-I flees maintained by the Institution In ! this state and Idaho. ; , : George Farrell, ranchman end land : promoter and a brother of Will O. 1 Farrell, president of the Salt Lake I Rotary club, was accidentally shot and ; killed at a hotel In Salt Lake while ! handling a shotgun with which he intended in-tended to go hunting. In a raid on an alleged Chinese gambling den at Salt Lake, officers arrested ar-rested twenty-nine Chinese, one a woman, on the charge of gambling and violating the state health law, 'which prohibits the congregating of two or more people In one room. Permits for the purchase of RUgnr for home canning purposes will no longer be issued in Utah, according to telegraphic Instructions from Washington Wash-ington ordering a discontinuance of the practice which has been genera throughout summer months. , i ' A conl miner, even though an alien-enemy, alien-enemy, can do the country more good In a coul mine than he can in a war prison. This "was the attitude taken by the United States department of Justice last week when Paul Rosendah, nn Austrian, arrested at Kenllworth for seditious remarks, was placed on parole. , . 7 : Regarding payment of school teacher teach-er during the enforced vacation due to the Influenza,' state superintendent. Cowans has announced that such arrangements ar-rangements should be made between boards of education and teachers as will do Justice to the teachers and at the same time b consistent with good : public policy. , : Alleged failure of some Utah papers which are printing political advertisements advertise-ments to file statements of their own-rrshlp own-rrshlp with the secretary of stote under un-der the corrupt practices act,' caused 8 meeting of the attorney general and fertary of state last week for the purpose of considering steps to om-pt-l a compliance with the low. The f1rt Christmas soupons to be sent Into Utah by soldiers on overseos duty tame fcurt wk, hwi from wow on there Hi sxpvrted to fct a flood Of the little white sUp that permit a friend or relative fci swud mm fellow "over thurn" a holiday rwamUimoce. Tlis unjxrnfive od of BwtdJcal examination ex-amination of ad children entering schools throughout Utuh is empbaatzed by Dr. Wu.lt er M, Stookey in his re-j imrt of findings during a three years' j fcurvvj of pbyuicaj conditions among children attending the training school of the University of Utah. ' ') .: ' I . f |